Franklin Graham
Newsletter May 2024
Franklin Graham Update | May Franklin Graham Update | May Tornado Reliefin America's Heartland Dear Friend, Waves of killer storms recently tore across the Great Plains, and Samaritan's Purse has been busy in six states cleaning up damage, making emergency repairs, and comforting survivors in the Name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Hundreds of homes were destroyed in the Oklahoma towns of…
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Press Release Samaritan’s Purse Sends Disaster Relief Unit to Aid Michigan Families 5-22-2020
Samaritan's Purse Sends Disaster Relief Unit to Aid Michigan Families Disaster Response Teams to Help Families Mud-Out Flooded Homes and Salvage Personal Belongings BOONE, N.C., May 22, 2020—Less than 24 hours after Michigan’s Tittabawassee River crested at a historic level of 35 feet, Samaritan’s Purse disaster response specialists were on the ground, working alongside church partners and…
Franklin Graham
Newsletter April 2023
Franklin Graham Update | April Franklin Graham Update | April Deadly Tornadoes Shred Mississippi Dear Friend, It was a night of terror across Mississippi. An EF-4 tornado ripped through the Delta on March 24, cutting the towns of Rolling Fork and Silver City to splinters. Cars, trucks, and tractor trailers were picked up by 170-mph winds and thrown around like toys. Some houses are…
It’s Good to Be Back Home Again
Ever since Hurricane Harvey hit southeast Texas in 2017, Francisca Castañeda has wondered where to call home. The house she’d lived in for 12 years in La Grange, west of Houston, was condemned shortly after the storm, which dumped more than 60 inches of rain on some areas of the Lone Star State. “There was…
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Press Release Samaritan’s Purse Airlifts Emergency Food Supplies for Suffering Families in Gaza
Samaritan's Purse Airlifts Emergency Food Supplies for Suffering Families in Gaza BOONE, N.C., July 28, 2025—On Saturday morning, Samaritan's Purse airlifted over 48 US tons of ready-to-use, supplemental food supplies provided by MANA aboard its DC-8 and 757 cargo aircraft to help suffering families in Gaza. The flights arrived in Israel earlier today, and the…
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Operation Heal Our Patriots 2019
Strengthening Military Marriages Operation Heal Our Patriots Offers Physical and Spiritual Refreshment, Ongoing Care to Military Couples 2019--Our Eighth Season: 16 WEEKS, 155 COUPLES. Share Tweet Pin Emaily Subscribe From May 26-Sept. 13, 2019, each week for 16 weeks, a new group of U.S. military couples arrived in Alaska for a time of Christ-centered marriage…
Operation Heal Our Patriots 2020 Begins: Couples Arrive in Alaska
Update (July 15): This is the story of the arrival of Week One patriot couples. For a full story on the first week’s activities, go to the wrap-up article here. — This year’s first group of patriot couples took off from Anchorage around 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 5, and arrived at Port Alsworth about…
Peace After the Storm
Steve Daggett, 73, said the EF3 tornado that barreled toward his Winchester, Indiana, home sounded like a jet engine. “My kids told me it would sound like a train. To me it sounded like a jet starting up,” said Steve, who recounted the ominous sound of the twister roaring across town as it closed in…
Discipleship, Education & Training
Military Couples Celebrate New Life in Christ, Stronger Marriages
During their first morning at Samaritan Lodge Alaska, seven patriot couples headed down to the bay to receive kayak training together. Tandem kayaking is a great exercise in communication and teamwork—with the goal, as in marriage, of both partners being on the same page, headed in the same direction. “You want to be one movement,…
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…
