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…
Operation Christmas Child
Las cajas de regalos comunican el amor de Dios en Chile
The first time Pastor Sixto led an Operation Christmas Child outreach event he had no idea how it would be received. All he knew is that he desperately wanted to reach more boys and girls in his community with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Now, 10 years later, Operation Christmas Child has become such a…
Nuestro Ministerio
Newsletter September 2025
Franklin Graham Update | September Franklin Graham Update | September It's All About Jesus Dear Friend, Another season of Operation Christmas Child is just around the corner! In a few weeks, millions of God's people will be packing and praying over their shoebox gifts that Samaritan's Purse will send to children across the world. We give glory to God that in over three decades we…
Ministerio de Salud y Medicina
Cuando la atención médica se une a la compasión
Mothers arrive at the parked mobile medical unit in Colombia exhausted and in desperation. They look up and see a cross with the words “Helping in Jesus’ Name” stamped beneath it. Some have made the grueling and dangerous journey from Venezuela to escape the ongoing economic and political crisis that’s raged in the bordering nation…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Encontrar una paz que excede cualquier explicación
Sofia first fled Venezuela four years ago as a teenager, grieving the death of her mother and hoping to find a better future in Bucaramanga, Colombia. “I used to serve in a church in my country,” she said, “but the death of my mom made me abandon and drift away from God.” Life in Colombia…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Cuidamos a las madres en situación crítica de Colombia
Fear melts into relief as weary mothers trickle into the Samaritan’s Purse maternal clinics in Colombia. They’ve traveled over rivers, through jungles, and across dangerous borders for help and support unavailable in their Venezuelan hometowns. A decade-long economic crisis has crippled the healthcare system there and made access to basic necessities, such as food and…
