Mercer plans yet another city, engineers an aircraft part and challenges another theory in science. Mercer holds the hands of a cancer patient and treats a child for a fever. Mercer performs a life-saving procedure in an operating room. Mercer prepares a message to be proclaimed in a pulpit, comforts a grieving family and shares Christ to a lost neighbor. Mercer advises an impoverished farmer on a mission field where many will never walk.
Mercer works to relieve the suffering of victims of disaster in Honduras.
Mercer watches over her new baby. Mercer makes a presentation before a multinational corporation. You get the picture. We are Mercer University and the values and directions of Mercer are practiced and shaped by every person who walks these halls, takes these classes and shares in leadership of this great University. . . . As I thought about this morning, I began to think about distinctives of Mercer University.