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Organization Helps Troubled Women

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Organization Helps Troubled Women

Published: Tue, 3 Nov 2009

Description: Mercy Ministries Founder Nancy Alcorn on what inspired her to help women through difficult times.

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" was now found her mercy ministries of my good friend for many years Nancy -- corn Nancy that. Welcome first thank you do already it's great being here. That that package with those girls -- as powerful I've seen that for many years I've known him known what you do and what the homes around America and around the world that you have do. It and it literally is transforming lives but you know it is saving lives it's pretty powerful. Yes you know we've."

" Actually had many young ladies have been told. Psychiatrists and medical doctors especially like with eating disorders and girls who were severely depressed that I won't. It if I even managed to serve up I will have a very poor quality of life and just to see. They're coming in and be transformed and that and get a new heart and in his spirit it's awesome. When blossom talk about this when you started at mercy ministry of what inspired you start of June. We'll let you know run out of college just spent the first eight years in my career life working in the government system and you know at a -- correctional facility and we were supposed to be rehabilitating them but. Basically have a lovesick government special us isn't changing behavior. And Doug got specializes in changing pop hearts and because I worked in the government system lawless told. Separation of church and state you can't share about the forgiveness. Of cries the love of god in. All that and you know -- at the -- crisis changed my life could change theirs but I wasn't allowed to share that so you know the girls would be there with us a locked up a year to Tom ages fourteen to 18300. At anyone given time. And they would go right back to the -- that came out of and we begin to hear. A girl stunt from drug overdoses getting killed in street gang fights. Passing the age of eighteen going to women's prison and some that actually took their own life before they target today. And it just broke my heart and I just really begin to cry out to the lord that's got to be a better way."

" And so you got started a home in Louisiana first right. And the second one was in -- right which I guess -- how about common -- food food and -- and I have been involved with mercy is as supporters of board members and things over the years. But and the reason we have been is pretty simple it's those girls I'm like these stories are real. -- amazing. There's not enough problem trade there's so many more people that are hurting the --"

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