They Lost Their Daughters at Camp Mystic… Here's What They Found

They Lost Their Daughters at Camp Mystic… Here's What They Found

From Heaven Meets Earth by Abigail Robertson and Ryan Bethea

June 29, 2026 · 1h 26m

About this episode

Three fathers share their experiences of grief and faith after losing their daughters in a tragic event.

Cole Naylor, Ryan DeWitt, and Wade Lytal each lived every parents worst nightmare this past year. Their daughters — Wynne, Molly, and Kellyanne — were among the twenty-seven girls and counselors who were swept away from Camp Mystic on July 4, 2025. One year later, these three fathers sit down with Abigail Robertson for an honest conversation about grief, faith, and eternity. Heaven is no longer a theological concept for these men. It is a very real place where their daughters are alive—and that certainty is the only thing that makes the unimaginable survivable. They take us back to the hours they waited for news. They share what this year has actually looked like. And they tell us why, in the middle of the worst season of their lives, their faith did not collapse, it deepened. This episode is for anyone who has lost someone and wondered if God was still good. For anyone who is afraid of what grief would do to their faith. For anyone who needs to hear a father say, with complete conviction, that death does not have the final word. Wynne, Molly, Kellyanne, and all of Heaven's 27 — you are deeply missed and deeply loved. Your lives and stories matter, and they always will. To learn…

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Host: Abigail Robertson

Guests: Cole Naylor, Ryan DeWitt, Wade Lytal

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Organizations: Kindness for Kellyanne, More Like Wynne, Live Like Molly

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