In Appalachia, Helene’s Water Crisis Taps a Global Christian Response
International Christian engineering nonprofit Water Mission usually responds to clean water crises overseas, like flooding in East Africa this year or the earthquake in Turkey last year. But when the South Carolina–based organization saw the extensive damage to Western North Carolina’s water infrastructure after the historic storm Helene, it decided to activate a rare disaster Read more…
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Widespread Helene Misery Stretches Christian Relief Groups
Devastating hundreds of miles from the Florida Gulf Coast to Georgia to the mountains of North Carolina, Hurricane Helene has created a complicated equation for Christian organizations that are on the frontline of disaster response. “In my more than 20 years of disaster experience, I can’t think of a time when such a large area Read more…
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Hope Rising COVID-19 Relief Event Raises $1.6M for Samaritan’s Purse
A stellar line up of Christian artists and speakers came together on Sunday, April 19 for a special Facebook Live event, Hope Rising, in support of the relief efforts of Samaritan’s Purse as they help save lives and share the Gospel during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kirk Cameron Hosts Samaritan’s Purse Hope Rising Benefit Concert
Kirk Cameron and his sister Candace Cameron Bure are co-hosting the event Hope Rising where 100% of the proceeds will go to Samaritan’s Purse who has created mobile hospitals in Central Park as well as other Covid-19 hot spots around the world.
The Collingsworth Family/Samaritan’s Purse ‘Sunday Night Worship Around The Piano’ Facebook LIVE Concert
GRAMMY® Award-nominated StowTown recording artist The Collingsworth Family recently partnered with evangelical Christian humanitarian aid organization Samaritan’s Purse for “Sunday Night Worship Around The Piano,” a Facebook LIVE concert from the family’s Mt. Orab, Ohio, home. More than 513,000 people have viewed the event to date, which The Collingsworth Family created to help Samaritan’s Purse raise funds for their work in the United States and around the world fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.