Surrounded by friends and volunteers in orange shirts, Treva Pruitt and her son Gregory crossed the threshold of their brand-new home in Ashe County, given to them by Samaritan’s Purse. The moment marked a fresh start for the mother and son who had lost everything just over a year earlier. In October 2024, as deadly…
Residente del condado de Ashe recibe una nueva casa de Samaritan's Purse
Los voluntarios trabajan duro después de las tormentas del Medio Oeste
Jenny Leiter was, at first, mesmerized by the approaching storm the evening of March 14. She said the roiling clouds and the streaks of lightning made for a spectacular show across the expanse of farm fields surrounding Lakeview, Ohio. “It was really quite beautiful,” she said. But then it turned terrifying, as tornado sirens started…
Press Release Samaritan’s Purse Responds to Deadly Earthquake in Myanmar; Airlifting Emergency Field Hospital and Life-saving Supplies
De una casa a un hogar
Waightstill and Dawn Avery neared the end of a challenging year after losing a precious family member when Hurricane Helene ripped through their community in Newland, North Carolina. Christmas tree farmers and construction workers by trade, the couple not only lost all of the contents of their home to four feet of mud and rainwater,…
Delivering Christmas to Children in Uganda
In late 2002, Franklin Graham gathered with musician Bono (of U2) and the Brooklyn Tabernacle Youth Choir at New York’s JFK International Airport for a special send-off. More than 80,000 Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts were loaded onto an Antonov 225, the world’s largest cargo jet at the time, to be transported to Ugandan children…
Samaritan’s Purse Airlifts Field Hospital to Alaska
Samaritan’s Purse airlifted a 30-bed Emergency Field Hospital and critical medical supplies to King Salmon, Alaska, on June 1 in advance of a possible COVID-19 outbreak. The threat is expected to significantly rise this summer as more than 10,000 fishermen and cannery workers from around the world descend upon the Bristol Bay region. Many of…
Press Release Samaritan’s Purse Responds in Israel
Las parejas militares avanzan con Dios
Here’s what military couples said they were leaving behind in Alaska: Their anger Their doubt Their excuses Their resentment Their negativity Their isolation Their old self Their regrets Their pain Their anxieties Operation Heal Our Patriots Week 16 ended with this emotional time around the camp fire pit as ten husbands and ten wives shared—often…








