Woman and child in a World Challenge serving context
A Summer Campaign Reaching 17 Nations and nearly 4,000 orphans and widowswith World Challenge
A Call for Mercy

This is what keeps me up at night.

Across the Middle East, innocent women and children are paying the price for wars fought around them. In Iran, families who should be safe at home or in school are instead carrying grief, fear, and trauma they did not choose.

My heart in Epic Mercy is to bring hope to orphans and widows through emergency relief, safe shelter, trauma care, clean water, rescue, and long-term restoration for families who feel forgotten — reaching from the Middle East across South Asia and into sub-Saharan Africa, wherever the need is deepest.

17 countries carrying deep need1
45+ children killed in Iran’s 2025 conflict2
2.2M children cut off from essential care3

Sources: 1 World Challenge field assessment of the Epic Mercy ministry footprint. 2 Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, 2025 Iran–Israel conflict. 3 UNICEF, 2026 — damage to 442 Iranian health facilities disrupted essential care for ~10M people, including 2.2M children.

If We Were Sitting Together

Here is how I would tell you the story.

If you and I were sitting across the table, I would not start with a budget sheet. I would start with the widow trying to hold her family together, the child who no longer feels safe, and the quiet ache that lingers long after the violence fades from the headlines. These three paths are simply my way of showing you how mercy can move from immediate relief to rescue, belonging, and a rebuilt life.

Live Progress

The journey begins. The first hands lifting orphans and widows are already moving.

Give Mercy
$56,750 raised / $1.835M goal
120 orphans
Impact Partner Pyramid

This is how I picture mercy multiplying.

If you asked me how this vision becomes real, I would show you this impact partner pyramid. Each step represents what one partner, or several partners together, could put into motion for orphans who need to be seen, sheltered, and sustained.

Epic Mercy Impact Opportunities

This impact ladder is built to cover the full $1.835M need. Everyone has a role to play in it, and every tier becomes a meaningful way to reach orphans and widows who are carrying deep need.

Ask the Lord

See what your legacy could make possible.

As you move through these three priorities, my hope is simply that you would ask the Lord what He would have you do. I am not assuming He is asking you to carry all of this. I just want you to be able to see what could happen for widows and orphans in each area, and the kind of lasting impact our partners could make if He invites you to step into part of this story.

The People Behind the Vision

These are the people I would want you to meet.

Long before this was ever a campaign, it was Merjeme, Laleh, and the girls in Punjab. Epic Mercy is really about people like them, and I want you to feel both the ache they are carrying and the hope that mercy can still protect.

Gary and David Wilkerson visiting ministry work in Nairobi
Legacy Snapshot

Your Potential Epic Mercy Legacy

Across homes, trauma care, rescue work, and long-term restoration, Epic Mercy is designed to create a legacy that can be felt both immediately and generationally.

Build Your Legacy Today
Ways to Give

Every path here reaches the same families.

Choose the path that fits you best. Each one routes your gift to the widows and orphans this campaign was built for — giving online at worldchallenge.org/epicmercy directs it for you automatically.

Online

Give in a few clicks

Give securely at worldchallenge.org/epicmercy. Your gift is directed to this work automatically — no designation to select.

By Check

Mail a gift

Make checks payable to World Challenge and write “Epic Mercy” on the memo line so it’s routed to this work.

Donor-Advised Fund

Recommend a grant

Recommend a grant from your DAF to World Challenge and note Epic Mercy as the purpose so the funds reach this work.

A Note From Gary

I’d love to help you think this through

If something in Epic Mercy is stirring your heart, start the conversation in the way that feels most natural. I’d be glad to hear what is standing out to you.

Gary Wilkerson

Gary Wilkerson

President, World Challenge

I’d love to walk through these opportunities with you.

Share the Vision

Who do you know that loves orphans and widows?

If a friend or family member came to mind while you were exploring this, this makes it easy to share Epic Mercy with them in a personal way.