An orphan named Kopokok was rushed to Tenwek Hospital from a drought-stricken corner of Kenya. His body was ravaged by rheumatic heart disease as well as a lack of food. Dr. Agneta Odera, a young Kenyan surgeon, hurried Kopokok into the operating room to receive a new heart valve. Kopokok was one of the first…
Discipulado, educación & entrenamiento
A Hurting Marriage Begins to Heal from the Wounds of War
He’d been good with a gun since he started hunting at age 8 and was a hard-driving athlete during high school, so for Nick Hine the rigorous life of a Marine Corps scout sniper seemed like a good fit. He wasn’t interested in college just yet, so when he was 18 years old he joined…
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Hearts Healed, Lives Transformed: Miigaa’s Story
Hearts HealedLives Transformed Medical School Student Thanks God for Saving Her Life Miigaa received heart surgery through Children’s Heart Project and is now helping care for other heart patients. Miigaa begins her day by praying for her family and for people throughout Mongolia. She wants them to come to faith in Jesus Christ and experience the…
Abrazar el gozo juntos otra vez
Marine Sergeant Austin Dickinson and his wife, Cass, an Air Force Senior Airman, stood just out of reach of the thundering waterfall where they had hiked—from the boat to the remote pebbled shore of Alaska’s Lake Clark and up the trail lined with devil’s club to the cove where the water gushed from a high…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Emergency Field Hospital Opens, Expanding Medical Care in Mozambique
UPDATE (April 11): One week after opening our Emergency Field Hospital in Buzi, Mozambique, Samaritan’s Purse medical staff have treated some 1,000 patients and delivered ten babies—opening a second maternal ward to meet the growing number of expectant mothers. Delfina was terrified that she would have to give birth in the rising water when Cyclone…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Samaritan’s Purse On the Ground in Flooded Southeast Texas
Update (Sept. 27): Samaritan’s Purse continues work in Vidor and Winnie, Texas. In Vidor, we have our Team Patriot volunteers serving for the first time on a disaster relief mission. Team Patriot is a brand-new initiative that offers Operation Heal Our Patriots couples—wounded military veterans and their spouses—an opportunity to serve U.S. homeowners after a…
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Team Patriot
Samaritan's Purse Team Patriot Sign Up Join this Samaritan's Purse initiative to deploy alongside other Operation Heal Our Patriots couples to the front lines of disasters! In the aftermath of natural disasters, communities often look and feel like war zones. Survivors have been in a battle for their lives as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, fires, and other catastrophic…
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Restauramos la vista en Sudán del Sur
When Yinat went to his garden to gather sorghum he did not expect such an ordinary day would deal him such a dreadful incident. A spitting cobra lurking among the plants attacked and spit not once, but twice in Yinat’s eyes. That was 20 years ago, and Yinat hadn’t seen well ever since. He developed…
Celebramos la libertad en Cristo este Cuatro de Julio
More than 50 wounded military veterans and their spouses have come to Alaska so far this year hoping for restoration for their marriages and their lives. These military couples are very real reminders that the freedoms we enjoy aren’t free, but come at a price that’s paid on battlefields all over the world. They bear…
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Veteran Couple Finds Forgiveness, Freedom in Christ While in Alaska
Army Corporal Hamilton Kinard’s 15-month deployment to Iraq was a turning point in his military career. At age 19, he had joined the military “to make my dad happy. I hadn’t done much with my life up to that point and I wanted to make a difference. I wanted to help somebody.” In 2005, as…
