Samaritan’s Purse teams based in our seven country offices across Africa continue to help alleviate suffering during the COVID-19 global pandemic, finding critical ways to support men, women, and children during this uncertain time. Our teams are working hard to help train medical professionals and equip healthcare centers, to create awareness programs for communities, and…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Colombia: Reducing the Spread of COVID-19
Samaritan’s Purse is providing primary medical care as well as hygiene training to migrant communities along the Colombia-Venezuela border in an effort to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19. We are offering this relief through our local team of doctors, nurses, and a pharmacist, in coordination with the International Organization for Migration. Our mobile medical…
Nuestro Ministerio
El trayecto de Franklin Graham: de perdido a esparcir esperanza
By Beth Brelje | Originally Published in The Epoch Times May 02, 2024. Updated: May 06, 2024. Used with permission. BOONE, N.C.—A bird is thumping into the window of Rev. Franklin Graham’s office at Samaritan’s Purse international headquarters in Boone, North Carolina. He says it happens every spring, and he doesn’t know why, but this…
Operation Christmas Child
Granjeros de Ohio influencian a su comunidad y al mundo para empacar cajas
Drive down River Styx Road just outside Wadsworth, Ohio, and you’ll come across the “Styx and Stones Farm” sign. Pull in the driveway on any given Saturday morning in the fall, and it will be tough to find a spot to park. On one edge of the driveway sits a barn that’s at least 175…
Ministerio de Salud y Medicina
Fortalecemos aldeas rurales para ayudar a madres y niños
In the town of Gmomaken’s not-too-distant past, it was always their local herbalist that the families turned to with worries over fertility or for remedies to ensure the safe birth of a child. They would seek him out for alarming pregnancy pains and complications. They visited his darkened thatch-roofed hut in the center of town,…
Proyectos de construcción
Ladrillo por ladrillo
“The people from our community are hungry for the Word of God,” Pastor Eusebio said, standing on the unfinished second floor of his church in El Alto, Bolivia. The city of almost a million people spreads out around him in all directions, full of people he hopes will come to know the saving love of…
Proyectos de construcción
Calentarse en Koyuk
Warming in Koyuk Samaritan's Purse staff and volunteers built a church in the remote village of Koyuk over the summer of 2023. Explore village and church life in this special place up north in Alaska. God's Country Up north in Alaska, where the forests and the tundra can swallow two states the size of Texas,…
Nuestro Ministerio
Operation Heal Our Patriots 2022 Special Report
Hope for the Journey Dear Friend, The wounded veterans who participate in Operation Heal Our Patriots tell us some heartbreaking stories. After multiple combat deployments, many return home with post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, and other physical and emotional wounds. All of the couples who come to our Samaritan Lodge Alaska are in fragile…
Operation Christmas Child
Andy Castillo’s Story: Rescued by God
Andy Castillo, Operation Christmas Child regional director for North and Central America, was interviewed during a recent trip to his native Honduras. He and his team took part in several festive outreach events while there. You became involved in full-time ministry, and specifically children’s ministry, in a unique way. How did that come about? Castillo:…
Agua, salubridad e higiene
Providing a Pipeline for a Community’s New Start
The small fishing village of Sweetings Cay on the eastern end of Grand Bahama island was told to evacuate quickly as Hurricane Dorian tore a path toward them in early September 2019. Dorian had grown into a violent Category 5 storm. The hurricane ripped buildings from their foundations and swept people and belongings out to…
