An EF2 tornado touched down over the weekend in the village of Lena, Illinois, near the Wisconsin border. The powerful storm toppled power lines and massive trees, leaving extensive damage to homes and businesses, and debris was scattered for miles. The Billy Graham Rapid Response Team (BG-RRT) is deploying a team of chaplains to Lena …
On June 6, protests against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement turned violent across Los Angeles, prompting 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines to mobilise in an effort to quell civil unrest. Following a week of looting, fires, and broken curfews, a local church invited the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team (BG-RRT) to help …
Many residents in and around Oklahoma City woke up to severe storm warnings—and some even to collapsing roofs. Crisis-trained Billy Graham Rapid Response Team (BG-RRT) chaplains are heading to the region after at least five tornadoes ripped through parts of Oklahoma late Saturday and continued into Monday—injuring 11 people, damaging more than 130 homes, and knocking out power for thousands. As individuals begin dealing with the destruction around them, …
The storms are gone, but evidence of flood-damaged property is stacked high in many neighbourhoods of Tampa, Florida, following Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Billy Graham Rapid Response Team (BG-RRT) chaplains are there to reassure residents they’re not alone in this tragedy. “We’re there to bring hope to these people and just to tell them that …
Crisis-trained chaplains from the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team have deployed to Southport after a fatal stabbing took the lives of three girls and seriously injuring many more. This tragic event has been labelled as one of the worst assaults against children in the United Kingdom in decades. Monday morning (29th July), a brutal knife …
Excerpted from a sermon by Billy Graham: Sometimes when I board an aeroplane there are dark clouds and it is raining. But in a few minutes the plane is above the clouds and the sun is shining. I can assure you that above the clouds in your life, the sun is shining. God is still …
After a deadly sword attack killed a 14-year-old boy and injured four others on 30 April, the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team (BG-RRT) deployed four crisis-trained chaplains to Hainault, London, to minister to this hurting community. Giselle* was one of the London Underground staff working in the surrounding area covering Hainault’s station on 1 May. …
Bible Reading: Mark 14:69-72, ESV As we think about the sacrifice of Jesus, we often focus on the unbearable physical pain He endured. He was hit, flogged nearly to the point of death, and had a crown of thorns driven into His scalp. He was made to carry His own cross. Nails were punched through His …
Billy Graham’s youngest sister, Jean Graham Ford, has died at the age of 91 in Charlotte, North Carolina. After a life lived faithfully for Jesus Christ, she is now in the presence of her Lord and Saviour. Jean is survived by her husband of 70 years, Leighton Ford, along with two of their three children—Deborah …
Photo above: A mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, has left the city of 38,000 with unimaginable grief and fear. Chaplains with the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team will be sharing the light of Jesus Christ in the reeling community. At least 18 people were killed and 13 more injured in a devastating mass shooting Wednesday …
The war between Israel and Hamas has captured the world’s attention. Cissie Graham Lynch interviewed pastor and author Skip Heitzig on why we should care what’s unfolding overseas and how it impacts us as Christians. Two days after the October 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, Cissie Graham Lynch sat down with Pastor Gary Hamrick to …
When pressures or problems or pain envelop our lives, we tend to trust God … plus our doctor or our lawyer or our counselor or our banker or our leaders or our own effort or our___________ (fill in the blank). Yet God seems to demonstrate His power and glory to those who trust Him …