Nearly three months after Hurricane Ian slammed into southwestern Florida, many families are still struggling to recover from massive wind and water damage to their homes. The Fort Myers community was particularly hard hit, with powerful storm surges and 150-mph sustained winds at landfall. Samaritan’s Purse, in partnership with Mission BBQ, served a hearty Christmas…
Samaritan’s Purse sigue sirviendo a los sobrevivientes del huracán en Florida
Samaritan’s Purse deployed staff, equipment, and an army of volunteers to heavily damaged areas of southwest Florida immediately after Hurricane Ian slammed ashore as a Category 4 storm in late September. Thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed by powerful wind, storm surge, and rain. It was among the most powerful storms ever to strike…
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Samaritan’s Purse Volunteers at Work in Storm-Torn Southeast
Samaritan’s Purse teams are on the ground in Selma, Alabama, and Griffin, Georgia, after a violent and deadly storm system swept across the Southeast on Thursday night, Jan. 12. Two Disaster Relief Units—tractor trailers stocked with equipment and supplies—are in position in the two locations. Volunteers started work in both Alabama and Georgia on Sunday,…
Samaritan’s Purse Work Rolls on in Alabama
The Jan. 12 storm system that shook 79-year-old Annie Pearl Avery’s home spawned dozens of deadly tornadoes that tore off roofs and uprooted trees across the Southeast. Numerous communities and hundreds of homes were left in shambles. Annie said surviving the EF-2 tornado that ripped through her Selma, Alabama, neighborhood was a terrifying experience. “Glass…
Samaritan’s Purse Volunteers at Work in Flood-Weary California
Volunteers are serving homeowners in Jesus’ Name in Merced County, California, where at least 1,600 people were displaced by floodwaters after weeks of rain and the swelling of nearby Bear Creek and tributaries. Numerous land and mud slides throughout the area have damaged or destroyed hundreds of homes and resulted in at least 20 deaths.…
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Celebramos la obra de Dios en Selma; sigue la limpieza del tornado en Georgia
The storm system that swept across the southeastern U.S. on Jan. 12 spawned numerous tornadoes, leaving destruction and devastation in their wake. Parts of Alabama and Georgia took direct hits from the twisters. In the days following, Samaritan’s Purse volunteers were on the ground clearing trees from homes, patching damaged roofs, and cleaning up yards…
Los voluntarios todavía trabajan en Georgia
Zanina Berry was preparing dinner for herself and her granddaughter in the kitchen of her Griffin, Georgia, home on Jan. 12 when she heard a “big bang” outside. The noise was alarming, but what happened next was genuinely frightening—the windows of her house started to violently shake. VOLUNTEER IN GRIFFIN Zanina knew a tornado was…
Inspirados a servir con fe y valor en tiempos de temor
June Stephens wedged a foot into the handle of the chainsaw and pulled the cord. The power tool buzzed to life. She was learning to safely cut down trees by practicing on a log positioned in the parking area of the Renaissance Orlando. As one of more than 1,200 attendees at the 2023 Sharing Hope…
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Un final sólido en Georgia
Multiple twisters with winds up to 150 miles per hour tore through Spalding County in mid-January, damaging more than 2,000 properties in the Griffin area. Just two days later, Samaritan’s Purse set up a base camp at Oak Hill Church in nearby Williamson. This past Friday (March 17), our U.S. disaster relief team completed more…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Voluntarios trabajan duro en dos ubicaciones en Mississippi
Dozens of Samaritan’s Purse volunteers are assisting homeowners in Rolling Fork and in Amory, Mississippi, where a long band of powerful thunderstorms, spawning multiple tornadoes, carved a 100-mile path of destruction across the Magnolia State March 24, damaging and destroying hundreds of homes and knocking out power across Mississippi. VOLUNTEER IN MISSISSIPPI ROLLING FORK |…
