04 Jul Samaritan’s Purse Partnership

Global Ministries is developing a strategic partnership with Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian relief and development agency headed by Franklin Graham. When a hurricane, earthquake, or some other disaster occurs, it’s much better for us to channel contributions from UB people to an organization that specializes in such situations, than for us to organize relief efforts on our own.

Why Samaritan’s Purse?

• I previously had excellent experiences working with them in Darfur and Ethiopia.
• Some organizations take the attitude, “Send us the money. We’ll do the job.” But Samaritan’s Purse is open to partnering with other groups to address all needs in a particular area.
• In many places, they already have people on the ground and contacts with national churches.
• Their administrative fees are very low–only 6% for fundraising and 4% for general administration.
• Samaritan’s Purse has a good reputation, partly due to the connection with Billy Graham’s family (the president and CEO is Billy’s son, Franklin).