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Shop the Catalog Compra el catálogo Year-End Giving A Special Thank-You Message From Franklin Graham 2025 Highlights Where Most Needed 012000 $ Give Donaciones de fin de año Mensaje especial de fin de año de Franklin Graham Lo más destacado del 2025 Donde más se necesita 012000 $ Donar Where Most Needed Your gift to “Where Most Needed” equips…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Thank You to All Our Volunteers
At Samaritan’s Purse, we share the hope of the Gospel as we rush to the aid of those caught in the ditches of life. When a hurricane blows down trees, a wildfire consumes a town, a flood rushes in, or a tornado rips apart a community, Samaritan’s Purse is there to provide relief in Jesus’…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Salvation Comes After the Flood
Eva was determined to make it home to her children and her mother, even if it meant boating down the flooded streets of their neighborhood in Savannah, Georgia. She and her husband, Gregory, had been in New York to attend the funeral of Gregory’s brother when neighbors began sending them updates about threatening floodwaters. They…
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…
Media
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…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Samaritan’s Purse Volunteers at Work in Storm-Torn Southeast
Samaritan’s Purse teams are on the ground in Selma, Alabama, and Griffin, Georgia, after a violent and deadly storm system swept across the Southeast on Thursday night, Jan. 12. Two Disaster Relief Units—tractor trailers stocked with equipment and supplies—are in position in the two locations. Volunteers started work in both Alabama and Georgia on Sunday,…
Crisis & Disaster Response
DC-8 Aircraft Heads to Armenia with Relief Supplies
On Nov. 5, Samaritan’s Purse sent our DC-8 aircraft packed with winter relief supplies to Yerevan, Armenia. We will be delivering critically needed warm clothing to families who have fled the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the long-disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Since fighting broke out on Sept. 27, thousands of people have had to…
Operation Christmas Child
Operation Christmas Child Is Bringing the Hope of the Gospel to 1,000 Pacific Islands
Rengesuul Yobech sat in the shade of a spacious open-air gymnasium at Peleliu Elementary School in Palau on a sweltering late-February afternoon earlier in 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe. The school’s 76 students were assembled there, eager to receive gift-filled shoeboxes at the first Operation Christmas Child festive outreach event to take…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Emergency Field Hospital and Relief Supplies Airlifted to Hurricane-Hit Honduras
Update (Nov. 16): Distributions are underway in Honduras! Samaritan’s Purse is providing household water filters, emergency shelter material, and hygiene kits to area pastors to aid hurting families in their respective communities. The Emergency Field Hospital is also open and saw 20 patients on its first day! Please pray as Iota is predicted to make…
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COVID-19 Los Angeles County Response Press Kit
Media Resources Media Requests Press Releases Fact Sheets Key Quotes Photos B-roll Los Angeles County COVID-19 Response Samaritan's Purse responded to the COVID-19 crisis in Los Angeles County—deploying a 50-plus bed Emergency Field Hospital to Lancaster, California. In partnership with Antelope Valley Hospital, this field hospital provided desperately needed surge capacity—treating more than 160 patients.…
