For children living in Molepolole, Botswana, receiving gifts is rare, so when Anitah attended a church outreach event she wasn’t expecting the wonderful surprise that awaited her. She experienced God’s love when she received an Operation Christmas Child shoebox gift from a family on the other side of the world. The free gifts in her…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Team Patriot Gets Wounded Veterans Serving Again
U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Brandon Price was performing a routine training session with the Afghan Army when his students suddenly turned on him and ambushed him and his squadron with gunfire. Brandon took two bullets to the chest plate and one to his leg, and as he was being treated by a medic, a remote-powered…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Residents Grateful for Volunteer Help After Mississippi Tornadoes
Alonzo and Sarah Lee Thompson were awakened the morning of Jan. 11 when a tornado hit their home and ripped through their community. “I will never forget it. It sounded like dynamite,” Alonzo shared. “I can’t explain how it felt, it just happened so quick, and then the lights went out.” In response to devastating…
50 Years of Ministry
Praise the Lord! 56,000 Answered the Call to Help an African Hospital
Dr. Lowell Furman and Franklin Graham went to Kenya to visit Tenwek Hospital. The facility was so badly overcrowded that there were sometimes three patients in a bed, and occasionally a fourth person on the floor underneath. Tenwek obviously needed new facilities, but Samaritan’s Purse had never taken on such an enormous project. In 1980,…
Crisis & Disaster Response
‘Hope in Orange Shirts’
For weeks, dark smoke clung to the horizon in the southern Australian territory of Victoria—the wilderness was on fire. Nearby families desperately attempted to remove unnecessary brush from their properties, knowing it would serve as instant kindling should the wind shift and the fire barrel towards their homes. Rob and Shan Hutchings were no exception.…
Operation Christmas Child
Franklin Graham Hands Out Shoeboxes on Saipan and Guam
Feb. 22-23 UPDATE Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham and his wife Jane, along with musical artist Michael W. Smith, traveled to Guam on Saturday, Feb. 22, to help hand out gift-filled Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes at Life in the Son Christian Fellowship in Tamuning. The day before the trio assisted in distributing shoeboxes on nearby…
50 Years of Ministry
Good News and Great Joy for Children Around the World
The summer of 1993, Franklin Graham received a call from England asking if he would fill shoeboxes with gifts for kids in war-torn Eastern Europe. Familiar with the suffering there from his recent visits to the region, Franklin agreed. Around Thanksgiving, his office received another call from England asking about the gifts. Franklin remembered the…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Franklin Graham Travels to Chattanooga to See Tornado Recovery Efforts
Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham traveled to hard-hit Chattanooga, Tennessee, today to encourage homeowners in the aftermath of recent tornadoes that battered communities in 10 states across the South. “It looks like a bomb went off. It’s a mess here,” Graham said. “But Samaritan’s Purse has an army of volunteers working in these communities. We…
50 Years of Ministry
Responding in the Aftermath of Devastating Disasters in Haiti
Samaritan’s Purse mounted a massive, multi-level response and delivered tons of emergency food and supplies after a fierce 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010. The impact was catastrophic for the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. About 250,000 people were killed, and more than a million Haitians were left homeless. Our medical and…
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Tornado Survivors Grateful for God’s Protection
Coella and Manley Tate hid in the bathtub as a tornado hit their Bertie County home of more than 20 years. They prayed for God’s protection and said ‘I love you’ for what they believed would be the last time. The EF-3 tornado ravaged their home at 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 4. Though a similar…
