Samaritan’s Purse

Samaritan’s Purse on Wikipedia “Disaster Relief responds to emergency situations.

  • World Medical Mission, the medical arm of Samaritan’s Purse, was founded in 1977 by brothers Dr. Richard Furman and Dr. Lowell Furman to enable doctors to serve short-term assignments at overwhelmed missionary hospitals.
  • Children’s Heart Project provides surgery for children born with heart defects in countries where proper care is not available.
  • Turn on the Tap is a campaign to provide safe drinking water in the developing world.

See also: Child evangelism movement. Operation Christmas Child was created in 1990 by Dave Cooke and his wife Gill for children in Romania. Each November thousands of churches, schools, groups and individual donors prepare and collect shoeboxes filled with toys, school supplies, personal items, and other small gifts.In March 2001, The New York Times reported that Samaritan’s Purse had “blurred the line between church and state” in the way it had distributed publicly funded aid to victims of the El Salvador earthquake. Residents from several villages stated they first had to sit through a half-hour prayer meeting before receiving assistance.[32] In a statement, USAID said Samaritan’s Purse had not violated federal guidelines, but emphasized the need for the organization to “maintain adequate and sufficient separation” between prayer sessions and publicly funded activities.[33]

In 2003, Samaritan’s Purse was widely criticized within the United Kingdom after its president, Franklin Graham, stated that Islam is a “very evil and wicked religion“,[34][25] leading to opposition campaigns within the United Kingdom by Islamic leaders.[35] Samaritan’s Purse responded to accusations of being anti-Islamic by highlighting their long history of non-denominational co-operation and charity work in Baghdad without attempting to preach or proselytize.[36]

Franklin Graham drew scrutiny in 2009 for drawing a full-time salary from Samaritan’s Purse, while at the same time receiving a full-time salary from Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA). This was called into question after his 2008 compensation from both organizations totaled $1.2 million. (Most of this was the result of a new IRS rule that required him to re-report deferred retirement contributions that had already been reported over the previous three years.[37])” Wikipedia