An 8-year-old Kenyan child with spina bifida stands upright and walks for the first time. A man whose name means “deformed” marvels at his reshaped mouth following cleft lip surgery in South Sudan. God’s healing power in the life of a toddler with a congenital heart condition leads to the planting of a church now…
Operation Christmas Child
Shoebox Gifts Encourage Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia
Well more than 2 million Venezuelans have left their nation over the past few years, many fleeing to neighboring Colombia. They’re leaving because the situation in Venezuela is bleak—with runaway inflation, increasing crime, and critical shortages of food and medicine. As the economy collapses, families simply can’t afford to eat. Some Venezuelans go back and…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Hurricane Dorian Roundup: Field Hospital Opens, Relief Distributions Ongoing in the Bahamas
Please see a new story on relief sent to the Abacos and another new article on our Emergency Field Hospital in Freeport, Grand Bahama. Please continue regularly visiting samaritanspurse.org for future articles on our Hurricane Dorian response. Our Dorian landing page is also a great resource featuring videos and a slide show. The article below…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Cissie Graham Lynch Encourages Bahamians Recovering After Hurricane Dorian
In the wake of Hurricane Dorian’s devastation, Cissie Graham Lynch and her husband Corey traveled to the Bahamas on Sept. 13 to see the work of Samaritan’s Purse on Grand Bahama and the Abaco Islands. The Lynches met with patients at our Emergency Field Hospital where medical teams have helped alleviate the strain on regional…
Operation Christmas Child
Shoebox Gifts Go Even Where There Is No Road
Sixty bare-chested men started running towards Dian and Sandee. The group’s leader was waving his rifle in the air and yelling. Among the throng was a man carrying a black cooking pot and more men brandishing their rifles in the air. The two women froze. But to their surprise, the horde ran past them and…
Operation Christmas Child
Life Change in Central Asia
Providential Meeting Changes Lives in Central Asia God uses a shoebox gift to draw a boy to Christ just days before his death. Facebook Twitter email As Pastor Gadi returned from distributing shoebox gifts to children in a village several miles from the capital city, he saw two boys standing on the side of the road…
Agua, salubridad e higiene
Samaritan’s Purse diseña un nuevo sistema de tratamiento de agua móvil que puede salvar vidas
It’s easy to assume that you’ll have water to drink and cook and clean and make your morning coffee but imagine yourself in Maniche, Haiti, on the mid-morning of August 14. The whole world seems to jolt to the point where your bones rattle, your teeth chatter, the ground feels like it might explode. And…
Animales, agricultura y sustento
Criar pollos trae familia a Cristo
The van was hot, stuffy, and crowded. It wasn’t ideal, but this seven-hour trek across the border from Cambodia into a neighboring country seemed like the last option for Vanny and her husband. They were clinging to the promise of a well-paying job that would make a better life possible. The couple had tried earning…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Llevamos ayuda aérea hacia Acapulco
UPDATE (Nov. 6): Over the past two days, Samaritan’s Purse has distributed more than a ton of food to nearly 12,000 hurricane survivors. Parcels including rice, beans, tuna, and chicken breast have been sent out into the community through local church partners who are ministering to the storm victims in Jesus’ Name. In addition, our…
Franklin Graham
Newsletter May 2024
Franklin Graham Update | May Franklin Graham Update | May Tornado Reliefin America's Heartland Dear Friend, Waves of killer storms recently tore across the Great Plains, and Samaritan's Purse has been busy in six states cleaning up damage, making emergency repairs, and comforting survivors in the Name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Hundreds of homes were destroyed in the Oklahoma towns of…
