On 1 March, lightning strikes ignited a fire in Victoria that destroyed 29 homes, damaged 447 properties and burned over 100,000 hectares of land. The Insurance Council of Victoria declared the fires a catastrophe on 9 March. The Bunyip region was most affected with many homeowners not having insurance on all their properties. Locals are…
Media Release 6 June 2019 Billy Graham Rapid Response Team Deploys Crisis-trained Chaplains to Darwin NT, After Four People Killed in Shooting The Billy Graham Rapid Response Team has deployed crisis-trained chaplain to Darwin in the Northern Territory following a shooting on Tuesday on the outskirts of the central business district. In an ABC…
Molly* lost everything – her furniture and personal items tied to many precious memories – after her home was flooded. Molly’s house was destroyed when 12 months’ worth of rain fell across Townsville in just over a week, flooding and damaging almost 3,300 homes. Crisis-trained chaplains from the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team (RRT) were…
Dear Friend, How do you tell a child that there’s no water?’ Those are the words of a distressed Venezuelan mother during one of the recent massive, nationwide blackouts that cut off power to homes, hospitals and everything else for many days, even shutting down water systems for entire cities. With most basic necessities in…
Dear Friend, You prayed for the Graham Tour, and it is exciting to report to you that God did a great work across Australia. To Him be the glory! The thing that impressed me about Australia is how beautiful and clean the cities are. It struck me as soon as we arrived. Yet the need…
On March 15, a shooter walked into two Islamic mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and took 50 lives in an act of hatred. Within 24 hours, the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team (RRT) was on the ground to comfort the hurting. “Our hearts broke for people because we saw how shattered, distraught and fearful they are,” said Stewart…
“The Gospel always works.” Just hours away from the start of his tour across Australia, Franklin Graham had his sight set on one thing: preaching God’s Word without compromise. Sixty years ago this month, his father stayed true to that same mission as he held Crusades covering Australia and New Zealand. Billy Graham had no…
When devastating floods saturated Townsville in northern Queensland, Australia, in February, more than 1,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes. A monsoon dumped a year’s worth of rainfall over the city, killing two people and causing extensive damage. Now, homes are being cleaned out, but people’s lives are far from back to normal. The Billy…
