A team of seven recently set sail on a 57-foot boat named Cloud Nine with cartons of Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts on board. Their destination? An isolated part of Kwajalein Atoll. Home to some 11,000 people scattered across 100 small islands, Kwajalein Atoll is a part of the Marshall Islands, a nation located in…
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Students, God Can Use You to Help Change a Child’s Eternity
You Can Help Send the Gospel to the Ends of the Earth You can communicate God’s love to a child in one of the furthest corners of the globe. Samaritan’s Purse sends gift-filled Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes to boys and girls in city slums, dense jungles, and other hard-to-reach places that may have never heard the Name…
Health & Medical Ministries
Far from Home, a Mother Finds Jesus Is Her Greatest Friend
UPDATE: Uuganaa was baptized in a swimming pool on Saturday, May 30, as a profession of her faith in Jesus Christ. A month later on June 30, she and her son were among 25 Children’s Heart Project patients, mothers, and interpreters from Mongolia who we flew back to their homeland via our DC-8 aircraft after…
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7 Ways to Give on Giving Tuesday
7 Ways to Give on Giving Tuesday Your gift to Samaritan's Purse on Giving Tuesday will provide tangible care to people in need around the world, while also offering them the eternal hope of Jesus Christ. 1 Bring Clean Water to a Community POWER LINES WERE LEVELED IN ACAPULCO, MEXICO, during Hurricane Otis, and the…
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God Brings New Life to a Disabled Boy in Mongolia Through Operation Christmas Child
Teenaged Sampil is a different person after receiving an Operation Christmas Child shoebox gift. Once generally homebound, he now travels freely about the city of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Instead of being lonely, he now plays on team sports and has many friends. He initially had finished his education at the primary school level, but after a…
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Samaritan’s Purse Celebrates 11.9 Million+ Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Gifts
Samaritan's Purse Celebrates 11.9 Million+ Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Gifts BOONE, N.C.—The true meaning of Christmas was shared with millions of children in need around the world this year through shoebox gifts filled with fun toys, school supplies and personal care items. The overwhelming generosity of millions of shoebox packers contributed to a successful collection…
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Press Release Operation Christmas Child January 01-25-23
Samaritan's Purse Celebrates Nearly 10.6 Million Shoebox Gifts Collected for Children in Need BOONE, N.C., Jan. 25, 2023—Millions of shoebox packers shared the true meaning of Christmas with children in need this past holiday season. Generosity throughout contributed to a successful shoebox gift collection season at drop-off locations for the Samaritan's Purse project Operation Christmas…
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Disaster Assistance Response Team
Learn More About Serving on a Samaritan's Purse DISASTER ASSISTANCE RESPONSE TEAM A Disaster Assistance Response Team provides relief to victims of disaster while ↓ water food shelter medical care war poverty famine disease natural disaster sharing the hope of Jesus Christ A DART provides water, food, shelter, and medical care to victims of war, poverty, famine, disease, and natural disaster while sharing…
Animals, Agriculture & Livelihoods
A Bountiful Harvest in Bolivia
The air is dusty and the land looks barren during the final months of the almost nine-month dry season in El Alto, Bolivia. Many of the young city’s nearly 1 million inhabitants have come here from the surrounding countryside in search of a better life. Instead of opportunity, though, many of them have found a…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Rebuilding the Caribbean After the Hurricanes
As Pastor Nolan Nanton prepared to lead a prayer meeting in January at the New Testament Baptist Church on the island of St. Martin, he stopped and gazed upward. It was a scene he knew all too well—the church sanctuary without a roof. It had been shredded four months earlier when Hurricane Irma pummeled the…
