Mercy League Haiti

Mercy League Haiti is the daughter branch of Mercy League International and is directed by Luke Wilkerson of Knoxville, Tn.

 MLH is a non-profit organization that is functioning under the sending and authority of Grace Community Church in Knoxville, TN

   It is MLH's goal to build an agricultural, vocational school for boys in the Port-au-Prince area of Haiti. And teach them through farming (and other disciplines) how to go out and shine as true lights in this dry and desolate land.

   We see farming as a metaphor: even as we instruct students daily how to put seeds into the soil and have them grow, we are planting the knowledge of life and things eternal in their hearts. The goal is that they one day be planted back into thier society and repopulate the forests, (both literal and spiritual), fight back darkness, and raise up families to know and love God.

    MLH will be the vehicle for starting, building and maintaining  Christ-based boarding schools, as well as sending future missionaries to go out and learn the culture and prepare the way for a Christian boarding school to be built.

 "And if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then your light will rise in darkness and your gloom will become like midday. And the LORD will continually guide you, and satisfy your desire in scorched places, and give strength to your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail."                                               - Isaiah 58:10-11

 What is the meaning behind MLH?

       Looking around the face of the planet, one of the most strikingly beautiful characteristics of children is their innocence. Jesus loved the children and taught us that if we don't approach God like a child, we will never see Him.

As beautiful and captivating as the innocence of these little ones is, there is a force that gnaws away at this child-like beauty from the moment of birth. Usually this devastation has run its course by the time a child completes adolescence.

     From the streets of Cambodia, (where the virginity of ten year-old girls is at a premium on the sex tourism market), to the bush of Uganda, (where young boys are taken to be brainwashed of their simplicity by merciless violence), the mass onslaught is under way.  The goal of this pillaging is to ravage human minds and spirits of what song writer Matthew Perryman Jones calls, "Echoes of Eden,” and what Solomon called "eternity in the hearts of man."

    MLH is an outraged, extended, compassionate fist that declares to the anti-innocence forces in the universe, "You will not have our little ones, but, even if you've already gotten to a few, there is still a wellspring of internal revitalization available for each hurting child."

M'a ban nou ankò tou sa nou te pèdi pandan tout tan bann gwo krikèt yo, ti krikèt yo, ti chini yo ak gwo chini yo te devore rekòt nou yo.

The Lord says, “I will give you back what you lost to the swarming locusts...                                                                       (Joel 2:25)

 

Mercy League International 

 Mercy League International was founded by Shane and Kristie Mattenly who were missionaries to Haiti for nearly three years. Since their return to Oregan where Shane is a church pastor, they have been working in ministry, helping children in the third world. Shane and Kristie are, themselves, the parents of two adopted haitian daughters (Naomi and Noelle).

For more information about Mercy League International visit them at www.mercyleague.com

Mercy League  

Mercy League consist of groups of individuals who are commited to the holistic appoarch for the transformation of lives in the developing world. We are dededicated to living out the principles outlined in scripture. Our focus is on the children of the poor, providing them with shelter, food, clothing and education. We also desire to partner with national workers and dedicated international personnel to reach the commnities of the developing world.

We believe that all individuals have the right to live in dignity and have displayed for them the fullest experssion of love found in the person Jesus Christ.