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Press Release Operation Christmas Child Volunteers Send Christmas Joy to Children Overseas
Operation Christmas Child Volunteers Send Christmas Joy to Children Overseas Boone, N.C.—Area volunteers are celebrating the collection of gift-filled shoeboxes that will send a message of joy to children around the world: God loves you, and you're not forgotten! This year, tens of thousands of volunteers contributed to Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan's…
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Lorena and a Doll
Lorena & a Doll Please enable Javascript to watch this video God answers prayers for a child and her family in communist Romania. Lorena grew up in Romania with her parents and sister. The economic effects of communism were so stark that, one evening, her family ate their last piece of bread for dinner. Her…
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Press Release Reach Millions of Children With Hope 10-6-20
Operation Christmas Child Aims to Reach Millions of Children with Hope this Year Even During the Coronavirus Pandemic, Everyone Can Bless a Child in Need BOONE, N.C. Oct. 6, 2020—As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause fear and uncertainty, Samaritan’s Purse is calling on churches and families to pack more shoebox gifts than ever before…
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‘The Heavens Were Opened’
Atop a rocky, clay-dirt hill on the outskirts of Cúcuta, Colombia, you can cast your gaze across an invisible border and see beyond the river to the towns of San Antonio and Ureña in Venezuela. Walk down the main road from this humble peak and hang a left. Descend an unreasonably steep but paved slope…
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7 Ways to Give on Giving Tuesday
7 Ways to Give on Giving Tuesday Your gift to Samaritan's Purse on Giving Tuesday will provide tangible care to people in need around the world, while also offering them the eternal hope of Jesus Christ. 1 Bring Clean Water to a Community POWER LINES WERE LEVELED IN ACAPULCO, MEXICO, during Hurricane Otis, and the…
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Press Release Operation Christmas Child December 20, 2022
THIS WEEK: Volunteers Send Christmas Joy to Children Overseas Boone, N.C.—Area volunteers are celebrating the collection of gift-filled shoeboxes that will send a message to children around the world: God loves you, and you're not forgotten! Thousands of volunteers contributed to Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan's Purse by packing shoeboxes filled with fun…
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Fact Sheet: World Medical Mission
World Medical Mission World Medical Mission, the medical arm of Samaritan's Purse, sends hundreds of medical professionals every year to 45 remote hospitals and clinics in the world's least-developed countries, both as short-term volunteers and through its Post-Residency Program. In addition, World Medical Mission serves as a lifeline to dozens of mission hospitals by providing…
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2023 Year-End Impact Report
Thank You Ukraine Response Children's Heart Project U.S. Disaster Relief Operation Christmas Child Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Ukraine Response Our teams evacuated more than 300 people and distributed emergency relief items. Read More Children's Heart Project In 2023, Children's Heart Project facilitated life-saving surgeries for 54 children born with congenital heart defects in Bolivia, Mongolia, and…
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Starting Churches with Children in Peru
In the past four years, brothers Jamber, 22, and José, 19, have helped to start two churches in the gold mining town of Cajamarca, Peru. Growing up, both received Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes while attending Gateway to Bethlehem, a church in a middle-class neighborhood. “I was really happy, really joyful,” José said, remembering receiving his…
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Former Gang Member in Peru Trains to Be a Missionary
Luis Trevejo Peña, 20, had a rough start. Abandoned by his father at age 5, he, his mother, Ricci, and three older brothers were left to fend for themselves in San Martin de Porres, Peru. Luis resented seeing other children with their fathers and wished he could have that sort of love, too. Perhaps as…
