Hurricane Debby unleashed heavy rains and winds from Aug. 4-8, initially landing as a Category 1 hurricane in northern Florida and making its way up the East Coast as an intense tropical storm. Debby dumped historic amounts of precipitation, leading to widespread flooding that killed eight people. In response, Samaritan’s Purse has deployed to Savannah,…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
La salvación llega luego de la inundación
Eva was determined to make it home to her children and her mother, even if it meant boating down the flooded streets of their neighborhood in Savannah, Georgia. She and her husband, Gregory, had been in New York to attend the funeral of Gregory’s brother when neighbors began sending them updates about threatening floodwaters. They…
La limpieza sigue después del huracán Debby
Hurricane Debby hit Florida and barreled up the East Coast two weeks ago, unleashing unprecedented rainfall and catastrophic flooding that eventually left some communities underwater. Samaritan’s Purse has responded in Debby’s wake in Savannah, Georgia, and Sarasota, Florida, to help homeowners in both cities recover from the devastating storm. Edward Graham, COO for Samaritan’s Purse,…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Los voluntarios de Samaritan's Purse trabajan arduamente después del huracán Francine
Samaritan’s Purse volunteers started work over the weekend in south-central Louisiana in communities damaged by Hurricane Francine. The Category 2 storm made landfall on Wednesday, Sept. 11. Sustained 100-mph winds and dangerous storm surge damaged homes, toppled trees, and flooded neighborhoods. Teams are helping clean up trees and debris, tarp damaged roofs, and clean mud…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Los propietarios de Luisiana experimentan el amor de Dios después de Francine
All afternoon, Rebecca Clement sat outside watching Samaritan’s Purse volunteers work on her roof. She pulled out her phone to take pictures as they tarped over new damage and some older holes, too. This included punctures from three years ago when a tree branch slammed onto her roof during Hurricane Ida. A friend had patched…
Respuesta en el norte de California, devastado por el fuego
Samaritan’s Purse is on the ground in Butte and Tehama counties in the north Central Valley of California—a region with a long history of catastrophic fires—where wildfires consumed nearly 450,000 acres of land and destroyed over 250 homes since igniting July 24. Now fully contained, the Park Fire was the fourth largest in the state’s…
Proyectos de construcción
Nuevas viviendas para los sobrevivientes de la tormenta en Kentucky
While Hurricane Helene was bearing down on the Southeast, dozens of families in Kentucky were moving on from the disasters that they survived over the past three years. On Thursday, Samaritan’s Purse completed construction in New Hope Acres, a 60-acre subdivision in the town of Mayfield, Kentucky, which was devastated by a tornado just before…
Operation Christmas Child
El registro para voluntarios en los centros de procesamiento ¡ya comenzó!
Thank you for your interest in serving at an Operation Christmas Child Processing Center. New registration dates for all processing centers have been released. All registration begins at 8 a.m. local time according to the respective processing center site. Public Registration Begins: Oct. 22: Baltimore area, Maryland; Dallas/Ft. Worth area, Texas Oct. 23: Atlanta area,…
Media
Hurricane Helene Response Press Kit
Press Releases Fact Sheets & Bios Photos B-roll Hurricane Helene Response Samaritan’s Purse continues to help families recover from Hurricane Helene across western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee in Jesus’ Name. Volunteer teams and staff are actively working to repair and replace hundreds of homes that were damaged or destroyed—providing safe, permanent housing solutions as…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Información útil para voluntarios (Base de Asheville)
Is God calling you to help storm victims in and around Asheville, North Carolina? Samaritan’s Purse is working there, and we need an army of volunteers. Because of damage from Helene, many of the routes into the mountains of western North Carolina are closed. Our base in Asheville (Buncombe County) is at the Billy Graham…
