Media
Operation Heal Our Patriots Photos
Operation Heal Our Patriots These photographs are available for news media outlet use in coverage of Samaritan's Purse-related stories. If your news outlet uses a photograph, please credit: "Courtesy of Samaritan's Purse." These photographs are not for commercial use. Alaska At the heart of Operation Heal Our Patriots is the desire to see couples grow closer…
Health & Medical Ministries
Healing Hearts, Finding Jesus
For more than 25 years, Children’s Heart Project has arranged for critical cardiac surgery for more than 1,500 boys and girls from over a dozen countries where such operations are not readily available. “The goal is to demonstrate God’s heart to these children and their families that need heart surgery,” said Daniela Acosta with Samaritan’s…
Operation Christmas Child
Christian School Challenge 2024
2024 Christian School Challenge Show Your Operation Christmas Child Spirit to Win a Trip! Accept the Challenge Terms and Conditions Thank you for your interest in Operation Christmas Child. The 2024 Christian School Challenge has concluded, but your school can pack gift-filled shoeboxes for children in need at any time! See other schools that have accepted…
Health & Medical Ministries
God’s Love Transforms Hearts
Vanessa was mad at God and questioned why He had allowed her son Mateo to be born with a hole in his heart. Mateo had to limit his physical activity because he was easily tired and out of breath. Even when he felt OK, his family cautioned him against running too hard or too long…
Health & Medical Ministries
Mending Sarana’s Heart
As the mother of two healthy children, Narangarav knew in her heart that something was wrong with her newborn baby. After three weeks, a doctor confirmed her worst fears: Sarana had been born with a hole in her heart. Even worse, there was not a single hospital or surgeon in all of Mongolia who could…
Women's Programs
Mother’s Day Feature: A New Generation of Hope
It’s typically a long chain of tragic events that leads mothers and their malnourished babies to the pediatric ICU at ELWA Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia. When they arrive, that’s when Dr. Michael Bryant first sees them and hope begins to grow. Dr. Bryant examines the poorly cut umbilical cord on a patient named Favor, who…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Restoring War-Torn Ethiopia
Restoring War-Torn Ethiopia Samaritan’s Purse is helping displaced people through our Hope for Tigray program. Ethiopia Projects 013235 $ Give Hope Though unnoticed by the world… God has not forgotten them. Just a few years ago, terrible violence overwhelmed a remote part of northern Ethiopia called Tigray. While the war is now over, the fight to survive continues.…
Children's Ministries
Teaching Children God’s Word in Colombia
Four brothers migrated from Venezuela to Colombia with their mother three years ago in search of better living conditions. They were among many Venezuelans fleeing their homeland as it experienced an economic crisis, making food and medicine hard to come by. The family settled in Bucaramanga, located in northern Colombia, where migrants have built makeshift…
Our Ministry
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…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Service Is a Calling for Volunteers in Hurricane-Devastated Florida
SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER Hurricane Michael pummeled the Florida Panhandle two months ago today, yet in Panama City and other areas the effects of the storm are still being felt. Hundreds of people are living in tents. Large trees still lay on punctured roofs, allowing rain to pour into homes. A major employer has announced…
