Trudy Petersen blogs from Yekepa, Liberia, where Samaritan’s Purse is working to expand the African Bible College University How many of us have overused the phrase, “I’m starving?” More accurately, how many of us have misused the phrase? Most people here have tea for breakfast, no lunch, and rice with a kind of soup poured…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Cyclone Idai Victims in Mozambique Receive Relief
UPDATE (March 30): Materials for the Emergency Field Hospital have arrived in Beira. The hospital will be set up in the coming days in Buzi. Tarp distributions continue. Efforts to provide cyclone victims with access to clean water are also ongoing. — In the aftermath of Cyclone Idai, many thousands of families are suffering. The…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Samaritan’s Purse Reaches Inundated Mozambique Town with Lifesaving Aid
About three weeks after Cyclone Idai hit Mozambique, the situation on the ground is still dire. Catastrophic flooding and high winds left historic devastation across the east African nation. Tens of thousands of people remain displaced, food is scarce, clean water is limited, and reports of cholera and other waterborne illnesses are already making headlines.…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Spring Breakers Make a Big Difference in Texas
Spring break is a time-honored college tradition. It’s a chance for students to get some well-deserved rest and relaxation, typically by lounging at the beach, splashing in the waves, and soaking up the sun. But Isaiah Wiese, a freshman at John Brown University in Arkansas, didn’t have his toes stuck in the sand during this…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Desperate Venezuelans in Colombia Receive Food
Alexandra, her husband Juan, and their 6-year-old daughter have been in Cucuta, Colombia, for several months. They left Caracas, Venezuela, because the situation there had become unbearable. “It was awful,” she said. They lived quite close to the demonstrations that have been roiling the Venezuelan capital, and tensions between police, protesters, and residents had grown.…
Operation Christmas Child
Colombian, Venezuelan Children Receive Shoebox Gifts at Easter
On Easter weekend, April 19-20, hundreds of children in the Colombia-Venezuela border city of Cúcuta, Colombia, heard about Jesus’ love for them through Operation Christmas Child. Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, joined one of our church partners in Cúcuta to present the Gospel and hand out Operation Christmas…
Our Ministry
Hope for South Sudan
StrengtheningSouth Sudan’s Churches South Sudan Projects 013954 $ Give After many years of persecution, churches in South Sudan are thriving and reaching people with the Good News of Jesus Christ. Facebook Twitter email When a South Sudanese congregation found out a struggling widow named Abuk and her four children had been left homeless because of a fire,…
Our Ministry
Team Patriot
Samaritan's Purse Team Patriot Sign Up Join this Samaritan's Purse initiative to deploy alongside other Operation Heal Our Patriots couples to the front lines of disasters! In the aftermath of natural disasters, communities often look and feel like war zones. Survivors have been in a battle for their lives as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, fires, and other catastrophic…
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…
50 Years of Ministry
‘Let My Heart be Broken by the Things that Break the Heart of God’
Much of Bob Pierce’s work was in Asia. It was after a visit to suffering children on an island in Korea, he wrote this famous prayer in his Bible: “Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.” In the late 1970s, Samaritan’s Purse helped refugees who were fleeing from…
