As soon as Samantha Gray learned of the massive earthquake in Chile, she emailed a couple she'd met at a Christian camp in Lexington three years before.

She prayed her friends Habby and Liz Diaz-Ramos and their three young children were OK. She got an answer within the hour.

"She responded and said they were OK, there really wasn't any damage for them, their kids were fine, their family was, but the youth they work with, some houses had been damaged," she told ABC 36 News.

Liz is from Missouri, Habby from Santiago, Chile, where the family lived. They met at Kentucky Christian College in Grayson and run a "skate ministry" in Santiago that Samantha helped get up and skating shortly after she'd met them at Bluegrass Christian Camp.. She said her friends were out on the streets ministering shortly after the quake.

"When things like this happen, it's really easy to minister to others and kind of bring hope because they think -- there are several people that say they thought the world was coming to an end," she said. "They tell them God is with them, they're not alone. And I think that's what goes through and kind of comes to their mind."

Gray said she wants to return to Chile soon, to spend time with the young couple she admires and the Chileans they witness to every day, many of them youngsters who sometimes skip school for the skate park

"Even if they lost their home and they lost wherever they were living, they would still be the first people to go out and help others," she said.