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…
Proyectos de construcción
Se completa y dedica una nueva iglesia en la isla del mar de Bering
On Oct. 6, praises rang out in English and Cup’ig from the recently finished Covenant Church in Mekoryuk on Nunivak Island, Alaska. Townspeople and distinguished guests worshipped the Lord together for the first time in the brand-new building constructed over the past four months-plus by Samaritan’s Purse staff and volunteers. Following the dedication service, the…
Discipulado, educación & entrenamiento
A Hurting Marriage Begins to Heal from the Wounds of War
He’d been good with a gun since he started hunting at age 8 and was a hard-driving athlete during high school, so for Nick Hine the rigorous life of a Marine Corps scout sniper seemed like a good fit. He wasn’t interested in college just yet, so when he was 18 years old he joined…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Volunteers Doing the ‘Dirty Work’ to Help Ocracoke Island Homeowners
Philip Howard, 75, stood at his front door and watched as a wall of water from Pamlico Sound rushed down the road toward his house on Ocracoke Island. “The water just kept rising higher and higher and higher, and I thought if it breaches the top points of my fence then I’m going to have…
50 AÑOS DE MINISTERIO
Movilizando militares y sus parejas al frente de desastres naturales
At the 2019 Operation Heal Our Patriots Reunion in Dallas, Texas, we invited military couples to join our U.S. Disaster Relief efforts as part of our new Team Patriot project. Since the first Team Patriot teams deployed in August of last year, Samaritan’s Purse has sent more than 100 individuals to serve again on the…
Proyectos de construcción
Rebuild Project Underway in Alaska’s Interior
As Alaska’s interior undergoes its annual thaw, there are just enough weeks of milder weather to rebuild in the state’s hardest-to-reach areas. This would include Scammon Bay, population 500, on the edge of the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge where the Kun River meets the Bering Sea. There are no roads leading into or out…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Franklin Graham alienta a un pastor en Lahaina
Franklin Graham traveled to fire-ravaged Maui on Saturday to encourage homeowners who lost their homes to the wildfires in August. He surveyed the horrific damage in Lahaina, where Samaritan’s Purse volunteers are hard at work sifting through ashes for homeowners in search of treasured mementos—and closure. “A fire ripped through this area just destroying homes,…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Franklin Graham Travels to Emergency Field Hospital in the Bahamas
Franklin Graham came to Grand Bahama on Monday, Sept. 16, to oversee Samaritan’s Purse medical relief efforts on the island nation ravaged by Hurricane Dorian in early September. Graham visited with patients at our Emergency Field Hospital, including Kristna Thompson, a man suffering from congestive heart failure, and Glen Bartlett, who is ill with a…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Edward Graham anima a los pacientes del hospital móvil de Samaritan's Purse en Jamaica
COO Edward Graham traveled to Jamaica to observe the work of Samaritan’s Purse in response to the destruction left behind by Hurricane Melissa. We are distributing shelter tarp, Bibles, solar lights, and household water filters, among other items. We are also providing mobile medical care in remote mountainous areas and have set up our Emergency…
Franklin Graham en Florida para animar a los propietarios y voluntarios
Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham traveled to Lee County, Florida, on Thursday, Oct. 6, where Hurricane Ian took dead aim last week and pummeled the Fort Myers area as a Category 4 storm. More than 100 people were killed, and at least hundreds of homes were either ripped apart or flooded. One resident described it…
