Meeting in Orlando for this year’s Operation Heal Our Patriots Reunion, more than 400 military couples were inspired, challenged, and encouraged by powerful speakers and workshop leaders who pointed to Christ for healing and restoration. The gathering heard from prominent Christian leaders including former Secretary of State Michael Pompeo; Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin; Capt.…
Discipleship, Education & Training
Military Couples Come Together for the 2022 Operation Heal Our Patriots Reunion
Construction Projects
Warming in Koyuk
Warming in Koyuk Samaritan's Purse staff and volunteers built a church in the remote village of Koyuk over the summer of 2023. Explore village and church life in this special place up north in Alaska. God's Country Up north in Alaska, where the forests and the tundra can swallow two states the size of Texas,…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Restoring Lives from Violence in Tigray
Years of war devastated the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia from 2020-22. Families were shattered and their futures were left uncertain. Samrawit was one of the countless women struggling against the odds to keep themselves and their children alive. It wasn’t always like this. She can remember many years of peace. She and her husband…
New Hearts in Mongolia
Odgerel is a healthy 3-year-old who likes to run and play on the monkey bars. It’s hard to imagine that two years ago she was fighting for her life. Her mother, Tsatsaa, first noticed something was wrong when she was 8 months old and her skin had a blue discoloration. Odgerel was almost 1 1/2…
Health & Medical Ministries
The Journey to Healing
Maria Nelly can’t remember a time when she didn’t have to summon all her energy just to take a breath. Each beat of the Bolivian girl’s heart was a struggle. With each passing year, the 7-year-old’s health grew worse as she labored to breathe, was constantly tired, and often felt ill. Her family didn’t know…
Health & Medical Ministries
Healing Hearts, Finding Jesus
For more than 25 years, Children’s Heart Project has arranged for critical cardiac surgery for more than 1,500 boys and girls from over a dozen countries where such operations are not readily available. “The goal is to demonstrate God’s heart to these children and their families that need heart surgery,” said Daniela Acosta with Samaritan’s…
Children's Ministries
God’s Provision Leads Mother to Christ
There’s no experience more heart-wrenching than seeing the health of your child decline, said Yudith, a Bolivian mother. Her daughter, Nihan, was diagnosed shortly after birth with a hole in her heart. But instead of closing on its own as sometimes happens, the hole got bigger, and she had a heart murmur. By the time…
Bringing Medical Care to Sudan’s Displaced Women and Children
Wrapped head to toe in a loose, floral fabric, Amira takes the hospital bucket from beside her cot and steps outside the pediatric ward to do some washing. The ward is one of eight tents that make up the Samaritan’s Purse Emergency Field Hospital, which has been operating since Christmas Day beside the government hospital…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Team Patriot Gets Wounded Veterans Serving Again
U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Brandon Price was performing a routine training session with the Afghan Army when his students suddenly turned on him and ambushed him and his squadron with gunfire. Brandon took two bullets to the chest plate and one to his leg, and as he was being treated by a medic, a remote-powered…
Discipleship, Education & Training
Military Couples Honor the Fallen as 11th Summer Season Begins at Samaritan Lodge Alaska
Nine military couples from across the country arrived at Samaritan Lodge on Sunday to be greeted by flag-waving staff, volunteers, and town residents under clear blue skies. It was a picture-perfect start to the 17-week summer season. This marks the start of the ministry’s 11th year of seeing wounded veterans and their spouses grow in…
