Australian Mercy

24/08/2025

9 years ago we picked up our book River People from Bethany Press, the hometown (Minneapolis) printer for our publisher YWAM Publishing. Writing was a long journey and a lot of work. Special thanks to Janice Cunningham’s authors training courses. An even bigger thanks to Scott Tompkins for the long process of shaping and editing the story and to final editor Ryan Davis and the many others at YWAM Publishing for the photos, cover, layout and ongoing marketing and sales.
Being published has been a wonderful experience as it has opened doors, made connections, served as an inspiration to many and has been a marvelous tool for evangelism and training. Thank you to all who have read the book. The more we look back the more we realize that literally hundreds of people were a part of the story, from our Brazilian friends and colleagues in the Amazon to our parents, family, friends, supporters and church members in: Adelaide, Fridley, Mentor, Erskine, Fort Frances, Omaha, Rockford, Des Moines, Atlanta, Palos Verdes, Marina Del Rey, Weiser, Nashville and more and YWAM bases in Los Angeles, Pasadena, San Diego, Tijuana, Honolulu, Kona, Denver, Chico, Tyler, Lindale, Madison, Nashville, Orlando and of course the three YWAM bases in the Amazon that were our home and our help for 12 years: Manaus, Porto Velho and the Tribal Ministries leadership and Lábrea.
You may be encouraged to know that in the 30 years since the first River People church was started as told in the book, today the House of the Father and Igreja da Paz network of churches is now around 1000 believers in almost one dozen church fellowships in the municipality of Lábrea. With the Igreja da Paz church in town being about 400 worshippers each Sunday night. 30 years ago about 300 Christians from 5 churches and 5 denominations participated in the first March for Jesus started by YWAM Lábrea. Last year the City of Lábrea passed a resolution making the March for Jesus an official (and city funded) municipal event. There were approximately 15,000 participants (over 1/3 of the population) from 51 churches and 17 denominations in this year’s March for Jesus. What started as a mustard seed is now a large and ever growing tree! PTL

24/06/2025

Dear Friends,

YWAM Australia is the parent organisation of Australian Mercy. Therefore, we belong to one of the largest Christian networks in the world – the YWAM global family of ministries of over 20,000 workers in 180+ countries. Because of this, we can help almost anywhere via trusted friends and intermediaries in this world of 8 billion+ people.

In this last financial year, Australian Mercy helped build homes once again in Ukraine even though we do not have an ongoing Australian Mercy project there. This is how we could respond to the earthquake in Turkey and Syria last year, and to the cyclone devastation in Myanmar and Pacific islands this year. Just last month we could help finance some clean up after the massive rain events in the Northern Rivers region of NSW.

We provided $9000 towards a vehicle in Vanuatu and directed another $5000 their way through our network. We got $1600 into Pakistan to help our Afghanistan project partner, spouse and children get to safety from the Taliban who were seeking them out for their work in educating girls.

Your end of financial year gift can, and will, reach the needy in the far corners of this world – literally – even if you cannot. Please give generously.

You cannot imagine today where your gift might end up in the year to come. But it will certainly be the answer to prayers of desperation and amazing provision in time of need. Thank you.

Kent
Kent Truehl
Managing Director Australian Mercy
PO Box 7
Mitchell, ACT 2911
Ph: 0242741090
http://www.australianmercy.org
[email protected]

People who care helping people in need.

24/06/2025

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24/06/2025

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29/04/2025

Prayers for our friends leading training in India where we taught just 6 months ago.

"Please pray for God's protection from the heat since the temperature in Maharashtra is increasing day by day. Right now it's 40 degrees (104F) in coming days it will reach till 50 degrees (122F). It's becoming very difficult to sit in the class and specially night it's really hard to sleep . Some of our students come from North India for them this heat is unbearable. Because of this heat One of the student is bleeding from his nose everyday. Pray pray for God's healing.
Please keep us in your prayers 🙏

20/02/2025

https://australianmercy.org/vanuatu-earthquake-special-appeal/

On 17 December 2024, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Vanuatu. It claimed 14 lives, injuring more than 200 people and displacing thousands more. Just this Monday, 10 February, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck again – Australian…

10/01/2025

Lovely summer evening on the beach with Audrey before I fly to Thailand and Vietnam to visit Australian Mercy projects and project partners.