Jess Horn, his brother, and their aging parents were trapped in the top story of their home. A helicopter whirred outside the upstairs window as they prepared to crawl out to safety above the flooding. “Shingles were flying off the roof and everything from the helicopter blades. It was scary. My mother got out, and…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Los voluntarios ayudan en las comunidades inundadas de Washington
Nuestro Ministerio
Disaster Relief Landing Page
Providing Disaster Relief in Jesus' Name Where Most Needed Where Most Needed - 012000 $ Give We Help Disaster Victims Around the World Samaritan's Purse stands ready to respond at a moment's notice when disaster strikes, whether at home or abroad. Natural disasters can strike anytime, anywhere. Tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons, floods, wildfires, and other disasters don’t…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Samaritan’s Purse Concludes Response to New Mexico’s McBride Fire
UPDATED MAY 3 Our response to the McBride Fire has concluded now as we celebrate God’s work through our teams who served as the hands and feet of Jesus to so many hurting families. During the more than two week response to a community near Ruidoso, New Mexico, nearly 100 volunteers joined our efforts in…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Respondiendo a los daños causados por una tormenta en South-Dakota
Samaritan’s Purse is bringing relief to areas around Brookings County, South Dakota, after a derecho packing 107-mph winds tore through residential areas in the eastern part of the state. One of our disaster relief units—a tractor-trailer filled with relief supplies and equipment— arrived in South Dakota Sunday night, May 15. VOLUNTEER IN SOUTH DAKOTA Volunteers…
Media
Fact Sheet: Aviation
Samaritan's Purse Aviation Since 1975, Samaritan’s Purse has used aircraft to transport doctors and relief workers along with tons of food, medicine, shelter materials, blankets, and other items to aid victims of war, natural disasters, disease, famine, and poverty. To support the global work of Samaritan's Purse, the aviation arm of the ministry operates 28…
Samaritan’s Purse Volunteers Hard at Work in Flooded Virginia Community
UPDATED July 18 Samaritan’s Purse volunteers are working in Buchanan County, Virginia, where floodwaters left neighborhoods waterlogged and hundreds of residents fleeing their homes after more than 8 inches of rain fell on the area in a matter of hours, Tuesday, July 12. More than 100 homes in the flood zone of the nearby Dismal…
Franklin Graham
Newsletter August
Franklin Graham Update | August Kentucky Suffers Another Tragedy Dear Friend, More deadly storms have ravaged Kentucky. Eight months after tornadoes tore through the western end of the state, catastrophic summer storms have flooded mountain communities hundreds of miles to the east, taking at least 37 lives. The devastation is so overwhelming that officials are still trying to account for…
Los equipos sirven a los propietarios por las inundaciones en Kentucky
Ronnie and Holly Banks piled into the living room with their boys and dogs to watch a powerful storm roll across Breathitt County, Kentucky, on July 28. Streaks of lightning lit up the overgrown field of an abandoned drive-in movie theater across the way. When they nodded off it was raining, and it was raining…
Los voluntarios aún están sirviendo mientras las comunidades se recuperan de la tormenta invernal
April 2 Update: Our ice storm response has now finished in Louisiana. Our work in Mississippi will be ending soon (currently scheduled to complete on April 10). Check spovolunteer.org for more information. March 26: Samaritan’s Purse volunteers are still hard at work in Louisiana and Mississippi after late-January ice storms left communities with a mess…
