The strewn debris and trash still hanging from the barren trees in Brandt Justice’s backyard stand as stark reminders of how high the waters rose when floods ravaged his small Kentucky community last week. In the early hours of Feb. 16, the small tributary behind his home suddenly swelled and climbed to the tips of…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Voluntarios que brindan ayuda en caso de desastres instados a compartir valientemente el Evangelio de Cristo
Thick, black smoke was moving in rapidly. Pastor Erik Naylor of Maui, Hawaii, could hardly see more than a few feet in front of him, and he felt the heat as homes around him started to catch on fire. But when he and a neighbor looked across the street, they saw that the Lahaina Baptist…
Franklin Graham
Newsletter March 2025
Franklin Graham Update | March Franklin Graham Update | March God Opens a Channel of Peace Dear Friend, Samaritan's Purse has been working in Sudan for decades, and I've been there many times. The country is once again in chaos, devastated by two years of civil war. Millions have fled the fighting. A failed harvest plus the sudden arrival of 700,000 displaced people has…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Animales de carga donados a una organización de Carolina ayudan con el socorro por Helene
A February storm had softened the ground considerably and loosened the roots on an old poplar tree. Wind gusts finished it off. Mike and Michele Toberer were hours out of town when the timber fell and broke a large opening into a fence holding their mules. Three of them escaped into the highway. “That was…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
El secretario Scott Turner ve la respuesta en curso al huracán Helene
Scott Turner, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, joined Samaritan’s Purse staff and volunteers in North Carolina on March 11 to see our continued Hurricane Helene relief efforts. Secretary Turner visited homeowners in Buncombe County (Asheville area) who are still suffering from the storm’s catastrophic strike. “We’re here to learn, to…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
De la desesperanza a la esperanza
Bronson Harris lived in a camper next to a creek in Bakersville, North Carolina. When Hurricane Helene swept through the area last September, he lost everything. They helped me out spiritually more than anybody that I had ever spoke with before. He reached out to Samaritan’s Purse, and we supplied him with a new camper…
Samaritan’s Purse Volunteers at Work in Storm-Battered States
Samaritan’s Purse volunteer teams are hard at work in Missouri and Oklahoma after deadly weekend storms tore across mid-America spawning numerous tornadoes and sparking wildfires. Disaster Relief Unit #1–a tractor trailer filled with relief supplies and equipment–is in position in Missouri, and volunteers are working hard-hit Poplar Bluff, a community where hundreds of homes were…
Dos Marías, un Dios Todopoderoso
Separated by only 15 miles in the mountains of North Carolina, Maria Sixtos and Maria Chavez have both suffered in Helene’s wake—not only when the historic hurricane hit the area six months ago, but every moment since. For Maria Chavez, a stay-at-home mom, the storm’s damage to the family’s septic system created a daily nightmare…
Ministerio de Salud y Medicina
Alcance médico especial en el oeste de Carolina del Norte
Note: A second free clinic will take place on June 21-22 in Marshall at the same location. All are welcome. For more information on volunteering, go to samaritanspurse.org/free-clinic. “Do I eat or do I go to the doctor?” Samaritan’s Purse physician Elliott Tenpenny explained the dilemma that many underinsured people face across the country. When…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
La gracia los alcanza después del tornado de Missouri
Michelle Worley-Hurt was serving with Samaritan’s Purse in Kentucky when she heard about the deadly EF3 tornado that hit her hometown of Poplar Bluff, Missouri on March 14. She hurried to drive home, and when she arrived, she found the community she loves already doing what she’d expected. Local Christians, often through Samaritan’s Purse, are…
