MERCYhouse is a church in Amherst, Massachusetts that is home to community members and students from the Five Colleges. 

 

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The Basics

MERCYhouse was started in Amherst, MA in 1999 by Joe Greene and Robert Krumrey in cooperation with The Baptist Convention of New England. You may be thinking, "How exactly do you start a church?" Well, we wondered that too until September 12, 1999.

 
 
 
 
 
 
We’re back to TWO services this Sunday, August 25th at 9:15am and 11:15am! MH Kids, our Children's Ministry for infants through 6th grade, is available during the 9:15am service. See you Sunday!
And a Night of Fun it was! 🎈Thank you to our MH Kids volunteers and parents for setting the table for our grade-level kids to play and worship together tonight. Interested in serving with MH Kids this semester? Send us a message to get involved!
ATTENTION: Due to rain in the forecast, tonight’s MH Kids’ Night of Fun has MOVED locations and will now be held on-site at the MERCYhouse building. See you at 6:30pm at church for this grade-level back-to-school event!
MH Kids is hosting a grade-level (including rising kindergarteners) back-to-school night of fun this Wednesday, 6:30-8pm at the Weakley’s house! Bring the whole family, bring a friend, and join us for a fire pit, games, snacks, and worship. Full details including location address at the link in our bio! • https://www.facebook.com/events/480938612736906/?ti=icl
After a staff planning retreat the past few days, our staff team, elders, and their families gathered together to celebrate the end of summer and look forward to the fall together. Check out our stories to see how you can join with us in praying for the upcoming school year!
Can you spare a one time cost of $50 to send a child in need to school this year? We’re continuing to partner with Esperanza Soaps in their back-to-school soap box campaign. Already 37 children have been sponsored through soap purchases, but 13 more children require sponsorship before the end of the week (Aug. 17)! Get soap for yourself with your $50 purchase (box pictured), and send a child back to school with a full backpack and new uniform. Join us before it’s too late! Link in bio to purchase! • http://ow.ly/AH1c30plTrn
Our youth, church staff, and several MERCYhouse alumni are at @crosswalk2019 youth camp this week! Please pray these teens of ours—Charlotte, Brooke, Gwyneth, and Alex—would behold God in new ways and have a deepened faith in the One who is the best driver our lives!
“Maybe you, too, have found salvation mystifying. Maybe you’ve wondered, If I’m really saved, why don’t I feel fully free? Well, you’re not free yet, but you will be. Our complete freedom from sin is certain, but it is not sudden. So we rest confidently in our justification, we labor diligently in our sanctification, and we hope expectantly in our glorification.” Read more from Jen Wilkin on how salvation brings freedom at the link in our bio. • http://ow.ly/h6Sf30pgg6K
Are the sands running out on Christianity? Rebecca McLaughlin argues no, but there are four things that we must reclaim: diversity, the university, morality, and sexuality. Listen to McLaughlin flesh these four points out on your commute home tonight! Link in bio. • http://ow.ly/YTDA30pdLQU
Have you ever wondered if your faith was too emotional and not based enough on a knowledge of the truth, or have you found yourself in a dry intellectualism that seemed devoid of the presence of God? Pastor Robert exhorts us to be “Romantic Rationalists” in his newest article on the MERCYhouse blog at the link in our bio. • http://ow.ly/9OLI30pbAHi
Today 20 years ago, the Krumrey family packed up their belongings and moved to Massachusetts to plant a new church called MERCYhouse. Since then, the Lord has equipped and sent out so many people from this place. Pastor Robert wrote a short article to celebrate these 20 years of God’s faithfulness. Link of article is below. • ow.ly/yzw150v1qmY
Proud MERCYhouse alumnus Pedro Soto (UMass '13) shares about his vision as an urban planner to improve the socio-economic landscape in communities around the world, and how being involved with @MERCYhouse365 and @EsperanzaSoaps has helped him pursue his dreams. Link of the article is below! • http://ow.ly/59ci50uYIfV

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