Chad and Ellen Peacock were childhood sweethearts—growing up with close families and annual beach vacations together. The summer that Chad was set to leave for Marine boot camp, he asked Ellen to wait for him, planning to marry her when he returned. The couple wrote 277 letters back and forth while Chad was away and…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Catastróficas inundaciones ofrecen oportunidades para servir en el nombre de Jesús.
Cobblestone streets remain coated in several inches of mud while mounding debris piles lean against the homes of Ahrweiler, a rural district in Western Germany. As the sun rises each day, the quiet air gives way to the subtle roar of voices and scraping shovels as neighbors join together to aid their hurting neighbors. On…
Operation Christmas Child
Isla sin electricidad, ni aeropuerto, recibe cajas de regalos
The small island of Enubirr has no electrical power and no airport. Located in the central Pacific between the Philippines and Hawaii, Enubirr is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and home to just over 1,000 people. Most residents work on the neighboring island of Roi-Namur, which is leased to the U.S. government…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Entregamos suministros de invierno a ucranianos agobiados por la guerra
Tetiana* and her family faced plummeting temperatures in Ukraine with a wood stove, but sadly, no fuel to fill it. The forests nearby had all been riddled with explosives from an earlier occupation by enemy forces, so gathering wood in the usual ways was out of the question. Unexploded ordnance was everywhere. “We could not…
Discipulado, educación & entrenamiento
El corazón de un capellán
In 2009, the Rev. Mark Sukulao lay in a hospital bed in Zimbabwe, very ill, discouraged, and in almost constant pain. This hospital was the third one he had been admitted to in less than two months, and now he was facing another surgery. Many anxious thoughts churned through the pastor’s mind. What was God’s…
Nuestro Ministerio
Ayuda por el huracán Dorian
Help Provide Relief After Hurricane Dorian Give × Hurricane Relief Hurricane Relief - 013779 $ Give Volunteer Facebook Twitter email Response in Bahamas Transitions to Repairs, Trauma Support, Disaster Response Training Facebook Twitter email Samaritan’s Purse is launching several additional projects in the Bahamas to help families rebound from Hurricane Dorian. We also continue to…
Discipulado, educación & entrenamiento
Military Spouses Open Up About Trials, Triumphs, and God’s Redeeming Love
Sometimes the call came in the middle of the night, and her husband would be gone by morning. She often had no idea where, for how long, or when she would hear from him again. Courtney Keith began to fear an officer’s knock on her door—the signal that her husband had been killed on military…
Agua, salubridad e higiene
Fe y agua corren profundo en la rural Niger
Galba is a small, dusty village located in south-central Niger. The people who live there face many problems that are common in Niger—poverty, lack of jobs, famine, and poor health. But, until recently, perhaps the biggest problem that Galba faced was poor access to clean water. The only well in the village was dirty and…
Operation Christmas Child
Operation Christmas Child está llevando la esperanza del Evangelio a 1 000 islas del Pacífico
Rengesuul Yobech sat in the shade of a spacious open-air gymnasium at Peleliu Elementary School in Palau on a sweltering late-February afternoon earlier in 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe. The school’s 76 students were assembled there, eager to receive gift-filled shoeboxes at the first Operation Christmas Child festive outreach event to take…
Programas de Mujeres
Helping Babies Breathe in Niger
Cindy Uttley is a Samaritan’s Purse community health advisor. I recently had an opportunity to visit Niger and train nurses and physicians in Helping Babies Breathe, which focuses on newborn resuscitation. It was a privilege to lead participants through the skills necessary to help every baby breathe within the first minute of life. In step…
