Notebooks and pencils were some of the items that immediately caught Fernanda’s attention when she peered inside of her shoebox gift. She’d be going back to school in a few months and had no supplies to take with her—everything she owned had burned during a fire a few weeks earlier. The inferno had attacked the…
Operation Christmas Child trae esperanza a una comunidad devastada por el fuego
Las cajas de regalos comunican el amor de Dios en Chile
The first time Pastor Sixto led an Operation Christmas Child outreach event he had no idea how it would be received. All he knew is that he desperately wanted to reach more boys and girls in his community with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Now, 10 years later, Operation Christmas Child has become such a…
Reminded of God’s Faithfulness after Helene
Letis Avila lifted her hands to the Lord in prayer as Hurricane Helene bore down on her western North Carolina home last September. Though the storm took a lot from the Salvadoran mother of two, Letis is still praising God today. Soon after the sky cleared and waters receded, two Samaritan’s Purse staff members arrived…
Newsletter September 2025
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…
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…
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…



























