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About Nancy Alcorn
During and after college, Nancy Alcorn, a native Tennessean, spent eight years working for the state of Tennessee at a correctional facility for juvenile delinquent girls and investigating child abuse cases. Working for the state allowed her to experience first-hand the secular programs which were not producing permanent results exemplary of changed lives. Nancy Alcorn saw many of the girls pass the age of eighteen and end up in the women's prison system because they never got the real help they needed. She knew that lasting change would never come about from any government system. After working for the state, she was appointed Director of Women for Nashville Teen Challenge where she worked for two years. Through her experience, she began to realize that only Jesus could bring restoration into the lives of these girls who were so desperately hurting and searching for something to fill the void they felt in their hearts, and she knew God was revealing a destiny that would result in her stepping out to do something about it.
In January 1983, determined to establish a program in which lives would truly be transformed, Nancy Alcorn moved to Monroe, Louisiana to start Mercy Ministries of America( Nancy Alcorn Ministries).
God instructed Nancy Alcorn to do three specific things to insure His blessings: (1) not to take any state or federal funding that may limit the freedom to teach Christian principles, (2) to accept girls free of charge, and (3) to always give at least ten percent of all Mercy Ministries' donations to other Christian organizations and ministries.
As Nancy has continued to be faithful to these three principles, God has been faithful to provide for every need of Nancy Alcorn just as He promised.
In Monroe, Nancy Alcorn began with a small facility for troubled girls, and after adding on twice to make additional space in the original home, Nancy began to see the need for an additional home to meet the special needs of unwed mothers. In order for this dream to be realized on a debt-free basis, Nancy Alcorn knew that funds would also need to be raised for this effort. No doubt, God was preparing His divine plan to make this a reality…
One day, Nancy Alcorn, exhausted from speaking at a conference in Las Vegas, boarded a plane for home. A man sitting next to her seemed ready for a chat. When he asked her how much money she had lost gambling, Nancy told him that she was not there to gamble, but for a different purpose, and shared briefly about Mercy Ministries with him. He seemed interested and Nancy Alcorn gave him one of the remaining brochures she had with her as they parted. About four weeks later, this same man called Nancy to ask her for more details about Mercy Ministries and said he felt compelled to help in some way. It was then that Nancy told him about the plans for the unwed mothers' home. He shared with her that he had been adopted when he was five days old. His heart was so touched that he wrote a check to Mercy Ministries for $150,000.00 to help build the second Mercy Ministries house debt free.
Several years and many miracles later, Mercy Ministries has homes in Monroe, LA, Nashville, TN, and St. Louis, MO with plans to open other programs in the United States including in Sacramento, CA. We have grown internationally including Australia, UK, New Zealand, Peru, and Canada. Plans are underway for other international sites.
According to Nancy Alcorn, "Through experience, we have learned that God has called us as Christians to heal the broken hearted." Nancy Alcorn continues, "It is our belief that if we provide places free-of-charge where girls can come and receive new life through Jesus Christ, as well as professional training in other areas, their lives will never be the same!"
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