Our founder, Tracey Farris, never set out to start a nonprofit. At the age of eighteen, she married her high-school teacher who introduced her to drugs. The marriage did not last as long as the drug addiction did, as a result, for thirteen years she balanced a career while surviving as a functioning addict.

After countless rehabs during the latter part of the addiction, at the age of twenty-nine, she fled to Lubbock to live with her sister and brother-in-law where the addiction worsened. Three counts of robbery in one week and a time in jail led her to the decision to be re-baptized in the Baptist Church, but never could quite kick the addiction.

A few months later, she found herself in a field listening to her favorite song by Counting Crows with a crack pipe in her hand. Her spirit broke and the hand of God mercifully escorted her back to the light. At that moment, she finally chose life! Her family rallied together one last time and escorted her to the final recovery program needed to move her forward toward her destiny.

She remained in California for four years, where she met another recovering addict. They married and she found out on their wedding day he was doing heroin. When they got back to California, within a month they were divorced. She came back to Dallas to live with her family and rapidly got back on her feet and recovered her career. At this point, she was not yet sold out for Jesus, but she was trying.

At the age of forty, she married another man but this time her heart was crushed to pieces. Within two years they were divorced and her mission to heal her broken heart led her to search out the deep love of the Messiah. After a few years of desperate searching and inner healing, she was whole again by the blood of the Lamb. Mercy by the fullest meaning of the word was finally felt!