Pray for those suffering in the Texas Hill Country
Dear Friend,
Our hearts break for those who have been devastated by the catastrophic flooding in central Texas. Over 100 lives were lost as the Guadalupe River turned into a torrent in the early hours of July 4.
We immediately dispatched crisis-trained chaplains with our Billy Graham Rapid Response Team, and they are on the ground ministering in Kerr County, comforting grieving families and encouraging first responders.
Pray that God will bind up these broken hearts and transform many lives with the hope of Jesus Christ.
On Sunday, I was on a call with families who had gathered in a church to await word about their missing loved ones. I shared Scripture and prayed for them. Will you join me in continuing to lift up this devastated community to the Lord?
Yesterday
our chaplains met a woman whose granddaughter had been swept away in the floodwaters and later rescued from a tree—20 miles downriver from her campsite. The woman rushed to a reunification site to pick her up, but as she spoke to our team, she said she has no idea where her other family members are. “Her only two kids, their husbands, and her other granddaughter who had been camping—that’s her family,” our chaplain shared. “She didn’t know where else to go.”
The burdens are great all across this region. Thank you for praying for these broken communities and for your heart to comfort others with this news:
“The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and He knows those who trust in Him” (Nahum 1:7, NKJV).
May God richly bless you,
Franklin Graham
