FIRST ON FOX: Rev.Franklin Graham visited a Samaritan's Purse emergency field hospital in Venezuela, where doctors and nurses are performing life-saving surgeries and praying with earthquake survivors who have endured unimaginable loss.Graham, president and CEO of Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, traveled with his daughter, Cissie Graham Lynch, to encourage relief teams and comfort people who lost loved ones, homes and nearly everything they owned.Lynch, senior advisor and spokesperson for Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said one encounter with a local pastor stayed with her throughout the visit.ARGENTINE SOCCER PLAYER LUCAS TREJO LOSES WIFE, TWO CHILDREN IN VENEZUELA EARTHQUAKE BUILDING COLLAPSE: REPORTFranklin Graham and Cissie Graham Lynch pray with a Venezuelan family affected by the June earthquakes during a Samaritan's Purse relief visit.
(Courtesy of Samaritan's Purse)"Today, I saw both the immense suffering and the incredible strength of the Venezuelan people," Lynch told Fox News Digital."I was deeply impacted by the story of a pastor who lost several members of his congregation in the earthquakes and is still serving his community.
He said it all when he told us, 'I am here to serve and win souls for Christ.' I thank God for that faithful pastor and for the opportunity that we have to encourage and support him as he shares the hope of Jesus Christ in Venezuela.""These people are surrounded by so much death and destruction.We want to bring the light of Jesus Christ into these places of pain," Franklin Graham told Fox News Digital."I'm thankful for our incredible teams who are doing just that.
They are providing medical care, clean water, tents for shelter, and many other emergency supplies," he continued."As they do this in Jesus' Name, they are comforting these families and praying with them during this time of intense grief and loss."AMERICANS TRAVEL TO PAKISTAN TO FREE CHRISTIANS TRAPPE...