Hurricane Debby unleashed heavy rains and winds from Aug. 4-8, initially landing as a Category 1 hurricane in northern Florida and making its way up the East Coast as an intense tropical storm. Debby dumped historic amounts of precipitation, leading to widespread flooding that killed eight people. In response, Samaritan’s Purse has deployed to Savannah,…
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Press Release Honduras Hurricane Eta Relief 11-1-2020
Samaritan’s Purse Sends Desperately Needed Aid to Hurricane-Ravaged Honduras BOONE, N.C., Nov. 11, 2020—Samaritan’s Purse is airlifting critical aid to Honduras after Hurricane Eta created widespread devastation in Central America. The slow-moving Category 4 storm triggered catastrophic flooding and landslides—leaving hundreds of thousands of families without access to clean water, shelter, or crucial medical care.…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Mike Lindell Hands Out Pillows in Hurricane-Hit Florida
Mike Lindell, founder and CEO of My Pillow, Inc., encouraged hurricane survivors and relief volunteers in Florida today. He handed out pillows in a very hard-hit community where Samaritan’s Purse is working. He said, “People are asking ‘Is there any hope?’ Samaritan’s Purse is always there when disasters come, and they bring hope—such a wonderful…
Hurricane Helene Relief
Samaritan’s Purse staff and volunteer teams in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee are working to repair and rebuild hundreds of homes that were damaged or destroyed during Hurricane Helene. We are also replacing hundreds of mobile homes. Other initiatives include supporting churches as they repair damage to their buildings. As Samaritan’s Purse continues to…
Crisis & Disaster Response
God Makes a Way Home
The mountains of North Carolina still bear the scars of Hurricane Helene more than a year later. The bare forests of winter make the scars more visible. Downed trees, cratered mountainsides, and homes tattered or still buried in the debris flows and flooding of October 2024. That’s when Scott and Meta lost their home, in…
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A Place to Call Home
The scars on Howard’s cheek and eyebrow still bear witness to the terror and pain of the morning Hurricane Helene struck. Those reminders will not soon fade, but, now, he and his family have a new marker of God’s faithfulness and grace on their lives: a mobile home provided by Samaritan’s Purse. On Tuesday, June…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Samaritan’s Purse Responding Through Partners in Mexico
Samaritan’s Purse is currently in the area where Hurricane Patricia made landfall. The team has identified a stretch of coastal area where the damage is significant and, because of low population density, will likely be a lower priority for the government response. On Monday, we bought food, water, and hygiene items for the local churches…
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Samaritan’s Purse – Give a Year-End Gift
Give a Year-End Gift Where Most Needed Where Most Needed - 012000 $ Give We Help in Jesus' Name SAMARITAN'S PURSE BRINGS PHYSICAL RELIEF AND HOPE TO HURTING PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD. Samaritan's Purse helps men, women, and children who are victims of war, poverty, disaster, and famine. We work in more than 100 countries,…
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Shoebox Gifts Remind Mexico’s Children that God Is Near
Esmeralda startled her daughter Fernanda awake as Hurricane Otis roared over their town just outside of Acapulco. Gentle words did little to sooth the 10-year-old’s fears as she saw the terror in her mother’s face, especially as the sheet metal roof peeled away. “I told them, ‘We’re going to stay here and nothing’s going to…
Home Again in Buncombe County
When Hurricane Helene tore through western North Carolina last September, the raging storm uprooted trees near Norberto Pizarro’s Buncombe County home and flung them onto his house, splitting it in two. We praise God that Norberto and his family were unharmed during the storm, but the damage to their house was so extensive that Norberto…
