Operation Christmas Child
OCC Schools 2025
Receive 50 FREE Shoeboxes Note: The complimentary shoeboxes offer is now over. Thank you for your interest. Thank You for Getting Free Shoeboxes! We're excited you're interested in packing shoebox gifts with your school or group! Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan's Purse, is a practical way for students to be involved in spreading the…
Operation Christmas Child
Operation Christmas Child trae esperanza a una comunidad devastada por el fuego
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
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…
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
Venezuelan Migrants Welcomed at Samaritan’s Purse Shelter in Colombia
Each day, hundreds of people flee from Venezuela crossing into Cucuta, Colombia. Many of them have no plans to return home; instead they’ve chosen to leave behind their nation’s economic collapse and take their chances on starting a new life in a new country. Some of these men and women become los caminantes, or “the…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Samaritan’s Purse Continues To Help Migrants and Ministry Partners at US-Mexico Border
Many migrants are exhausted from travel in the heat, and they arrive at the Texas-Mexico border in need of rest, a shower, clean clothes, and a hot meal. Many have traveled for days or weeks from South America and even from as far away as West Africa. Both our North American Ministries staff and volunteers…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Hungering for More
Five million Venezuelans have fled their own country since 2015. Nearly 2 million have entered Colombia. Scroll for More Samaritan’s Purse is there to provide food and shelter for those who’ve left everything behind. Hungering for More: Helping Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia Colombia Relief 014041 $ Give Hope Desperate need drives this historic exodus. Many of the migrants are…
Nuestro Ministerio
El camino a un nuevo corazón
If you’d seen Francis play with his friends in the early days of his illness, he would have seemed like many other little boys living in Uganda. He loved airplanes, admired Spider-Man, and was known to be a little stubborn—a trait he got away with by making those around him laugh. But there was something…
Operation Christmas Child
Family Resources
Focus on the Family Our friends at Focus on the Family put together this video about one family’s tradition of packing shoebox gifts with Operation Christmas Child. How can you start a shoebox tradition with your own family? Explore our resources below! 7 Ideas for Family Impact Pack shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child…
Ministerio de Salud y Medicina
Almas de hierro y corazones tiernos
Can the significance of one human life be measured? How great is its value? One of the recurring themes throughout the 33rd Prescription for Renewal conference was the inherent, God-endowed worth and dignity of every person—from children developing in their mothers’ wombs to the social outcasts to the physically needy trapped in the ditches of…
