Not a News Flash:  Other Diseases haven’t taken a vacation during the COVID-19 global pandemic- No surprise to you I’m sure; your FAME global partners are READY for IMPACT!  (Read on to see how YOU can participate!)

Although there have been many reports from your global partners reporting that people were avoiding hospitals and clinics…their additional diseases and conditions haven’t stopped!

Tuberculosis, cholera, malaria, and measles are infectious diseases still ravaging developing countries.  Many organizations (UN, WHO, and others) have targeted them as the top 4 diseases to eradicate by 2030!  Heart disease, diabetes, injuries, and infections all need treatment!  Those diseases and others have not slowed down or taken a vacation.

In the last week, one partner in Honduras reported 3 Dengue Fever cases in teens they transported in the Ambulance funded by

you!  Another partner close to FAME in Mexico reported 4 deaths and many hospitalizations from Dengue Fever (mosquito-borne illness) in their area of influence.  In Pakistan, one hospital admitted 2000 dengue patients in one week recently!

So far in 2020 over 1 million cases and 580 deaths have occurred from Dengue Fever in the Americas.  Simple solutions with treatment BUT that is when access to healthcare is available!  In Ghana, your partner building a pediatric cardiac center is in dire need of the heart care facility!  Access to Healthcare opens the door for the gospel!

While the USA is waiting for lockdowns to end and life to return to something like normal, COVID-19 AND other diseases are ravaging your partners!  Can you strengthen FAME’s position to always be READY FOR IMPACT for your FAME global partners?

Just like the diseases have never stopped, FAME’s daily operations have never stopped sending help and hope on your behalf to the world’s most vulnerable.

Can you give $100 right now to keep FAME READY FOR IMPACT as we receive daily pleas for assistance around the world?

Your $100 will impact 100 people!

YOU have sent help and hope to Partners in 32 countries this year!  Your partnership will keep them READY FOR IMPACT.

Grateful for you,

Bill Warren
Executive Director

 

Because of you nearly $50,000 in Emergency Funds and over $400K in Equipment and Supplies have been distributed during this crisis!

As the Coronavirus is expected to linger (some describe it as smolder) in Developing Countries, FAME and you are positioned to prepare our global partners with clinic upgrades, new clinics, ambulances, supplies, and even a pediatric cardiac center. Many of your FAME Global Partners are feeding starving families impacted by national lockdowns, so the need for our projects with them has intensified, and many of them have fewer funds available because of the crisis. In these times, our partnership is life-saving for the gospel and medical ministry!

FAME is prepared to move forward on 13 Sustainable Projects so that 2020 can end and 2021 can begin with solutions to the lack of access to healthcare for the world’s most vulnerable.

Here’s a report from one of your African partners. You made it possible to ship Oxygen Equipment to them in April- preparing for this crisis. Here is an excerpt:

“Also, the first COVID pneumonia patient
needing in-hospital oxygen showed up today. He is in isolation, so we are now officially open for business. Please join in praying that we will be able to help the people who will start showing up here.

This patient is a 6-year-old child with pneumonia who also tested positive for COVID – it could be that he has normal bacterial pneumonia on top of being infected with COVID, as I at least was not expecting
small children to have significant illnesses due to COVID alone.”

We wouldn’t be able to be preparing to send such Help and Hope without your partnership!

Click here for a video about how You can help!

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news,
who proclaim peace,
who bring good tidings, who say to Zion,
“Your God reigns!”        Isaiah 52:7 (NIV)

In recent months, much recognition and praise have been stated about the wonderful and beautiful people who serve in our healthcare system. We see yard signs and banners in front of hospitals, long-term care facilities and homes, expressing gratitude to these individuals who face the fears of the current health care crisis every day. How wonderful it is to be surrounded by countless skilled and trained individuals who have extensive facilities and resources to help us stay well and care for us when we are ill. Yet, at FAME, we know this is not a reality for everyone around the world. No, hundreds of millions do not have access to healthcare.

Over FAME’s 50-year history, we have had the honor to partner with countless beautiful servants who practice medical service among the “ends of the earth” people. Heroes who are dedicated to offering medical care where it previously was not offered. And in doing so, proclaiming peace, good tidings, and good news. Your partnership with FAME has allowed us to ship many pallets of care items to forty servants with beautiful feet in Ukraine. These servants care for 2,000 elder orphans, providing wound care, hygiene care, prayer, and gospel teaching. The living conditions these elders experience in Ukraine creates a high-risk environment, yet they are heroes who persist in offering help and hope to these vulnerable individuals every week. Your partnership with FAME has allowed us to provide five pallets worth of needed care items since March 1st.

This is just one example of where your partnership is helping us equip those beautiful servants. Since March, FAME has not only helped servants in Ukraine but also Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Columbia, Honduras, Japan, India, and Mozambique. In all those places around our world, Kingdom servants are leveraging those resources to help people see that Our God reigns!

Thank you for partnering with us at FAME.

Barry Reed
FAME Director of Mission Resources

 

Your FAME Global partners are disrupting the lack of access to healthcare with sustainable models that lead to evangelism!

Scarcity of access to healthcare is one spoke of the wheel of inequality and injustice on the global landscape.  At a time when Americans have a raised awareness of inequality and injustice among a portion of our population, your FAME global partners have been addressing this issue for 50 years.

It is only one “spoke of a complicated wheel,” but 400 Million people have NO ACCESS to healthcare because of inequities that your partnership with FAME is actively addressing.  By partnering with FAME, you are sending help and hope to the world’s most vulnerable.

In Ghana, a pediatric cardiac care center will be the only such facility in a vast region of that country.

In Spain, a doctor is serving North African Refugees who have escaped brutality and persecution in their home countries.

In Brazil, a Medical boat on the Amazon, is the only healthcare for hundreds of villages- and then only a time or two each year.

Your FAME Global partners are disrupting the lack of access to healthcare with sustainable models that open doors to evangelism, help and hope.

Thank you for your partnership, you ARE doing something about inequality and injustice on the global stage.

Dear Friends and Partners of FAME,

Thank you for your continued partnership with the ministry of FAME through prayer. In these turbulent times, your prayers are making a difference and changing lives of those around the world.

In the parable of the Good Samaritan found in Luke 10, Jesus reminds us of the importance of helping others, no matter what race, religion or nationality. Through acts of kindness and empathy, people’s lives can be changed. Though you may not be physically helping someone at this time, you are changing lives daily through your prayers for the world’s most vulnerable, our mission partners, scholarship students, volunteers, staff, and board members.

This month please partner with us as we pray for many of our mission partners to whom we have provided medical supplies, are preparing to send supplies, or to whom we are providing funding, through your generous donations, for a sustainable healthcare project.  Pray that lives will be changed both physically and spiritually as our mission partners around the world share the love of Christ through the medical care that they provide.

We also ask that you pray for our scholarship students hat are studying to become medical professionals in their home countries. This has been a very challenging time for all students around the world. Many have had to finish the school year remotely by taking online classes. Please pray that these talented Christian young people continue to do well as they pursue their degrees.

And lastly, please pray for many of our FAME volunteers that give of their time and talents to support the ministry. Though we have not seen a lot of them over the last few months due to Covid-19 and social distancing, we pray that we will see them again soon, and we pray a blessing over them as they continue to serve God through their service.

Click here for the June Prayer Calendar