Deployment to Wayne Count, MI (Severe Flooding)

We are privileged to be deploying to Wayne County, Michigan to serve as chaplains with BGEA RRT (Rapid Response Team). Beginning Sunday (May 12) we will work alongside Samaritan's Purse Disaster Relief to minister to the families who have been effected by recent (and continuing) flooding in the area.

We will share the love and hope of Christ to these families in crisis through the end of this month.

Please pray for us and the chaplain team, the Samaritan's Purse teams and of course, the families that are hurting and have suffered loss due to this flooding.

Watch this Samaritan's Purse video to see how the volunteers and chaplains serve in Michigan (watch video).

Watch this BGEA special video about the Rapid Response Teams (watch video)

This is a typical scene in Bay County Florida. Hurricane Michael destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. Several schools have been closed indefinitely and thousands of Bay County citizens have had to leave the area. Samaritan's Purse and BGEA served thousands of Bay County homeowners and others.

A Final Deployment to Panama City, FL (Hurricane Michael)

This is not déjà vu of déjà vu. We actually were called back to Panama City, FL for a third two-week deployment where we served as volunteer chaplains of the Rapid Response Team (RRT), a ministry of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA).

The amazing Samaritan's Purse disaster relief teams continued to help those who were devastated by Hurricane Michael through March 2019. This relief effort was one of the longest in Samaritan's Purse history. Thousands were helped to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Michael.

Thousands are still not able to return to their homes and jobs. The emotional trauma experienced by these families is tremendous and we saw the Lord move in many lives to give them calm and hope.

Samaritan's Purse is in need of volunteers to help the thousands in disaster areas around the country. Look for volunteer opportunities here.

*Samaritan’s Purse and Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) are ministries of Franklin Graham.

God Moments

As we ministered in Bay County, we encounter God moments every day. We often write them as stories to be shared with BGEA RRT. This one (written by Trisha) was posted on the BGEA RRT facebook page. Read the story (here).

As we continually communicate with our partners in Nicaragua, the news is that the political, economic and safety situation is in decline. There is good news from Juan about our Asaf Music Academy. After relocating to the Las Brisas area of Managua, the academy reopened in early February. Praise the Lord, there were 25 students. This is the largest class so far. These students have continued to attend and Juan and Oscar are very encouraged.

The needs are great as our partner churches continue to reach into their communities with the gospel of Christ. Our Aid Nica project is focused on assisting our staff and church partners and pastors as they continue to share Christ.

Nica Aid to date: Since the crisis began in April 2018, we have used more than $15,000 in support of our partner churches and partners families. We have received almost $10,000 in donations to this project. Praise the Lord for meeting these needs.

We are prayerfully preparing to visit in the coming months. We will take some needed supplies and spend some time encouraging and praying with our staff and church partners.

Meanwhile, we continue our partnerships in Nicaragua by sending money (prayerfully and wisely) to our church partners for supplies, events and infrastructure. In addition, we continue to help our staff and pastors meet the needs in their families for food, medicine and other things. We also continue to provide the money for 9 children of pastors and staff to attend Christian schools.

Please keep praying and supporting us during this crisis. All help given to our Aid Nica project goes to providing needed help to our partners and partner churches.