The company's chairman announced Friday that 8-year-old Renee Smajstrla died in the Kerr County floods. She was a camper at Camp Mystic. The camp has lost 27 campers and counselors in the flood. The jewelry company -- which was founded in Kerrville -- has pledged one million dollars in flood aid and relief efforts.

Search and recovery teams are also looking for a missing camp counselor who hasn't been seen since the July Fourth flooding catastrophe.

The truth is that religious leaders are dealing with the grief and pain, too. Coming together as a community gives Kershner a place to hold her faith and hope when she is having trouble, just as she holds it for the people in the pews when they are suffering, she said.

As the search for five missing Camp Mystic campers and one counselor continues, the summer camp community in Texas and across the country is offering support for a place that has become special to thousands of girls over the years.

We're updating you with the latest in Texas on flood victims, recovery efforts, donation and volunteer opportunities and more.

Jeff Rockow is a chef and caterer in Dallas who’s volunteering with Mercy Chefs, a faith-based nonprofit feeding victims and first responders in Kerr County.

Alerts were sent as campers slept—but the flood hit fast. Now some are wondering if a warning system would have helped, or was this simply Mother Nature moving too fast to be stopped?

Several Kerrville Independent School District teachers and staff members drove school buses full of hundreds of campers from Camp La Junta and Camp Mystic to reunification sites on July 4.