Cleft lip and palate can be easily repaired in many nations, but the required surgeries often are not available in developing countries with inadequate healthcare. Children born with these medical issues often face a lifetime of ridicule and discrimination, especially in areas that associate the health condition with witchcraft or being “cursed.” That’s why Samaritan’s…
Ministerio de Salud y Medicina
Vista restaurada y ojos espirituales abiertos en la República Democrática del Congo
Joseph is wearing a big smile that’s verging on laughter as he rests under the sun cover in Isiro, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He’s beginning to see shapes and faces for the first time in years. Cataracts had taken his sight long before, adding to Joseph’s other physical challenges, including hearing impairment and…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Volamos sobre África para Cristo
Samaritan’s Purse pilots and aircraft are bringing aid to underserved communities across Africa. They are vital in supporting our ongoing work in Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Liberia, among other locations. Whether they are dropping bags of much needed food, transporting patients from rural areas to our cleft lip and palate clinics, or performing any…
Ministerio de Salud y Medicina
Atención médica móvil para los más pobres en Monrovia
Dorithy stood in the heat holding her grandson, Charles, who hadn’t stopped coughing since the fire. She was welcomed inside by our nurses. The grandmother, seeking care for the 1-year-old boy, had lost her house two weeks before. She watched it go up in flames, triggered by faulty electrical wiring. Dorithy and Charles were among…
Discipulado, educación & entrenamiento
De enemigo a amigo
Gebah remembered the man in his dream vividly and was still shaken the next morning while leading other Muslim inmates in prayers. Gebah had been visited in the night by a figure who took the Quran from which he was teaching a class of children and replaced it with a Bible. What do you understand…
Discipulado, educación & entrenamiento
Celebramos la libertad en Cristo
Rina knows what it means to endure heartbreak. She is several years into a 20-year prison sentence, which means being separated from her son and family. She used to work as a nurse, traveling from Liberia to other countries to help hurting people. She had saved for years to create a bright future for her…
Nuestro Ministerio
Un homenaje al DC-8
!["El potente DC-8 ha sido el instrumento [de Dios] para llevar el mensaje del Evangelio de Jesucristo por todo el mundo", escribe Joe Proffitt, ingeniero de vuelo de Samaritan's Purse, mientras se da de baja al legendario avión.](https://spweb-uploads.s3.theark.cloud/2025/11/HS-1-320x273.jpg)
My name is Joe Proffitt and I have had the honor and privilege to be a flight engineer aboard this beautiful aircraft, the Mighty DC-8, for the past five and a half years. McDonnell Douglas produced 554 DC-8s. Samaritan’s Purse was blessed to operate the last one registered in the United States. In 2014, during…
Nuestro Ministerio
Volamos hacia una nueva era para la aviación de Samaritan's Purse
On Nov. 14, staff members and friends of the ministry joined our Mission Aviation Services team to bid farewell and to celebrate all that God has done through our DC-8 cargo aircraft. In addition, our 767 plane was dedicated to God’s glory as it joined our fleet during an event that was held at our…
Agua, salubridad e higiene
El Agua de la Vida brota en una prisión de Liberia
Prince still remembers those long weeks in Liberia’s dry season when the inmates at Monrovia Central Prison would have to wait for almost an hour for the prison well’s hand pump to bring water from deep below. During the rainy season, the well fills and the reservoirs overflow. But in the dry months, they were…
Ministerio de Salud y Medicina
Nos preparamos para los pacientes con ébola en el Congo
A nurse named Ngabu is in a training room in Ituri Province, learning how to put on a hazmat suit. His younger brother is lying in an isolation ward somewhere he cannot visit. Ngabu hasn’t seen him since his brother was transported to the facility. He doesn’t know when he will. He saw two of…
