Mercy Ministries - Lives transformed. Hope restored.

Bringing Mercy to Canada

(Read about our founder, Nancy Alcorn.)

1983
Mercy Ministries of America opens its first facility in Monroe, Louisiana, USA.
1996Nashville Mercy Home opens
2001Corporate office relocates to Nashville
2003
Mercy Ministries celebrates 20 years.
2005St. Louis, Missouri home opens.
2005Mercy Ministries of Canada office opens
2006Bradford, United Kingdom home opens. Sacramento, CA groundbreaking occurs. Peru office opens.
2007

Auckland, New Zealand home opens. Land acquired in North Carolina and Florida for future homes.

2008Property purchased - debt-free - for the first Canadian Mercy house.
2009Renovations on the Canadian home begin. Sacramento, CA home opens. South Africa office opens.
2010

First Canadian home opens August 2010


John & Helen Burns

 John and Helen Burns serve on the Mercy Canada Board. They also pastor Relate Church, a thriving family church with three worship centres in the Greater Vancouver area. John and Helen travel internationally, speaking on topics including marriage, family and relationships. They are gifted authors and hosts of the television show, Relate.

Helen Burns first heard Nancy Alcorn, Mercy Ministries founder, speak in Australia. She was impacted by the life-changing work she was doing with young women. After all, Helen and John know firsthand what an eating disorder can do to a family - their daughter battled with one for ten years. "I knew God was asking me to launch out and initiate Mercy Ministries in Canada" says Helen. "John and I became so passionate about providing a refuge of safety, hope and faith for our young women."