What We Fight For

Hello my friend, my name is Ruth Mercy and I am the second oldest in a family of eight (three brothers and two sisters). Since childhood my parents introduced me to the high purpose of knowing and serving the living Father by laying down my life for a world in great need of His love and mercy.   

We have developed our own creative measures of humor, music, dance and street performances to bring the message of hope and forgiveness to life in third world countries. Our vision is to love the unloved, to remember the forgotten and to comfort the brokenhearted with the personal touch of Christ in us.

My polish father is a self-taught musician but most of all has imparted in us the spirit of a ‘fighter’. (His conversion at Notre Dame University was strangely ‘coincidental’ with the identity of ‘The Fighting Irish’) My Irish mother has taught us tenderness and care, and also a love for Irish music and dance (which I have learned). My brothers and sisters and I are 2nd-degree black belts in Tae Kwon Do (also trained in the Brazilian art of Capoeira). We have had the privilege to teach these martial arts at orphanages and use it as part of our performances.

 My parents grew up Catholic and my father graduated, after attendance at several seminaries, with a Master’s degree. 

We have been to over forty five countries around the world. Recently we have been living in and traveling through in South America where we are invited to perform in the prisons, orphanages, schools, military bases and city centers as well as special events for government officials. We often return to the US where we work jobs in order to pay off our debts and save up for our return. We also work extensively in the US correctional facilities, schools, with the homeless and with at risk kids.

"If am not for others, what am I? If not now, when? -