It was during and after college that 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 on a daily basis gave her direct encounters with secular programs that were not producing permanent results that exemplified changed lives. Nancy 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. After working for the state and recognizing that true transformation would never come as the result of any government system, she was appointed Director of Women for the Nashville Teen Challenge program where she worked for two years. Through her experience, she began to realize that only Jesus could bring restoration into the lives of girls who were desperately hurting and searching for something to fill the void they felt in their hearts. Nancy knew God was unfolding a plan prompting her to step out in faith to help hurting young women.
In January 1983, determined to establish a program in which lives would truly be transformed, Nancy moved to Monroe, Louisiana to start Mercy Ministries of America (now Mercy Multiplied). She knew that there were three principles to which she must always remain faithful: (1) accept girls free of charge, (2) always give at least ten percent of all donations to other organizations and ministries, and (3) do not take any state or federal funding or any money that interferes with the freedom to share Christ.
Several years and many changed lives later, Mercy has established locations in Monroe, Louisiana; Nashville, Tennessee; St. Louis, Missouri; and Sacramento, California. The organization has grown beyond the borders of the United States, including locations in the United Kingdom, and Canada. In addition, plans are underway for more sites in America as well as internationally.
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ECHOES OF MERCY
5.000 CFATRUTH, GRACE, HOPE.
Nancy Alcorn, President and Founder of Mercy Ministries of America, an international ministry that particularly cares for girls in distress, devoted the first nine years of her career to juvenile delinquents and then to abused children. It was then that she realized the inability of these state programs to produce real change in the lives of these people.
This expanded and updated edition, written in 2021, details the growth and change in Mercy’s scope over the past eight years. In the pages that follow, you will read an account of the incredible multiplication and impact of the ministry’s work from humble beginnings to an expansion that spans the globe. In 2015, following this tremendous growth, the Mercy Board of Directors unanimously decided to change the official name from Mercy Ministries to Mercy Multiplied.
You will read the details of this name change in Chapter 13. In order to provide continuity and consistency to the reader, we have edited all references to Mercy Ministries to read Multiplied Mercy, recognizing, however, that the name has only changed in 2015.
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ECHOS DE MISÉRICORDE
7.750 CFANancy Alcorn, Présidente et Fondatrice de ” Mercy Ministries of America ” un ministère international qui s’occupe en particulier de jeunes filles en détresse, a consacré les neuf premières années de sa carrière aux délinquants juvéniles, puis aux enfants maltraités. C’est alors qu’elle a réalisé l’incapacité de ces programmes d’Etat à produire un réel changement dans la vie de ces personnes