Photo above: While serving at a Samaritan Purse Field Hospital in Ukraine, a Billy Graham chaplain stands in an operating room, praying over the patient. Since the conflict began, the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team has trained over 100 Ukrainians as chaplains. With more than 3 million Ukrainians residing in Poland after fleeing their homeland, …
Photo above: A Billy Graham chaplain chats with two women in an Emergency Field Hospital. Chaplains are currently ministering in several locations throughout the country, including Lviv, a hub for individuals fleeing conflict. The trauma and gruesome memories are fresh. As crisis-trained chaplains from the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team (BG-RRT) hear Ukrainians’ heartbreaking stories while serving …
Franklin Graham is asking Christians around the world to pray over the situation in Ukraine, and for leaders on both sides of this tense, deadly conflict to consider a ceasefire through Orthodox Easter, April 24. During his second visit to Ukraine in a month, Franklin Graham was struck by the gravity of the conflict there, …
Billy Graham chaplains spend time listening and praying with a patient at the Emergency Field Hospital in Lviv, Ukraine. With Ukrainians’ lives completely turned upside down, crisis-trained chaplains from the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team (BG-RRT) are moving hundreds of miles closer to the front lines to offer emotional and spiritual care in this heartbreaking situation—and to …
On a deployment unlike any other, Franklin Graham visited the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team chaplains deployed to the war-torn country of Ukraine. “Probably the most important part of our work is the spiritual work,” said the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s president and CEO from an emergency field hospital in the western city of Lviv. Watch him share …
Billy Graham Rapid Response Team (BG-RRT) chaplains are in Ukraine to offer comfort, prayer and meet people in their pain in the middle of a dire situation. >>Help deploy chaplains to offer emotional and spiritual care to people in Ukraine. BG-RRT chaplain Wil Rosado—who’s been ministering at a Samaritan’s Purse emergency field hospital, as well as …
Ukrainians are desperate for hope as more than 2 million have left the country. Countless others have fled to the Lviv area, where the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team (BG-RRT) is deploying chaplains to provide emotional and spiritual care. “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.” —Psalm 46:1 In response to …
Photo above: A woman in front of her home, which was destroyed by bombs on Saturday in Irpin, Ukraine. (Diego Herrera/Europa Press via AP) Kristy Graham serves as the host of the “On the Ground” podcast with Samaritan’s Purse, covering ministry updates from all over the world. When she’s not overseas documenting stories, she and her husband …
READ: Billy Graham Rapid Response Team Deploys to Lviv, Ukraine In recent interviews, Franklin Graham has asked anyone watching to be in prayer for Ukraine. “I cannot imagine what these families are going through—having bombs drop on them, having to flee for their lives,” Franklin Graham said in an interview this week. “All the things that …
Photo: Refugees from Ukraine arrive to the railway station in Przemysl, Poland, on Sunday. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) Over the weekend, Franklin Graham asked others to join him in a special day of prayer for Ukrainians. “They’re suffering tremendously. They’re afraid. They’re running,” he said in a Fox News interview Sunday morning. On Facebook, Franklin Graham wrote: …