Henry & Cindy Lowman, founders of Mercy international and Hope and A Future Student Scholarship Program

About Mercy International

Hope and a Future

Phone: 479.756.2711

Fax:479.521.6198

E-mail: merciusa@earthlink.net

In 1989 Henry & Cindy Lowman founded Mercy International to advance the cause of Christ throughout the world, serving the poor practically as well as spiritually.

Incorporated in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Mercy International now extends to three continents, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.  The missions training center for Mercy International is located in a small mountain village in Central Honduras called Yamaranguila.

In 1993 Mercy International entered Honduras.  Recognizing the Lord’s sovereign call of the Latin American church to become missions sending bodies, Mercy International works with local churches and believers to prepare and send out missionaries from the region. 

The many ministries of Mercy International are integral parts of the training center giving hands-on experience to the missionary students and opportunities to serve to countless short-term team members and interns.  The experience these students and interns receive while in Honduras is used in strategic areas of the world where the Christ is not  preached.

In 2001, Mercy International moved to Yamaranguila, a small native village in the mountains of Opalaca, an important center of life for the more than 80,000 Lenca Indians who are native to Honduras.

In 2002 Cindy, out of her own purse, helped three neighbor children attend the seventh grade, feeling that to end the generational cycle of poverty and sexual exploitation of girls and women, education would be key.  In 2008 Hope and Future sponsors sent 55 students to local school, and six of them to college in Tegucigalpa.

In 2005, Mercy International baptized the first Lenca Christian believers in the rugged and remote mountains of Opalaca.  Called the “Lost and Forgotten of the Honduran people” by the Honduran press in 1993, the Lenca Indians are not longer forgotten, and with a growing number of baptized believers, is no longer lost.  Mercy International is committed to planting a native Christian movement among the Lenca Indians, training leaders to reach their own people.

The Lenca Christian Movement serves as a model for native peoples around the world reach their own through advancement, training, and releasing of native leaders among indigenous peoples.

Seeing that mobilization is not confined to Latin America and native peoples, Mercy International hosted more than 22 Short Term outreach teams from many churches and denominations throughout the United States.  More than 300 people served the needs of Honduras in 2008.

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