2024 Year in Photos
We praise God for what He has done through Samaritan's Purse in 2024.
We ministered in Jesus' Name to people desperate for hope around the world, rushing relief to victims of violent conflict, natural disasters, disease, and poverty. From hurricanes in the Caribbean, Florida, and western North Carolina to flooding in Brazil, Vietnam, and Spain, we responded with critical aid and the hope found only in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We also delivered armored ambulances to Israel, rebuilt houses in Kentucky and Alabama, constructed a church on a remote Alaskan island, dedicated a new cardiothoracic center in Kenya, and supplied tons of emergency food to refugees in Sudan. Our medical volunteers served in mission hospitals across the globe and our first World Medical Mission mobile dentistry team treated nearly 300 patients in underserved communities in El Salvador. Closer to home, God healed marriages of wounded U.S. veterans and their spouses through Operation Heal Our Patriots. We also watched God work mightily in the lives of children and their families through Operation Christmas Child outreach events and The Greatest Journey discipleship classes.
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Samaritan’s Purse responded in five locations across four states helping thousands of families after Hurricane Helene devastated parts of the Southeast.
Hurricane Helene Response
Over 350 flights into 17 mountainous counties in North Carolina and Tennessee were conducted to deliver emergency supplies to people stranded by washed-out roads and bridges.
Hurricane Helene Airlift
Our DC-8 and 757 cargo planes rushed emergency aid to southern Brazil following historic rainfall that unleashed deadly flooding and mudslides.
Brazil Flooding
Samaritan’s Purse airlifted tons of relief supplies to thousands of families in northern Vietnam after Typhoon Yagi decimated the region in early September.
Vietnam Typhoon Yagi
Franklin Graham traveled to Israel to donate armored ambulances to the country’s emergency services system. In all, 42 rescue vehicles are being given to Israel following the October 2023 terrorist attack.
Israel Ambulances
Edward Graham dedicated the new Tenwek Hospital Cardiothoracic Centre in Kenya, which now becomes a beacon of hope for patients with heart diseases across sub-Saharan Africa.
Kenya Tenwek Cardiothoracic Centre
The first-ever World Medical Mission dental team treated hundreds of patients in underserved communities in El Salvador.
El Salvador Mobile Dentistry
Around 200 Samaritan’s Purse volunteers from 26 states built a new church building for the Native Village of Mekoryuk on the remote Bering Sea island of Nunivak.
Alaska Mekoryuk Church Build
Samaritan’s Purse completed construction of the 60th and final home in New Hope Acres, a subdivision in Mayfield, Kentucky, which was devastated by a tornado in December 2021.
Kentucky Home Rebuilds
Over 50 children from countries where critical congenital heart surgery is not available received the life-saving operations through the program in 2024.
Children's Heart Project
We welcomed 179 couples to Samaritan Lodge Alaska in 2024 and praise God that 85 individuals gave their lives to Christ and over a hundred couples rededicated their marriages to the Lord.
Operation Heal Our Patriots
In 2024, more than 11.3 million gift-filled shoeboxes distributed a tangible expression of the love of Christ to children in more than 100 countries.
Operation Christmas Child
More than 5 million shoebox recipients participated in the Samaritan’s Purse follow-up discipleship program. They learned more about God’s Word and how to share their faith with family and friends.
The Greatest Journey
Since war returned to Sudan, Samaritan’s Purse has provided food, shelter material, and medical care in Jesus’ Name to thousands of families fleeing the violence.
Sudan
The medical arm of Samaritan’s Purse continues to send hundreds of medical professionals every year to dozens of remote hospitals and clinics in the world’s least-developed countries, both as short-term volunteers and through its Post-Residency Program.
World Medical Mission
Critical relief items were delivered to hard-hit communities across multiple island nations after Hurricane Beryl swept through the Caribbean.
Hurricane Beryl
