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Press Release Samaritan’s Purse Helping Suffering Families in Kentucky and West Virginia After Deadly Flooding
Samaritan's Purse Helping Suffering Families in Kentucky and West Virginia After Deadly Flooding BOONE, N.C., Feb. 22, 2025—Samaritan's Purse deployed disaster relief specialists last weekend, along with a Disaster Relief Unit—a tractor-trailer stocked with essential tools and equipment—to Pikeville, Kentucky, following a historic storm system that unleashed deadly flooding across southern Appalachia. In Kentucky, all…
Operation Christmas Child
Samaritan’s Purse Celebrates 10.5 Million Shoebox Gifts Collected for Children in Need
Samaritan's Purse Celebrates 10.5 Million Shoebox Gifts Collected for Children in Need BOONE, N.C., Jan. 17, 2020 Because of the generosity of donors across the United States, Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan’s Purse, collected more than 8.9 million shoeboxes in 2019. Packed with fun toys, school supplies and hygiene items, these gifts bring joy and the eternal…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Performing Surgeries in Myanmar
Our Disaster Assistance Response Team began providing surgeries today in Naypyidaw, the capital city of Myanmar, located near the Mandalay region. With nearly 100 patients huddled in a stadium awaiting care, our medical personnel went to work in a nearby structure even before the tents of the Emergency Field Hospital could be put up. “Speed…
Operation Christmas Child
You, Too, Can Become a Year-Round Volunteer!
Have you ever considered getting more involved with Operation Christmas Child? It’s not just a holiday ministry—more than 9,000 people across the United States volunteer year-round with this Samaritan’s Purse project! They serve in roles ranging from area leadership to logistics to community relations to church relations. LEARN MORE ABOUT SERVING AS A YEAR-ROUND VOLUNTEER…
50 Years of Ministry
Delivering Christmas to Children in Uganda
In late 2002, Franklin Graham gathered with musician Bono (of U2) and the Brooklyn Tabernacle Youth Choir at New York’s JFK International Airport for a special send-off. More than 80,000 Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts were loaded onto an Antonov 225, the world’s largest cargo jet at the time, to be transported to Ugandan children…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Samaritan’s Purse Airlifts Field Hospital to Alaska
Samaritan’s Purse airlifted a 30-bed Emergency Field Hospital and critical medical supplies to King Salmon, Alaska, on June 1 in advance of a possible COVID-19 outbreak. The threat is expected to significantly rise this summer as more than 10,000 fishermen and cannery workers from around the world descend upon the Bristol Bay region. Many of…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Deadly Tornadoes Rumble Through Tennessee
Tornadoes swept across Middle Tennessee on Saturday, Dec. 9, causing extensive property damage, dozens of injuries, and at least six deaths. The most devastated areas are in Montgomery County, around Clarksville, and in Davidson County, around Hendersonville, Madison, and Gallatin. The National Weather Service rated the Clarksville storm as an EF3 tornado, with around 700…
Operation Christmas Child
Operation Christmas Child Audio PSA’s
Audio PSA's Our PSAs are available for use by media outlets and websites in the United States. Unless a kill date is noted, PSAs can be aired indefinitely. If you would like to automatically receive new PSAs from Samaritan's Purse, please email PSA@samaritan.org with your request. National Collection Week Promo with Dates Flight Dates: Before…
Operation Christmas Child
Christian Leaders in Guam Are Excited About Operation Christmas Child
Guam, the westernmost territory of the United States, is a rich blend of various cultures. Located in the north Pacific—about 1,500 miles east of the Philippines—Guam’s 168,000 citizens include the island’s native Chamorros, along with a melting-pot population from the Philippines, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Australia, the mainland U.S., Europe, and various other Micronesian islands.…
Our Ministry
Bringing Help and Hope After Helene
Bringing Help and Hope After Helene “I've never experienced God's love like that.” Hurricane Helene turned the Cane River, usually about 40 feet wide, into a raging, swollen behemoth that swallowed houses, cars, utility poles, and huge chunks of land on both sides of its gluttonous path as it charged downstream. But when the storm swept through…
