UPDATE (9:03 a.m. ET Tuesday): Lane became a tropical depression late Sunday and headed west from the islands. Please continue in prayer for those affected in Hawaii. Damage was not nearly as severe as initially expected. This is expected to be the final update for Lane. UPDATE (7:51 a.m. ET Sunday): Tropical Storm Lane continues…
Canadian Military Couple Gives Back in Florida Panhandle
SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER WITH SAMARITAN’S PURSE Hurricane Michael caused massive devastation across the Florida Panhandle, leaving Mexico Beach and other communities unrecognizable as nearly every house, landmark, and building was washed away. Thousands of volunteers have served with Samaritan’s Purse, helping hundreds of families recover from the storm. Darren and Colleen Beers are two…
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Familia de Carolina del Norte viene a casa para la Navidad
Michael Register had given up and accepted that his days would never be the same after Hurricane Florence stole his home and stripped away anything resembling a normal and comfortable routine. So, when Samaritan’s Purse staff came to talk with him about the Hurricane Florence home rebuild program in Whiteville, North Carolina, Michael was both…
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Disaster Relief Work Wraps up in Alabama
Volunteers from across the country demonstrated God’s love and shared the hope of the Gospel with families struggling in the aftermath of Hurricane Sally. After a nearly four-month deployment to Baldwin County, Alabama, Samaritan’s Purse teams have assisted 699 homeowners with the daunting tasks of mud-outs, clearing yard debris, tarping damaged roofs, and cutting up…
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U.S. Disaster Relief Begins—and Keeps Growing
Volunteers in orange T-shirts running chainsaws and tarping roofs have become icons of the U.S. Disaster Relief projects of Samaritan’s Purse. Yet it took many years for this aspect of the ministry to develop. The first U.S. Disaster Relief Unit was a converted tractor-trailer that deployed for the first time in 1998 to help victims…
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Louisiana Homeowner Grateful for God’s Grace
Cary Castile wasn’t expecting to be displaced for weeks when he evacuated from Louisiana to Texas ahead of Hurricane Laura in August 2020. And, when he did return to his Lake Charles home, he said the widespread devastation broke his heart. “Almost the entire city was damaged. The power lines were down. It was a…
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‘God Is Looking After Me’
Some seven months ago, Samaritan’s Purse assisted homeowner Mel Williams and more than 900 other families following destruction from Hurricanes Laura and Delta. Last week, deadly flooding swept through Lake Charles and our teams deployed once again to bring relief to hurting families in Louisiana. “We’ve had a pretty rough couple of months,” Mel explained.…
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Team Patriot Volunteers Help a Fellow Veteran in Louisiana
Residents of Lake Charles, Louisiana, a working-class town of nearly 78,000 people, are weather weary. They have seen their city ravaged by two hurricanes, crippled by an ice storm, and inundated by floodwaters—all within the past nine months. First, Hurricane Laura, a Category 4 storm, roared into Lake Charles in late August. It was the…
Casas y esperanzas restauradas en la ciudad Lake Charles.
When Hurricane Laura roared ashore in southern Louisiana last August, 2020 already felt like a year full of storms for Lake Charles homeowners Rufus and Shirley Goodwin. COVID-19 hit them hard in the spring and hospitalized them both. The symptoms were so severe that they feared for their lives. Then the hurricanes hit. Category 4…
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Hurricane Harvey Victim Happy to Be Home Again
Ever since Hurricane Harvey flooded Rodney Turner’s Houston home with a foot-and-a-half of rainwater almost a year ago, he’s been sleeping on his parents’ living room couch. A coat hook on the back of a door served as his closet. All of his furniture was ruined by the flooding, and flooring and drywall throughout the…
