Samaritan's Purse

== History ==
Samaritan's Purse was founded in 1970 by Baptist pastor [[Robert Pierce]] (Bob), the founder of [[World Vision International]], in [[Boone, North Carolina|Boone]], [[North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Battersby |first1=Paul |last2=Roy |first2=Ravi |title=International Development: A Global Perspective on Theory and Practice |publisher=SAGE Publications |date=2017}}</ref>{{rp|139}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kurian |first1=George Thomas |last2=Lamport |first2=Mark A. |title=Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, Volume 5 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |date=2016}}</ref>{{rp|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.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wuthnow |first=Robert |title=Boundless Faith: The Global Outreach of American Churches |publisher=University of California Press |date=2009}}</ref>{{rp|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.<ref>Samaritan's Purse, [https://www.samaritanspurse.org/our-ministry/samaritans-purse-overview-fact-sheet/ Samaritan’s Purse Overview Fact Sheet], samaritanspurse.org, USA, retrieved November 5, 2022</ref> 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.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=December 2020 |title=Financial Disclosure Report |url=https://sp-comm-arkfiles.s3.theark.cloud/website/pdfs/financials/SPConsolidFin2021-Public-Disclosure.pdf |website=Samaritan's Purse}}</ref>
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