The mountains of North Carolina still bear the scars of Hurricane Helene more than a year later. The bare forests of winter make the scars more visible. Downed trees, cratered mountainsides, and homes tattered or still buried in the debris flows and flooding of October 2024. That’s when Scott and Meta lost their home, in…
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Un lugar al cual llamar hogar
The scars on Howard’s cheek and eyebrow still bear witness to the terror and pain of the morning Hurricane Helene struck. Those reminders will not soon fade, but, now, he and his family have a new marker of God’s faithfulness and grace on their lives: a mobile home provided by Samaritan’s Purse. On Tuesday, June…
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Samaritan’s Purse Responding Through Partners in Mexico
Samaritan’s Purse is currently in the area where Hurricane Patricia made landfall. The team has identified a stretch of coastal area where the damage is significant and, because of low population density, will likely be a lower priority for the government response. On Monday, we bought food, water, and hygiene items for the local churches…
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Samaritan’s Purse – Give a Year-End Gift
Give a Year-End Gift Where Most Needed Where Most Needed - 012000 $ Give We Help in Jesus' Name SAMARITAN'S PURSE BRINGS PHYSICAL RELIEF AND HOPE TO HURTING PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD. Samaritan's Purse helps men, women, and children who are victims of war, poverty, disaster, and famine. We work in more than 100 countries,…
Operation Christmas Child
Las cajas de regalos les recuerdan a los niños mexicanos que Dios está cerca de ellos
Esmeralda startled her daughter Fernanda awake as Hurricane Otis roared over their town just outside of Acapulco. Gentle words did little to sooth the 10-year-old’s fears as she saw the terror in her mother’s face, especially as the sheet metal roof peeled away. “I told them, ‘We’re going to stay here and nothing’s going to…
De nuevo en casa en el condado de Buncombe
When Hurricane Helene tore through western North Carolina last September, the raging storm uprooted trees near Norberto Pizarro’s Buncombe County home and flung them onto his house, splitting it in two. We praise God that Norberto and his family were unharmed during the storm, but the damage to their house was so extensive that Norberto…
Operation Christmas Child
Franklin Graham and Family Distribute Shoebox Gifts in Antigua
On Dec. 28-29, Franklin Graham and members of his extended family traveled to the Caribbean island of Antigua to distribute shoebox gifts to children in need. Two Operation Christmas Child outreach events took place on Friday at local churches and two more occurred on Saturday, blessing a total of 450 children. The Grahams continue the…
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Agua limpia. Vidas transformadas.
Clean Water. Changed Lives. Clean Water Projects 013659 $ Give Samaritan’s Purse is working in Jesus’ Name this World Water Day and throughout the year to provide clean water to people in need around the world. After Hurricane Melissa devastated Salomie’s community in southwestern Jamaica, the only clean water available was what she could gather from collected rain…
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Edward Graham Encourages Volunteers Serving in Florida Panhandle
UPDATE (May 1, 2019): Our disaster relief response has concluded, with nearly 3,000 volunteers serving more than 1,200 homeowners. We praise God that 125 people came to faith in Jesus Christ during this response. We will also soon begin rebuilding homes in the Panhandle. Edward Graham, son of Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham, recently traveled…
Hogar, dulce hogar
Samaritan’s Purse continues to work throughout western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee after Hurricane Helene, replacing mobile homes lost in the catastrophic floodwaters that struck the region nearly a year ago. Brenda Correa and her four children are the most recent recipients to unlock the doors to a brand-new, paid-in-full house provided by Samaritan’s Purse.…
