Nuestro Ministerio
Newsletter September 2025
Franklin Graham Update | September Franklin Graham Update | September It's All About Jesus Dear Friend, Another season of Operation Christmas Child is just around the corner! In a few weeks, millions of God's people will be packing and praying over their shoebox gifts that Samaritan's Purse will send to children across the world. We give glory to God that in over three decades we…
Operation Christmas Child
Discipulamos a los niños en los basureros de Camboya
Samnang* comes from a family of scavengers, also known as waste pickers—people who earn a meager living by collecting recyclable materials from garbage dumps, streets, and landfills of Cambodia. But God used the new items inside the shoebox gift she received at age 13 to help draw her to a relationship with Christ. Today, she…
Operation Christmas Child
Llevar los corazones a Cristo en Camboya
Hands clasped, heads bowed, children whisper their first words to the Creator they’ve just learned about. This moment of solemn surrender happens at tens of thousands of Operation Christmas Child outreach events across the globe each year. Watching one such prayer in his home country of Cambodia was especially meaningful to a boy named Samay*.…
Habitante de la Cordillera Azul se muda a una casa nueva
Joe Sherwood had never experienced a disaster like Hurricane Helene, which ripped up his hometown of Vilas, North Carolina –a small town tucked away in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The powerful storm left the home he had built over five decades earlier in ruins. What began as a peaceful morning playing checkers on his iPad…
Operation Christmas Child
Dios usa las cajas de regalos para hacer crecer una iglesia en Camboya
Gift-filled shoeboxes are packed for children, but they influence entire families and communities. They even help start and grow churches, like Seed of Faith in Cambodia. When their Pastor Ponleu* got involved with Samaritan’s Purse and hosted Operation Christmas Child outreach events, the Good News of Jesus Christ began changing the boys and girls who…
Operation Christmas Child
El poder transformador de la oración en Camboya
As smiling volunteers place red-and-green shoeboxes into the waiting, outstretched hands of children who have no concept of a gift or the love of Christ, a man wearing a shirt bearing the logo of Operation Christmas Child quietly watches with a look of reflection on his face. “Each time it captures my heart when I…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Samaritan’s Purse responde tras el fatal terremoto en Filipinas
A Samaritan’s Purse disaster assistance response team (DART), working with church partners, is meeting needs on the island of Cebu in the Philippines where communities were rocked by a 6.9-magnitude earthquake in the nighttime hours of Sept. 30. Many families continue to sleep outside their damaged homes fearing further danger amid thousands of aftershocks—some registering…
Nuestro Ministerio
Newsletter October 2025
Franklin Graham Update | October Franklin Graham Update | October As Peace Dawns in Gaza, More Help Is on the Way Dear Friend, As I write this, the world is celebrating the release of the last Israeli hostages as part of a ceasefire deal announced by President Trump between Hamas and Israel. The historic peace plan is also great news for nearly 2…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Servimos a las familias sacudidas por el terremoto en Filipinas
Samaritans’ Purse continues to help in the Philippines as communities recover from a 6.9-magnitude earthquake that hit on Sept. 30. Through our history of work in the Philippines—including current Operation Christmas Child ministry teams and former projects in the country—we have strong partners in Cebu who are committed to sharing the Gospel of the Lord…
Operation Christmas Child
Una familia transformada
Carol used to sleep on the streets because she spent all her money on drugs and alcohol and couldn’t afford rent. Sometimes she didn’t have food for her children. Often, she didn’t even know where they were. Life didn’t improve after she was married. Her husband, Daniel, often came home drunk and wanted nothing to…
