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…
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…
Edward Graham Volunteers in Louisiana with Team Patriot
Edward Graham traveled this week to southwest Louisiana to encourage Samaritan’s Purse teams as they come alongside hurting homeowners. Many communities in the Bayou State are still struggling to recover after powerful hurricanes pummeled the area in recent months. Hurricane Delta slammed ashore as a Category 2 storm in early October and hit just a…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Field Hospital Pledged for Rural Alaska
Samaritan’s Purse has committed one of our Emergency Field Hospitals to the town of King Salmon, Alaska, as a massive influx of commercial fishermen and fishery workers are expected to swell the area’s population this summer—bringing the ominous potential of a COVID-19 outbreak. “Many locals are frightened, remembering what happened when the Spanish flu came…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Samaritan’s Purse Airlifts Medical Supplies to Alaska
The Samaritan’s Purse DC-8 aircraft landed in Alaska on Monday, April 6, with over 8 tons of supplies critical for the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. At the request of the governor’s office, we provided hospital beds, thermometers, and personal protective equipment such as masks, gloves, and gowns. These will be delivered to rural areas…
Discipulado, educación & entrenamiento
Military Couples Encouraged to Cling to Christ, Serve Together
More than 500 military couples attended the 2019 Operation Heal Our Patriots Reunion in Dallas, March 29-31. This was the seventh annual reunion for the Samaritan’s Purse project, which has provided Biblically based marriage enrichment training and follow-up care for about 1,000 wounded veterans and their spouses since 2012. This year’s Reunion began with many…
Operation Christmas Child
Celebramos 30 años de la fidelidad de Dios
Over 4,000 people from 112 countries and all 50 states converged on Orlando last week to give God the glory for His faithfulness over 30 years of Operation Christmas Child. Everyone praised God for providing more than 200 million shoebox gifts for children in need since 1993 and for the 50 million boys and girls…
Franklin Graham y Cissie Graham Lynch en Marcha por la Vida en D.C.
Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham and his daughter Cissie Graham Lynch participated in the 2020 March for Life in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 24. It was the 47th time this peaceful protest has marked the tragic 1973 decision (Roe v. Wade) by the U.S. Supreme Court to legalize abortion. “This is such an important issue…
Discipulado, educación & entrenamiento
Operation Heal Our Patriots 2018
Strengthening Military Marriages Operation Heal Our Patriots Offers Physical and Spiritual Refreshment to Military Couples OUR SEVENTH SEASON: 16 WEEKS, 160 MORE COUPLES. PLEASE PRAY. Share Tweet Pin Emaily Subscribe Memorial Day weekend marked the start of the 2018 Operation Heal Our Patriots summer season. Each week for 16 weeks, a new group of 10…
Operation Christmas Child
Celebramos 50 millones de niños discipulados
“Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God” (Mark 10:14). Children are precious to God. The Bible tells us that “children are a gift of the LORD” (Psalm 127:3) and that we are responsible to train them up “in the way [they] should…
