Dr. Lowell Furman and Franklin Graham went to Kenya to visit Tenwek Hospital. The facility was so badly overcrowded that there were sometimes three patients in a bed, and occasionally a fourth person on the floor underneath. Tenwek obviously needed new facilities, but Samaritan’s Purse had never taken on such an enormous project. In 1980,…
Operation Christmas Child
Samaritan’s Purse Releases Free Kids’ Bible Game App
Samaritan’s Purse Releases Free Kids’ Bible Game App BOONE, N.C., Jan. 28, 2020 Christian parents now have a new resource to help their kids learn about the Bible based on a discipleship program that’s already leading millions of children to Christ all over the world. Samaritan’s Purse has released a mobile app, called Greatest Journey, that lets kids…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Hungry Families Rely on Food Distributions in South Sudan
Roda has lived in a refugee camp in South Sudan for eight years and food scarcity is still a burden for this mother of six. No one in Roda’s family is working and her husband left the family about four years ago. She is grateful for the food she receives each month through Samaritan’s Purse…
Health & Medical Ministries
Litein Hospital, Kenya
Litein Hospital Kenya Get Started Mission Organization Africa Inland Mission (AIM)/Africa Inland Church (AIC) Profile Litein provides primary and specialist care to a catchment population of 800,000 people across six counties in the South Rift region of Kenya. A.I.C. Litein Hospital has 220 beds and a 10-bed casualty. The community of about 450 medical and…
Operation Christmas Child
Thinking Locally—and Globally—with Operation Christmas Child
Ben Smith knows the power of a good story and the difference it can make in people’s lives. Hearing stories about how Operation Christmas Child helped bring the Gospel to children around the world fueled his involvement in the Samaritan’s Purse project from the very beginning. As a child, he packed shoebox gifts with his…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Field Hospital Opens, Receives Patients in Italy
Update: Go here for the latest article (as of March 23) on our Italy response: “Faith on the Front Lines of Coronavirus.” You may also want to see our COVID-19 landing page for additional, updated content, including material related to our New York City deployment. Medical staff at the Samaritan’s Purse Emergency Field Hospital in…
50 Years of Ministry
Children’s Heart Project Provides Lifesaving Operations
Through Children’s Heart Project, Samaritan’s Purse arranges surgery for children with congenital heart defects who live in countries such as Uganda, Mongolia, and Bolivia, where the required medical expertise and equipment for this type of surgery are not available. Since 1997, more than 1,400 boys and girls have received lifesaving operations through our project. Partner…
God Works Through Our Ongoing Care to Military Couples
Denise Blanchett said the water was so cold she couldn’t speak. Or perhaps she was speechless for other reasons, such as the overpowering emotions she experienced during such an important moment. For nearly four years she had thought about the opportunity she’d missed to be baptized with her husband, Army Sergeant Scott Blanchett, in the…
Media
Press Release Samaritan’s Purse Opens EFH in New York City 4-1-20
Samaritan's Purse, in Collaboration with Mount Sinai Health System, Opens Emergency Field Hospital in New York's Central Park in Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic NEW YORK CITY, April 1, 2020 International Christian Relief Organization Responds at Epicenter in U.S. and Italy Samaritan's Purse is opening an Emergency Field Hospital in Central Park adjacent to The…
Health & Medical Ministries
The Warm Heart of Africa
Barely breathing, Stephano was on the verge of a diabetic coma by the time his family brought him to Nkhoma Mission Hospital, several hours away from their village in Malawi. The patient wasn’t the typical elderly individual who had suffered for years with the disease. Instead, he was a fragile 11-year-old boy whose short life…
