November 15, 2006
We receive a lot of e-mails from teens asking difficult questions about things like self-injury, eating disorders, and addiction. Most are from beautiful young women wanting a better life.
We don’t pretend to have all the answers. We listen. We look to scripture. We pray. But we also love to share resources of those who are equipped to handle the need.
I recently found about Mercy Ministries of America.
The story is very cool. A young woman had a heart to minister to girls with faith and counseling. She wanted to build a home, a place of help and hope. It was a total act of faith because she chose not to take federal funding — even thought it was a great program — so that she could be free to meet a girl’s every need, including spiritual. She wanted to take in girls at no charge.
She took a huge step of faith and now Mercy Centers are cropping up in many places across the nation. She has experienced many miracles on the road to helping others. Some of those were financial. Others were spiritual.
This is an excerpt of a testimony from one of the graduates of Mercy Center. Her name is Amber:
Hi! I graduated from Mercy last April. I’ve wanted to write for a while but could never find the words to express my gratitude. Today, as God is beginning to unfold my dreams before me, I realize what I would be missing had Mercy Ministries not been there for me. I have recently been accepted to Youth with a Mission’s Discipleship Training School in Derby, England! Long term missions is a dream I have had since I was very young, but when I developed an eating disorder, I thought I would never be able to help others because I could not even care for myself. The love and freedom I wanted others to experience was not a reality in my own life. Now it is becoming so more and more.
Although the journey after graduation has not been an easy one, God used Mercy Ministries to build a strong foundation of Truth and Love that cannot be shaken. Without this foundation, I am not sure I would be alive today. Read the rest of Amber’s testimony, as well as several other testimonies.
