Samaritan's Purse

<p>Last week several wildfires struck up across the state of California. For eleven days, three major fires have burned through hundreds of thousands of acres of land and displaced over 25,000 people. According to ABC News, the wildfires have left 82 dead and nearly 700 people missing.</p> <p>The Camp Fire, one of the two major fires ripping through the coastal state, ignited near Butte County in the Plumas National Forest in Northern California.</p> <p>The Woolsey Fire ignited on November 8, near Simi Valley and Los Angeles in Southern California. The fire is expected to possibly spread all the way to the Pacific Ocean.</p> <p>Weather reports are saying, however, that some much-welcomed rain is in the forecast for this week in California. The state is expected to get as much as 6 inches of rain.</p> <p><em><b>Here are five things you should know about the California wildfires:</b></em></p> <p><em>Photo courtesy:Getty Images/Terray Sylvester/Stringer</em></p>

Will Graham, the son of evangelist Franklin Graham, recently sat down with CBN News to encourage people to pray for the victims of the wildfires in California.

A group of humanists in the United Kingdom is asking people and organizations to stop supporting Operation Christmas Child and give to other non-profits instead.

Evangelical Christian humanitarian aid organization Samaritan’s Purse has set up bases in Albany Georgia and along the Florida Panhandle this week to aid residents who were affected by the monstrous Category 4 Hurricane, Michael.

On Saturday, Samaritan’s Purse North American Ministries sent two disaster relief teams and staff members to North Carolina to assist residents who were “hit the hardest” by Hurricane Florence.

As Iowa recovers from a recent strike of tornadoes, Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s Rapid Response Team are helping locals clean up the damage.

Samaritan’s Purse is planning to rebuild the 390 homes and 55 churches in Puerto Rico that were severely damaged by Hurricane Maria in September 2017.

Disaster relief efforts are underway for Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands after Hurricane Maria brought widespread devastation.

Franklin Graham’s humanitarian organization Samaritan’s Purse has deployed a disaster relief team to aid residents in the Wisconsin counties of Kenosha, Racine, and Walworth.

Graham recounts the story in “Facing Darkness,” a documentary produced by Samaritan’s Purse recounting its fight to save Brantly from the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.