Samaritan's Purse

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Samaritan's Purse
Founded1970
Founder Bob Pierce
TypeFaith-based
FocusReligious ministry and crisis relief
Location
Area served
International
Method
  • Direct aid
  • Program funding
President
 Franklin Graham
Revenue$1 billion USD [1]
Website samaritanspurse.org

Samaritan's Purse is an evangelical Christian humanitarian aid organization that provides aid to people in physical need as a key part of its Christian missionary work. The organization's president is Franklin Graham, son of Christian evangelist Billy Graham. The name of the organization is derived from the New Testament Parable of the Good Samaritan. With international headquarters in Boone, North Carolina, the organization also maintains warehouse and aviation facilities in nearby North Wilkesboro and Greensboro, North Carolina.

Contents

History

Samaritan's Purse was founded in 1970 by Baptist pastor Robert Pierce (Bob), the founder of World Vision International, in Boone, North Carolina. [2] : 139  [3] : 2015 

Franklin Graham met Pierce in 1973, and they made several trips together to visit relief projects and missionary partners in Asia and elsewhere. Graham became president of Samaritan's Purse in 1979 following Pierce's death in 1978. [4] : 136 

By 2022, Samaritan's Purse had offices in the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Hong Kong, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom; the organization provides assistance in more than 100 countries. [5] It operates worldwide as Samaritan's Purse, Ippan Shadan Houjin in Japan and as the Emmanuel Group, a wholly owned aircraft title holding corporation formed in 2004. [1]

Programs

Samaritan's Purse includes several ongoing ministries. [6] : 104  [7]

Operation Christmas Child

Operation Christmas Child was created in 1990 by Dave Cooke and his wife Gill for children in Romania. [9] : 332  [10] : 149  [11] : 254  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. A booklet of Bible stories is often distributed alongside the shoebox gifts which are given to children based on need alone, regardless of their faith. These boxes are then distributed overseas by volunteers. As of April 2015, over 124 million boxes had been delivered. [12]

In November 2022, the organization reached a milestone by distributing its 200 millionth Christmas shoebox. [13] Elizabeth Groff, who was born in Ukraine and adopted by an American family in 2007, delivered the 200 millionth shoebox gift to a child in Ukraine. [14] [15] [16]

The program uses "follow-up" evangelism [17] [18] [19] with pamphlets of Bible stories that are given to families that receive the boxes, [20] and an organizer for Operation Christmas Child says his goal every day is to "expand [God's] kingdom through Operation Christmas Child."[ citation needed ]

The follow-up evangelism program of Operation Christmas Child is called "The Greatest Journey". It is a 12-week discipleship program for children who receive shoebox gifts. [21]

Emergency aid

One of Samaritan's Purse planes used for the emergency transport of basic necessities and aid workers in Birmingham, England, 2019 Samaritan's Purse.DC-8.N782SP.3.png
One of Samaritan's Purse planes used for the emergency transport of basic necessities and aid workers in Birmingham, England, 2019

The organization's medical mission in Liberia, West Africa, was one of only two medical NGOs active in Liberia during the beginning of the 2014 Ebola outbreak. Samaritan's Purse and SIM USA both have been actively engaged in treating the outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Liberia. On August 1, 2014, the organization announced that it was evacuating 60 nonessential personnel from Liberia. Dr. Kent Brantly, a Texas-based doctor working for the organization, was the first U.S. citizen to contract the Ebola virus in Liberia while treating the disease. He arrived in the United States on Saturday, August 2, and was treated and subsequently released after nearly three weeks in a special isolation unit of Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. [22] [23] [24] [25] The organization recorded their mission in Liberia in the documentary Facing Darkness. Samaritan's Purse has a fleet of 21 planes and 2 helicopters for the emergency transport of basic necessities and aid workers. [26]

Ukraine aid

According to the Ukrainian government, Samaritan's Purse has been operating in Ukraine since the start of the hostilities in Ukrainian Donbass in 2014. Since the full-scale invasion, the organization, through local partners, has been delivering food, water, warm clothing, and medical assistance. More than 9.6 million Ukrainians have benefited from this aid. The organization has established cooperation with 2,000 Ukrainian partners. [27] [28]

The organization stepped efforts to aid Ukraine in the midst of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in 2022. The first mission staff arrived in Ukraine in February 2022. During the initial phase of the war, a DC-8 aircraft transported up to 84,000 pounds of aid, which was then delivered to Ukraine through Poland. The organization's warehouse in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, was used for the aid distribution. [29] By December 2022, the organization had distributed 100 million pounds (45,000 metric tons) of food to those affected by the war in Ukraine. [30] The organization's aircraft was also used for evacuating Ukrainian refugees. In May 2022, 28 Ukrainians were flown to Canada. [31]

The organization donated various supplies especially for the youth in schools such as medication, food, supplies, blankets, tarps, and bags. The donations were made through various methods of transportation such as semi trucks being loaded with roughly 80,000 donation goods, being transferred at Piedmont Triad International Airport on the DC-8 airplane, and then being air lifted to Poland where the goods are transported across the border to Ukraine. The organization accomplished its 30th airlift donation in the month of September having started in February, equating to roughly 4 airlifts per month. It is estimated that 5.5 million Ukrainians were aided due to the efforts with food, water, and supplies. Furthermore, the organization provided roughly 30 emergency field support hospitals in Lviv with the result of aiding nearly 18,000 patients. [32]

The deployment of the emergency field hospital in Ukraine began on March 3, 2022. [33] The hospital was located in an underground parking lot of a shopping centre in Lviv. [34] In September 2022, it was reported that the organization supported 30 medical facilities across Ukraine. [35] According to Ukraine's Ministry of Health, more than 33,700 outpatient consultations were provided and over 260 surgeries were performed in the field hospitals set up with Samaritan's Purse support. Additionally, 253 metric tons of medical supplies were delivered to 164 medical facilities in Ukraine. [36] In December 2022, generators were provided for hospitals in the Kherson region, as well as for the so-called points of invincibility [37] across the region. [38]

To further support Ukraine, in March 2023, Samaritan's Purse and its Ukrainian subsidiary, the Samaritan's Purse Ukraine Charitable Foundation, signed a five-party memorandum of understanding and cooperation with Ukrainian government structures, including the Ministry of Social Policy, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories. [39] [40]

Israel and Gaza Aid

The organization provided support to those affected by the Israeli-Hamas war. In November 2023, the President of Samaritan’s Purse, Franklin Graham, visited Israel to assess the damage from the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel and met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv. [41] [42] The organization provided hygiene kits, hot meals, food boxes and vouchers for internally displaced people in Israel. Also, rescue teams were provided with medical equipment, including defibrillators and 1 thousand trauma kits for rapid emergency care. Hot meals and food were delivered in partnership with 50 local churches. [43] [44] During his visit, Franklin Graham suggested that Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency services system, equivalent to the Red Cross first responders, needed a small fleet of armored ambulances. [45] As of September 2024, Samaritan’s Purse had donated 42 ambulances to Magen David Adom. [46] [47] The organization was also working to support two Christian communities in Gaza by coordinating evacuation routes for them. [48]

Financials

The organization's 2021 financial statement listed $758 million in cash donations and another $245 million in donated goods and services. 85% of its $676 million in expenses went to ministry expenses with the largest share (42%) going to their Operation Christmas Child project, 17% to emergency relief, and 7% to its medical missions. Most expenses come from direct costs in delivering in emergencies, medical relief, and Operation Christmas Child (57%) along with staff salaries and other employment expenses (20%). [1]

The organization has received a 4 star rating (out of 4 stars) from the monitoring organization Charity Navigator. [49]

The organization has received a 56/100 confidence score (Donate with caution) and an "A" transparency grade from MinistryWatch, a Christian charity watchdog organization, as of November 22, 2024. [50]

In 2020, Samaritan's Purse declined federal funding from the Trump administration originally withheld from the World Health Organization. [51]

Facilities and fleets

Samaritan's Purse facilities at the Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina Samaritan's Purse hangar.png
Samaritan's Purse facilities at the Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina
Samaritan's Purse facilities include maintenance, cargo loading facilities, and fuel storage Samaritan's Purse facilities.png
Samaritan's Purse facilities include maintenance, cargo loading facilities, and fuel storage

Based in Boone, North Carolina, the organization also maintains warehouse and administrative facilities in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina including a 202,000 square feet (18,800 m2) former bottling plant and newly constructed 47,000 square feet (4,400 m2) facility where its 5 custom tractor trailers used for distributing relief supplies are staged. [52]

The organization also operates a fleet of 23 passenger, cargo, and executive aircraft positioned around the world, registered in the organizations name and to the Emmanuel Group, a holding company.

Operations focused at their maintenance facilities at the Piedmont Triad International Airport, along with additional hangar facilities at the Wilkes County Airport. [53] [54] A $1.5 million taxiway was built by the State of North Carolina 2019 to serve the organization's second hangar at that airport under construction at the time. [55] Aircraft serve humanitarian relief missions as well as executive transportation. [56]

Previous aircraft include a Mitsubishi MU 2 purchased in the mid-1990s and a Learjet 45 bought in 2020 and sold in 2021. [63]

The organization donated two Beechcraft King Air B200 aircraft in 2011 to a similar Micronesia-based organization. [64]

Controversy

The organization has been criticized for requiring volunteers to sign a controversial Statement of Faith which disavows homosexuality and same-sex marriage. [54] The organization's board of directors, which includes Franklin Graham's son, Edward Bell Graham, has also been criticized for the $622,000 yearly salary paid to Graham (as of 2015), which is 40–50% more than similar non-profit organizations. [65] [66]

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 January 2001 and February 2001 El Salvador earthquakes. Residents from several villages stated they first had to sit through a half-hour prayer meeting before receiving assistance. [67] 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. [68]

In 2003, Islamic leaders criticized Samaritan's Purse within the United Kingdom after its president, Franklin Graham, called Islam a "very evil and wicked religion", [69] [70] leading to opposition campaigns by the Islamic leaders. [71] 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. [72]

The Operation Christmas Child project has been criticized in several countries, most notably in the UK, [73] [74] but also in Ireland, [75] India [76] and Canada. [77] In the United States, Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has stated that such religion-and-relief groups are "using their position of power to try to persuade people to leave their faith." [78] In 2003, the British supermarket chain Co-op and South Wales Fire Service both suspended their support for the project after numerous complaints about its religious connections. [70] [79] Samaritan's Purse responded by stating that Christian literature was only handed out where its staff "deemed it appropriate". [79]

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). [80] Some experts on non-profits have questioned whether one person can perform two full-time jobs leading organizations that employ hundreds and spend hundreds of millions around the world. [81] In response to the questions about his compensation, Graham decided to give up his salary from BGEA, stating his calling to the ministry "was never based on compensation." He also had contributions to his retirement plans suspended until the economy bounced back. [82] However, Graham was again criticized in 2015 when it was revealed he had again taken up his salary from BGEA, and that his annual compensation was significantly higher than that of the CEO's of similar but much larger non-profit organisations. [83]

In 2010, an American woman and two Sudanese men were kidnapped while working for Samaritan's Purse in Sudan. The two men were released promptly, but the woman was held for three months. Upon her return to the US, she sued Samaritan's Purse and their security contractor, Clayton Consultants, a hostage negotiation consultancy owned by Triple Canopy, accusing the organization "of failing to train its security personnel adequately and of willfully ignoring warning signs that abductions were a threat to foreigners." The organization settled out of court in March 2012. [84] [85]

In May 2013, Franklin Graham wrote a letter to President Obama stating his concern that the IRS targeted Samaritan's Purse prior to the 2012 United States presidential election with a partisan audit. [86] [87]

In August 2013, Thankyou Group announced that it would no longer support Samaritan's Purse because it is not a signatory to the code of conduct run by the Australian Council for International Development, which bans aid as a vehicle for promoting religion or political groups. [88]

In October 2014, Samaritan's Purse threatened legal action in the UK against the posters of online comments on the discussion forum Mumsnet. The resultant letters prompted one of the busiest discussions on the site's "Am I being Unreasonable ?" forum. [89]

Response to the COVID-19 outbreak

Italy

On March 17, 2020, Samaritan's Purse dispatched over 60 disaster response specialists, 20 tons of medical equipment and a field hospital to Cremona, Italy which started operations on March 20, 2020. [90] [91] [92] [93]

Alaska

Samaritans' Purse airlifted 8 tons of medical supplies to Alaska on April 7, 2020, to help provide supplies to remote communities. [94] [95] [96]

New York

In cooperation with New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital, Samaritan's Purse constructed a 14 tent, 68-bed field hospital in Central Park on March 29, 2020, to increase Mount Sinai's surge capacity. [90] [97] [98] Through April, over 190 people were treated there. By early May, all patients had been discharged, and there were plans to dismantle the tents. [99]

Criticism

Before the field hospital opened, journalists, politicians and LGBTQ activists raised concerns that it was only recruiting Christian medical staff and that it would provide inadequate and discriminatory care. [93] [100] [101] [102] [103] [104] Volunteers are required to adhere to a statement of faith, agreeing to a definition of marriage as "exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female" and acknowledging that "[God] will banish the unrighteous to everlasting punishment in hell." [105] [106] [107] [108] New York Mayor Bill de Blasio stated that the presence of Samaritan's Purse was "very troubling," while New York State Senator Brad Hoylman told NBC News that he considered it "a shame that the federal government has left us in the position of having to accept charity from such bigots". [100] [109] [110] [106] Franklin Graham later responded to Hoylman's request for public reassurance by stating: "We do not make distinctions about an individual's religion, race, sexual orientation, or economic status. We certainly do not discriminate, and we have a decades-long track record that confirms just that." [90] [104] [111] New York City's Commission on Human Rights closed an investigation into the hospital after finding no evidence it had discriminated against patients. [112] The group's departure was hailed as a victory by LGBTQ rights activists. [113]

Joint plans between Mount Sinai Hospital, Samaritan's Purse and the Episcopal Diocese of New York to convert the Cathedral of St. John the Divine into a 200-bed hospital were shelved on April 9, 2020. Although this decision was attributed at least in part to the assessment that virus-related hospitalizations had already plateaued, [114] [115] Bishop Andrew M.L. Dietsche of the Episcopal Diocese of New York later said that Graham's "exclusionary" and "narrow" attitude about Christianity was central to the decision. Specifically, the Samaritan's Purse requires its employees and volunteers to oppose gay marriage, which, in Dietsche's words, was incompatible with the work the New York Diocese had done "around the full inclusion of gay and lesbian people." [99]

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