In Love Mercy, Christy award-winning novelist Lisa Samson and her eighteen-year-old daughter, Ty, experience a life-changing, soul-rattling journey on a mission trip to Africa. Having lived a plentiful life in suburban America, Samson and Ty thought they were headed off to minister to the African people while chronicling the AIDS crisis devastating the continent. Confronted not only by the AIDS epidemic, but with child prostitution, preventable illness, poverty and death so prevalent it leaves no time to mourn their journey takes a decidedly different tack.
Offering two unique perspectives, Lisa and Ty share the questions they encountered on their journey and tell the stories of those they met along the way - from the children themselves, to adult AIDS victims, to the compassionate mercy-givers who seek each day to alleviate their suffering.
