He Waited 10 Years.

For safe water. For strength. 

For a chance to just be a kid.
Now? He runs, he laughs, he lives. 

End the Wait for Water

Together, We Can
Change Everything

Real transformation begins when ordinary people say yes to love.
Here’s how you can step in:

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Child Sponsorship

Sponsorship calls destiny out of hiding.

These children carry God-given purpose—but poverty tries to keep it quiet. Your monthly gift does more than meet needs—it gives a voice to their future. Just $39/month can awaken purpose in a child who’s been waiting to be seen.

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Clean Water

End the wait for safe water.
Some families walk hours just to find water, and then pray it won’t make them sick. Children miss school. Mothers carry the weight of survival. We drill deep, lasting wells in communities that have waited too long. Because water should give life…not take it away.

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Missions Trip

Come join us.

Some children go days without hearing their name spoken with kindness. Some mamas haven’t had anyone pray with them…in Jesus’ name…for years. When you come, you carry His love into places words can’t reach. This is more than a trip. It’s a chance to show up with love, and be part of something deeply meaningful.

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Medical Care

Bring healing where help is out of reach.

We’ve seen mothers walk for miles while in labor, hoping to find help in time. We’ve held children burning with fever, with no clinic for hours. That’s why we built a hospital. That’s why we send care to the ones who can’t reach it. Every patient we treat is a story that almost broke…but didn’t.

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Grace's Story:

In 2004, when we began Show Mercy, we had no idea the depth and reach this journey would take. We simply said yes to helping 50 children. That’s it. No grand strategy. Just obedience.

And that’s when I met Grace—a quiet, wide-eyed little boy sitting in a church service. I invited him to sit on my lap, and from that moment on, he had a special place in my heart.

Grace’s story was painful. His father had died of AIDS, and by custom, he was sent to live with his grandparents. At just seven years old, Grace was forced to work in the fields from dawn to dusk, digging for food with his bare hands. He wasn’t allowed to go to school. He slept on the hard mud floor. His clothes were rags. He was in constant pain—his feet and hands raw and infected from living barefoot in the dirt.

When he was finally brought into our sponsorship program, everything changed.

A Heart Transformed

Grace was safe. He had a bed. A blanket. Shoes. Meals. Clean water. Medical care. An education. But more than all of that—he had love.He would run to carry my bags every time I visited. He started dreaming big, bold dreams. He told me with glistening eyes that one day he would be a pastor and evangelist for Jesus. And over and over again, he dreamed of fishing—casting nets—pulling in a catch.

One day, as he wept in my arms sharing the horrors of his early life, he suddenly lifted his head, smiled, and said something I will never forget:

“I now know what it means to be a King’s kid.”

Grace discovered who he truly was—not an orphan, not a slave—but a son of the King. That truth changed everything for him. And it became a cornerstone of this ministry’s calling.

The Final Goodbye

In 2008, we received the heartbreaking news that Grace had passed away. While being treated in the hospital for an injury, doctors discovered he had leukemia. It progressed quickly, and we didn’t even have time to say goodbye.

But then, something miraculous happened. My husband Mike had a dream. In it, Grace was sitting on Jesus’ lap—radiant, whole, joyful. He looked at Mike and said something like:

“Thank you… for showing me what a good Poppa is on the earth.”

He woke up in tears. It was as if Grace had come back one last time to say thank you—and to pass the baton.

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