Vision
Empowering single, pregnant women with hope and help so that no woman
will feel compelled to have an abortion due to lack of support.
Mission Statement
To provide single, pregnant women with a safe nurturing home, pregnancy
care, life skills training and Christian discipleship; in order to establish
solid foundations for two lives.
Purpose
Mercy House Ministries is an interdenominational ministry founded for
the purpose of aiding single pregnant women who need support.
Our home is a refuge; one that is dedicated to the emotional and spiritual
support of the family. Our goal is to help each woman develop a godly
lifestyle as well as maintain a healthy environment for her child. This
includes becoming a part of a local church, spiritual discipleship and
training in life skills necessary for a self-supporting family.
God is merciful and He cares deeply for the abandoned and neglected.
Our Lord Jesus said that when we have ministered tot the least of these,
we have ministered to Him. With God's abundant grace we are influencing
the lives of pregnant women, one by one, breaking the cycle of loss
and forever changing the future of two lives.
Statement of Faith
The sole basis of our beliefs is the Bible, God's infallible written
Word, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments. We believe
that it was uniquely, verbally, and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit,
and that it was written without error (inerrant) in the original manuscripts.
It is the supreme and final authority in all matters on which it speaks.
We accept those areas of doctrinal teaching on which, historically,
there has been general agreement among all true Christians. Because
of the specialized calling of Mercy House Ministries, we desire to allow
for freedom of conviction on other doctrinal matters, provided that
any interpretation is based on the Bible alone, and that no such interpretation
shall become an issue which hinders the ministry to which God has called
us.
We explicitly affirm our belief in basic Bible teachings, as follows:
- There is one true God, eternally existing in three persons--Father,
Son and Holy Spirit--each of whom possesses equally all the attributes
of Deity and the characteristics of personality.
- Jesus Christ is God, the living Word, who became flesh through
His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth.
Hence, He is perfect Deity and true humanity united in one person
forever.
- He lived a sinless life and voluntarily atoned for the sins of
men by dying on the Cross as their substitute, thus satisfying divine
justice and accomplishing salvation for all who trust in Him alone.
- He rose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, in which
He lived and died.
- He ascended bodily into heaven and sat down at the right hand of
God the Father, where He, the only mediator between God and man, continually
makes intercession for His own.
- Man was originally created in the image of God. He sinned by disobeying
God; thus, he was alienated from his Creator. That historic fall brought
all mankind under divine condemnation.
- Man's nature is corrupted, and he is thus totally unable to please
God. Every man is in need of regeneration and renewal by the Holy
Spirit as all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
- The salvation of man is wholly a work of God's free grace and is
not the work, in whole or in part, of human works or goodness or religious
ceremony. God imputes righteousness to those who put their faith in
Jesus Christ alone for their salvation, and thereby justifies them
in His sight.
- It is the privilege of all who are born again of the Spirit to
be assured of their salvation from the very moment in which they trust
Jesus Christ as their Savior. This assurance is not based upon any
kind of human merit, but is produced by the witness of the Holy Spirit,
who confirms in the believer the testimony of God in His written Word.
- The Holy Spirit has come into the world to reveal and glorify Jesus
Christ and to apply the saving work of Jesus Christ to men. He convicts
and draws sinners to Jesus Christ, imparts new life to them, continually
indwells them from the moment of spiritual birth and seals them until
the day of redemption. His fullness, power, and control are appropriated
in the believer's life by faith.
- Every believer is called to live so in the power of the indwelling
Spirit that he will not fulfill the lust of the flesh but will bear
fruit to the glory of God.
- Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church, His Body, which is composed
of all men, living and dead, who have been joined to Him through saving
faith.
- God admonishes His people to assemble together regularly for worship,
for participation in ordinances, for edification through the Scriptures
and for mutual encouragement.
- Jesus Christ will come again to the earth--personally, visibly,
and bodily--to consummate history and the eternal plan of God.
- The Lord Jesus Christ commanded all believers to proclaim the gospel
throughout the world and to disciple men of every nation. The fulfillment
of that Great Commission requires that all worldly and personal ambitions
be subordinated to a total commitment to "Him who loved us and gave
Himself for us."

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