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Christmas Catalog 2025 Browse All Gifts of Hope Rushing Relief to Jamaica After Hurricane Melissa Give Now Join Our Rebuild Teams! Learn more about these exciting ministry opportunities. Learn More Volunteer Seasonal Employment Serve with Samaritan's Purse as an Operation Christmas Child seasonal employee and you will work with volunteers to help bring Jesus' love to…
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Shoebox Packers
Shoebox Packers These photographs are available for news media outlet use in coverage of Samaritan's Purse-related stories. If your news outlet uses a photograph, please credit: "Courtesy of Samaritan's Purse." These photographs are not for commercial use. It’s never too early to get children involved with packing shoeboxes! A girl completes her shoebox gift by including…
Construction Projects
New Homes for Kentucky Storm Survivors
While Hurricane Helene was bearing down on the Southeast, dozens of families in Kentucky were moving on from the disasters that they survived over the past three years. On Thursday, Samaritan’s Purse completed construction in New Hope Acres, a 60-acre subdivision in the town of Mayfield, Kentucky, which was devastated by a tornado just before…
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Processing Center Volunteer Registration Has Begun!
Thank you for your interest in serving at an Operation Christmas Child Processing Center. New registration dates for all processing centers have been released. All registration begins at 8 a.m. local time according to the respective processing center site. Public Registration Begins: Oct. 22: Baltimore area, Maryland; Dallas/Ft. Worth area, Texas Oct. 23: Atlanta area,…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Helpful Driving Information for Volunteers (Asheville Base)
Is God calling you to help storm victims in and around Asheville, North Carolina? Samaritan’s Purse is working there, and we need an army of volunteers. Because of damage from Helene, many of the routes into the mountains of western North Carolina are closed. Our base in Asheville (Buncombe County) is at the Billy Graham…
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Press Release Samaritan’s Purse Deploys Three Water Filtration Systems to the Asheville Area, Including Swannanoa
Samaritan’s Purse Deploys Three Water Filtration Systems to the Asheville Area, Including Swannanoa BOONE, N.C., Oct. 4, 2024—Samaritan’s Purse is once again expanding relief efforts in western North Carolina with the deployment of community water filtration systems to Swannanoa and other hard-hit areas. Designed by a Samaritan’s Purse team of engineers, each water system can…
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Building up the Church Worldwide
Supporting the Church Worldwide “For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.” 2 Corinthians 4:5 (ESV) Caring for the Caribbean When Hurricane Beryl roared across the Caribbean in 2024, it decimated several outlying islands near Grenada, including Carriacou. Nearly every home and building—including the…
Operation Christmas Child
Operation Christmas Child 2024-25 Report
Operation Christmas Child Special Report Every Operation Christmas Child shoebox gift prayerfully packed in Jesus' Name is a tangible expression of God's love to a boy or girl in desperate need. We praise the Lord for how He is using thousands of volunteers and church partners to share the eternal hope of the Gospel through…
Shelter to Face the Winter Months
It was the first home they’d ever owned, so when feet of water filled the house, Maggie and Ruben Martinez of Bakersville were devastated. Samaritan’s Purse volunteers and other volunteer groups helped clean the water out, but it was still unlivable, as mold and moisture took over. And as the winter months approached, they knew…
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Newsletter March 2025
Franklin Graham Update | March Franklin Graham Update | March God Opens a Channel of Peace Dear Friend, Samaritan's Purse has been working in Sudan for decades, and I've been there many times. The country is once again in chaos, devastated by two years of civil war. Millions have fled the fighting. A failed harvest plus the sudden arrival of 700,000 displaced people has…
