Looking out over the coastal hillside where Carriacou’s hospital had operated just weeks before, the neatly rowed white tents of the Samaritan’s Purse Emergency Field Hospital stand out starkly against the desolate landscape of Carriacou. Our field hospital is providing support to the local medical community, many of whom are grieving their own losses. Our…
Health & Medical Ministries
Cataract Patients Receive New Sight in Liberia
Diana, 55, noticed her failing sight most especially when she was crocheting hats and shirts. She enjoyed using this skill to make clothing, which she’d sold for years to support her children. But the shadows across her eyes had made the detailed work grow more and more difficult. So, when she answered the phone a…
A Long Obedience Opens Gospel Doors in El Salvador
“Here, if there’s a 1 percent chance that the sealant will work, we do it,” said Dr. Fred Zoch, sharing wisdom from over 30 years of doing dentistry around the globe. As the first-ever World Medical Mission dental team makes their way along the bumpy road to set up the day’s mobile clinic site, Dr.…
Health & Medical Ministries
Bringing God’s Word to the Hurting
Nurses and doctors gather for chapel early one Wednesday morning before they start their day in the ward treating ailing patients at Nkhoma Hospital in Malawi. Sunshine pierces through the window slats, illuminating the pulpit engraved with the phrase “a happy heart is like good medicine” in the local Chichewa language. In this bright scene,…
Health & Medical Ministries
Celebrating the Life of Dr. Jim Foulkes
When Jim Foulkes was growing up in Lima, Ohio, his mom told him, “If God calls you to be a missionary, don’t stoop to become the president.” Indeed, Dr. Foulkes answered God’s higher call, devoting his career to ministry in Africa, serving for decades with World Medical Mission, and witnessing one revival after another. After…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Caring for Displaced Mothers in War-Torn Sudan
Recent conflict between warring factions has forced millions of Sudanese mothers and their children to flee for safety. Many have come to Gedaref, in the country’s east. Local medical services were overrun by the influx of newcomers, so Samaritan’s Purse set up an Emergency Field Hospital there from mid-December 2024 to mid-March 2025. Our teams…
Our Ministry
Myanmar Earthquake Response
Helping Earthquake Survivors in Myanmar Myanmar Response 013918 $ Give Samaritan’s Purse provided desperately needed medical care, water, and shelter in Jesus’ Name. Latest Updates This response is now complete. To help Myanmar’s earthquake victims, Samaritan’s Purse set up in the capital of Naypyidaw a 60-bed Emergency Field Hospital. Our doctors and nurses treated over 5,800 patients…
Franklin Graham
Newsletter May 2025
Franklin Graham Update | May Franklin Graham Update | May Life-Saving Operations in Myanmar Dear Friend, When our Samaritan's Purse team arrived in Myanmar after the catastrophic March 28 earthquake, they found a gymnasium full of badly injured people who desperately needed medical treatment after being rescued from the rubble. Even while the team was setting up our field hospital, our doctors and nurses…
Our Ministry
God is Here
Mark and Abby Anderson are managing the revitalization of the Egbe Hospital and complex in Egbe, Nigeria. Volunteers teams began helping with construction in June. The Andersons give an update on our work of building this mission hospital. Our first team is gone, but we are proud to announce that they were and are the…
