Betty Malonson will never forget waking up early one morning to find a foot of water in her home in Houston. Betty had to wade through Hurricane Harvey’s rising floodwaters in order to escape to safety. In the devastating aftermath of the August 2017 storm, more than 10,000 Texas residents were rescued from floodwaters and…
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Samaritan’s Purse Has Now Deployed to Both Ohio and Missouri in the Wake of Recent Tornadoes
June 13 UPDATE: We have concluded our deployments to Missouri and Ohio. We have two deployments ongoing to Oklahoma in response to flooding. Our Michigan response continues. May 30 UPDATE: Now that floodwaters are receding in Oklahoma, we are ready to receive volunteers. Our host church is Church That Matters in Sand Springs. May 29…
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Hundreds of Volunteers Are Helping Missouri Families Recover After Violent Storms
UPDATE: Our response has now concluded in Jefferson, City, Missouri (June 4). More than 800 volunteers helped 95 homeowners. We praise God that 11 individuals received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Tornado sirens echoed around Meagan McSpadden’s apartment as the young mother rested in bed following a long nine-and-a-half-hour shift. Like many families in…
Volunteers Helping in Flooded Oklahoma
SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER IN OKLAHOMA Chester McLaughlin came home last week to the heartbreaking sight of his house in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, where the Arkansas River overflowed and flooded more than 1,000 residences. Many of these homes were under feet of water, including Chester’s, where Samaritan’s Purse volunteers have been busy helping to remove…
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Volunteers Glad to Help a Homeowner Who Spent Years Serving Others
Robert Atchley has spent decades helping others. For 43 years, he has tirelessly cared for veterans by performing CT scans at a VA hospital. He also served in the U.S. Navy as a medical corpsman for five years, from 1974 to 1979. An American flag sways in his front yard—a symbol of his service to…
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Samaritan’s Purse Responds in Flooded Western North Carolina
Samaritan’s Purse is responding in Catawba County, North Carolina, where heavy rain caused dangerous and destructive floodwaters. VOLUNTEER IN CATAWBA COUNTY Since June 15 our teams have been helping in Jesus’ Name as we mud-out water-damaged homes. We praise God for how He is working in the Hickory area and are thankful for each of…
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On the Road in Jesus’ Name
Jesus’ words inspired cross-country bicyclist Daniel Erickson: “And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life” (Matthew 19:29, NKJV). Two years ago, Daniel said, “I started feeling like I should step out…
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Volunteers in Florida Lead Dying Air Force Veteran to Christ
Robbie Bushway can tell you how God moves in mysterious ways—just ask him. His father, Bob, had hardened his heart for years, yet came to faith in Christ thanks to a violent hurricane. A 74-year-old Vietnam veteran, Bob was sick with lung disease and unwilling to evacuate when the fury of Hurricane Michael tore through…
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Samaritan’s Purse On the Ground in Flooded Southeast Texas
Update (Sept. 27): Samaritan’s Purse continues work in Vidor and Winnie, Texas. In Vidor, we have our Team Patriot volunteers serving for the first time on a disaster relief mission. Team Patriot is a brand-new initiative that offers Operation Heal Our Patriots couples—wounded military veterans and their spouses—an opportunity to serve U.S. homeowners after a…
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Volunteers Doing the ‘Dirty Work’ to Help Ocracoke Island Homeowners
Philip Howard, 75, stood at his front door and watched as a wall of water from Pamlico Sound rushed down the road toward his house on Ocracoke Island. “The water just kept rising higher and higher and higher, and I thought if it breaches the top points of my fence then I’m going to have…
