Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham and his youngest son, Samaritan’s Purse COO Edward Graham, gathered March 4 with faculty and staff of Tenwek Hospital in Bomet, Kenya, north of Nairobi. The group toured Tenwek’s new state-of-the-art cardiothoracic surgical center, which, in partnership with Samaritan’s Purse, was completed Oct. 24 of last year. The need for…
Atención médica móvil para los más pobres en Monrovia
Dorithy stood in the heat holding her grandson, Charles, who hadn’t stopped coughing since the fire. She was welcomed inside by our nurses. The grandmother, seeking care for the 1-year-old boy, had lost her house two weeks before. She watched it go up in flames, triggered by faulty electrical wiring. Dorithy and Charles were among…
Newsletter June 2025
Pastores jóvenes de Asia Central reciben cajas de regalos
A simple drive through the countryside can become something special. Yusif*, a volunteer leader in Central Asia with Operation Christmas Child, was traveling with several team members to a ministry meeting when he spotted two shepherd boys tending their flock near the highway. Remembering that he had some gift-filled shoeboxes as well as copies of…
Elizabeth and a Stuffed Animal
5 Ideas creativas para empacar cajas de regalos durante COVID-19
A global pandemic isn’t stopping Operation Christmas Child from delivering gift-filled shoeboxes to boys and girls in the far corners of the world. Children need hope now more than ever in such uncertain times, and these tangible expressions of God’s love can be a great encouragement. Most important, children need to hear the Good News…
Empujando hasta el límite – por una buena causa
Matt and Jessica Cook stood satisfied at the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro staring out at a carpet of clouds hovering nearly two miles below them. The father-daughter duo from Cuba, Missouri, had reached Africa’s highest peak—19,341 feet above sea level—after an almost weeklong test of strength and endurance. With a love for Samaritan’s Purse and…
Un Padre en el cielo
Claudia Molina has helped pack hundreds of shoebox gifts in her time as a project leader for Operation Christmas Child, and with each box, her prayer remains the same: that God would use each gift to touch a child’s heart, just as He did hers. As a little girl in the central neighborhood of San…