Please tune in tonight to watch Franklin Graham, Edward Graham, and Cissie Graham Lynch on a live TBN special report. The program starts at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday night (Oct. 9) on TBN and TBN+. Hear the latest concerning Samaritan’s Purse ongoing response to Hurricane Helene and our preparations for Hurricane Milton. After watching…
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Press Release Samaritan’s Purse Dedicates First, Newly-Built Home for Family Impacted by Hurricane Helene
Samaritan’s Purse Dedicates First, Newly-Built Home for Family Impacted by Hurricane Helene BOONE, N.C., May 30, 2025—Samaritan’s Purse plans to dedicate the first of many newly built homes in western North Carolina on Monday, June 2 for Benny and Keva Messer. The Messer family, like hundreds of others, lost nearly everything when floodwaters from Hurricane…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Samaritan’s Purse Replaces Eleven More Vehicles After Hurricane Helene
Samaritan’s Purse continues to support families in North Carolina and Tennessee still reeling after Hurricane Helene, the storm that devastated the region in late September 2024. “These vehicles are provided by God’s people in Jesus’ Name,” said Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham during a dedication of eleven vehicles to survivors of the hurricane. Harry Varney…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Responding in Charlotte County After Hurricane Milton’s Rumble Through Florida
Milton unleashed torrential rain and ferocious winds across Florida after making landfall Wednesday evening, Oct. 9, near Siesta Key, south of Sarasota. The deadly and powerful storm, which entered the state as a Category 3 hurricane and left as a Category 1 on Thursday morning, spawned tornadoes and caused severe flooding. The Tampa area, spared…
Edward Graham Travels to Hurricane-Devastated Florida Communities
Edward Graham visited southwest Florida Tuesday where Samaritan’s Purse volunteers are working in flooded and wind-damaged communities ripped apart last week by Hurricane Ian. The powerful and deadly Category 4 storm claimed more than 100 lives and damaged thousands of structures, including hundreds of homes, on its destructive path traveling up the coast and across…
Franklin Graham
Newsletter December 2024
Franklin Graham Update | December Franklin Graham Update | December 'From Devastation To Celebration' Dear Friend, As Christmas approaches, we continue to see so much need all around us. Our disaster relief teams have served thousands of storm-stricken families. Meanwhile, we've been collecting and shipping Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts to millions of children worldwide. Hurricane Helene brought out the best in our…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Bringing Relief After Typhoon Rips the Philippines
A Samaritan’s Purse team in the Philippines is distributing emergency food packs and hygiene kits to families in need after Super Typhoon Mangkhut slammed into the Philippine island of Luzon on Sept. 15, the same weekend that Hurricane Florence hit the U.S. Carolina coast. The typhoon made landfall with winds up to 165 mph (equivalent…
Firefighter Receives Camper from Samaritan’s Purse
Howard and Lisa Ray’s mobile home was torn from its fastenings as several inches of water turned into a raging torrent in a matter of minutes, when Hurricane Helene swept through their Yancey County property in late September. Everything went by in a flash. Their home was bobbing through newly-formed rapids, and they surged forward…
Crisis & Disaster Response
New Home Filled with Praises in Buncombe County
Ronnie and Ginny Meadows’ mobile home in western North Carolina, was washed away by Hurricane Helene. It was the only home they had lived in during their married life—49 years and still counting. “We’ve been flooded a hundred times,” Ronnie said, noting that their former home stood on the street where he grew up. “But…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Volunteers Doing the ‘Dirty Work’ to Help Ocracoke Island Homeowners
Philip Howard, 75, stood at his front door and watched as a wall of water from Pamlico Sound rushed down the road toward his house on Ocracoke Island. “The water just kept rising higher and higher and higher, and I thought if it breaches the top points of my fence then I’m going to have…
