Faith Brings Light To Devastated Texas Town After Deadly Flooding Disaster

Volunteers person descended upon Kerr County, Texas, successful nan days pursuing past weekend’s disastrous flood. 

While galore person travel to thief pinch searches, cleanup efforts and donations, others are looking to heal nan organization successful a different way. 

Several faith-based groups are moving to thief survivors and victims’ families thin connected God arsenic they grapple pinch nan agelong roadworthy to recovery. 

Josh Holland, world head of nan Billy Graham Rapid Response Team, said pinch Fox News Digital astir nan effect of ministering to group who person gone done caller tragedies. The Billy Graham Rapid Response Team focuses connected nan belief and affectional needs of group successful crisis, making it a bully fresh to thief those successful Kerrville done this difficult time.

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Billy Graham Rapid Response Team International Director Josh Holland speaks pinch Fox News Digital connected July 8, 2025. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

"As our crisis-trained chaplains know, location are nary words to opportunity that will make things amended successful moments for illustration this. There are nary magic phrases. All we tin do arsenic Christians is to travel alongside people, to beryllium a listening ear, to beryllium a enarthrosis to thin on, to outcry pinch them," Holland told Fox News Digital. "The Bible talks astir really we mourn pinch those who mourn."

Holland noted that successful mini communities for illustration Kerrville, "everybody knows personification who’s been affected" and said he felt "a very heavy, intense tone and atmosphere" successful nan town.

Art by Max Greiner Jr. astatine nan Coming King Sculpture Prayer Gardens successful Kerrville, Texas. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

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Max Greiner Jr., an creator whose activity is inspired by his faith, is nan designer of nan Coming King Sculpture Prayer Gardens and said nan spot has ever fixed bid to group successful acheronian times, and it has taken connected a caller meaning since nan flood.

"This is simply a beardown religion community, and I don’t cognize really group make it if they don’t person that faith," Greiner said, adding that religion successful God is "helping these group cope."

The gardens are marked by a monolithic cross, which Greiner said is nan nonstop halfway constituent betwixt nan Atlantic and Pacific oceans and that nan monument is connected nan aforesaid latitude arsenic Israel.

"We want nan families, nan wounded, to travel up present erstwhile they request a break from each of nan bad. There’s decease down connected nan river, but there’s life up connected this mountain," Greiner told Fox News Digital. 

Artist and designer Max Greiner Jr. astatine nan Coming King Sculpture Prayer Gardens successful Kerrville, Texas, connected July 8, 2025. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

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Marcus Breaux, nan National Director astatine Soldiers of Christ Ministries, wants group to retrieve that location are aggregate ways to thief those devastated by nan floods successful Texas.

"Do not beryllium discouraged. There are ways for group to get involved, whether it's donations, whether it is giving a battalion of insubstantial towels aliases toilet paper, whatever, there's a measurement that you tin get involved. I inquire group to believe connected really nan Holy Spirit allows them to do it and what their consequence is, but location is decidedly a request successful this community," Breaux said.

Marcus Breaux, nan National Director astatine Soldiers of Christ Ministries, stands pinch volunteers successful Texas aft devastating floods. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

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Additionally, Matt Husted of nan Churches of Christ Disaster Response Team told Fox News Digital that giving group "reassurance that God is looking complete them" is important successful times of crisis.

There are respective faith-based organizations already connected nan crushed assisting victims. Many group moving pinch these organizations encouraged everyone to believe for those who were injured, those who mislaid loved ones and those whose homes were damaged aliases destroyed, arsenic good arsenic first responders.