Ministries Aiding Lebanese Caught in Israeli-Hezbollah Conflict

One million displaced in Middle East’s most Christian nation

The escalation of violence between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah has led to a humanitarian crisis for the Lebanese people caught in the crossfire, and Christian aid organizations are rushing to help.

Field staff hearing the displaced families’ cries on the streets / Photo via Horizons International

Since early March, airstrikes have displaced more than 1 million people, many of them Christians. While militant Islamist Hezbollah has been entrenched in southern Lebanon for decades, nearly a third of the country’s population — the highest of any Middle Eastern nation — identifies with the Christian faith. The current fighting has claimed more than 1,500 lives, including many civilians.
The following ministries are among those serving affected communities.

Horizons International
(Donor Confidence Score: 100, “Give With Confidence”)
This Boulder, Colorado, ministry’s main mission is to reach the Muslim world with the Gospel, but it has also played a humanitarian role since hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel escalated in 2023. After displaced families began showing up at its affiliated ministry centers and churches in Lebanon, Horizons International turned to donors for emergency support. “Our teams are already distributing food and essential supplies—but the needs are growing rapidly,” the ministry’s website reports in its Lebanon Crisis Fund appeal to help provide food, mattresses, pillows, blankets, heating fuel and hygiene supplies.

Samaritan’s Purse
(Donor Confidence Score: 36, “Withhold Giving”)
Franklin Graham’s international aid organization specializes in disaster relief, and the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict is no exception. So far, it reports having airlifted over 150 tons of aid to in-country church partners to help the displaced population. The shipments include medical resources, hygiene supplies, tents, blankets, jerricans, kitchenware and solar lights. Samaritan’s Purse also reported that its partners had distributed food baskets to more than 500 families.

World Vision
(Donor Confidence Score: 89, “Give With Confidence”)
With a 50-year history in Lebanon, World Vision says it has been providing food, hygiene kits and psychosocial support to more than 141,000 displaced individuals since March 2. The global NGO works through local partners and is publicly advocating for the warring parties to “immediately de-escalate hostilities” and “ensure safe and unimpeded humanitarian access, particularly to hard-to-reach areas impacted in Beirut, the Bekaa, and South Lebanon.”

World Relief
(Donor Confidence Score: 95, “Give With Confidence”)
Originally founded by the National Association of Evangelicals to aid victims of WWII, World Relief has carried that mission into the current conflict. It reports, “We have been providing lifesaving support in the Middle East since 2023, reaching more than 199,000 people. And we’re expanding our response to meet the latest escalated needs in the region. Right now, we are working with trusted, on-the-ground partners in Lebanon to assess urgent needs and deliver lifesaving aid to those currently facing great risk of harm.”

Heart for Lebanon
(Donor Confidence Score: 98, “Give With Confidence”)
Based in Black Mountain, North Carolina, Heart for Lebanon has 20 years of experience doing humanitarian and evangelistic work in the Middle Eastern nation. The ministry has launched an emergency relief campaign with a Gospel focus. According to its website, donations will “sustain a family in need by providing essential food and winterization items” while creating “the opportunity to share the Gospel message and provide a Christ centered relationship to that hurting family.” A video on the page shows Heart for Lebanon workers distributing food, blankets, and mattresses to a school being used as a temporary shelter.

Christian Aid Mission
(Donor Confidence Score: 51, “Exercise Caution”)
Christian Aid Mission supports the evangelistic work of indigenous ministries around the world — particularly those serving in contexts of poverty or anti-Christian persecution. A recent social media post invites donors to “send aid directly to displaced families” by giving in support of local ministry partners in Lebanon. While Christian Aid Mission does not specify how its funds are being used in the relief effort, it reports that one partner has opened a guesthouse to more than 170 displaced people and another partner is distributing food, blankets, hygiene kits, and other material aid.

Barnabas Aid
(Donor Confidence Score: 96, “Give With Confidence”)
Under new leadership after the suspension of its controversial founder pending the results of a Charity Commission investigation in the United Kingdom, this global ministry to persecuted Christians is lending its support to the Lebanon relief effort. According to its website, a project partner plans to serve about 15,000 people in 14 Christian villages. Barnabas Aid intends to provide hygiene kits and medicine, plus diesel fuel “to power generators, water pumping, medicine refrigeration, and other vital needs when energy supplies are disrupted.”

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