TEMPLE, Texas — A partnership of two crisis response teams was in Temple helping victims recover from the tornadoes on May 22.
The Billy Graham Rapid Response Center coordinated a group of chaplains to work alongside Samaritan's Purse.
"I think they're hungry for hope," said Gena Small with the Billy Graham group. "We talk with them. We pray with them. But mostly we listen to their stories and the events of what they've gone through."
Mona Romain is one of those people who was desperate for help.
"Then just as I was thinking all that stuff, I looked out and there was Samaritan's Purse," said Romain. "I looked out the window and said 'Oh my Gosh what is that?'! It gave me chills and I wanted to cry because here was all these people who wanted to help."
Romain's husband Michael died in Iraq in 2008, just 13 days before he was scheduled to come home. When the tornado hit her home just days before Memorial Day she said she need him more than ever.
"One of my trees was sheared and it fell in the pool and had to be hoisted out and they cut it way down to the trunk and put three crosses on it and they did the heel so it has the Jesus cross and two others," said Romain.
The Billy Graham Rapid Response Mobile Center set up at Immanuel Baptist Church in Temple. Small said they will be in Temple as long as they're needed.