Last week, more than 1,200 Samaritan’s Purse Disaster Relief volunteers and Billy Graham Rapid Response Team chaplains gathered for the 2022 Sharing Hope in Jesus’ Name Conference in Orlando, Florida. This was a long-awaited, in-person reunion of the disaster relief “family” following the inaugural conference in 2019. The pandemic did not, however, prevent volunteers from…
Propietarios agradecidos por voluntarios después de los tornados en Luisiana
Samaritan’s Purse volunteers are hard at work in New Orleans-area communities where an EF-3 tornado carved a long path of destruction near the Lower Ninth Ward–an area widely known after Hurricane Katrina’s devastation there in 2005. VOLUNTEER IN ST. BERNARD PARISH The twister last week churned for more than 11 miles, wrecking homes in the…
Voluntarios trabajando en el centro de Texas; unidad de ayuda en desastres camino a Luisiana
UPDATED March 24 Samaritan’s Purse is responding in two locations following a severe storm system that swept across the south Monday and Tuesday, spawning deadly tornadoes. Hundreds of homes were damaged along the storm’s destructive path across Texas and Louisiana. In Chalmette, Louisiana, we have staff on the ground working with local officials, emergency management,…
Spring Breakers hacen un gran impacto en Memphis
Spring break is a college tradition that extends back to the 1930s. It’s a chance for students to kick back, relax, and take a well-deserved break from their studies, typically by laying in the sand and soaking up the sun at a warm beach or by taking an adventurous road trip. One group of 15…
Samaritan’s Purse Responds After Oklahoma Tornadoes
Samaritan’s Purse has deployed to Oklahoma, where severe storms on May 4 spawned numerous destructive tornadoes. A twister ripped through Seminole and damaged as many as 100 homes. Disaster Relief Unit #5—a tractor trailer filled with relief supplies and equipment—was deployed May 6 from our Southwest Ministry Center in Coppell, Texas. Our teams are on…
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Biography: Franklin Graham
Franklin Graham William “Franklin” Graham III President & CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan's Purse Growing up Graham William Franklin Graham III, born July 14, 1952, is the fourth of five children of the late evangelist Billy Graham and his wife, the late Ruth Bell Graham. Raised in a log home in…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Homeowners See God Provide After Hurricane Michael
SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER FOR ONE OF OUR HURRICANE RESPONSES “My 6-year-old son kept screaming ‘we’re going to die, we’re going to die,’ but I said, in the Name of Jesus we are not going to die today,” said Stephanie Cribbs as she tearfully remembered how her family survived Hurricane Michael, the strongest storm to…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Volunteers Restore Hope, Find Flag After Hurricane Michael
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Samaritan’s Purse Deploys Two Disaster Relief Units in The Wake of Hurricane Michael (Press Release)
Response Includes Disaster Relief Specialists, Volunteers, Tools and Emergency Supplies BOONE, N.C., Oct. 11, 2018—Samaritan’s Purse is on the way to the Florida Panhandle and other hard-hit communities to aid families devastated by Hurricane Michael. This unprecedented storm has destroyed homes, caused widespread flooding and left families in desperate need. The international Christian relief organization…
Samaritan’s Purse Volunteers Bring Relief in Jesus’ Name to Georgia and the Florida Panhandle
SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER FOR OUR HURRICANE MICHAEL RESPONSE LATEST Oct. 18, 8:30 a.m. Our volunteers are hard at work in Albany, Georgia, and in the Florida Panhandle where our teams have received more than 1,500 work orders between the two locations. More than 300 volunteers so far have helped respond to the need. Many…
