Mercy Children

 

We are a Christian based Charity (registration number: 1110370) and at present we are operating in Sierra Leone.

 

The daily administration for this charity is currently handled by unpaid helpers so virtually ALL monies raised are given to helping children in desperate need.

 

It is these forgotten children who we are attempting to help by providing the most basic and necessary assistance via our workers in Sierra Leone.

 

Who are we?

 

Do you want the whole story or the stripped down version?

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Formation & Obligation

 

In 2005 we (Bob & Helen Adams) found ourselves in the company of Pastor Julian Khan who has his own Christian ministry in Peckham, South London. He told us that we should accompany him to his own country, Sierra Leone, as God had told him that we had a role to play in the recovery of that land. We said ‘No’, he said ‘Yes’ and after 3 three months of resistance we were all at Lungi Airport, Freetown, Sierra Leone on the West Coast of the continent of Africa. By noon the following day I was ready to fly back to the UK being shocked at what I was witnessing in this Third World country, fearful for my wife’s safety and unwilling to proceed any further in this mis-adventure.

 

However. nearly a week later, following a trip into the interior and having met with 1000 or more destitute orphans, we sat in a Freetown hotel room and the Holy Spirit began to speak. What was said forms the basis for the formation of this Charity and presents us with an enormous undertaking which shall have a deep and long lasting effect upon the nation of Sierra Leone. Please select the Vision tab to see what we are undertaking.

 

Initially we started to support the work of the already established Mercy Mission International Ministries charity but in 2007 we became a subsidiary of this charity with specific aims to assist, house, educate and feed the destitute orphans of Sierra Leone. We called ourselves Mercy Children .to differentiate ourselves from the more Christian Evangelical outreach of the parent charity.

 

The Personnel

 

Julian Khan is the key figure. This is the man who was rejected by his father while both lived in the UK. He was later abandoned by his mother while at school in Freetown. He persuaded the school to keep him and would work buying, selling and re-cycling used items to bring in money to pay his keep. In essence he became one of the abandoned street boys of Freetown but he survived. He later became a Christian and is now a Pastor of Mercy Missions in Peckham, South London.

 

His abiding passion is to serve Jesus and is called to evangelise and establish orphanages in Sierra Leone. He is very much a one-man-band, at present, because it is very difficult to find and employ trustworthy Africans. Many people we have contracted to do specific work have shown themselves to be self-interested and self-seeking. This is not a criticism but a fact. Corruption is rife. This is why Pastor Khan works ceaselessly and is spending six months of each year in Sierra Leone to ensure our work in Freetown and the provinces is kept on track.

 

Khan is married and has three children less than 3 years of age. His wife, Isa, also from Sierra Leone, totally supports the work in Sierra Leone.

 

Bob & Helen Adams have been married 35 years. They have two grown sons. Both worked as teacher (primary & secondary schools and in the Prison Service), social worker, youth worker, probation officer, emergency response team manager, court officer, child protection officer, mental health specialist, re-training and re-tracking for excluded pupils etc, jointly for over 64 years. All that work and all that experience have led us to do the work we are now involved with. Simply, we are attempting to establish a national child centred social service throughout Sierra Leone.

 

One last unseen individual who is a massive support and is full of information and ideas is Freddy Parkinson from Northern Ireland. He has a burning passion for Sierra Leone. He saw us on a television programme a couple of years ago and in 2006 decided to make contact with us and then, in 2007, make a visit from his home in N.I. to ensure we were genuine people. I am pleased to say that we passed muster! Freddy’s middle name is ‘Encouragement’.