Laying in a hospital bed in Panama City, Panama, Maykel only had a few days to live—or so the doctors told his parents when they informed them he had Stage 3 leukemia. Their precious son, only 11 years old, had recently heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ when he received a gift-filled Operation Christmas Child…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Helping Displaced Families in Haiti
Signs of hope can be hard to come by for those who’ve lost much. But Samaritan’s Purse and local church partners have been sharing the eternal hope found in Jesus Christ with Haiti’s displaced people. We’ve also been providing food and hygiene kits as well as medical care to a displaced population that has tripled…
Operation Christmas Child
Support Disciple Makers
Support Disciple Makers We invite you to pray for teachers of The Greatest Journey discipleship program who are helping children around the world to know and to follow the Lord Jesus Christ. As boys and girls learn to tell friends and family about Him, communities are changing and churches are growing. More than 2.2 million local church…
Discipleship, Education & Training
Life More Abundantly in Colombia
Adelette faced a daunting decision. She could stay in Venezuela, her home country, and endure the escalating violence and political turmoil all alone with her children, or she could flee through the jungle to Colombia and meet her sister on the other side. She decided to go. The 33-year-old mother packed her life into three…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Samaritan’s Purse Giving New Campers and Vehicles to Flood Survivors in Texas
Samaritan’s Purse is providing Texas flood survivors in Kerr and Tom Green counties with brand-new campers and vehicles. “One of the greatest things about these gifts that we are giving to flood survivors is that they are paid in full,” said Tony Williamson, a Samaritan’s Purse staff member facilitating our camper and vehicle dedications on…
Operation Christmas Child
Taking the Gospel the Extra Mile in Cambodia
Just outside of a major tourist city in Cambodia, people struggle to make ends meet. Makara* and her family live in a one-room house, on a tract of land shared by many other members of their family who work in the nearby fields. Makara was hard at work last year when her daughter, Tola*, attended…
Operation Christmas Child
The Life-Changing Power of Prayer in Cambodia
As smiling volunteers place red-and-green shoeboxes into the waiting, outstretched hands of children who have no concept of a gift or the love of Christ, a man wearing a shirt bearing the logo of Operation Christmas Child quietly watches with a look of reflection on his face. “Each time it captures my heart when I…
Health & Medical Ministries
Where Care Meets Compassion
Mothers arrive at the parked mobile medical unit in Colombia exhausted and in desperation. They look up and see a cross with the words “Helping in Jesus’ Name” stamped beneath it. Some have made the grueling and dangerous journey from Venezuela to escape the ongoing economic and political crisis that’s raged in the bordering nation…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Finding a Peace Beyond Explanation
Sofia first fled Venezuela four years ago as a teenager, grieving the death of her mother and hoping to find a better future in Bucaramanga, Colombia. “I used to serve in a church in my country,” she said, “but the death of my mom made me abandon and drift away from God.” Life in Colombia…
Construction Projects
Alaska Church Construction Opens New Doors in the Last Frontier
Four-wheelers sputtered into the gravel parking lot as families from Port Alsworth, Alaska, and neighboring communities arrived with the rising sun. Children let go of their parents’ hands to scurry joyfully through the newly finished rooms. Neighbors, friends, and family hugged each other in the lobby and then slowly found their seats as Lake Clark…
