Team Samaritan’s Purse

When you dedicate an athletic event to raise funds for Samaritan’s Purse, everybody wins!

Take your athletic competition or personal fitness challenge to the next level. Help people in need by raising awareness and funds for Samaritan’s Purse projects around the world.

Join the Team

You can join Team Samaritan’s Purse at local, regional, or national events. No matter what your particular athletic goal is, Team Samaritan’s Purse provides you with a personal fundraising website, making it easy for your network of friends and family to support your efforts.

NEED SOME IDEAS?

- Appalachian State University football coach Mark Speir ran three marathons and raised more than $30,000 for Samaritan's Purse medical projects in Bangladesh.
- Preston Files, a marketing professional from Houston, competed in the Lake Placid Ironman Triathlon and raised $9,000 for medical missions in Kenya.
- Fourth-grade teacher Karen Thomas ran the Rock-n-Roll Seattle Marathon, raising nearly $1,000 for Turn on the Tap, a Samaritan's Purse clean water campaign.

PICK A PROJECT

You can designate the money you raise to any of our 50 projects. Our emergency relief programs provide desperately needed assistance to victims of natural disaster, war, disease, and famine. As we offer food, water, and temporary shelter, we meet critical needs and give people a chance to rebuild their lives.

Join Team Samaritan’s Purse in 2011

GEORGIA MARATHON

More than 40 runners joined us in Atlanta in March this year to raise awareness and money for clean water projects around the world.The Georgia Marathon & Half Marathon will be an official Team SP event again in 2011. Here's how to come run with us:
1. Set up your fund-raising page on Firstgiving. Click on Get Started and then choose the Georgia Marathon 2011 event. (There is no fund-raising minimum but we do suggest setting a goal of at least $1,000.)
2. After you have created your page, you will receive an email from Team SP with a password to register for the Georgia Marathon or Half-Marathon and sign up as a member of Team Samaritan’s Purse.
3. Register for the Georgia Marathon/Half-Marathon. Choose to join a team and select Team Samaritan’s Purse. Enter the password you have been given. If you are already registered for the Georgia Marathon, email with your registration details and we will have you added to the team listing.
4. Additional information about the weekend events will be sent to the email you provide when you register.

Watch a video of Team SP in Atlanta below.

CINCINNATI FLYING PIG MARATHON
In May, Team Samaritan’s Purse athletes ran to raise money for Memorial Christian Hospital in Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations on earth. Memorial Christian Hospital is supported by World Medical Mission, the medical arm of Samaritan’s Purse. Proceeds from this event will be used to provide desperately needed medical supplies, equipment, and upgrades. Team SP is planning to run the Pig again in '11.

Getting Started

SET UP YOUR OWN WEB PAGE

Team Samaritan’s Purse provides you with your own fundraising webpage to make it easy for friends and family to support your efforts by donating online. You can also join us on Facebook.

ORGANIZE A TEAM

Increase your impact by assembling a team from your church, company, or group of friends. Your team will experience increased levels of physical fitness, stronger relationships, and changed lives as you help people in need around the world.

CREATE YOUR OWN EVENT

You can use other activities such as concerts, birthday parties, memorials to raise funds for Samaritan’s Purse. You can set up your personal fundraising website, making it easy for your network of friends and family to support your efforts.
- Christian blogger Jon Acuff raised $60,000 to build two kindergartens in Vietnam. Read about his original vision to build only one school and how quickly God accomplished "immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine" (Ephesians 3:20, NIV) here and here.
- A men’s church group in California organizes an annual golf tournament to support Samaritan’s Purse. In five years, members collected $75,000.
- A chamber music concert raised $1,759 to provide children with life-saving heart surgery.
- A California high school student raised $857 for mosquito nets by setting up a fundraising webpage and inviting friends to visit online.

TELL YOUR STORY

Use the comments section below or e-mail us at to tell us about how you're raising funds for Samaritan's Purse.