In Mission of Mercy,
Nancy Alcorn was very transparent in sharing the details of her rough childhood
and what lead her to founding Mercy Ministries. Nancy Alcorn minored in social
services, psychology, and criminal justice in college. At the time, she didn’t
know that she would be using all of these background skills in helping young
women in an organization that she began. Mercy Ministries helps thirteen to
twenty-eight years old women that struggle with eating disorders, cutting,
sexual abuse, drug addiction, suicidal victims, and pregnant teenagers. They
take in young women for a period of six months in their homes around the United
States and they have a few homes overseas. They guide them in learning about
God, and they assist them in healing from their past, and they instill hope
back into these young women’s lives. An enormous point Nancy reminds readers of
there is a story behind every single person and we’re not called to be the
judge over their life. Instead we’re supposed to love them and display
compassion. The book included many personal transformation stories that Mercy
has contributed to in the journey of freedom of these women.
Nancy Alcorn has to endure pain in her own life. One day
at school, she remembered being called out of class by the principal assistant.
She noticed that her one brother and her three sisters were all heading down
the hallway to the office. They were all waiting to be picked up from school by
their aunt. She recalled that thirty minutes early, she heard sirens and it was
very rare for their small town. She felt that something terrible has happened
and she worried it was her parents or her little sister, Beverly. While she
waited for her aunt to arrive, she kept replaying in her mind how she treated
her little sister the night before. She was practicing basketball and didn’t
want to be bothered and she called her sister a brat and told her to get lost.
She heard Beverly crying herself to sleep. Little did, Nancy know the horrible
events that would unfold the next day. When they finally got home, her mom’s
sister explained to the children what happened. Her dad was on the tractor and
it got stuck and her mom helped pull the tractor with the truck. Her dad had
Beverly on the tractor with him. The tractor and the truck jackknifed and her
body was crushed between the steering wheel and his chest. Beverly was killed
instantly and her dad broke all of his ribs due to the dramatic force. Nancy
Alcorn revealed her struggle with her fears of losing more people that she truly
cared about. During the next few years, she also lost her pastor and his wife
in a car accident, then her boyfriend was killed because he was drinking drunk.
Lost was following her around and she had trouble coping and she didn’t
understand why God was allowing all these bad things to happen to the people
she loved. Her past gave her the building blocks to where she is today. She
also admitted to receiving Christian counseling to help her process her
emotions and feelings.
The book also had an additional appendix in the book that
contained more stories from Mercy Ministries graduates. Throughout the stories,
the readers get to read and experience in their own words what these girls have
been through. The stories are very real and eye opening in the healing process
and the hope they found in Christ.
I would recommend this magnificent life captivating book
to anyone who is needing some inspiration and encouragement from others people’s
stories. This book will help readers to understand that judging others in their
struggles and challenges they have encountered in their life isn’t supportive. There
were countless stories about women who struggled with depression, had suicidal
thoughts, were bulimic or anorexic, some were raped, others grieving, drug
addictions, and some were pregnant and alone. The stories the young women presented
in this book has been through is truly heartbreaking and appalling. I immensely
enjoyed reading about how Mercy Ministries is serving our teenage women in discovering
the freedom that Christ offers and they show them the love of Christ. I also
believe that they should be a ministry like Mercy Ministries for young men as
well that is needing extra help in obtaining liberty. Nancy Alcorn is an astonishing
writer and I loved how she described her own personal pain especially when it
was difficult. If you’re looking for an excellent book written to help teenagers
and adults, then this is a great one on showing mercy to others in dealing with
their pain from their past!
“I received this book for free from The Booketeria/
Charisma House for this review”.
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