Camp Mystic: the Role of Faith During Disasters

Pink bedding drenched in mud. Stuffed animals meant for homesickness abandoned.

Photos and videos of Camp Mystic after the central Texas camp was caught in a deadly deluge over the weekend are going viral. At least 27 children and counselors died after the nearby Guadalupe River became a mass torrent of water that surged over 26 feet in less than an hour on Friday. 

As some campers from the 99-year-old nondenominational Christian summer camp for girls evacuated, they sang the words "I want my world to know/the Lord of love/has come to me/I want to pass it on" to stay calm. As the girls sang, waves crashed where water shouldn't flow, tumbling through broken roads and structures turned inside-out.

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