I spent the week as a Chaplain ministering to homeowners who lost their homes in the fire and to others encountered on the way to ministry sites. The fire in the Pacific Palisades area of Southern California (“The Palisades”) started on 1/7/2025 at 10:30 am. It was...
This is a summary of Billy Graham Rapid Response Team Chaplaincy deployment to Rogers, Arkansas from 7-21 through 7-28-2024 I was asked to deploy to Northwest Arkansas for a tornado response and when I signed up, I realized that this was the area of Northwest Arkansas...
Blessed Week for Samaritan Purse Teams, Chaplains, and Tornado Impacted Families and Homeowners. This was an amazing week, and yes: one learns that all Samaritan Purse and BGEA Chaplaincy deployments have His signature on them, and they are always amazing. And God,...
CCM Disaster Response to Southeast Texas Flood in Livingston, Texas The following is a summary of events for the week of 5/19/2024 through 5/26/2024. I was deployed to the area surrounding Livingston, Texas as a Chaplain with the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team...
Shining His Light In A “Dark” Place Samaritan’s Purse acts Quickly to Assist Hundreds of Traumatized, Dismayed and Disoriented Vermont homeowners to Deal with and Rebound from Vermont’s most Devastating Flooding In Nearly a Century. Samaritan’s Purse...
Samaritan Purse Tornado Response to 12-Tornado Barrage of Property Destruction and Human Loss In Shawnee, Oklahoma Includes Local Volunteer from CCModesto (article written by John Upshaw) Through the intwined and often snapped branches of this tornado twisted Elm...
