Families in Japan are still struggling to recover weeks after a powerful typhoon hit Tokyo and areas southwest of the capital. Typhoon Hagibis killed nearly 100 people and displaced thousands due to flooding. Samaritan’s Purse is working with local partners to help bring much needed relief to storm victims. Our partners are organizing volunteer teams…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Cleaning Out Flooded Houses in Japan
When a pastor went to help clean a flooded house in Kure, Japan, he was overwhelmed not only by the scope of the devastation but also by the hostility of the man who lived there. The man wanted nothing to do with religion and didn’t even want the pastor spending time at his home. Feeling…
Crisis & Disaster Response
After Deadly Flooding in Japan, Response Team Helps Churches Mobilize Volunteers
Samaritan’s Purse has a disaster assistance response team (DART) in western Japan responding to the deadly floods. We are coming alongside local churches to help them as they assist hurting homeowners. Several of our staff have long-term experience in Japan, working with Samaritan’s Purse since the Asian nation was devastated by a terrible earthquake and…
50 Years of Ministry
Deadly Earthquake in Nepal Triggers Massive Response
On April 25, 2015, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the central region of Nepal and affected more than 8 million people—almost one-third of the country’s population—damaging or destroying more than 500,000 homes. A second earthquake hit about two weeks later, triggering landslides and creating a new wave of fear and panic among Nepalis, many of whom…
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Helping Homeowners After Flooding in Spain
Our Disaster Assistance Response Team is hard at work in eastern Spain after the region received over a foot of rain on October 29, causing the Magro and Turia river basins and the Poyo canal to overflow. The flash flooding claimed the lives of over 200 people and an unknown number are still missing. As…
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Franklin Graham Hands Out Shoeboxes on Saipan and Guam
Feb. 22-23 UPDATE Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham and his wife Jane, along with musical artist Michael W. Smith, traveled to Guam on Saturday, Feb. 22, to help hand out gift-filled Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes at Life in the Son Christian Fellowship in Tamuning. The day before the trio assisted in distributing shoeboxes on nearby…
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Biography: Ken Isaacs
Ken Isaacs Vice President, Programs & Government Relations, Samaritan's Purse As vice president of programs and government relations, Ken Isaacs oversees all international relief projects for Samaritan's Purse. Isaacs has more than 35 years of experience working in the relief and development communities, and his work has taken him to nearly 150 countries in response to…
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Disaster Assistance Response Team
Learn More About Serving on a Samaritan's Purse DISASTER ASSISTANCE RESPONSE TEAM A Disaster Assistance Response Team provides relief to victims of disaster while ↓ water food shelter medical care war poverty famine disease natural disaster sharing the hope of Jesus Christ A DART provides water, food, shelter, and medical care to victims of war, poverty, famine, disease, and natural disaster while sharing…
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Relief Supplies Headed to Tonga After Volcanic Eruption
Many people are still in need after an underwater volcano erupted and triggered a subsequent tsunami in Tonga. The waves caused significant damage, reaching nearly four feet on Tonga’s largest island of Tongatapu and flooding many homes and roads. A massive volcanic ash cloud also covered island communities for days, contaminating water and food supplies.…
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Volunteers Help Hard-Hit Military Families in North Carolina
SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER FOR OUR HURRICANE RESPONSES When Jeremy and Kristy Kulberg saw on social media that people in their flooded New Bern, North Carolina, neighborhood were being rescued from rooftops, their hearts sank. That could only mean that their own house was under at least five feet of water. Jeremy and Kristy had…
