A February storm had softened the ground considerably and loosened the roots on an old poplar tree. Wind gusts finished it off. Mike and Michele Toberer were hours out of town when the timber fell and broke a large opening into a fence holding their mules. Three of them escaped into the highway. “That was…
Animales de carga donados a una organización de Carolina ayudan con el socorro por Helene
Fact Sheet: Emergency Field Hospital
Brindamos socorro a los sobrevivientes del tifón en Vietnam
Samaritan’s Purse is on the ground in northwestern Vietnam after Typhoon Wipha struck the region in late July and continued to bring heavy rainfall into early August. We are also preparing to respond to Typhoon Kajiki as it recently made landfall in Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital. This most recent storm claimed multiple lives and added to…
Reconstrucción en Tennessee
Samaritan’s Purse has started rebuilding homes that were lost to Hurricane Helene, including one for Kim Mitchum in Mountain City, Tennessee. The September 2024 storm flooded Mitchum’s home—damaging her belongings and leaving her with a black mold infestation that could not be stopped. When our U.S. Disaster Relief teams came to her aid with the…
Newsletter September 2023
On the Road in Jesus’ Name
Jesus’ words inspired cross-country bicyclist Daniel Erickson: “And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life” (Matthew 19:29, NKJV). Two years ago, Daniel said, “I started feeling like I should step out…
El trayecto de Franklin Graham: de perdido a esparcir esperanza
By Beth Brelje | Originally Published in The Epoch Times May 02, 2024. Updated: May 06, 2024. Used with permission. BOONE, N.C.—A bird is thumping into the window of Rev. Franklin Graham’s office at Samaritan’s Purse international headquarters in Boone, North Carolina. He says it happens every spring, and he doesn’t know why, but this…
Western North Carolina Gives Back Press Kit
Press Release Texas Flood 09-23-19
Team Patriot Gets Wounded Veterans Serving Again
U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Brandon Price was performing a routine training session with the Afghan Army when his students suddenly turned on him and ambushed him and his squadron with gunfire. Brandon took two bullets to the chest plate and one to his leg, and as he was being treated by a medic, a remote-powered…