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Granbury, Texas · Hood County

A safe, Christ-centered home for a woman with nowhere else to go.

Mercy Manor is a one-year residential program for women facing homelessness — and the abuse, addiction, and hard turns that so often lead there — giving them a year, and the tools, to rebuild body, mind, and spirit. The facility is secured. Now we're preparing it to open.

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The scale of it
9,234 people were counted homeless across the Texas region that includes Hood County on a single night in 2025 — more than half of them unsheltered. HUD, TX-607 (Texas Balance of State CoC), 2025
~220 children in Granbury’s own school district qualify as homeless — each one attached to a parent without a stable home. Granbury ISD (McKinney-Vento)
$21.36 an hour is what one adult needs to keep a roof in Hood County. The Texas minimum wage is $7.25. MIT Living Wage Calculator, 2026

See the full picture, and what to do next →

“But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions — it is by grace you have been saved.” Ephesians 2:4–5

Our mission: to provide a safe, Christ-centered environment for women wanting to start anew, equipping them with the tools they will need to move forward in their lives.

Who Mercy Manor serves

Women who need a safe place to call home.

Almost every woman who comes to Mercy Manor shares one thing: she has nowhere safe to live, or she can see it coming. A job that ended, a marriage that ended, a prison sentence that ended — and nowhere at all to go next.

Often, homelessness arrives tangled up with harder things — drug or alcohol abuse, prescription dependency, the long aftermath of abuse, depression, a past she didn't choose. For others, none of that: simply a life that came apart. You do not have to be in the worst shape of your life to belong here. The thread they share is that they need a home, and they are ready to begin again.

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Prayer & Structure

Daily prayer, Bible study, scripture memorization, and biblical counseling ground every day of the program.

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Life & Leadership Skills

Educational and career counseling, financial management training, and real work assignments build practical footing.

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A Sincere Desire for Change

The one requirement: a heart willing to commit to the full one-year, curriculum-based program.

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Sharon King, founder of Mercy Manor, seated on a bench outdoors.
Our Founder

Sharon King had already retired from this work once.

After years as Executive Director of Sanctified Hope, a transitional home for women coming directly out of prison, Sharon retired — for six months. Twice in one week, she had the same dream: start a homeless ministry for women, and name it Mercy Manor. She asked God for more confirmation. She got it, over and over again.

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For churches, agencies & officials

Referring a woman, or building a partnership?

Mercy Manor's own board includes a Hood County Crime Victim Liaison, a nurse who built Hope Mission's 24-bed women's recovery program in Edmonton from nothing — and kept it full, and leaders already active in Granbury's nonprofit community. This is a ministry built to work alongside the organizations already doing this work. And for churches, there is now a front door built just for you: The Twelve — twelve churches, each carrying one of the home's twelve places.

A weathered wooden ranch fence borders a Texas Hill Country pasture of bluebonnets and live oaks at golden hour.

We have the building. What's left is everything that makes it a home.

Every gift right now goes toward the last stretch: furnishing, staffing, and the everyday needs — from crib sheets to a working vehicle — that turn a secured building into a working home.

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