Our Ministry
2023 Year-End Impact Report
Thank You Ukraine Response Children's Heart Project U.S. Disaster Relief Operation Christmas Child Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Ukraine Response Our teams evacuated more than 300 people and distributed emergency relief items. Read More Children's Heart Project In 2023, Children's Heart Project facilitated life-saving surgeries for 54 children born with congenital heart defects in Bolivia, Mongolia, and…
Operation Christmas Child
Liberia
As Africa’s oldest republic, Liberia was initially established on land that was purchased for slaves freed from the United States. More recently, it is known for its rainforest and a season of civil war in the 1990s. Samaritan’s Purse began hosting Operation Christmas Child outreach events for the nation’s children in 1998 and launched The…
Health & Medical Ministries
“A Small Yes”
Ten years ago, Dr. Read Vaughan and his wife Suzie were empty-nesters who were nearing their retirement years and looking for a new adventure. They felt the Lord calling them to serve abroad—something they had planned to do for years—but they had no clear direction. “I was waiting for a voice from God telling us…
Our Ministry
Franklin Graham’s Journey From Lost to Spreading Hope
By Beth Brelje | Originally Published in The Epoch Times May 02, 2024. Updated: May 06, 2024. Used with permission. BOONE, N.C.—A bird is thumping into the window of Rev. Franklin Graham’s office at Samaritan’s Purse international headquarters in Boone, North Carolina. He says it happens every spring, and he doesn’t know why, but this…
Faith Restored
The two Army medics were ready to quit their marriage and had a hard time remembering why they’d bothered applying to go to Alaska with Samaritan’s Purse. Just a couple weeks before Army Sergeant First Class Jason Smith and Army Specialist Amy Smith were scheduled to leave for Operation Heal Our Patriots, they delivered the…
Health & Medical Ministries
Sight Restored, Spiritual Eyes Opened in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Joseph is wearing a big smile that’s verging on laughter as he rests under the sun cover in Isiro, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He’s beginning to see shapes and faces for the first time in years. Cataracts had taken his sight long before, adding to Joseph’s other physical challenges, including hearing impairment and…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Flying Over Africa for Christ
Samaritan’s Purse pilots and aircraft are bringing aid to underserved communities across Africa. They are vital in supporting our ongoing work in Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Liberia, among other locations. Whether they are dropping bags of much needed food, transporting patients from rural areas to our cleft lip and palate clinics, or performing any…
Discipleship, Education & Training
From Enemy to Friend
Gebah remembered the man in his dream vividly and was still shaken the next morning while leading other Muslim inmates in prayers. Gebah had been visited in the night by a figure who took the Quran from which he was teaching a class of children and replaced it with a Bible. What do you understand…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Pray as Samaritan’s Purse Responds to the Latest Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Samaritan’s Purse has deployed staff to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where 83 confirmed cases of Ebola hemorrhagic fever have been identified and 47 confirmed deaths from the disease have been reported, as of Aug. 26. This response supports our country office staff there and others already at work in the region. Our current…
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A Tribute to the DC-8
!["The Mighty DC-8 has been [God's] instrument taking the Gospel message of Jesus Christ throughout the world," writes Joe Proffitt, a flight engineer with Samaritan's Purse, as the legendary plane is decommissioned.](https://spweb-uploads.s3.theark.cloud/2025/11/HS-1-320x273.jpg)
My name is Joe Proffitt and I have had the honor and privilege to be a flight engineer aboard this beautiful aircraft, the Mighty DC-8, for the past five and a half years. McDonnell Douglas produced 554 DC-8s. Samaritan’s Purse was blessed to operate the last one registered in the United States. In 2014, during…
