At NMCCH, we believe that the truest human purpose is to join God in loving others as He would have us love them. Believing in God's desire for people to be just, to be merciful, walk humbly, and love one another, we strive to help people in need. In a phrase, we stand by the words Jesus spoke when he said, "go and do likewise."

In the Bible, in Luke chapter ten, Jesus tells a story known worldwide as The Parable of the Good Samaritan. In this story, a man is badly injured and left to die along a road. Two people pass him by, but a third (the Samaritan) stops to help and provides everything needed to save the man, nourish him, house him, and help him get well. After telling the story, Jesus asks who the injured man's true neighbor was. The people listening to the story answer, "The one who had mercy on the man." To them Jesus replies, "Go and do likewise."

 

Inspired by the sermon and moved to action, a husband and wife sacrificially gave eighty acres of farmland upon which to build a children's home. Within months our first residential home was built, and NMCCH soon became home to forty-eight children.

Nearly forty years after that original sermon, its preacher decided to put a pen to paper and recount the history and meaning of NMCCH. In his conclusion, he referenced Jesus' parable of the good Samaritan and wrote simply, "this is what we are trying to do."

Since our very humble beginnings nearly seventy years ago, NMCCH has grown. We have more land. We have more buildings. We serve more people in more stages of life than ever before. What hasn't changed is our commitment to go and do likewise. Across years and decades, we have touched the lives of thousands of people, and their lives have touched ours. Our story is really their story, and in truth NMCCH belongs not to us, but to them.

NMCCH was established in 1954 by small, local churches of Christ as a result of a powerful Sunday-morning sermon declaring the duty of Christians to take care of marginalized children. 

 

We regularly and devotedly endeavor to ever more deeply understand and live by, what it means to love God with all of our hearts, to love others as ourselves, to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God.

We pray every day that God will help us, each alone and all together, to show His love to the world.

At NMCCH we endeavor to grow collectively and as individuals, thinking of our values and teaching them by example in the following terms:

  • To love God is to live joyously in relationship with Him with integrity and honesty as I allow His Spirit to guide and empower me to become the authentic person, He created me to be, striving to obey His commands and to align my life with His Will and values.
  • To love others means I make time to value people and treat them the way I want to be treated, that I am devoted to kindness in my dealings with them, that I place their needs above my own, and that I desire what is truly best for them.
  • To do justice means I do what is fair and right in God's eyes. It means that I live in a way that honors people who are created in God's image, that I protect those who are powerless, and I restore the lives of those who have been marginalized or victimized.
  • To be merciful is to be benevolent toward the poor and powerless, to show grace and have forgiveness for others when I have the power to hurt them, and to have compassion on the hurting even when I believe they have made poor choices.                                           
  • To walk humbly with God is to acknowledge that He is the source of my abilities and my resources, to be gentle and modest while using the gifts He has given me, and to know that even though I can only give myself, this is enough.

We believe that scripture is consistent in its entire arc; that the eternal love of God never wavers from its deep and compelling concern for the poor, the marginalized, the helpless, and the needy.

The mission of NMCCH is to be people who love God and love our neighbors, working in partnership with family, church and community to improve the lives of disadvantaged individuals, following the biblical call of Jesus to "go and do likewise" while inspiring others to do the same.

To improve the lives of disadvantaged individuals, following the biblical call of Jesus to "go and do likewise" while inspiring others to do the same.

In conjunction with long-term shelter, food, and clothing, we provide and coordinate social services, including mental health counseling, spiritual mentorship, life coaching, adoption services, and educational & vocational opportunities to the people we serve.

NMCCH provides Christian homes and communities for youth, young adults, new mothers, and single-parent families.

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