Operation Christmas Child
Pacific Islands Initiative Press Kit
Media Resources Media Requests Articles & Stories Fact Sheets Approved Quotes Photos B-roll Pacific Islands Initiative Press Kit An Operation Christmas Child initiative is bringing the Good News of Jesus Christ to isolated island nations. The goal of the five-year Pacific Island Initiative is for all children ages 2–14 across the Pacific to have the…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Voluntarios que brindan ayuda en caso de desastres instados a compartir valientemente el Evangelio de Cristo
Thick, black smoke was moving in rapidly. Pastor Erik Naylor of Maui, Hawaii, could hardly see more than a few feet in front of him, and he felt the heat as homes around him started to catch on fire. But when he and a neighbor looked across the street, they saw that the Lahaina Baptist…
Operation Christmas Child
Caja 200 millones celebrada en Charlotte
Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham encouraged volunteers and staff at the Charlotte Processing Center in North Carolina during a community celebration event on Dec. 3. He expressed thanks to volunteers in Charlotte as well as the thousands of volunteers working in seven other processing center locations across the country to prepare shoebox gifts for international…
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Biography: Ruth Bell Graham
Ruth Bell Graham Born June 10, 1920 Qingjiang, Kiangsu, China Died June 14, 2007, age 87 Montreat, North Carolina Parents L. Nelson Bell (died 1973) Virginia Leftwich Bell (died 1974) Married William F. "Billy" Graham Jr. 1943 Children Virginia "Gigi" Graham, 1945 Anne Graham Lotz, 1948 Ruth Graham, 1950 William "Franklin" Graham III, 1952 Nelson…
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Biography: Billy Graham
Billy Graham William F. "Billy" Graham Jr. Born Nov. 7, 1918 Charlotte, North Carolina Died Feb. 21, 2018 Montreat, North Carolina Parents William Franklin Graham Sr. (died 1962) Morrow Coffey Graham (died 1981) Married Ruth McCue Bell in 1943 (died June 14, 2007, age 87) Education 1943 B.A., Wheaton College—Wheaton, Illinois 1940 Graduated, Florida Bible Institute (now…
Ministerio de Salud y Medicina
Franklin and Edward Graham Celebrate God’s Work at Tenwek
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…
Samaritan’s Purse Dedicates First Home in Hurricane Helene Rebuild
In the same front yard where Hurricane Helene’s floodwaters tore through their quiet western North Carolina neighborhood, Benny and Keeva Messer stood on June 2 praising God for a brand-new home built in Jesus’ Name, from the foundation below to the shingles above. “Today we are going to celebrate and rejoice,” said Luther Harrison, vice…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Las primeras casas móviles a las familias que sufren tras el huracán Helene
Lidia Gomez escaped with her family as floodwaters, mud, and debris filled their Buncombe County, North Carolina, community last September. When they returned in the wake of Helene’s destruction, their mobile home was unrecognizable—filled with water and pierced by a tree that had crashed through the roof. In the following days, the home became filled…
Nuestro Ministerio
Un homenaje al DC-8
!["El potente DC-8 ha sido el instrumento [de Dios] para llevar el mensaje del Evangelio de Jesucristo por todo el mundo", escribe Joe Proffitt, ingeniero de vuelo de Samaritan's Purse, mientras se da de baja al legendario avión.](https://spweb-uploads.s3.theark.cloud/2025/11/HS-1-320x273.jpg)
My name is Joe Proffitt and I have had the honor and privilege to be a flight engineer aboard this beautiful aircraft, the Mighty DC-8, for the past five and a half years. McDonnell Douglas produced 554 DC-8s. Samaritan’s Purse was blessed to operate the last one registered in the United States. In 2014, during…
Ministerio de Salud y Medicina
Nuestro compromiso médico con la comunidad satisface necesidades médicas y construye puentes para el Evangelio
Jennifer Borth had pain in her teeth for years and plenty of other dental complications that couldn’t be solved on a single Saturday, but she traveled nearly two hours on Nov. 15 hoping for relief from the worst of it. She said the teeth that would be pulled at the Samaritan’s Purse Community Medical Outreach…
