Samaritan’s Purse worked with a third-generation missionary named Elmer Kilbourne and the Evangelical Church of India to advance the Gospel of Jesus Christ in that vast Hindu nation. Over several years, Samaritan’s Purse helped ECI build 1,012 churches and 12 Bible schools across India. Most churches included a well where Hindu neighbors could come to…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Samaritan’s Purse Responding to COVID-19 Outbreak in India
A massive second wave of the deadly COVID-19 virus is sweeping across India, overwhelming hospitals and other medical facilities. In recent weeks, many coronavirus patients have been unable to be fully treated due to a shortage of intensive care unit beds, oxygen, and other critical medical supplies. Samaritan’s Purse is working with partners on the…
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Helping in the Wake of the Derecho
There’s often a whirlwind inside Jaime Richardson’s home where she and her husband, Chris, care for their 15 adopted children in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Most days are a swirl of activity with that many kids around, several having special needs including cerebral palsy, autism, seizure disorders, and one confined to a bed for most of…
Samaritan’s Purse Responding to Storm-Damaged Indiana
Samaritan’s Purse is responding to Fort Wayne, Indiana, after a severe derecho storm pummelled communities with 98 mile per hour winds, leaving downed trees and more than 200 damaged homes in its wake. Disaster Relief Unit #7—a tractor-trailer filled with relief supplies and equipment—departed Thursday afternoon from our Wilkes Ministry Center in western North Carolina…
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Providing Relief in India After Catastrophic Flooding
UPDATE (Sept. 14): Samaritan’s Purse partners have distributed emergency relief kits to 3,300 families. The relief kits include food, hygiene items, sheets, a blanket, and a few clothing items. Among those beneficiaries is Thangachen, a rice farmer living in an impoverished community. Thangachen and his wife and children had to flee from their home during…
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Thank You to All Our Volunteers
At Samaritan’s Purse, we share the hope of the Gospel as we rush to the aid of those caught in the ditches of life. When a hurricane blows down trees, a wildfire consumes a town, a flood rushes in, or a tornado rips apart a community, Samaritan’s Purse is there to provide relief in Jesus’…
Peace After the Storm
Steve Daggett, 73, said the EF3 tornado that barreled toward his Winchester, Indiana, home sounded like a jet engine. “My kids told me it would sound like a train. To me it sounded like a jet starting up,” said Steve, who recounted the ominous sound of the twister roaring across town as it closed in…
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Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders Serves in Little Rock
UPDATE: April 7 Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and some of her staff members volunteered today with Samaritan’s Purse in Little Rock, Arkansas. Parts of the state capital were devastated by an EF4 tornado late on March 31, and the cleanup continues. Our volunteer teams have been working since the morning of April 3 to tarp…
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Volunteers Hard at Work After Midwest Storms
Jenny Leiter was, at first, mesmerized by the approaching storm the evening of March 14. She said the roiling clouds and the streaks of lightning made for a spectacular show across the expanse of farm fields surrounding Lakeview, Ohio. “It was really quite beautiful,” she said. But then it turned terrifying, as tornado sirens started…
Waves of Volunteers Helping Storm-Hit Towns
UPDATE, April 17: Please continue praying for the work of North American Ministries after these tornadoes. Samaritan’s Purse continues responding to the devastation caused by EF3 tornadoes in Wynne and Little Rock, Arkansas. We are also now serving in Savannah, Tennessee, to include Hardin, McNairy, and Wayne Counties where another EF3 tornado damaged homes. We…
