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I Can Always Count On Greta Van Susteren The famed TV host’s bond with Graham spans
more than 2 decades. sk rev. franklin Graham to name a public fi gure he can always rely
on to support his endeav- ors and he immediately points to a picture on his offi ce wall of Newsmax anchor Greta Van Sus- teren embracing orphans in Haiti. “She’s the one,” he says of the host of Newsmax’s The Record with Greta Van Susteren, airing week- nights at 6 p.m. ET. Their friendship dates
back 21 years when, Van Susteren explained, she told him she always wanted to visit North Korea. Knowing the BGEA’s many visits there, she asked him to take her along on his next trip. Graham agreed, and
later followed through with an invitation. That visit to the “Hermit Kingdom” was so rewarding, Van Susteren and her husband began traveling with Graham on relief missions all
around the world, includ- ing to South Sudan, Iraq, Ukraine, and Haiti, to name only a few. She even visited an
Ebola hospital during the pandemic in Liberia. Van Susteren has joined Samaritan’s Purse relief eff orts in the United States after tornadoes and hurricanes. And she’s journeyed to Samaritan Lodge Alaska to support Operation Heal Our Patriots, a mar- riage-retreat program that heals and strengthens the marriages of military service veterans.
One indelible memory
from their adventures together came on an excursion to South Sudan. Graham encouraged her to sit in a jump seat in the cockpit as their aircraft came in for a landing. When she overheard the pilot direct the co-pilot to deactivate the plane’s identifi cation transponder on the way in, her interest
was naturally piqued. “Uh, why can’t we use
the transponder?” Van Susteren asked. The pilot calmly
explained the Sudanese Air Force would try to shoot them out of the sky if it could determine their whereabouts and identity. She laughs at her reac-
tion: “I responded with, ‘Shouldn’t we have had this discussion before we took off ?’”
One of her most memo-
rable relief missions came after the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, dur- ing a Samaritan’s Purse relief eff ort that saved countless lives amid a cholera epidemic. Bureaucratic entangle- ments in Haiti were in- terfering with the prompt delivery of aid. So, Van Susteren invited Graham to join a segment on her program exposing the obstacles. Shortly after the pro- gram aired, the Haitian
government cut through all the red tape to facilitate relief eff orts. Graham must have
been impressed, because later when Samaritan’s Purse built a world-class orphanage and school in Haiti, he christened it “The Greta Home and Academy” in her honor. “The heavy lifting
was done by Samaritan’s Purse and Franklin Gra- ham, all of it,” she insists. “And I am just very, very honored.” She’s supported the orphanage’s endeavors ever since.
Her inside perspective
on Graham from extensive fi rsthand experience: “I’ve never seen anything like Franklin, his family, and his organization. “He’s committed to his
faith, he’s committed to Jesus, and he’s commit- ted to helping people,” she adds. “And there’s just no
equivocation on that. That’s who he is . . . and he’s consistently lived it now for over 50 years.”
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