Mar 30, 2020
How has COVID-19 affected Samaritan Ministry? We started off with a normal week at the beginning of March. We had our Support Group meeting and held events as part of National Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS. After that, things shut down. We have been...
Nov 4, 2019
You may have seen ads recently about class action lawsuits against Gilead, the manufacturer of the HIV medication Truvada. These ads are causing unnecessary confusion and alarm. Click below to read an article from Positively Aware about this issue:...
Aug 21, 2019
Thank you to Nurturing Faith Journal for featuring an article entitled “Persistent Compassion” about Samaritan Ministry and its founder and director, Wayne Smith. Wayne was the recipient of the 19th Annual Judson-Rice Award earlier this year. Click here to...
Jul 29, 2019
Our friends at POZ.com have published extensively on the U=U concept and we want to share that information here. This is one of the best and most concise pieces on U=U that we have seen. Share it. 1. Undetectable Equals Untransmittable The fact that people living with...
Mar 7, 2019
A man in London has become only the second person to achieve remission from HIV infection, researchers from the UK reported Tuesday. The therapy responsible has worked on only one other person who is considered to be “cured” of HIV: Timothy Ray Brown, who still does...
Jan 24, 2019
We follow the ever changing road to a cure for HIV, and want you to be updated, too. Funding for “Cure Research” has increased as more and more energy seems to coalesce around the reality controlling HIV and ending the epidemic. Some are hopeful that a...
Jan 24, 2019
OUR FRIEND, JIMMY ALLEN The world lost a faith leader in January, and Samaritan Ministry lost a friend. Dr. Jimmy Allen, was a past leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, and a founding inspiration for both the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (a Samaritan Ministry...
Jan 24, 2019
Locally and Nationally, the Opioid Crisis has made headlines. Overdose deaths are on the increase and statistics are sobering. More than 72,000 Americans died from drug overdose in 2017, including illicit drugs and prescription opioids—a 2-fold increase in a decade....
Oct 25, 2018
Thank you to the Tennessee Cooperative Baptist Fellowship for highlighting the work of Samaritan Ministry as part of the Volunteer State Mission Offering. Check out this video:
May 17, 2018
Caring for Those Often Pushed Away by our Community Throughout the story of the life of Jesus, we are reminded that we are expected, as Followers, to care for the sick; to reach out to the unloved and the untouchable; to go places where we might not be expected to go....
