July 17, 1987, is a day forever ingrained in his memory. At the time, he was an assistant pastor at a Mesquite church, leading a group of teens at the Pot O' Gold Christian camp near Comfort, Texas. Early that morning, they were told they'd need to evacuate because of the risk of flooding from the Guadalupe River.

Eyewitness Tonia Fucci recounted the destruction that followed deadly floods in Comfort, central Texas, near the Guadalupe River on July 4.

The search for missing bodies is ongoing along Texas’ Guadalupe River after catastrophic and deadly flooding killed at least 89 people following a torrential downpour early Friday morning.

Officials at a Christian girls' summer camp in central Texas said on Monday (July 7) that at least 27 campers and counselors were among those who perished in the catastrophic flooding over the July 4 weekend,