What an incredible month’s journey.  As we have just returned from Cameroon, it seems fitting to post this blog about how and where A Call to Mercy began.  Carol and I met in 1964.  She was my 4th grade teacher.  Neither of us knew then that there was a Divine plan for us, but we know now that it is A Call to Mercy.  Carol met Sr Betty Scanlon in 2006.  Betty worked for Medicines for Humanity and found herself on a project in Njinikom, Cameroon from 2004-2010.  She led Carol, who did mission in a different country every year, to the orphanage at St Martin de Porres with a request that she return more than once.  Carol went twice, fell in love with the children and place and felt called to do more.  She then invited me to join her.  Working together, A Call to Mercy was formed.  The love and support that began in the orphanage at St Martin de Porres has grown now to include  500 orphans and vulnerable children in the surrounding villages of Njinikom.  The orphanage is still at the heart of A Call to Mercy.  The loving connections made with the children here is a big part of what brings us back.  Here are some of our favorite images of children in the orphanage…from our last two visits.  This post is dedicated to the memory of Clovis Kube, pictured below.