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BRINGING OUR COMMUNITY TOGETHER
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Dear Friends of 

Village Mercy


This has been a landmark month for us. Our team attended the 10th Annual BCAA Conference, a real investment in the quality of care we bring to the men here. We also welcomed a truck onto the property, closing one of the biggest gaps we've faced since our founding. And our residents put the finishing touches on a computer room they built with their own hands, where lessons have already begun. We're glad to share it all with you below.

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Our team at the BCAA Conference, a truck for the property at last, our finished computer room and the lessons already underway, and a thank-you to our supporters.

DISCIPLESHIP & Training
Investing in Biblical Counselling: Our Team at the BCAA Conference

From 5–8 August, the Village Mercy team attended the 10th Annual Conference of the Biblical Counsellors Association of Africa (BCAA) in Pretoria. As a biblical counselling organisation ourselves, gathering with pastors, counsellors and theological students from across Africa and beyond is exactly the kind of investment that sharpens how we care for the men in our program. We were also given a display table at the conference, where we could showcase our materials and introduce Village Mercy to everyone who stopped by.


The conference wrestled with real, current questions: how to counsel faithfully across cultures, how to engage labels like ADHD, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder without losing sight of the person in front of you, and how to keep Scripture, not secular theory, at the centre of care. These are the exact questions we face every day with the men in our program, many of whom carry labels and diagnoses that can obscure rather than reveal what's really going on in their hearts. Our whole team came home refreshed, with fresh tools and a renewed conviction that the answers our men need are found in the Word, walked out in real community.

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MINISTRY MILESTONE

A Truck of Our Own

Since Village Mercy opened its doors, transport has been one of our steadiest challenges. Without a vehicle onsite, we relied on personal cars for everything: grocery runs, appointments, hauling materials. It was hardest in emergencies: more than once, a resident needed to get to hospital and there simply wasn't a car available. It was a huge inconvenience that shaped how we could respond in the moments that mattered most.


Thanks to the generosity of donors who caught the vision, that has changed. We now have a truck on the property, and it is already central to day-to-day life here, from hauling materials for our building projects to getting a resident to urgent care without delay.

Dedicated to Service
When our Executive Director, Edward, brought this truck onto the property, the whole team climbed in for a ride together, not because we needed to go anywhere, but because we needed the moment. This was a long-standing prayer, answered. For years we had asked the Lord for exactly this, and here it was, finally, in front of us. We prayed over it before it, that it would serve this ministry faithfully, get our residents where they need to be, and never once be taken for granted. It stands now as a small, daily testament to God's goodness to us. “Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory...”


Ephesians 3:20-21

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A Finished Computer Room - Lessons Already Underway
Our new computer room is complete, built, like so much else here, entirely by our residents. And the timing couldn't be better: computer lessons have already begun. Long before the room itself was finished, Alex Serunjogi of JBAS Designs, the team behind our website, had already started volunteering his time to teach basic computer skills. Now those lessons have a proper home. For many of our men, this is a first real step toward the kind of skills they'll need to find work after Village Mercy.
Ryan Weeks - Solve-IT-Support
Ryan generously donated and personally installed the computers he gave away to Village Mercy.
Alex - JBAS Designs
We're deeply grateful to Alex for giving so generously of his time to upskill our residents through digital literacy training.
DISCIPLESHIP & Training
Thank You, Friends

Something we've been sitting with this month: the truck we're driving today only exists because someone, somewhere, decided a ministry they'd probably never visited was worth investing in.


That's true of the groceries that show up, the residents whose place here is sponsored, every bit of it. You're not funding a project from a distance, you're in the room with us, even when you can't be.
To the partners who give month after month, whether that's a small standing gift or a larger commitment: your faithfulness is doing more than you probably realize.


It's the reason a resident had a ride to hospital this month instead of waiting. It's the reason a man can sit down at a computer and learn something that might get him hired one day.


None of that shows up on a bank statement, but it's real, and it's yours as much as ours.

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