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 …
He didn’t know what else to do. Forced to take off work due to a family emergency, Oliver* decided to go inside a large, stunning church. Walking down the aisle, he passed the rows of pews and stood at the altar, thinking a minister would eventually find him there. But no one came. After waiting …
Dear Friend, I am writing with a simple but urgent request: Please join me in fervent prayer. First, please ask God to comfort the people of Ukraine. Will you pray that He will fill hurting men and women with His peace—and that He will bring this war to a swift end? Please also pray …
Photo: A Billy Graham chaplain ministers to a patient in the Samaritan’s Purse emergency field hospital in Lviv, Ukraine. As millions flee conflict, Ukrainians need emotional and spiritual care as well as physical care. Carrying luggage. Helping a mother and crying child get on the next bus or train out of the battle-weary country. Praying …
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 …
As one of the oldest observations in Christendom, Lenten tradition has changed over the years, but its purpose has always been the same: self-examination and penitence, demonstrated by self-denial, in preparation for Easter. Lent, which comes from an Anglo-Saxon word for “spring,” can be viewed as a spiritual spring cleaning: a time for taking spiritual …
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 …
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is celebrating a milestone for its online evangelism ministry, Search for Jesus. This year also marks 10 years since the ministry brought on trained volunteers to help respond to people’s spiritual questions online. Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to …
Brian,* from the UK, was troubled with severe depression and anxiety. Desperately searching for hope, Brian visited BGEA’s website, PeaceWithGod.org.uk where he connected with one of our trained volunteers. “I cannot cope,” Brian typed. “My illness is so bad that I can barely function.” On top of mental health problems, Brian also suffers from insomnia …
