She is not the worst thing that ever happened to her.
Mercy Manor is a Christ-centered home where women overcoming addiction, trauma, and homelessness find six months of safety, structure, and a real way forward — body, mind, and spirit.
The facility is secured. The work of opening it is underway — and it takes a community to finish it.
The need is not distant. It is the woman down the road, or the one across the table.
A home. A program. A future she builds herself.
Housing
A safe, structured residential home for six months — off the street, out of the cycle, away from the people and places that keep her stuck.
Healing
Biblical counseling, trauma-informed care, and daily prayer and Bible study, addressing the whole woman — not just the addiction on the surface.
Purpose
Life-skills training and work-therapy build real capability alongside sobriety — a job, a home of her own, a future she chose for herself.
"We are not building a shelter. We are building the place a woman can finally stop surviving and start living." — Sharon Klahm-Hibler, Founder, Mercy Manor
Every dollar has a woman's name on it, even when we can't tell you hers.
Groceries for one woman, for one week.
A month of biblical counseling sessions for one resident.
A woman's full first month at Mercy Manor — bed, meals, counseling, care.
Draft figures — confirm real program costs before publishing
See the full list of ways to giveBuilt by a founder who has already done this once.
Sharon Klahm-Hibler founded Mercy Manor after years leading Sanctified Hope, a transitional home for women coming out of incarceration. She has spent her career in education, social services, and victim support — and she started Mercy Manor because Hood County had nowhere for women to go when they were finally ready.
A board with the right experience for this work
Our board includes a Master's-prepared nurse who built a women's recovery program in Edmonton, Alberta, and a 10-year Crime Victim Liaison with the Hood County Sheriff's Office.
The building is secured. The doors aren't open yet. That part is up to all of us.
Every gift right now goes directly toward opening day — staffing, furnishing, and the last steps between a secured building and a working home.