The Why Behind The What – 2 CDs

How To Be Moved With Compassion Toward People You Don’t Understand

Do you have trouble understanding where some people are coming from? Do you find yourself wondering why people do what they do? In this teaching, Nancy Alcorn will challenge you to consider the why behind the what. Nancy shares in a practical way how to move from a place of judgement, to compassion leading to action. You will be empowered to love well and freely speak the truth that challenges hearts and transforms lives.

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Learning How to Love with Impact – 2 CDs   Are you making an impact on those around you? Is your love REAL? In this series, Nancy Alcorn will challenge you to love the way God loves and to see people the way God sees them. Nancy shares in practical ways how to discern the difference between human love and the God-kind of love that never fails. Get ready to impact people as you learn how to allow the God-kind of love to flow out of you. Be God’s vessel to impact others and see lives changed!     SKU: SA-LWI-1 Weight: 1.00 Price: $9.99 – Purchase this product

Mercy Triumphs Over Judgment – 2CDs   Your destiny awaits you. Your past does not dictate your future! Do you want to walk in your utmost potential instead of being consumed by your deepest issues? In this series, Nancy Alcorn lays the foundation for changing your future and leaving your past behind you. You have to choose to exchange your victim mentality for walking in truth. Nancy offers practical wisdom that frustrates worldly remedies and religious thinking and encourages calling on God. This dynamic teaching will provide you with the tools you need to be an overcomer in Christ!     SKU: SA-MTOJ-1 Weight: 1.00 Price: $10.00 – Purchase this product

“Mercy For” Series   This incredible four-book series covers the topics of eating disorders, self-harm, addictions and sexual abuse. These books are written to bring freedom to all who are struggling with these issues. However, these books are also designed for family members, friends, youth leaders, senior pastors – all those who care about someone who is struggling with these issues or who desires to help someone who is struggling with these issues. These books normally sell for $10 each, but we are offering the entire set of 4 books for only $30!!!   SKU: SB-NRS-11 Weight: 4.00 Price: $30.00 – Purchase this product   For orders of 10 or more, please call 615-831-6987 for shipping rates.

Mercy Ministries Founder and President Nancy Alcorn is a blessed woman. The leader of Mercy Ministries is a prominent speaker and successful author, having written numerous books based on her faith. Her passion for bringing change to the lives of the girls she helps through Mercy Ministries is only surpassed by her love of God and her devotion to His will. Nancy Alcorn says that Mercy Ministries would not have been possible without the increase that God has provided her and the successes in which He has allowed her to achieve in His honor.

According to Alcorn, God gives you the seeds to sow but you must use them wisely to experience their benefits fully. Just as you must open the door to enter your home, you must open your heart and use the keys He provides. Mercy Ministries’ Alcorn says that God, in his infinite wisdom, is a multiplier. He will multiply the seeds of those who can do the most with the harvest. In other words, those who give freely receive the right seeds and know how to plant them to let God multiply their blessings.

One of the first seeds that God planted in Alcorn before opening Mercy Ministries was that she must freely give 10% of the ministry’s intake to other causes. This might sound odd to some who have asked, “Why turn around and give away what was just given to you?” It’s really very simple, says the Founder of Mercy Ministries; give a seed to another and it will grow, too. Many of the ministries to which Mercy Ministries donates have returned their blessings to the girls tenfold through their teachings; these lessons in turn go on to help the woman grow. The woman will go on to share these lessons with others and so the harvest is multiplied.

According to Mercy Ministries’ Alcorn, the seeds may be few in the beginning but consistency and faith are the keys to unlocking a more bountiful harvest. Mercy Ministries started with ten girls. Today, Mercy Ministries has helped over 3,000 and continues to expand, allowing her to share on a global scale the gifts in which God has entrusted her in this realm.

For more information about Mercy Ministries or to join their mailing list to receive updates on the work at Mercy Ministries, please visit www.mercyministries.org.

(Alexis) Hi my name is Alexis and I’ve been in Mercy Ministries for almost four months.  And I’m thankful for my baby sister.  She’s four years old and I miss her so much.  I’m thankful for Mercy Ministries for having a place like this for me to come and get healing.  I’m thankful for my Savior Jesus Christ for dying for me for my sins and I can go to heaven and He died for my shame too.  I’m thankful for not being on the street, having a warm place to live and somewhere to sleep and having food to eat.  And I hope you have a Merry Mercy Christmas.

(Trish) Hi my name is Trish and I have been at Mercy Ministries for three days.  And I’m thankful for my grandparents.  And I’m thankful to God for keeping me alive and for the opportunity I have to come to Mercy Ministries and be with the other Mercy Ministries girls and the staff and the love and support they give to us all.  Have a very Merry Mercy Christmas.

(Chelsea) Hi I’m Chelsea and I’ve been at Mercy Ministries for a little over six months now.  I’m getting ready to graduate at the beginning of December.  And I am just so thankful that God spared my life on multiple occasions when my choices really would have brought a different result.  And I’ve had a cool, cool Thanksgiving here and I’m so excited for Christmas at Mercy Ministries.  And I hope you have a very Merry Mercy Christmas.

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Schermerhorn Symphony Center Hosts Mercy Ministries Benefit Concert

Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) June 14, 2012 — Mercy Ministries announces performances by country music talents Darryl Worley and Jimmy Wayne at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center on June 18, 2012 at 7:00 pm. Tickets are on sale now and range from $16.50 to $37.00. Concert proceeds benefit Mercy Ministries.

Schermerhorn Symphony Center Hosts Mercy Ministries Benefit Concert

Nashville, TN (I-Newswire) June 16, 2012 – Mercy Ministries announces performances by country music talents Darryl Worley and Jimmy Wayne at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center on June 18, 2012 at 7:00 pm. Tickets are on sale now and range from $16.50 to $37.00. Concert proceeds benefit Mercy Ministries.

As Executive Assistant to the Founder and President of Mercy Ministries, a free-of-charge, Christian residential program for girls who are facing difficult life circumstances, I’ve seen hundreds of hurting young women come into the Mercy Ministries program broken by sexual abuse, self-harm, eating disorders and addictions. Many of them have been deemed “hopeless cases” by society, and sometimes even by secular treatment facilities. Yet time after time, I watch just a few months later as these same girls graduate from Mercy Ministries as healthy, happy, and excited about their future – completely transformed by the love of Christ. One by one, the Mercy Ministries staff has counted the successes over the years, but it took a trip halfway around the world for me to realize how incomplete this tally really was. Let me explain…

It was always a dream of ours here at Mercy Ministries to develop an opportunity for our graduates to give back by serving others upon completion of our program. After a year of planning and praying, we finally found the perfect opportunity: partnering with Watoto Ministries to build classrooms for needy Ugandan children orphaned due to the AIDS epidemic. Our Mercy Ministries graduates worked hard to fund the entire trip themselves, including the cost of building materials, and I was excited to accompany them.

I knew this would be a meaningful experience for them, but I had no idea how meaningful it would be to me. I watched as once-troubled young women from different backgrounds, ethnicities, and hometowns work tirelessly in the African heat to build new structures. Everywhere we went, I saw our Mercy Ministries graduates – once desperately in need of prayer for their own lives – praying for the house mom, playing with orphans, sharing their testimonies, and loving on people through a hug or smile. It was clear that God had stirred a strong sense of passion and purpose in their lives, and they were up to the task. What’s more, they were all living, breathing examples of hope restored and lives transformed. If God could bind up the broken hearts of these supposedly “hopeless cases,” he surely could do the same for the Ugandan orphans and their AIDS-ravaged communities!

As I watched our Mercy Ministries graduates pray over the classrooms built by their own hands, I couldn’t help thinking how God multiplies Mercy Ministries. It’s so easy to count the number of girls who’ve graduated from Mercy Ministries, but those numbers don’t give us the full story. When a troubled girl turns around her life, she can help turn around the lives of those in her family, community and future generations. She may even turn around the lives of people living on another continent! There’s no way to measure just how many lives will be saved by a single life transformation – which means there’s no way to count the cost of giving up on someone.

“Hopeless case” is simply a phrase the world can’t afford.

Mercy Ministries Offers Hope

“I was constantly running from my problems and they were following me.  I found out about Mercy Ministries and with the great help of a friend I decided to apply.  While on the waiting list, I felt that it was too much and that I couldn’t handle it anymore and came up with a for-sure way to die.  God miraculously interceded and I’m here today.  When I walked through the doors of Mercy Ministries I knew it was only God’s grace.  I thought I had no hope but God has shown me that he has a great plan for me and after graduation I moved to Charlotte, North Carolina.  And God really got in me to what I want to do with my life and I’m now in chiropractic school in Atlanta, Georgia.  And I’m just so excited to be able to bless people because I’ve been so blessed.”

Mercy Ministries Offers Restoration

“I was raised in a household with just a ton of love except I didn’t love myself.  By the age of eight I started dieting.  By the age of twelve I started binging and purging.  By the age of fifteen I was hospitalized.  And for fifteen years the vicious cycle of an eating disorder consumed my life.  For half of my life this wonderful man stood by my side but the eating disorder drove a huge wedge between us.  When I came to Mercy Ministries I was unraveling.  I was ready to die.  I was ready to give up hope and I needed someone to carry me and God said I will.  While I was at Mercy Ministries, He restored my heart, He restored my soul, and He restored my life.  He restored my body.  And when doctors said I probably wouldn’t live, I lived.  When doctors said I probably wouldn’t have children, this past July we had our beautiful son Joshua.”

Mercy Ministries Offers Healing

“I came to Mercy Ministries in 2004. I was deeply wounded by years of sexual abuse at the hands of my alcoholic father.  I grew up in a lot of fear and a lot of shame and a lot of anger that I turned inwards.  And by the time I was in high school I developed deep depression.  I was cutting on a daily basis and I had severe anorexia.  I went through about five years of hospitalizations.  I spent five straight years from one hospital to another to another being seen by all the best doctors.  I was taking handfuls of medications at a time hoping one of them would somehow make me better.  They surgically put in a feeding tube and kept me alive and at one point after about five years, the doctors sat me down and said there’s nothing else, we can’t do anything and you’ll probably be institutionalized forever and not have a job or live outside these walls.  And at that point I decided that instead of that I was just going to kill myself.  I came down to Mercy Ministries.  While I was waiting on the waiting list, God started transforming me and working with the Mercy Ministries counselors on the phone I was devouring all the assignments and Scripture they were giving me.  I gave my life to Christ and when I entered the doors in 2004 I was already so different.  But while I was at Mercy Ministries God healed me.  God healed me completely.  He restored me.  He gave me such hope.  I knew that I had value and I had worth and I never thought that was possible.  I left at the end of 2004, stayed in Nashville, graduated with my undergraduate degree and started a graduate program at Vanderbilt.  And on May 11^th of this year I will be graduating with my PhD in Quantitative Psychology from Vanderbilt University.  And then two days later on May 13^th I’m going to marry this amazing Christian guy.”

Mercy Ministries Offers Transformation

“When I came to Mercy Ministries I was completely lost.  I was homeless, living on the streets.  I was selling drugs just to make ends meet.  I grew up in an extremely abusive home filled with sexual, verbal, physical, emotional abuse.  I was told by my parents and all the psychiatrists and counselors I had been seeing from an early age that I had obsessive compulsive disorder, borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia, oppositional defiant disorder, and bipolar disorder.  Today I stand before you completely transformed.  It wasn’t any easy road though.  All throughout high school and my first year of college I tried to take my life many times.  I began self-harming when I was eight years old and it continued all the way until I entered the doors of Mercy Ministries in 2009.  When I came to Mercy Ministries I was convinced it was just going to be another program, another set of counselors who would tell me that I was a lost cause.  But instead I was called beloved.  All the labels that had been put on me throughout the years were taken off immediately.  And I began to believe that I could be completely changed from the inside out.  Through the help of the staff members at Mercy Ministries and through the help of my Lord Jesus Christ I was able to overcome and get deep rooted healing from all the hurts of the abuse and the pain I had been through in the past.  Now I stand before you a staff member at Mercy Ministries Nashville.  I am excited to be able to share the hope and the freedom that I received at Mercy Ministries into the lives of the residents now at Nashville.  And I’d like to say that I’m a transformed life transforming other lives.  Thank you!”

To learn more about Mercy Ministries, go to www.mercyministries.com