House of Mercy
In addition to providing thousands of meals each year for Moscow’s homeless population, the House of Mercy staff also manage a family-style orphanage. Committed to and passionate for those forgotten by society, HOM provides food, distributes clothing, conducts evangelistic crusades, holds weekly church services and Bible studies, and hosts home groups at state shelters – all to share the truth that God loves all people and has a plan for their lives.
The House of Mercy encounters heart-wrenching stories daily that, by the mercy of God, find opportunities to result in happy endings. There are so many powerful testimonies of children rescued by this ministry. For example, two girls were sold by their parents into the sex industry of Moscow. Later, however, they were rescued by the House of Mercy ministry, and today these girls live safe and sound and are thriving in this God-sent mission.
The House of Mercy conducts trips to youth prisons, boarding schools, mental institutions, and hospitals to reach even more hurting and abandoned children whose lives are aching for an expression of God’s mercy. They also provide more than 4,000 meals to homeless adults and young people each year on the streets of Moscow — sometimes the only food that most of these people receive each day!
This vital outreach conducts special evangelistic programs during the holidays for more than 1,000 children in closed institutions and for more than 400 adults from four state shelters. These “home” meetings not only provide attendees with solid teaching from God’s Word, but they also restore to group members a sense of community and belonging that the enemy had stolen from them — or that some had never experienced before their encounter with the House of Mercy.
James 1:27 says, “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” Those who are being helped by the House of Mercy outreach are exactly the type of people God asks us to reach out to and care for in their affliction. And through the prayer and financial support of our friends and partners, RENNER Ministries is doing just that.