Our Ministry
Bring Relief When Disaster Hits Home
Responding to Hurricane Helene Volunteer Now Give Learn More Samaritan’s Purse is responding in six locations after Hurricane Helene left a 500-mile trail of devastation from the Gulf Coast of Florida to the mountains of western North Carolina. We have established three relief bases in western North Carolina and stretching into eastern Tennessee. Volunteers are…
Media
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…
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…
Operation Christmas Child
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,…
Our Ministry
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 outlying islands near Grenada, Jamaica, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. It left…
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…
