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…
Women's Programs
A Very Present Help in Trouble
When Marie* fled her village with her five children, there was no time for the 34-year-old widow to explain to her young ones why they had to leave their home so quickly. Violence and insecurity have rolled like a storm through eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in recent years, and an estimated 1.7…
Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
Disease Prevention and Clean Water Access Go Hand in Hand
Clean water is essential to good health, as it significantly reduces waterborne illnesses and contributes to the overall health of families. Yet, for many communities throughout the world, clean water has never been easily accessible. Through our Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) project, Samaritan’s Purse is providing sustainable access to clean water for communities, homes,…
Animals, Agriculture & Livelihoods
Greenhouses Help Families Expand Crops, Grow Seeds of Faith
Felix and his wife, Sofia, were used to scraping together a living for their three children from the mountainous fields of Palca, Bolivia, despite harsh rainy seasons and frigid temperatures. The precarious conditions meant experiencing several lean months trying to make ends meet between harvests. When a Samaritan’s Purse agriculture project in the area gave…
Health & Medical Ministries
Shining Jesus’ Light
Editorial note: Arwen Mallay, 14, went to be with the Lord on Feb. 8, 2022, after a brave but lengthy battle with stage 4 neuroblastoma. She is the oldest child of Dr. Seth and Rebecca Mallay. Her namesake in J.R.R.Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings said, “Dark is the Shadow, and yet my heart rejoices,”…
