Edward Graham traveled this week to southwest Louisiana to encourage Samaritan’s Purse teams as they come alongside hurting homeowners. Many communities in the Bayou State are still struggling to recover after powerful hurricanes pummeled the area in recent months. Hurricane Delta slammed ashore as a Category 2 storm in early October and hit just a…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Samaritan’s Purse Provides Water Systems, Volunteer Teams in California
Edward Graham, COO of Samaritan’s Purse, was in California from Feb. 3-5 to encourage volunteers, homeowners, and firefighters and see the ministry’s ongoing work in communities decimated by recent wildfires. Two wildfires became some of the most destructive in state history as 80-mph Santa Ana winds whipped them into massive, flaming waves that rushed downhill…
Health & Medical Ministries
Franklin Graham Visits Mongolia to Hear Compelling Stories from Children’s Heart Project
In a remote province in Mongolia about 140 miles from the capital city, a young mother and father work tirelessly day in and day out tending to their sheep, goats, cows, and horses. As nomadic herders, they move with the changing seasons and make their home in different areas throughout the mountainous countryside. Yet, no…
Discipleship, Education & Training
Military Couples Encouraged to Cling to Christ, Serve Together
More than 500 military couples attended the 2019 Operation Heal Our Patriots Reunion in Dallas, March 29-31. This was the seventh annual reunion for the Samaritan’s Purse project, which has provided Biblically based marriage enrichment training and follow-up care for about 1,000 wounded veterans and their spouses since 2012. This year’s Reunion began with many…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Edward Graham Sees Ongoing Recovery Work in Haiti
Samaritan’s Purse continues to serve in Jesus’ Name in the aftermath of a deadly 7.2 magnitude earthquake that rocked Haiti’s southern peninsula on Aug. 14. Our DC-8 aircraft flew out just one day after the disaster with a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) and tons of emergency relief. We quickly set up an Emergency Field…
Operation Christmas Child
200 Millionth Shoebox Gift Celebrated in Charlotte
Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham encouraged volunteers and staff at the Charlotte Processing Center in North Carolina during a community celebration event on Dec. 3. He expressed thanks to volunteers in Charlotte as well as the thousands of volunteers working in seven other processing center locations across the country to prepare shoebox gifts for international…
Operation Christmas Child
Pacific Islands Initiative Press Kit
Media Resources Media Requests Articles & Stories Fact Sheets Approved Quotes Photos B-roll Pacific Islands Initiative Press Kit An Operation Christmas Child initiative is bringing the Good News of Jesus Christ to isolated island nations. The goal of the five-year Pacific Island Initiative is for all children ages 2–14 across the Pacific to have the…
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Biography: Ruth Bell Graham
Ruth Bell GrahamBornJune 10, 1920Qingjiang, Kiangsu, ChinaDiedJune 14, 2007, age 87Montreat, North CarolinaParentsL. Nelson Bell (died 1973)Virginia Leftwich Bell (died 1974)Married William F. "Billy" Graham Jr. 1943ChildrenVirginia "Gigi" Graham, 1945Anne Graham Lotz, 1948Ruth Graham, 1950William "Franklin" Graham III, 1952Nelson Edman "Ned" Graham, 195819 grandchildren, numerous great-grandchildrenEducationHigh school, International Mission School, Pyongyang, North KoreaWheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois,…
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Biography: Billy Graham
Billy Graham William F. "Billy" Graham Jr. Born Nov. 7, 1918 Charlotte, North Carolina Died Feb. 21, 2018 Montreat, North Carolina Parents William Franklin Graham Sr. (died 1962) Morrow Coffey Graham (died 1981) Married Ruth McCue Bell in 1943 (died June 14, 2007, age 87) Education 1943 B.A., Wheaton College—Wheaton, Illinois 1940 Graduated, Florida Bible Institute (now…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Field Hospital Pledged for Rural Alaska
Samaritan’s Purse has committed one of our Emergency Field Hospitals to the town of King Salmon, Alaska, as a massive influx of commercial fishermen and fishery workers are expected to swell the area’s population this summer—bringing the ominous potential of a COVID-19 outbreak. “Many locals are frightened, remembering what happened when the Spanish flu came…
