Dear Love Mercy Partners and Friends,

Thank you once again for your generosity this past year, as we share resources with the poor. Love Mercy supports over 40 projects in Kitale, Kenya and +400 children in Kenya and Haiti are clothed, housed and fed daily through this ministry.

I have just returned after being in Kenya for the month of January. I had a wonderful time connecting with all those we support, administrating the work, and planning for 2011. It is only because of your support that Love Mercy carries on this labor of love. I was overwhelmed at times with the favor we have with the Kenyans and the thanksgiving and honor they expressed because of this ministry.

Rick Strickland is in West Pokot, Kenya for the next 6 months. Please pray for him as he ministers in this hot, dry area. Ryan Schumacker is busy with a new assignment developing 100 acres of land in Hawaii. Under Ryan’s leadership, we have drilled 75 water wells in Kenya. Our water drilling team will drill another 30 wells in 2011, providing clean drinking water for thousands.

My son Samuel has just completed a year at our Love Mercy base in Kitale. God has granted him great favor this past year. Samuel raised up a soccer team of street boys as an evangelistic outreach and they won the soccer league in their area. They have gained national attention. He returns to Kansas City in February and is planning to raise funds for this team of boys, and envisions the team heading for the professional league.

In 2011, we plan to build ten widows homes. These homes have three rooms, a toilet, and wash room. The cost per home is $1,100.00. We have just completed the first home for Mispah, a widow with three children.

So the work continues. My heartfelt gratitude extends to each of you as you faithfully month by month year by year support this ministry with your prayers and finances. May God grant each one of you unprecedented unparalleled favor in 2011.

With gratitude,
Noel Alexander
President of Love Mercy

Dear Love Mercy Friends and Partners,

The year 2010 is here and was ushered in by eighteen inches of snow in Kansas. It sure has made things interesting between trying to get around town and keeping warm. Our Love Mercy team blesses you with favor upon favor through this next year.

Thank you for your generous support through Love Mercy in 2009. This past year we have completed forty deep-water wells and now we have two large water drilling rigs in Kitale. So, from drilling water wells, building houses, constructing community centers to clothing, housing, and feeding about 400 children in Kenya, South Africa and Haiti our team of volunteers have been keeping busy.

Ryan Schumacker, our faithful missionary in Kitale, got married to a lovely woman named Jamie on December 5, 2009. We wish them a wonderful life together. Joni Everleigh is based in Kitale with us and ministers to thousands of widows every month. She has a twenty-four hour house of prayer in Kitale. We have an update letter on our website concerning the needs of these widows. Brett and Jane Cooksey and their family are also part of our team in Kitale, along with Rick and Jacob Strickland, who are working among the Pokot Tribe. David Guardino and Dale and Tracy Edwards are our volunteers in Haiti. My son, Samuel, is planning to give a year of his life in Kenya and will be working along side Ryan and his team this coming year.

Children's Home Needs a Well
Let me introduce you to Faith Musiko. Her date of birth is unknown, but we estimate her age to be around eight years old. Faith’s parents died when she was very young and was raised by an aunt who beat her frequently and subjected her to semi slave labor. Lillian and Dalton, house-parents of one of our children’s homes took Faith in as one of their own children. Faith is flourishing in her new family. She is just one of hundreds of children Love Mercy supports every day. Ten years ago, I was given a heavenly mandate to clothe, house, and feed children like eight-year-old Faith.

We have continued to grow organic vegetables and fruit for our children’s homes and support many feeding programs. I traveled to Kenya in February to meet with the Central East African Majitech Board to discuss doubling our water well drilling for 2010.

Please pray for the Love Mercy Team of volunteers this coming year. We want God to be glorified in our work amongst the poor. According to Isaiah 58, we break the chains of injustice by clothing, housing, and feeding the poor. Thank you once again to all of you for your financial and prayerful support this year.

With love and appreciation,
Noel Alexander and Team

Dear Love Mercy Friends and Partners,
The heat of the summer of 2009 is upon us here in Kansas. We welcome the change and the beauty that the new season brings.

I spent the month of April in Africa with our faithful volunteers in Kitale, Kenya and Cape Town, South Africa. I was impressed over and over again at the great work our people are involved with. To date we clothe, house and feed over 300 children in Central East Africa, South Africa and Haiti.

Our latest widow and orphan project is in Kenya. Rosemary Chemangwen’s husband was shot dead two years ago in Lodwar, Turkana. He was working in a bank at the time. He left Rosemary with three of their own children and now she is the only house parent for eighteen orphan teenage girls. When I arrived at her compound, the girls’ dormitory was flooded with four inches of rain. All the girls clothes and belongings were floating in the water.

Well, we decided to build the girls a new building with showers and toilets. The girls were overjoyed, and sang us three songs with shining faces. I have included a picture of the girls and their new structure. If you would like to help complete this project, we would be grateful. It will possibly cost an extra $10,000 to complete the building, along with new beds and furniture. This is a worthy project. Rosemary and the girls just exude humility and gratitude for their new living quarters.

(DEC. UPDATE: This Project is now fully funded, completed, and is a Wonderful Success! Thank you!)

Another venture we have started supporting this year is the Cheringani Hills Baby Rescue Center. This home houses 60 children under the age of five. In addition, Ryan Schumacker and his team have drilled 25 successful water wells these past ten months. (DEC. UPDATE: 38 Successful Water Wells!)

Thank you for your continued prayers and financial support. Love Mercy Inc. is dedicated to alleviating the suffering of the oppressed and poor of the earth, especially with a heart for widows and orphans. GOD IS THE DEFENDER OF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS IN THEIR DISTRESS, AND WE GET TO CO-LABOUR WITH HIM.
Sincerely,
Noel Alexander