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…
Our Ministry
Offering Clean Water in Jesus’ Name
Offering Clean Water in Jesus' Name Give Clean Water Samaritan’s Purse thanks God for the many lives transformed as we provide clean water and share the Good News of Jesus Christ across the globe. From refugee camps in South Sudan to impoverished villages in the Philippines, people must have clean water in order to survive. That's why…
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Prayer Confirmation
Thank you for committing to pray! Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. —Philippians 4:6-7 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Italy: Caring Hands Bring Comfort During Pandemic
“I felt weird, and I started coughing and coughing and coughing,” said Maria, a coronavirus patient at the Samaritan’s Purse Emergency Field Hospital in Italy. After several days of consistent cough, fever, and lack of appetite, Maria’s husband admitted her to the emergency room at Cremona Hospital, our partner facility in northern Italy’s Lombardy region.…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Diary of a Night at Our Central Park Hospital
6:30 PM: The night shift arrives at the emergency field hospital for their shift. Most of them have gotten just a few hours of sleep despite having gotten back to their rooms 11 hours ago. They’re tired but restless, a mixture of fatigue and adrenaline that keeps them tossing around in their beds. Even as…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Central Park Hospital Stands Strong in Battle Against COVID-19
Roberto sat in the patient ward of our Emergency Field Hospital in Central Park and thanked our medical team for helping him in his fight against coronavirus. Looking around him, he said, “Honestly, truth to God, I have no clue where I would be if I weren’t here. I think I would’ve probably given up.”…
Health & Medical Ministries
World Medical Mission
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.Psalm 147:3 Where is your next mission? Choose your Specialty Anesthesiology Cardiology Cardiovascular Surgery Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Colorectal Surgeon Dentistry Dermatology Emergency Medicine Endocrinology Family Medicine Gastroenterology General Surgery Hematology Internal Medicine Neonatology Nephrology Neurology Neurosurgery Nurse Practitioner Obstetrics/Gynecology Oncology Oncology Surgery Ophthalmology Oral & Maxillofacial…
Health & Medical Ministries
Nine Children Take Special Flight Home to Mongolia After Life-Saving Heart Surgeries
Nine mothers, along with their nine children, boarded the Samaritan’s Purse DC-8 aircraft this morning in Greensboro, North Carolina, happy to be heading home to Mongolia after spending the last several months in North America. They came as part of our Children’s Heart Project to correct congenital heart defects in their little ones. Most came…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Their Faith Endures in Sickness and in Health
In nearly half a century of marriage, Wanda and Arnold never expected to celebrate their 49th anniversary in a tent hospital just minutes away from their home in Lenoir, North Carolina. Shortly after Christmas they began displaying severe symptoms, and they were diagnosed with the disease they’d feared for most of the year—COVID-19. Their symptoms…
Animals, Agriculture & Livelihoods
Livelihoods Project Boosts Income for Struggling Grandmother in Kenya
Rhoda, 64, lives in an impoverished village in southeastern Kenya where her main economic activities include farming and raising livestock. She plants corn and beans, and keeps a few goats to provide milk for her grandchildren. But because Rhoda’s village receives little rainfall, reliable crop production is quite difficult, and caring for livestock in the…
