Operation Heal Our Patriots
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Alaska, 2024
At the heart of Operation Heal Our Patriots is the desire to see couples grow closer to each other while finding restoration and healing in God.
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Alaska, 2024
“Alaska is just the beginning of our couples’ journey with us,” said Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham (pictured). “Operation Heal Our Patriots is a lifetime commitment to their marriages and their relationship with God. We want to assist them however we can every step along the way.”
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Alaska, 2024
Each Sunday evening throughout the summer, Samaritan's Purse aircraft touch down on the gravel runway at Samaritan Lodge Alaska to the sights and sounds of a flag-waving crowd.
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Alaska, 2024
Since 2012, God has been faithful to transform lives and rescue marriages at this wilderness outpost near Lake Clark National Park.
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Alaska, 2024
During their week at Samaritan Lodge Alaska, couples receive personalized counseling and Biblically-based marriage enrichment courses.
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Alaska, 2024
Alaska provides a powerful backdrop for God’s work of changing lives.
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Alaska, 2024
During their week in Alaska, participants learn that they aren’t alone as they build friendships with others couples who have similar experiences and struggles.
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Alaska, 2024
In the frigid waters of Lake Clark, participants celebrate new life in Christ as other couples and staff cheer them on from the bank.
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Alaska, 2024
Through their experience at Operation Heal Our Patriots, many veterans make decisions to follow Jesus Christ and publicly profess their faith through baptism.
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Alaska, 2024
Through week-long retreats at the Samaritan Lodge Alaska, veterans and their spouses are given the unique opportunity to spend quality time together, enjoy outdoor activities, and grow in their spiritual lives.
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Alaska, 2024
Once-in-a-lifetime wilderness experiences abound at Samaritan Lodge Alaska.
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Alaska, 2024
Operation Heal Our Patriots is designed to help strengthen military couples’ marriages through a series of wilderness adventures, marriage enrichment activities, and biblically based counseling so that these heroes and their spouses can find spiritual and emotional healing through the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Alaska, 2024
All the activities at our lodge in Alaska are designed to strengthen marriages, to develop friendships among military couples, and, most importantly, to point participants toward the peace and salvation found only in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Alaska, 2024
Throughout the week-long retreat in Alaska, military couples enjoy the beauty of God's creation with outdoor activities that grow them closer to each other while finding restoration and healing in God through Biblically-based marriage counseling.
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Alaska, 2024
Combat-wounded veterans are able to spend quality time with their spouses in the Alaskan outdoors and connect with other couples who have faced similar struggles.
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Alaska, 2024
Operation Heal Our Patriots couples are given the opportunity to intentionally focus on their marriages throughout their week-long retreat at the Samaritan Lodge Alaska.
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Alaska, 2024
Military veterans and their spouses arrive in Alaska for Operation Heal Our Patriots, a program of Samaritan's Purse designed to strengthen and heal marriages.
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Alaska, 2024
Military couples spend a week at Samaritan Lodge Alaska taking a break from daily life and soaking up the outdoor activities.
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Alaska, 2024
Extending beyond couples' stay at Samaritan Lodge Alaska, the program provides ongoing family care to connect them with a system of support upon their return home.
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Alaska, 2024
A reunion with educational breakout sessions and community building opportunities is organized for Operation Heal our Patriots participants every year.
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Alaska, 2024
Operation Heal Our Patriots serves married veterans and active-duty military personnel who were wounded after 9/11.
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Alaska, 2024
Operation Heal Our Patriots is the only program of its kind for wounded military service members and their spouses.
