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Mid-Year Report
Mid-Year Impact Report July 2021 Thank You COVID-19 U.S. Disaster Relief Tigray Conflict Response Bahamas Global Work Thank You Following the example set by the Good Samaritan, Samaritan's Purse provides help to people who are suffering and living in desperate circumstances. We seek them out in communities torn apart by tornadoes, on difficult migrant trails snaking…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Persecuted Believers Keep the Faith
A group of women sit in a tent on the edge of the Sahara Desert, just 13 kilometers from their homes in Nigeria. They fan themselves as they talk about why they’re here. Eight months ago, they were going about their regular morning routines. Saude was showering. Fatimati had just sent her children to school…
Operation Christmas Child
Yves and a Scarf
Yves and a Scarf "A stranger loves me? How can that be, when neighbors in Rwanda had tried to kill us?" When my mother was eight months pregnant with me, our neighbors in Rwanda tried to murder us. My father, a pastor, was well-respected in the community. So, it was shocking when those who had…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Voyage to a Second Life
A small, nine-meter boat approached slowly from the Turkish coast. As it moved closer to Lesbos Island, it seemed to speed up a bit. Orange blobs turned into human forms. Babies could be heard wailing. Mothers too. Suddenly, men were also yelling for help. Thirty, 40, or sometimes as many as 70 people are crammed…
50 Years of Ministry
‘Let My Heart be Broken by the Things that Break the Heart of God’
Much of Bob Pierce’s work was in Asia. It was after a visit to suffering children on an island in Korea, he wrote this famous prayer in his Bible: “Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.” In the late 1970s, Samaritan’s Purse helped refugees who were fleeing from…
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Offering Clean Water in Jesus’ Name
Offering Clean Water in Jesus' Name Give Clean Water Samaritan’s Purse thanks God for the many lives transformed as we provide clean water and share the Good News of Jesus Christ across the globe. From refugee camps in South Sudan to impoverished villages in the Philippines, people must have clean water in order to survive. That's why…
Health & Medical Ministries
Surgeries Help Restore Health and Hope in Malawi
Henry had supported his family for years by relying on the steady, rhythmic swinging of his hammer. Back and forth, up and down, the metalsmith swung the hammer and fashioned items to sell at the market near his village in Malawi. The only livelihood he’d ever known was snatched away the moment a car hit…
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From the New Mexico Desert to the World’s Darkest Places
“Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” –Isaiah 43:19 When you think of a desert graveyard, you probably don’t…
Our Ministry
A Glimpse of Niger
Alan Bobbett is the country director in Niger. When I became country director in Niger three years ago, we were on the cusp of an upward growth. As more projects filtered in and it became possible to effect change in the community, we saw God’s hand working through us to not only help people meet…
