Just outside of a major tourist city in Cambodia, people struggle to make ends meet. Makara* and her family live in a one-room house, on a tract of land shared by many other members of their family who work in the nearby fields. Makara was hard at work last year when her daughter, Tola*, attended…
Operation Christmas Child
The Gospel Transforms a Teen in Cambodia
Living in a country steeped in false religions, Phirun’s* faith in Jesus Christ is tested. But the teenager does not let that stop her joy from being complete. Not that long ago—without God in her life—she lied, stole, and persistently bullied others. The change in her life began when she attended the lessons of The…
Operation Christmas Child
The Life-Changing Power of Prayer in Cambodia
As smiling volunteers place red-and-green shoeboxes into the waiting, outstretched hands of children who have no concept of a gift or the love of Christ, a man wearing a shirt bearing the logo of Operation Christmas Child quietly watches with a look of reflection on his face. “Each time it captures my heart when I…
Health & Medical Ministries
Where Care Meets Compassion
Mothers arrive at the parked mobile medical unit in Colombia exhausted and in desperation. They look up and see a cross with the words “Helping in Jesus’ Name” stamped beneath it. Some have made the grueling and dangerous journey from Venezuela to escape the ongoing economic and political crisis that’s raged in the bordering nation…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Finding a Peace Beyond Explanation
Sofia first fled Venezuela four years ago as a teenager, grieving the death of her mother and hoping to find a better future in Bucaramanga, Colombia. “I used to serve in a church in my country,” she said, “but the death of my mom made me abandon and drift away from God.” Life in Colombia…
Construction Projects
Alaska Church Construction Opens New Doors in the Last Frontier
Four-wheelers sputtered into the gravel parking lot as families from Port Alsworth, Alaska, and neighboring communities arrived with the rising sun. Children let go of their parents’ hands to scurry joyfully through the newly finished rooms. Neighbors, friends, and family hugged each other in the lobby and then slowly found their seats as Lake Clark…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Franklin Graham Prays for 13th Samaritan’s Purse Relief Flight to the Middle East
Samaritan’s Purse sent a major airlift of food and relief supplies to families in Gaza who continue to suffer two years after the start of the war. Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the international Christian relief organization, was on site in Greensboro to pray with the aviation team before the aircraft departed on Saturday,…
Media
Press Release: Franklin Graham Announces 13th Samaritan’s Purse Relief Flight for Gaza
Franklin Graham Announces 13th Samaritan’s Purse Relief Flight for Gaza Departing from Greensboro, North Carolina, at 9:00 a.m. ET tomorrow morning BOONE, N.C., Oct. 24, 2025—Samaritan’s Purse is sending a major airlift of food and relief supplies to families in Gaza who continue to suffer two years after the start of the war. Franklin Graham,…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Caring for Mothers in Crisis in Colombia
Fear melts into relief as weary mothers trickle into the Samaritan’s Purse maternal clinics in Colombia. They’ve traveled over rivers, through jungles, and across dangerous borders for help and support unavailable in their Venezuelan hometowns. A decade-long economic crisis has crippled the healthcare system there and made access to basic necessities, such as food and…
Media
Press Release: Friday: Samaritan’s Purse Dedicates New Boeing 767 and Retires Historic DC-8
Friday: Samaritan’s Purse Dedicates New Boeing 767 and Retires Historic DC-8 BOONE, N.C., Nov. 11, 2025—This Friday, November 14, international Christian relief organization Samaritan’s Purse will ceremonially retire its Douglas DC-8 cargo aircraft and dedicate its new Boeing 767 at its Airlift Response Center in Greensboro, North Carolina. This event marks a new era for…
