| 1970 |
Samaritan's Purse is founded by Bob Pierce. |
| 1973 |
Samaritan's Purse Canada is formed in White Rock, British Columbia |
| 1975 |
Bob Pierce takes Franklin Graham on a two-month tour of the desperate mission fields in Asia. |
| 1978 |
World Medical Mission is founded by Drs. Dick and Lowell Furman, who ask Franklin to set up and run the new medical ministry. |
| 1978 |
Bob Pierce dies after a long bout with leukemia. |
| 1979 |
Franklin Graham is elected President and Chairman of the Board. |
| 1979 |
Samaritan's Purse and World Medical Mission respond to the refugee crisis in Southeast Asia with emergency supplies and medical teams. |
| 1980 |
Samaritan's Purse headquarters are relocated to Boone, North Carolina, from Southern California. |
| 1981 |
Samaritan's Purse Canada headquarters move to Toronto, Ontario |
| 1983 |
Franklin Graham preaches in his first crusade in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. |
| 1988 |
Samaritan's Purse and World Medical Mission begin sending teams of doctors to Honduras to treat wounded soldiers during the Nicaraguan civil war. |
| 1988 |
Sean Campbell is appointed as first Executive Director of Samaritan's Purse Canada |
| 1989 |
Samaritan's Purse begins a program to train a chaplaincy corp for the contra army. |
| 1990 |
Samaritan's Purse provides 100 mobile homes for families devastated by Hurricane Hugo. |
| 1990 |
Samaritan's Purse Canada headquarters move to Calgary, Alberta |
| 1991 |
Samaritan's Purse Canada supports emergency relief in Bangladesh after a devastating cyclone. |
| 1992 |
Samaritan's Purse sends several million dollars of aid to the war-ravaged Balkans, including a 72-bed field hospital. |
| 1992 |
Samaritan's Purse Canada provides emergency relief in Somalia |
| 1993 |
Through a project called Operation Christmas Child, Samaritan's Purse sends gift-filled shoe boxes to children in Bosnia and Croatia. |
| 1994 |
Samaritan's Purse Canada builds a field hospital to aid victims of civil war in Rwanda |
| 1997 |
Samaritan's Purse opens Rachel's House in Constanta, Romania, to care for 10 children who are dying with AIDS. |
| 1998 |
Samaritan's Purse Canada provides emergency relief and housing for victims of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras and Nicaragua |
| 1999 |
Samaritan's Purse Canada supports emergency relief, housing and school projects for victims of civil war in Kosovo |
| 2001 |
Samaritan's Purse Canada provides emergency relief, education programs and assistance for women and children in Afghanistan |
| 2003 |
Samaritan's Purse Canada opens a new Ministry Centre in Calgary, Alberta |
| 2003 |
Samaritan's Purse Canada celebrates 30 years of ministry |
| 2004 |
Samaritan's Purse provides emergency relief for desperate refugees in Darfur, Sudan and in Chad.
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| 2006 |
Samaritan's Purse Canada partners with the University of Calgary and CIDA in the Sudanese Physician Reintegration Program, helping 14 Sudanese doctors return to their homeland with upgraded skills and training. |
| 2006 |
Samaritan's Purse commits to rebuilding hundreds of churches destroyed by the civil war in South Sudan. |
| 2006 |
Country recording artist Paul Brandt convoys across Canada in a gift-wrapped semi-truck in support of Operation Christmas Child. |
| 2006 |
Samaritan's Purse launches the Turn on the Tap campaign to support the Household Water Program. |
| 2007 |
Samaritan's Purse responds to natural disaster on three continents—flooding in Africa and Latin America, and earthquake in Asia. |
| 2007 |
Samaritan's Purse supports Iraqi refugees in Lebanon Syria, and Jordan, as they flee violence in their homeland. |
| 2008 |
Samaritan's Purse deploys its Disaster Relief Unit to support hundreds of local volunteers as they respond to flooding in New Brunswick. |
| 2008 |
Samaritan's Purse brought relief supplies, including emergency water, to victims of a massive earthquake in China and a devastating cyclone in Myanmar. |
| 2008 |
Samaritan's Purse brought relief supplies, including emergency water, to victims of a massive earthquake in China and a devastating cyclone in Myanmar. |
| 2009 |
Samaritan's Purse Canada and the Disaster Relief Unit partner with local volunteers to reach out to neighbors after flooding along the Fraser River in BC. |
| 2009 |
Samaritan's Purse provides emergency relief in the wake of a typhoon in the Philippines and earthquake in Indonesia. |
| 2009 |
The number of BioSand water filters that Samaritan’s Purse has installed worldwide exceeds 100,000, bring safe water to almost a million people. |
| 2009 |
Samaritan's Purse Canada launches the if campaign to support women’s projects around the world. |
| 2009 |
Samaritan's Purse Canada renews a partnership with the University of Calgary and CIDA to rebuild clinics is war-ravaged Sudan and provide ongoing medical training and support. |
| 2010 |
Samaritan's Purse embarks on its largest ever disaster response following a devastating earthquake in Haiti. |