Laboratories and lab workers are currently one of the most important medical needs of our times.

In 2017 many FAME partners helped to send funding to Narok County, Kenya in order to establish a state of the art laboratory that was ahead of the standards required in Kenya.  This lab upgrade was needed for critical testing from AIDS to every other medical unknown in the network known as CHP Kenya.  7 Clinics are served by this lab allowing medical providers to have test results in hours or just a few days, instead of weeks.

You won’t be surprised that we learned last week that the caseload at this lab has increased. Official COVID testing is being sent to a Kenya Medical research institute, but the whole region would have had no information without you and your generosity!

Additionally, you have helped provide pathologists because of FAME’s Impact Scholarship program.

In the US there are 7 pathologists for every 100,000 people; in Sub-Saharan Africa that number is less than 1 for every 500,000!

Thank you for your impact on providing Access to the Good news around the world.   One obstacle you help eliminate is by providing access to healthcare information and technology!

Thank you for your part in this battle of bringing access to the Gospel through access to healthcare.

YOU are making a difference around the globe.

 

 

You have FAME global partners who go where most won’t go!  The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of those places.  The State Department website has the following travel warnings.

Do Not Travel To:

• The Democratic Republic of the Congo – COVID-19
• North Kivu and Ituri provinces due to terrorism
• The eastern DRC region and the three Kasai provinces (Kasai, Kasai-Oriental, Kasai-Central) due to crime, civil unrest, armed conflict and kidnapping
• Équateur province due to Ebola.

But that hasn’t stopped one of your FAME partners from acquiring medical supplies and equipment to support 7 clinics in the DR of the Congo!  In July we received word how some mobility supplies were distributed:

We praise God for what our team of 3 church leaders did last Friday by giving in the village of Ngunda Kinzamba a free gift of mobility (PET cart, personal energy transport) to a leg disabled man to show him the love of God. On Saturday they gave another PET cart to a leg disabled lady in Mukedi village.

Last week, the team picked up a truckload of additional mobility supplies to distribute. Also, of interest to you might be that Barry Reed, our Director of Mission Resources, prepared 6 surgical kits for the team.  6 of the 7 Clinics have qualified staff capable of small surgeries.  I was most surprised to learn that the supplies received included hospital-grade mattresses.  Currently, those who have these small surgeries in a few of those clinics are on the ground. These mattresses will be such an upgrade for these patients!  Their recovery time is when many respond to the gospel!

Each and every day- YOUR partnership improves the doors that open for the gospel!

Thank you for your generosity, prayers, and compassion- you are impacting the world’s most sick who would never have the chance to hear the gospel without you!

Unreported during this pandemic is the ongoing plight of the North African Refugees coming into Spain.  Spain received a lot of press early this year when the Virus numbers were spiraling out of control, but the North African Refugees are still unnoticed and under-served!

One of your FAME global partners, Dr. Erick and his wife Sira, are on the very frontlines caring for the world’s most impacted and neglected in Spain.

Before the pandemic, New Clinic plans were finalizing (The Hope Center Medical Clinic is one of FAME’s Sustainable Projects currently seeking full funding) and preparing to meet the medical needs of Refugees from North Africa!  The Church was growing and training new leaders!  Teaching Spanish to refugees and meeting the needs of these vulnerable from the crisis in North Africa.

 **Note:  In 2019 nearly 50,000 immigrants/refugees from North Africa came into Spain!

During the pandemic, Dr. Erick and the young churches there near Murcia, Spain focused on helping families by bringing food into their homes.  One woman is reported to have done all she could to find a way to eat once a day if she can.  Dr. Erick treats these refugees with the kindness and love of Christ every day.  Their situation is hopeless without the kindness of the churches connected with the future Hope Center Clinic!

Can you continue to pray for your FAME global partners like Dr. Erick and Sira’s family?  Being from Nicaragua, Dr. Erick has asked prayer for his family since his father passed away in July from COVID-19 in Nicaragua while Erick and Sira’s family was serving in Spain!  Your FAME global partners are heroes on the frontlines!

Your partnership makes a difference in the lives of your global partners and on the world’s most impacted whom they serve!

Constructing new bathing and dressing facility for Mozambique staff to use after removing PPE before leaving the property

Thank you for caring about the world’s most impacted!  One of your FAME global partners is 1 in a Million…literally 1 in 1.2 million people; read below!

In the last months, you have resourced and supplied 133 shipments to your FAME global partners with the supplies they need to respond to the current global health crisis.

Responding to the Global health crisis is what you and FAME have done for years.  But as you know, this has been an unprecedented season.  One of your global partners to whom we have shipped supplies this Spring gave us this report and the end of June!

All of the patients in Nampula, (city of 1,200,000) Mozambique which need to be hospitalized are in our hospital, the only COVID treatment site other than the Capital city.  At this time none of them have needed the ventilator which FAME provided.  But we are just getting started.  In the next few months, we expect 240,000 to contract the virus in our city. On the first day, the virus appeared in three disparate parts of the city, all of them mud hut neighborhoods. Then it took off, as I had originally expected it to do in Africa. In the first 15 days, it was multiplying with a doubling time of fewer than 3 days. Because of the explosive spread taking place in Nampula, our country rose quickly to the 8th highest position among the nations of the world in terms of the rapidity of COVID spread.

At this point, you and FAME have been able to meet the needs presented to us from your global partners.  Here is part of the unknown which is to come –the majority of your global partners report that they have been overwhelmed with feeding the starving in their communities.  Providing food for the most impacted has become a health crisis for partners in Asia, Africa, Central, and South America.  Medical Providers have been some of the only people allowed on the roads to deliver food to remote churches.

From the reports we are receiving, these countries which have been under such serious lockdowns, the spread of the virus has been a secondary crisis.  Can you continue to pray and support FAME in order for us together to be most responsive to the needs as they come to us?

You are “one in a million” to us at FAME- may be an idiom…but your impact is not- every dollar you give to FAME touches at least one of the world’s most impacted by disease and hopelessness; like this Nampula hospital which is the only one among a million!