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New Homes and Full Hearts

Two and a half years ago, Josh Jones sat on his couch unconcerned about the reports of an EF4 tornado making its way toward Mayfield, Kentucky. A lightning bolt suddenly struck just outside the window, jolting Josh off the couch and into his truck. This was no ordinary storm. “It was like something I had…

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New Houses Become Homes

On what looks like an invoice for their new home, each of the line items in the frame is marked “paid.” To make it clear that it is as free to the recipient as Christ’s gift of salvation, red block letters cover the whole page with an additional “paid in full.” “I thought I lived…

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Crisis & Disaster Response

Samaritan’s Purse to Open Ebola Treatment Center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

LATEST: The Ebola Treatment Center is now open (Jan. 17). Please read more here. Samaritan’s Purse will soon open a treatment center in northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in response to an Ebola virus disease outbreak that has killed more than 300 people. This recent outbreak was declared Aug. 1 and is now…

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Health & Medical Ministries

Walking in the Light of God’s Grace

Editor’s Note: A year ago, Dr. Gregory Ekbom thought he was going to lose his son. In the midst of the crisis, he held onto hope that God would use the traumatic situation to bring about good. As they soon discovered, the arduous path to healing often begins the moment we seize the opportunity to…

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Water, Sanitation & Hygiene

Clean Water Brings New Life to Rural Ethiopia

In villages across Ethiopia, females are responsible for daily chores, including gathering water for their families. This task often requires a long, sometimes dangerous journey—with buckets and cans in hand or on head—and may mean sacrificing other important things, such as an education. Time gathering water means time lost for studying and keeping up with…

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Health & Medical Ministries

Medical Team Provides Cataract Surgeries in Remote Mexico

Fidel badly broke both his leg and arm decades ago, and despite the continuing pain, he still pushed through to do heavy farm work and cut firewood as best he could. But when cataracts took his sight a couple years back, life quickly came to a halt. “I mostly have to stay in the house,”…

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Discipleship, Education & Training

Restoring Lives After Trafficking

Alesha*, an 18-year-old secondary school student in Uganda, was preparing to graduate when a friend made her a tempting offer. She would pay for Alesha’s plane ticket to Thailand if she would accept a lucrative job to work at a grocery store there. Life in another country sounded exciting to Alesha, and it was a…

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Health & Medical Ministries

They No Longer Call Her Cursed

Editor’s Note: Joni Byker, Country Director for Samaritan’s Purse Liberia, recently visited ELWA hospital where Samaritan’s Purse surgical teams provided corrective surgery to cleft lip/palate patients in Monrovia, Liberia. She wrote this moving account. The work that we are able to do here in Liberia is not without its challenges. Daily we are faced with…

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Crisis & Disaster Response

Help Comes from Far and Near After Fires in Australia

Terry and Patricia watched in horror as the raging Australian bushfires destroyed their home. “It was like watching the lights on a Christmas tree all night—the flames must have been so high above the trees,” Terry said. They watched from 12 miles away—the blaze was that intense. “It was just unbelievable; horrified, just horrified.” Record-breaking…

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Volunteer Photos

Volunteers 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. Ministry partners in Mongolia share the Gospel at an outreach event. Download Volunteering at a shoebox processing center can be great fun!…

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