This week Samaritan’s Purse Chief Operating Officer Edward Graham and Vice President Mike Pence traveled to Ukraine to view Samaritan’s Purse ongoing relief efforts and encourage our staff members. While in the war-torn nation, they also met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “Thank you for your leadership as president,” Pence told Zelenskyy. “I want you…
Operation Christmas Child
A Kazakh Church in Mongolia Reaches Children with Shoebox Gifts
Nalaikh, Mongolia, is home to 40,000 people in the winter, but only around 30,000 each summer as herders head out to the countryside to care for their animals. A district of Ulaanbaatar located about an hour from the capital city center, Nalaikh has two mosques and 15 churches. However, only one of them is focused…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Vera’s Journals: Seeing God on the Frontlines
As our partners go into Ukraine’s red zone delivering aid on behalf of Samaritan’s Purse, Vera accompanies some of them to translate. Excerpts of her journal entries, which follow, show the horrors of war yet illustrate how God is present and active even where the battles rage. November 4, 2022 A stream of light breaks…
Franklin Graham
Newsletter September 2023
Franklin Graham Update | September HELPING OUR NEIGHBORS COAST TO COAST Dear Friend, The wildfire on Maui was the deadliest inferno our nation has seen in more than a century. On the other side of the nation, Hurricane Idalia left a swath of damaged houses from Florida into Georgia. In both cases, survivors and communities need help to recover…
Crisis & Disaster Response
The Bible and Bullet Holes: Reminders of God’s Love
Books filled Vasyl’s* home in the Kherson region of Ukraine. His collection included nearly 3,000 titles that he treasured and held dear. Each one told a story and expanded his knowledge of the world. When the Kakhovka Dam broke in early June, however, his library was lost. Floodwaters rose more than four feet up the…
Samaritan’s Purse Second Airlift Rushing Aid to Displaced Armenians
UPDATE: OCT. 13 Our DC-8 cargo plane left North Carolina on Thursday on its second flight to Armenia to provide further assistance to families who have fled Nagorno-Karabakh. On board are 23 tons of emergency supplies that will provide much-needed relief to families and support overwhelmed local resources. These flights would not have been possible…
Franklin Graham
Newsletter October 2023
Franklin Graham Update | October GOOD NEWS, GREAT JOY: The Lord uses shoebox gifts to bless children around the world and prepare them to hear the Good News of Jesus Christ. 'I felt the love of Jesus through the shoebox!' Dear Friend, As we look forward to celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Operation Christmas Child…
Media
Press Release Armenia October 7
Samaritan’s Purse Airlifts Relief Supplies to Help Families Fleeing to Armenia BOONE, N.C., Oct. 7, 2023—Today, Samaritan’s Purse airlifted more than 30 tons of emergency relief supplies to help families impacted by a new wave of conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. On September 19, violence erupted in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, forcing approximately 100,000 people to…
Operation Christmas Child
Press Release Operation Christmas Child Nov. 13-20 Drop-off Locations to Open 10-19-23
Nov. 13–20 Drop-off Locations to Open for Operation Christmas Child BOONE, N.C.—More than 4,500 locations will open to collect Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts for the Samaritan's Purse project. Volunteers are preparing to collect shoebox gifts during National Collection Week, Nov. 13–20. Operation Christmas Child has been collecting and delivering shoebox gifts—filled with school supplies, personal…
Operation Christmas Child
It’s About Sharing God’s Love with Children
For more than 20 years, the Pacific Southwest District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has been packing shoebox gifts for children in need around the world. But, almost 10 years ago, they took their involvement with Operation Christmas Child to new heights, packing thousands of boxes each year through their association of schools across California,…
