Children born with a cleft lip or palate in Peten, Guatemala, are unlikely to have it repaired. Most parents are unable to afford the necessary surgery or travel the nearly nine-hour journey to Guatemala City to receive care. For a few families that situation changed for the better recently when a volunteer medical team from…
Fortaleciendo matrimonios de militares mucho después de Alaska
Army Sergeant Brian Matters and his wife Rebecca left Alaska last year with hope. The week they spent there through Operation Heal Our Patriots helped lift a dark cloud from their lives. They even recommitted their marriage to God. Despite his years of faith in Jesus Christ, Brian had long struggled with doubt and hopelessness—especially…
Por el desierto
Navy Corpsman Ben Hebert and his wife, Heidi, nearly called it quits. They trace the source of their troubles back to 2009 when Ben watched helplessly as a fellow Marine was killed in an ambush while on patrol in Afghanistan. That traumatic event changed him. Ben was plagued by sleeplessness at night and a short…
Operation Heal Our Patriots
Empezar de nuevo
There was a time when Natalia was studying hard to fulfill her dream of becoming a nurse. But she had to quit school and devote all her time to working when the economy in Venezuela began to collapse. Families faced dire food shortages, power blackouts, and a failing national healthcare system. Eventually, she made the…
Llega ayuda urgente a Vietnam tras el paso del tifón Yagi
Powerful winds and torrential downpours sent Tran’s house sliding down a nearby mountainside in northern Vietnam. If the 78-year-old hadn’t fled, she would likely be among the more than 250 dead in the wake of Typhoon Yagi. Just days after, Samaritan’s Purse staff were wading through flooded streets and neighborhoods checking on families and distributing…
Hospitales misioneros
Nazarene General Hospital, Papua New Guinea
The Importance of Water
By Abby Anderson, who works with her husband, Mark, to manage the Egbe Hospital revitalization program in Nigeria. We continue to have severe water shortages on the compound, and what we thought was bad has continued on to worse. We have three boreholes that pump water into two storage tanks. But to pump the water…