Operation Christmas Child
Volunteer Opportunities Available at Operation Christmas Child Processing Centers
Volunteer Opportunities Available at Operation Christmas Child Processing Centers BOONE, N.C.—Boone, North Carolina is home to one of eight Processing Centers for Operation Christmas Child, a project of the international Christian relief organization Samaritan’s Purse, that sends millions of Christmas gifts to children around the world. Right now, Operation Christmas Child is offering volunteer opportunities…
Discipleship, Education & Training
Sparking Interest in Science and Technology in Rural Cambodia
Experiments are opening doors for a teenage girl named Sona. The oldest of five children in a farming family from Pailin Province, Cambodia, she is used to shouldering responsibility. Throughout her 14 years of life, her parents have taught her the value of hard work, which she’s persistently applied to her education. Recently she channeled…
Crisis & Disaster Response
A Workshop of Faith and Hope
Walter Lewis barely missed one great flood in Boone, North Carolina. That was 85 years ago—about five years before he was born. He did not escape a second great storm, Hurricane Helene, which hit late last year. More than eight decades ago, the 1940 flood triggered more than 2,000 landslides and caused 16 deaths. It’s…
Our Ministry
Mother’s Day 2025
Making Deliveries Safer for Moms and Babies Samaritan’s Purse comes alongside women and their newborns in the rugged highlands of Vietnam to provide life-saving maternity care. Samaritan’s Purse comes alongside women and their newborns in the rugged highlands of Vietnam to provide life-saving maternity care. “There’s no time to wait,” exclaimed Menh as Dai started…
Discipleship, Education & Training
Life More Abundantly in Colombia
Adelette faced a daunting decision. She could stay in Venezuela, her home country, and endure the escalating violence and political turmoil all alone with her children, or she could flee through the jungle to Colombia and meet her sister on the other side. She decided to go. The 33-year-old mother packed her life into three…
Discipleship, Education & Training
Preaching Hope in a Weary Land
On the last day of classes in Bas-Uélé Province, Congolese pastor Bakutu Eyabawi Emmanuel was preparing his things for the trip 46 miles back home to the Soronga chiefdom—a three-day walk. He and dozens of other pastors were celebrating that they’d completed a months-long intensive portable Bible school hosted by Samaritan’s Purse in Niangara, Democratic…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Providing Aid to Typhoon Survivors in Vietnam
Samaritan’s Purse is on the ground in northwestern Vietnam after Typhoon Wipha struck the region in late July and continued to bring heavy rainfall into early August. We are also preparing to respond to Typhoon Kajiki as it recently made landfall in Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital. This most recent storm claimed multiple lives and added to…
Animals, Agriculture & Livelihoods
Sewing Peace in South Sudan
Twelve years ago, Timothy was running for his life. His family had warned him to flee Juba, South Sudan’s capital, as civil war erupted along tribal lines. As a member of the Nuer people, staying would have meant death. So, he ran—from city to town to village, never knowing where he’d sleep or if he’d…
Health & Medical Ministries
Bones Made Straight and Souls Refreshed
Umaru loaded his prized bull up on the bed of a rusted truck and shut the tailgate. He hopped onto the feeble wooden frame surrounding his cargo as the engine sputtered down the road toward a nearby market. It was a big day for Umaru. Selling his cow would not only help purchase new calves…
Seeing the Valleys from the Mountaintop
A little over a year after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, hope is being rebuilt one home at a time. Samaritan’s Purse Chief Operating Officer Edward Graham stood atop the mountain where Vanessa Bowens had played as a child, praying one day she’d live in a home looking down over the…
