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Franklin Graham – Bibliography
Franklin Graham has written several best-selling books, including The Name (2002), Living Beyond the Limits (1998), and his autobiography, Rebel With a Cause (1995). His latest book is Through My Father's Eyes (with Donna Lee Toney in 2018), the first book about Billy Graham, the father, written from the perspective of a son who knew…
Media
Biography: Graham Children
Graham Children Virginia "Gigi" Graham Born in 1945, Virginia "Gigi" Graham is the eldest child of Billy and Ruth Graham. Gigi is an inspirational speaker and author of several books, including A Quiet Knowing/Devotional (W Publishing, 2001), Currents of the Heart (Multnomah Publishers, 1996) and Passing It On (Word Publishing, 1993). Gigi speaks at churches throughout the U.S. and Europe. The…
Edward Graham Volunteers in Louisiana with Team Patriot
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…
Operation Christmas Child
Franklin Graham Hands Out Shoeboxes on Saipan and Guam
Feb. 22-23 UPDATE Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham and his wife Jane, along with musical artist Michael W. Smith, traveled to Guam on Saturday, Feb. 22, to help hand out gift-filled Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes at Life in the Son Christian Fellowship in Tamuning. The day before the trio assisted in distributing shoeboxes on nearby…
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
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…
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…
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…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Edward Graham Visits Construction Sites in Israel’s North and South
On June 2, Samaritan’s Purse COO Edward Graham visited several of 11 building projects Samaritan’s Purse is currently working on in Israel, including ambulance stations to house some of the 42 vehicles we will be donating to Magen David Adom, the national emergency service, by the end of the year. Along the nation’s northern border…
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…
