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Samaritan's Purse

February 07, 2023

Not to be confused with Samaritans (charity).

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.

Samaritan's Purse
Founded1970
FounderBob 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]
Websitesamaritanspurse.org

The organization has been criticized for requiring volunteers to sign a controversial Statement of Faith which condemns homosexuality and same-sex marriage.[2] The organization's board of directors, which includes his son, has also been criticized for the $661,000 yearly salary paid to Graham, which is 40–50% more than similar non-profit organizations.[3][4]

History

Samaritan's Purse was founded in 1970 by Baptist pastor Robert Pierce (Bob), the founder of World Vision International, in Boone, North Carolina.[5]: 139 [6]: 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.[7]: 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.[8] 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.[9]: 104 [10]

  • 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.
  • Operation Heal Our Patriots provides lodging and outdoor activities in Alaska for wounded veterans and their spouses.[11]

Operation Christmas Child

Operation Christmas Child was created in 1990 by Dave Cooke and his wife Gill for children in Romania.[12]: 332 [13]: 149 [14]: 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.[15]

The program uses "follow-up" evangelism[16][17][18] with pamphlets of Bible stories that are given to families that receive the boxes,[19] 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.[20]

Emergency aid

 
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.[21][22][23][24] 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.[25]

Ukraine aid

The organization stepped efforts to aid Ukraine in the midst of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in 2022. 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 good 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. [26]

Financials

The organization's 2021 financial statement listed just $758 million in cash donations and another $245 million in donated goods and services. 85% of its $676 million in expenses went ministry expenses with the largest share (42%) going to their Operation Christmas Child project and 17% to emergency relief and 7% to its medical missions. Most expenses come from direct costs in delivering emergency and 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.[27]

In 2020, Samaritan's Purse declined federal funding from the Trump administration originally withheld from the World Health Organization.[28]

Facilities and fleets

 
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

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.[29]

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 hanger facilities at the Wilkes County Airport.[30][2] A $1.5 million taxiway was built by the State of North Carolina 2019 to serve the organization's second hanger at that airport under construction at the time.[31] Aircraft serve humanitarian relief missions as well as executive transportation.[32]

Previous aircraft include a Mitsubishi MU 2 purchased in the mid-1990s and a Learjet 45 bought in 2020 and sold in 2021.[39]

The organization donated two Beechcraft King Air B200 aircraft in 2011 to a similar Micronesia based organization.[40]

Controversy

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.[41] 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.[42]

In 2003, Islamic leaders criticized Samaritan's Purse within the United Kingdom after its president, Franklin Graham, stated that Islam is a "very evil and wicked religion",[43][44] leading to opposition campaigns by the Islamic leaders.[45] 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.[46]

The Operation Christmas Child project has been criticized in several countries, most notably in the UK,[47][48] but also in Ireland,[49] India[50] and Canada.[51][by whom?][clarification needed] 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."[52] 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.[44][53] Samaritan's Purse responded by stating that Christian literature was only handed out where it was deemed appropriate.[53]

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.[54]) 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.[55] 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.[56] 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.[57]

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.[58][59]

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.[60][61]

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.[62]

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.[63]

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.[64][65][66][67]

Alaska

Samaritans' Purse airlifted 8 tons of medical supplies to Alaska on April 7, 2020, to help provide supplies to remote communities.[68][69][70]

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.[64][71][72][73] Through April, over 190 people were treated there. By early May, all patients had been discharged, and there were plans to dismantle the tents.[74]

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.[67][75][76][77][78][79] According to NBC News and Gothamist, 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."[80][81][82] 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".[75][83][84][85] 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."[64][79][86] New York City's Commission on Human Rights closed an investigation into the hospital after finding no evidence it had discriminated against patients.[87] The group's departure was hailed as a victory by LGBTQ rights activists.[88] 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."[89][85][90][91]

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,[92][93] 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."[74]

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Not to be confused with Samaritans charity 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 Samaritan s PurseFounded1970FounderBob PierceTypeFaith basedFocusReligious ministry and crisis reliefLocationBoone North Carolina USAArea servedInternationalMethodDirect aidProgram fundingPresidentFranklin GrahamRevenue 1 billion USD 1 Websitesamaritanspurse wbr orgThe organization has been criticized for requiring volunteers to sign a controversial Statement of Faith which condemns homosexuality and same sex marriage 2 The organization s board of directors which includes his son has also been criticized for the 661 000 yearly salary paid to Graham which is 40 50 more than similar non profit organizations 3 4 Contents 1 History 2 Programs 2 1 Operation Christmas Child 2 2 Emergency aid 2 3 Ukraine aid 3 Financials 4 Facilities and fleets 5 Controversy 6 Response to the COVID 19 outbreak 6 1 Italy 6 2 Alaska 6 3 New York 6 3 1 Criticism 7 References 8 External linksHistory EditSamaritan s Purse was founded in 1970 by Baptist pastor Robert Pierce Bob the founder of World Vision International in Boone North Carolina 5 139 6 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 7 136 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 8 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 EditSamaritan s Purse includes several ongoing ministries 9 104 10 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 Operation Heal Our Patriots provides lodging and outdoor activities in Alaska for wounded veterans and their spouses 11 Operation Christmas Child Edit Operation Christmas Child was created in 1990 by Dave Cooke and his wife Gill for children in Romania 12 332 13 149 14 254 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 update over 124 million boxes had been delivered 15 The program uses follow up evangelism 16 17 18 with pamphlets of Bible stories that are given to families that receive the boxes 19 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 20 Emergency aid Edit 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 21 22 23 24 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 25 Ukraine aid Edit The organization stepped efforts to aid Ukraine in the midst of the Russian Ukrainian conflict in 2022 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 good 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 26 Financials EditThe organization s 2021 financial statement listed just 758 million in cash donations and another 245 million in donated goods and services 85 of its 676 million in expenses went ministry expenses with the largest share 42 going to their Operation Christmas Child project and 17 to emergency relief and 7 to its medical missions Most expenses come from direct costs in delivering emergency and 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 27 In 2020 Samaritan s Purse declined federal funding from the Trump administration originally withheld from the World Health Organization 28 Facilities and fleets Edit 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 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 29 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 hanger facilities at the Wilkes County Airport 30 2 A 1 5 million taxiway was built by the State of North Carolina 2019 to serve the organization s second hanger at that airport under construction at the time 31 Aircraft serve humanitarian relief missions as well as executive transportation 32 Douglas DC 8 72 CF configured to support up to 32 passengers and 10 cargo pallets The aircraft was built in 1968 and began service for Finnair then by the French Air Force beginning in 1985 then by charter airline Air Transport International before being registered to Samaritan s Purse in 2015 The aircraft recently flew missions an average of once per month 33 34 35 Douglas DC 3 registered N467SP in 2010 based in Kenya 36 Boeing 757 200 configured as a freighter Built in 1985 began service as a passenger aircraft with Eastern Airlines then several British and Icelandic airlines Converter to a freighter in 2006 where it flew for DHL and other airlines before being registered as N783SP in 2022 Beech Super King B200 turboprop registered as N874SP in 2010 Beech Super King B300 turboprop registered as N841KA in 2020 Two CASA 212 CC cargo aircraft designed for take off and landing from short runways Registered as N831SP and N499SP in 2010 Five Cesna 208 nine passenger aircraft A Cesna 172 Skyhawk and a Cesna 182E Skyland 2 seat aircraft Cessna A185F six seat aircraft originally designed for agricultural use One de Havilland Canada DHC 3 Otter and two Quest Kodiak 100 turboprop bush planes for transportation around Alaska including to the organization s retreat in Port Alsworth Alaska 37 Bell 206 L4 helicopter registered to Samaritan s Purse in 2016 as N146SP 38 Gulfstream G550 19 passenger executive aircraft registered as N521GV to Emmanuel Group Dassault Falcon 50 9 passenger executive aircraft registered as N50FJ to Emmanuel Group Dassault Falcon 900EX 13 passenger executive aircraft registered as N900FJ to Emmanuel Group Previous aircraft include a Mitsubishi MU 2 purchased in the mid 1990s and a Learjet 45 bought in 2020 and sold in 2021 39 The organization donated two Beechcraft King Air B200 aircraft in 2011 to a similar Micronesia based organization 40 Controversy EditIn 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 41 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 42 In 2003 Islamic leaders criticized Samaritan s Purse within the United Kingdom after its president Franklin Graham stated that Islam is a very evil and wicked religion 43 44 leading to opposition campaigns by the Islamic leaders 45 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 46 The Operation Christmas Child project has been criticized in several countries most notably in the UK 47 48 but also in Ireland 49 India 50 and Canada 51 by whom clarification needed 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 52 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 44 53 Samaritan s Purse responded by stating that Christian literature was only handed out where it was deemed appropriate 53 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 54 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 55 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 56 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 57 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 58 59 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 60 61 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 62 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 63 Response to the COVID 19 outbreak EditItaly Edit 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 64 65 66 67 Alaska Edit Samaritans Purse airlifted 8 tons of medical supplies to Alaska on April 7 2020 to help provide supplies to remote communities 68 69 70 New York Edit 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 64 71 72 73 Through April over 190 people were treated there By early May all patients had been discharged and there were plans to dismantle the tents 74 Criticism Edit 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 67 75 76 77 78 79 According to NBC News and Gothamist 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 80 81 82 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 75 83 84 85 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 64 79 86 New York City s Commission on Human Rights closed an investigation into the hospital after finding no evidence it had discriminated against patients 87 The group s departure was hailed as a victory by LGBTQ rights activists 88 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 89 85 90 91 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 92 93 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 74 References Edit a b c Financial Disclosure Report PDF Samaritan s Purse December 2020 a b Pallini Thomas The controversial charity setting up hospital tents in NYC uses a 51 year old plane to transport COVID 19 supplies Take a closer look at its DC 8 Business Insider Retrieved 2022 06 04 Charity Navigator Rating for Samaritan s Purse www charitynavigator org Retrieved 2022 06 05 Wicker Christine 2015 08 18 Why Franklin Graham s salary raises eyebrows among Christian nonprofits Washington Post ISSN 0190 8286 Archived from the original on 9 December 2021 Retrieved 2022 06 05 Battersby Paul Roy Ravi 2017 International Development A Global Perspective on Theory and Practice SAGE Publications Kurian George Thomas Lamport Mark A 2016 Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States Volume 5 Rowman amp Littlefield Wuthnow Robert 2009 Boundless Faith The Global Outreach of American Churches University of California Press Samaritan s Purse Samaritan s Purse Overview Fact Sheet samaritanspurse org USA retrieved November 5 2022 Lee Haemin 2016 International Development and Public Religion Changing Dynamics of Christian Mission in South Korea Wipf and Stock Publishers Samaritan s Purse About us samaritanspurse org USA retrieved November 5 2022 Haynes Franklin Graham Still a rebel with a cause MSN News Retrieved 2021 10 10 Crump William 2001 The Christmas Encyclopedia 3d ed McFarland Buckley Christian Dobson Ryan 2010 Humanitarian Jesus Social Justice and the Cross Moody Publishers King David P 2019 God s Internationalists World Vision and the Age of Evangelical Humanitarianism University of Pennsylvania Press Can you believe it Operation Christmas Child celebrates tonight for the 100 million shoeboxes delivered to poor children around the world Congrats to Reverend Franklin Graham Samaritan s Purse everyone who helped and helps Gretawire April 6 2013 Archived from the original on June 12 2015 Retrieved June 11 2015 Operation Christmas Child Children s Evangelistic Rallies PDF Occupying Till He Returns Billy Graham Evangelistic Association 1998 Thousands of children were touched in 1998 by Operation Christmas Child a project that ministers to both the physical and spiritual needs of children around the world In conjunction with the distribution of shoe box gifts BGEA International Ministries often arranges Children s Evangelistic Rallies which include a presentation of The Greatest Gift of All In this lively program a young boy learns about God His creation and His gift of salvation through Jesus Christ At the end of the program children are invited to become God s friends by accepting the forgiveness He provides through His Son Trained volunteers meet with each child who responds Rallies took place in Romania and in hurricane ravaged Nicaragua and Peru Total attendance at the rallies was 245 000 with more than 42 000 inquirers Sharing Christ s Love Through Operation Christmas Child PDF Samaritan s Purse 2003 Ministry Report Archived from the original PDF on May 10 2004 Operation Christmas Child is one of the best evangelistic tools because it is a gift ministry partner Victor Kulbich said It opens the door to telling about Jesus Discover The Greatest Journey Archived from the original on October 22 2013 The journey to faith begins when children are offered Gospel storybooks during Operation Christmas Child gift distributions The most far reaching impact comes later when boys and girls are invited to participate in the voluntary Bible study course produced by Samaritan s Purse The 12 lesson set guides children through a study of who Jesus Christ is what it means to follow Him and how to share this exciting message with others After children complete the program they are presented with a personalized certificate To help these boys and girls continue to grow in their faith we want to provide them with their very own copies of the Greatest Gift of All New Testament This special edition also includes selected Old Testament stories a dictionary and a section that encourages the children to memorize Scripture All of the materials used for The Greatest Journey are provided at the request of local churches and ministry partners Millions of boys and girls have indicated that they have committed their lives to Jesus Christ after receiving shoe box gifts and participating in our follow up program By sharing their faith one on one these children in turn lead friends and relatives to Jesus Christ a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint unfit URL link Curtis Polly 8 November 2009 Education Parents angry at evangelicals charity scheme the Guardian Top 10 Reasons to Pack an Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Pedro Carrion Pedro Carrion 2016 11 18 Retrieved 2017 12 18 Blinder Alan August 2 2014 American Doctor With Ebola Arrives in U S for Treatment The New York Times Retrieved August 3 2014 Neal Dale August 1 2014 Samaritan s Purse evacuating 60 from Ebola outbreak Asheville Citizen Times Retrieved August 3 2014 McCay Betsey July 31 2014 Peace Corps Aid Groups Evacuate Personnel From Ebola Hit West Africa The Wall Street Journal Retrieved August 3 2014 Walker Jade August 21 2014 Kent Brantly American Doctor Treated For Ebola To Be Released From U S Hospital The Huffington Post TheHuffingtonPost com Retrieved August 21 2014 David Cenciotti Rare Samaritan s Purse DC 8 Cargo Aircraft Airlifts An Emergency Field Hospital to Italy For COVID 19 Pandemic theaviationist com USA March 18 2020 Shimron Yonat Smietana Bob September 9 2022 Purse became a 1 billion humanitarian aid powerhouse Religious News Service Retrieved September 10 2022 Charity Navigator Rating Samaritan s Purse Charitynavigator org Retrieved August 9 2014 Franklin Graham No interest in federal money meant for WHO Yahoo News Retrieved 2020 05 09 Oakes Anna Samaritan s Purse expands at Wilkes airport Watauga Democrat Retrieved 2022 06 05 Aircraft Inquiry registry faa gov Retrieved 2022 06 05 Hubbard Jule 1 5 million okayed for new taxiway journalpatriot Retrieved 2022 06 05 Hubbard Jule Samaritan growing at airport journalpatriot Retrieved 2022 06 05 N782SP Samaritan s Purse Douglas DC 8 60 70 www planespotters net Retrieved 2022 06 05 Aircraft Inquiry registry faa gov Retrieved 2022 06 05 Fact Sheet DC 8 Samaritan s Purse Retrieved 2022 06 05 New Aircraft Hangar Dedicated in Kenya Samaritan s Purse Retrieved 2022 06 05 Samaritan s Purse in Alaska Samaritan s Purse Video Retrieved 2022 06 05 Aircraft Inquiry registry faa gov Retrieved 2022 06 05 N740KD LEARJET INC 45 owned by ELIJAH G6 LLC Aircraft Registration FlightAware Retrieved 2022 06 05 12ft 12ft io Retrieved 2022 06 05 Gonzalez David March 8 2001 U S Aids Conversion Minded Quake Relief in El Salvador The New York Times retrieved February 28 2010 Gonzalez David March 5 2001 U S Cautions Group on Mixing Religion and Salvador Quake Aid The New York Times retrieved February 28 2010 Goodstein Laurie May 8 2003 Top Evangelicals Critical Of Colleagues Over Islam The New York Times Retrieved February 28 2010 a b Muir Hugh November 29 2003 Co op cuts Christmas box link with US charity The Guardian London Retrieved February 28 2010 icWales November 5 2006 Red faced MP dumps Islam bashing charity Retrieved February 28 2010 Vardy David November 18 2003 Being good Samaritans Guardian Unlimited London Retrieved February 28 2010 McCurry Patrick December 18 2002 Presents imperfect The Guardian London Retrieved August 29 2017 McGreal Chris December 12 2010 Sarah Palin visits crisis hit Haiti The Guardian London Healy Alison October 2009 Christmas aid group rejects criticism The Irish Times Uncle Sam may be indirectly funding religious conversion in India Firstpost 27 March 2015 Parents want Christian charity out of public schools CBC 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Standard of care rising for employees in threat elevated areas businessinsurance com Business Insurance Retrieved August 4 2014 John Boyle May 16 2013 Graham says IRS targeted his non profits with audits USA Today Retrieved August 10 2021 Franklin Graham May 14 2013 Document Graham writes Obama about IRS profiling CNN Retrieved August 17 2021 Battersby Lucy 20 August 2013 Fund raiser Thankyou Water drops support for evangelical group The Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved 16 November 2017 Legal News Private Eye London October 17 2014 p 13 a b c Reyes Lorenzo An emergency field hospital to treat COVID 19 patients is opening in NYC s Central Park USA TODAY Retrieved 2020 04 01 Rambaran Vandana April 1 2020 Samaritan s Purse Central Park field hospital takes in first patient in coronavirus fight Fox News Retrieved 2020 04 11 Corbella Licia March 26 2020 Corbella Canadians helping in the centre of Italy s COVID 19 storm Calgary Herald Retrieved 2020 04 11 a b Vallejo Justin April 6 2020 Coronavirus Gay rights activist arrested protesting at New York field hospital run by controversial Christian group Independent Retrieved 2020 04 11 Rulz Michael April 7 2020 Samaritan s Purse jet lands in Alaska with massive shipment of medical gear for coronavirus response Fox News Retrieved April 11 2020 Leseman Matt April 8 2020 Samaritan s Purse donates over 17 000 pounds of medical supplies to Alaska Microsoft News Retrieved April 11 2020 Governor Dunleavy Thanks Samaritan s Purse for Medical Supplies April 6 2020 Retrieved April 11 2020 Fenton Reuven Marsh Julia Golding Bruce March 29 2020 Massive field hospital for coronavirus patients going up in Central Park New York Post Retrieved April 11 2020 Miller Anna April 9 2020 What it s like inside the Central Park field hospital in New York City Our country is in a war Business Insider Retrieved April 11 2020 Samaritan s Purse in Collaboration with Mount Sinai Health System Opens Emergency Field Hospital in New York s Central Park in Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic Mount Sinai Hospital April 1 2020 Retrieved 2020 04 11 a b Stack Liam Fink Sheri 2020 05 10 Franklin Graham Is Taking Down His N Y Hospital but Not Going Quietly The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2020 05 10 a b Riota Chris April 1 2020 Coronavirus Radical evangelist who says gays will burn in flames of hell builds Covid 19 hospital in Central Park Independent Retrieved April 11 2020 Merritt Jonathan April 2 2020 New Yorkers Are Right to Be Skeptical of Evangelical Run Coronavirus Ward in Central Park The Daily Beast Retrieved April 11 2020 Greenspan Rachel March 31 2020 The group building tents for coronavirus treatment in Central Park says its medical staff must adhere to Christian beliefs sparking condemnation online Business Insider Retrieved April 11 2020 McGovern Terry Battistini Emily April 7 2020 Bias and health care don t mix Samaritan s Purse shouldn t be welcome in New York not even to treat the coronavirus NY Daily News Retrieved April 11 2020 a b McGovern Terry Slattery Denis March 30 2020 Be a good Samaritan N Y lawmaker calls out minister for anti LGBTQ remarks NY Daily News Retrieved April 11 2020 Offenhartz Jake 2020 03 30 Group Behind Central Park Coronavirus Tent Hospital Asks Volunteers To Support Anti Gay Agenda Gothamist Retrieved 2020 03 31 Group behind NYC s COVID 19 field hospital run by antigay evangelist NBC News Retrieved 2020 04 01 staff jake offenhartz 2020 03 31 De Blasio Very Concerned About Anti Gay Evangelical Group Running Central Park Coronavirus Hospital Gothamist Retrieved 2020 04 01 Papenfuss Mary April 7 2020 Protester Arrested At Central Park Tent Hospital Tied To Anti Gay Evangelical Franklin Graham Huffpost Retrieved April 11 2020 Chakraborty Barnini April 3 2020 Catholic group slams de Blasio for questioning Christian charity s New York coronavirus field hospital Fox News Retrieved April 11 2020 a b Group behind NYC s COVID 19 field hospital run by antigay evangelist 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