Sharing the Burden: The Samaritan Ministries Story

By Michael Miller

The Spirit of Health Care

Health care is about more than the physical. We have intellect and emotions, and, above all, we have spirits. Samaritan Ministries International offers a health care sharing ministry for Christians to share all these aspects of their health care needs. Learn how God providentially used a small group of devoted people, working from a remodeled chicken coop, to grow a health care sharing ministry to more than 270,000 individuals worldwide--sharing more than $30 million in medical needs each month and depending on Him to minister to all aspects of their health care needs.

"You will be blessed by this testimony of the miracles that happen when God's people come together to show the world what a distinctively Christian community of faith, hope, and love can really look like."
--Dr. Stephen R. Turley, Samaritan Ministries member, host of Turley Talks and author of Health Care Sharing Ministries: How Christians Are Revolutionizing Health Care

"This is testimony about devoted Christians as members of Samaritan Ministries; a testimony of a body of believers that in the name of Jesus Christ are committed to be obedient disciples for their brothers and sisters.
--Dan Celia, Samaritan Ministries member and host of Financial Issues radio program and ministry

"This book is a prototype of how a disruptive innovation can develop from the ground up-and even from a repurposed chicken coop. The personal stories of those who make the ministry work, and of those who benefit from it, are featured, along with the nuts and bolts of its functioning and the harrowing tales of the attacks it has miraculously survived."
--Dr. Jane Orient, Samaritan Ministries member and executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

Michael Miller is a Senior Communications Specialist with Samaritan Ministries International, where he has worked for 11 years. Michael graduated from Bradley University in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in communications. He and his family live in rural central Illinois.

Ted A. Pittenger is the Founder and President of Samaritan Ministries International. Ted graduated with a bachelor's degree in classical civilizations from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne and has served with the U of I Navigators and Campus Crusade at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He and his wife, Shari, have six children and live in Washington, Illinois.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1734210605
• ISBN13: 9781734210606
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Samaritan Ministries International
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"