Retired Army Staff Sergeant John Hosea and his wife Sara know that every day and every breath are gifts from God. On June 9, 2012, John’s armored vehicle ran over a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. The resulting blast blew the truck 27 feet in the air, killing the driver instantly. John was severely wounded. That…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Actualización desde el campo: intervenciones médicas en Ucrania y Moldavia
(March 11) There are several important developments from the field: –Medical equipment and supplies for our Emergency Field Hospital in Lviv, Ukraine, were airlifted via three flights (two aboard our DC-8 cargo jet) from North Carolina to Poland on March 4, 8, and 10. All materials have been unloaded, and most have been transported to…
Proyectos de construcción
A New Laboratory for Egbe
Abby Anderson and her husband, Mark, moved to Nigeria in 2011 to manage the construction portion of the revitalization of a rural teaching hospital supported by Samaritan’s Purse in southwest Nigeria. The new laboratory is a marvelous site and another example of the miracles that are happening at the hospital. Never short on adventure around…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Volunteers Working in Texas After Imelda’s Deluge
“We bought this house last July,” homeowner Kandace Higginbotham explained as she looked around at the water damage to her residence. “Just long enough to make two or three growth marks [for her children] on the wall. This was our first family home.” Kandace and her family were home together when the remnants of Tropical…
Flood Relief Work Completed in Midland, Michigan
Over the weekend, our volunteer teams in Midland, Michigan, completed work on flooded homes in the area. Over the course of our relief work, nearly 1,500 volunteers joined our relief efforts and completed clean up and recovery on 315 homes. We praise God for at least 49 salvations, many seeds planted, and many people blessed…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Propietarios comparten historias de terror; voluntarios trabajan duro después de tornados
Where residents of Mayfield, Kentucky, lined downtown streets to watch a Christmas parade just days earlier, the sidewalks are now strewn with the debris of a flattened city. More than 70 people died in Kentucky alone last weekend as tornadoes ripped through the community in the nighttime hours of Dec. 10. At least 88 people…
Oleadas de voluntarios ayudan en ciudades azotadas por las tormentas
UPDATE, April 17: Please continue praying for the work of North American Ministries after these tornadoes. Samaritan’s Purse continues responding to the devastation caused by EF3 tornadoes in Wynne and Little Rock, Arkansas. We are also now serving in Savannah, Tennessee, to include Hardin, McNairy, and Wayne Counties where another EF3 tornado damaged homes. We…
Operation Christmas Child
Shoebox Gifts Protected in the Storms
When Hurricane Laura threatened Louisiana at the end of August, and again when Hurricane Delta came only a few weeks later, Lula Singletary and her daughter, Kathy Guidry, prayed for God’s protection as they evacuated their neighboring homes in Woodlawn. This community near the town of Jennings endured wind gusts of more than 165 mph,…
Discipulado, educación & entrenamiento
Churches in South Sudan Trained to Help Their Neighbors
Like millions of other South Sudanese, Abuk Athian Wol, 38, has endured terrible hardship. When she was young, a disease left her right leg permanently disabled, her father died in war, and her mother passed away not long afterward. At age 23, Abuk was forced to marry a 52-year-old man who died shortly after she…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Franklin Graham alienta a un pastor en Lahaina
Franklin Graham traveled to fire-ravaged Maui on Saturday to encourage homeowners who lost their homes to the wildfires in August. He surveyed the horrific damage in Lahaina, where Samaritan’s Purse volunteers are hard at work sifting through ashes for homeowners in search of treasured mementos—and closure. “A fire ripped through this area just destroying homes,…
