On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse
On the Ground with Samaritan’s Purse is a podcast with Kristy Graham that explores the work we’re doing around the world. Experience what it’s like to be in the field with our teams, and hear first-hand from staff, volunteers, and people we help.
Episodes
213 episodes
How to Be a Servant Leader
Samaritan’s Purse is pouring into the next generation of Godly leaders. This week, Kristy Graham introduces you to a Samaritan’s Purse program you may not know about: the Leadership Development Pathway. Kendell Kauffeldt, who heads up this prog...
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Mules on a Gospel Mission
Mike and Michele Toberer founded a Christian nonprofit called Mission Mules, that provides disaster relief to otherwise inaccessible areas through a very unique mode of transportation: packing mules. Samaritan’s Purse and Mission Mules crossed ...
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How You Can Choose Joy
Choosing joy in all circumstances is a daily battle that we all face. Pastor Chip Ingram sits down with Kristy Graham to talk about how he has been able to shift his perspective and, with God’s help, truly choose joy.
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How the Lord Directs and Redirects
Karen never thought she would ever have the opportunity to return to Myanmar, but the Lord had other plans. After the recent earthquake in Myanmar, Karen Daniels, an operating room nurse, returned to treat patients with the Disaster Assistance ...
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Sowing and Watering Seeds in Hard Places
Recently some of our international staff visited our Samaritan's Purse headquarters and shared updates from their work around the world. Matt Nowery and Barry Jessen, two of our country directors, talked with Kristy Graham about how they are ab...
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How to Have a Heart of Worship
Josh Havens and Matt Fuqua, the two founding members of the Christian band, The Afters, sat down with Kristy Graham to talk about what it looks like to have a heart of worship, what it has been like traveling around the world with the Billy Gra...
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One Week in Alaska
For 17 weeks every summer, military veterans and their spouses are invited to Operation Heal Our Patriots for a week-long marriage retreat. Kristy Graham takes listeners behind-the-scenes to experience what these military couples do day by day,...
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The Miracles of God and the Power of Forgiveness
Seeing family members killed right in front of him, spending months on the run, ending up in an orphanage—this was Alex’s life after the Rwandan genocide began. Yet, despite all this hardship, Alex can look back and see the miracles of God thro...
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God’s Providential Hand: A Conversation with Jim Dailey
Jim Dailey, vice president of communications at Samaritan’s Purse, spoke with Kristy Graham about how he has witnessed God’s sovereign, providential hand throughout his 25 years of working in the ministry. Jim shared about perseverance in times...
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Restoring Hope in Tigray
In Tigray—a region of Ethiopia once ravaged by conflict—God is using Samaritan’s Purse to equip local churches to change lives, mend hearts, and restore hope in Jesus’ Name. Meeting the vulnerable where they are and addressing physical and spir...
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The Fragrance of the Lord After Helene
The storm may be out of the news, but it's not out of God's sight. Kristy Graham takes listeners to her own backyard in western North Carolina, where Hurricane Helene hit in September of 2024. Months later, the storm is not over—people's lives ...
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God’s Incredible Provision: Myanmar Earthquake Response
Samaritan’s Purse is helping the people of Myanmar in the wake of a deadly earthquake by providing clean water, shelter, and medical care at our Emergency Field Hospital. It is only by the Lord’s provision that our Disaster Assistance Re...
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Updates From Around the World with Edward Graham
Kristy Graham sits down with her husband and Samaritan’s Purse Chief Operating Officer Edward Graham to hear updates of our work around the world, including the Myanmar earthquake response. Edward shares what is on the hearts of the organizatio...
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Does Prayer Matter?
As a child, receiving a simple shoebox gift made Anabel realize the power of prayer and how much God loved her. Throughout her life, Anabel kept the Lord’s promises hidden in her heart. So when tragedy struck, He reminded her of the answer to h...
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Ministry Behind the Scenes
No matter what you do, where you work or how you serve, God can use it for His Kingdom. This week Kristy Graham takes you behind the scenes and introduces you to some of our Samaritan’s Purse flight attendants, who fly all around the world on o...
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Opening Our Hearts to God’s Word
Scripture is alive and active, and no matter the circumstances we face in life, God’s Word can help lift our eyes beyond our current situation and towards our eternal hope in Jesus Christ. This week, we are taking you behind the scenes to Samar...
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Sharing God’s Light in a Dark Place
More than 11 million Sudanese people have been internally displaced by violence from ongoing civil war. Amid this turmoil, many people are feeling hopeless. In one particular city where the medical infrastructure is overwhelmed, Samaritan's Pur...
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How to Hold Things Loosely
Nothing is ever truly ours—even our loved ones belong to the Lord. Hear an incredible story of a family's faith through loss. Kristy Graham speaks with Dr. Seth and Rebecca Mallay, who share their daughter’s testimony and talk about how we shou...
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Saving Baby Deo: Part 2
In a remote area of Uganda, a little boy named Deo was living on borrowed time. At just 3 years old, he was suffering from a critical heart condition, and he needed surgery that wasn’t available in his home country. Samaritan’s Purse knew it wo...
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Saving Baby Deo: Part 1
In a remote area of Uganda, a little boy named Deo was living on borrowed time. At just 3 years old, he was suffering from a critical heart condition, and he needed surgery that wasn’t available in his home country. Samaritan’s Purse knew it wo...
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LA Wildfire Response: Franklin Graham
Even in pain and tragedy, God can make beauty out of ashes. Kristy Graham speaks with her father-in-law and president of Samaritan’s Purse, Franklin Graham, about his recent trip to the Los Angeles area, where he met people affected by the deva...
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A Family’s Story of Survival: Hurricane Helene
Hear a testimony of God’s faithfulness in a storm, as Kristy Graham talks with a family of five who lost their home in Hurricane Helene. Even though they watched everything they had worked for wash away, the Bowens chose to trust God. ...
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Building Churches in the Last Frontier
Every year, Samaritan’s Purse builds a church in remote Alaska as part of our efforts to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth. Hear from Corey and Kristin, who work on this project year-round, about the challenges and joys that they encount...
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Passing the Torch in Ecuador: Operation Christmas Child
Travel to Quito, Ecuador, where you will hear what it was like for Wheaton College students and staff to take part in Operation Christmas Child outreach events and a graduation ceremony for The Greatest Journey. You will hear directly ...
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