PRAYER ALERT: Crisis-trained Chaplains Responding after Devastating Tornadoes Sweep New Orleans

BGEA Staff : Feb 8, 2017
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Please pray for all impacted by the storms as well as the first responders who are working in the wake of them. Please also lift up the Rapid Response Team as it completes the assessment.

[BillyGraham.org] The Billy Graham Rapid Response Team is sending crisis-trained chaplains to the New Orleans area for an assessment after devastating tornadoes tore through the area on Tuesday. (Photo: AP/via BillyGraham.org)

Reports indicate as many as four tornadoes touched down in Southeastern Louisiana, injuring people, causing widespread property damage and rendering many without electricity. Tornado watches continued throughout the day in large parts of Louisiana and Mississippi, including Hattiesburg, where a team of Rapid Response Team chaplains already are offering emotional and spiritual care.

A series of powerful storms have gripped the Southeast in the first two months of the year. Prior to the Mississippi deployment, crisis-trained chaplains began serving in Albany, Georgia, in early January after a deadly storm swept through. Ministry is ongoing in Albany, which also sustained a deadly tornado in late January.

The Billy Graham Rapid Response Team is an international ministry of crisis-trained chaplains ready to deploy at a moment's notice to natural and man-made disasters. Since its inception in the wake of 9/11, hundreds of chaplains have had the honor of praying with hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, all in the name of Jesus.

Please pray for all impacted by the storms as well as the first responders who are working in the wake of them. Please also lift up the Rapid Response Team as it completes the assessment.