The Servant king
Why We Do It
sam merkle
Sam spent over 10 years in trouble with the law. 4 separate probations, 8 county jails across 3 states, 3 different halfway houses in 3 different counties and finally 1 Prison located out in the dessert of Colorado where his wife divorced him, took their children and moved away. He has seen and experienced firsthand what a life of self-indulgence and disregard for the things of God has to offer. Maybe the saddest part of Sam’s life is how many years he spent going to church, saying all the things church people say and doing all the things church people do, only to wind up in a prison cell in solitary confinement and come face to face with a hard truth… He Did Not Know God. He Had Never Been Born Again. He Did Not Really Believe or place His Trust in Christ. It had all been words. Just words, uttered out of the mouth of a man who meant well, but was basing his salvation on an emotional feeling. Wanting to be good and wanting to do good things. Following the lead of well-meaning Christians in hopes that calling on the name of Jesus would fix what ailed him… All along he was missing the key ingredient: Belief! You can’t fake it with God, He knows the heart, it is only God who can open the eyes of the blind and give life to the dead and when God opened Sam’s eyes to the truth that night in solitary confinement over 15 years ago, God took his heart of stone and replaced it with a heart of flesh and Sam…
Praise the Lord!
BECAME A DIFFERENT MAN
Sam is not perfect, and he has a long road of sanctification ahead of him. But now God is with him and teaching him through His Word, the ways of righteousness. How to live a holy life, placing the welfare of others above himself. God has restored his family and the relationships with his wife and children. And now God has given Him a mission: Go back into the Prisons and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The real Gospel, the one that says salvation comes only by Grace through faith in Jesus Christ. The one that says we are all headed to hell if we don’t repent and call on the name of the Lord. The Gospel says: This is serious. It is not a game. Things will not magically work out… We all need God! Sam is determined to help them learn how to live Holy, how to Grow their love and compassion for other people. How to live a life that is pleasing to God. How to break the cycle of crime and drug addiction. How to be the people God always intended them to be.
Wanda Merkle
"THE WORLDS THROW-AWAYS"
Wanda has lived over 25 years in addiction. She started Drinking Alcohol and Smoking Cigarettes at the age of 13. That quickly escalated to the use of Marijuana, Cocaine, Meth and Prescription pain pills. She used these Drugs as a way to cope with the stresses of this life instead of turning to the God her parents taught her about. Her Story is similar to Sam’s in the way that she was in and out of Church her whole life too, but never seemed to make it very long before diving right back into her addictions. Then one day she met a man she thought she could trust to make her life better and worth living again without all the substances she had been clinging to for so long. That man seemed to be a gift from God. Right up until the day he abandoned her and their children by getting sent to prison. Now, without a husband to provide for her and no job of her own, her situation quickly turned for the worse. She fell faster, harder and further than she ever had and ended up alone back in her addictions and out in the streets. Living with her kids in the back of her pickup truck. The worse her situation got, the stronger the hold the drugs had on her. This time they were here to stay… There seemed to be only one way out: DEATH…
Praise the Lord!
BUT GOD HAD OTHER PLANS!
One day seemingly out of the blue she heard a voice, a still small voice that said.
believe
TRUST IN ME
All those years of heartache and turmoil vanished in an instant. Her fears were traded for hope and her tears of sorrow for tears of joy. God had opened her eyes and she could finally see. Of course her life hasn’t been easy since then either, but God has been teaching her through His Word and together with her husband Sam, under the authority of God, they are building a life together with their children that neither one of them ever believed possible. God has restored to them more than was ever lost and is blessing their children as well. God has also given Wanda a mission. She knows what it is like to lose her spouse to crime and the justice system. She knows what it’s like to try to raise two kids on her own. She knows what it’s like to lose herself in addictions, hoping for relief that never comes. So… Now she is at her husband’s side, taking the gospel and Christ’s message of hope to the families of the incarcerated. Taking Christ’s promise of freedom to the addicted.
This is who
Sam and Wanda
are now
But sharing the Gospel and helping those on the wrong side of addiction and crime is only one part of the equation. The struggles Wanda and the children went through while Sam was locked up were terrible and she is now determined to try and help those left behind by drugs and crime. She is determined to help the families of the addicted and the incarcerated overcome the struggles they now face. And Because of all the struggles and trials that Sam faced once he was released from prison, he is determined to help make the process of reintegration smoother for all those who truly want a new life of freedom and victory.
This is why “they” do it. This is why “we all” do it.
Because we love you
and we want the best for you!
Please Help us break the cycle of Crime and addiction through the "POWER OF THE CROSS"
WE NEED YOUR HELP
All money donated to Servant King is used exclusively for the Spreading of the Gospel and the discipleship of the incarcerated and their families on the streets. “Servant King has no paid employees”
VITAL INFORMATION
To make an appointment to visit Servant King
call +1 (478) 662-0556
OR write to:
Servant King
1742 Watson Blvd.
Warner Robins, GA. 31088.