Babeni* was suffering and weak, but no one knew why.  Day after day his family thought he was just aging and under a curse.  He and his family gave up hope and thought all was lost because even the inadequately supplied clinic they had visited didn’t have the supplies needed to diagnose what was wrong.

Then Babeni’s daughter heard the new clinic received supplies and was ready to see patients.  The shipment of supplies had been sent by FAME and made possible by you and partners like you!

Babeni was able to visit the clinic, and the newly arrived blood pressure cuff was used to identify the cause of his weakness and decline.  Hypertension, or high blood pressure.  Even here in the USA hypertension is often called a “silent disease” because you usually don’t know that you have it.  But here in America our doctors have an abundance of supplies like Blood pressure cuffs!  CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, and many other stores have BP stations where you can check your own blood pressure!

Access to healthcare and even health information is limited and even non-existent to 400 million of the people of the world.  Men and women like Babeni are at risk of dying before they have a chance to even hear the gospel.

Babeni’s story ends well – a few lifestyle changes and a diuretic was able to be prescribed and his life is extended.  Your FAME partner can now tell him and his family all about Jesus- and he has time to respond to the good news!

Thank you for your partnership!  You make it possible for FAME to send help and hope every day to global partners who are saving lives for eternity!

Thank you!

Bill Warren
Executive Director

*Babeni’s name is changed, but his story is real and repeated time and time again!

I’m running for something and I’d love to have you with me!  Here’s the story…

On Saturday, March 14th I returned from an extended trip to Asia visiting your FAME ministry partners.  While the places I visited had very low case numbers of the coronavirus, fear was growing.  By the time I arrived home, I had decided on a voluntary 14-day self-quarantine.  On Monday, March 16, the shutdown began and my 14 days at home became three months.

With my calendar clear and some extra time available, I decided to exercise.  I began walking three miles each day.  Eventually, I increased the distance and began some running.  As I write this, I have logged over 800 miles since March.

During the hours on my walks / runs, I wondered: “How can I help our FAME partners who are working in under-resourced parts of the world?”  The answer became INDY-THON.  Indy-thon is the combination of the Half Marathon at Fort Benjamin Harrison on October 3 and the Monumental Half Marathon on November 7.  My goal is to raise $1,000 per mile (that’s 26.2 miles) for the FAME Reeves Memorial Project Fund.

The Reeves fund will complete 11 Sustainable Healthcare Projects through FAME partners in India, Haiti, Mexico, Ghana, Spain, Ivory Coast and the Philippines.  It will purchase surgical equipment, a hospital generator, two ambulances and construction materials for a cardiac hospital and 6 primary care clinics.  For example, $26,200 could complete a primary care clinic in Mahabalipuram, India.

Every project of every partner will result in medical evangelism.  The gospel will be proclaimed as individuals are given otherwise unavailable healthcare in the name of Jesus!

Will you join me?  I am asking you to pledge a dollar amount for every mile I complete.  A $10.00 / mile pledge would be $262.00.  Or, you could sponsor a mile for $1,000 or a half mile for $500.  Really your gift of any amount will help.  Click HERE to join me!

Whatever you decide, thanks for joining me – and know that your gift will help meet desperate medical needs – but more importantly, meet them in Jesus’ name!  You will be changing lives now and into eternity.

Thanks & God Bless!

Bill Warren
Executive Director

The typhoon season of the Philippines has started amidst a rampaging coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The first typhoon, Vongfong, with strong winds of 155 kph (96 mph) and torrential rains pounded the country while on strict lockdown.

It placed the health system of the Philippines into a test as a perfect storm developed—a strong typhoon during a devastating pandemic. In a country of 110 million people, Vongfong displaced populations and knocked out power, thus complicating the COVID-19 initiatives and adding additional burden to the emergency situation of the country. The Philippines is hit by an average of twenty tropical typhoons every year.

It may be recalled that the country is still reeling from the effects of super typhoon Haiyan on November 8 of 2013 that killed 6200 people, displacing 4 million and affecting 14 million from its destructive force.  And the Electric Co-op of Aparri in North Luzon is still often offline because of Typhoon Ompong in 2018.

A FAME partner Hospital, Charles W. Selby Memorial Hospital in Aparri, has at risk outdoor temporary Triage areas and treatment areas because of COVID-19.  Additionally, your partner in Aparri has an outdated, under-sized, and over-used generator. Many years ago, the hospital-acquired a small generator just for Emergencies.  Usually a temporary solution, this generator has now become a near-permanent provider of electricity for critical care patients with the ongoing and common Electricity Crisis in the Philippines. When the electricity is out only portions of the hospital are able to have power.

The following Departments are in crisis during these Outages:

• Pediatric Respiratory
• Dialysis
• Heart Monitoring
• COPD and Asthma

All of these patients are all at risk many times.

With your partnership FAME can provide a New Generator which will adequately power the full hospital if needed!

This FAME Partner Hospital is 100% Filipino-led and 99% self-funding for daily operations – an example of Sustainability!  Chaplains at this hospital boldly declare the gospel to EVERY patient who enters!

Can you partner with FAME with a gift to Sustainable Projects that will bring Power to the Philippines?  Power for Healthcare and Power from the Gospel!

Dear Friends and Partners of FAME,

Do you remember the Earth, Wind & Fire song from 1978, “September”?

Ba de ya, say do you remember?
Ba de ya, dancing in September
Ba de ya, never was a cloudy day     (are you humming it now?)

Do you remember last September? Do you remember what it was like to live in a world without an unrelenting pandemic, an increase in racial tensions, masks, getting together with family and friends, going to church, going to school, going to work, receiving medical care, volunteering, attending sporting events, going on a vacation, going on a mission trip, and no “social distancing”?

Last September, as well as other Septembers, seem like dreams compared to the world we live in now. So much has changed as we look at the current world we live in. What has not changed is the love of our God and He being with us through all of this.

Recently, FAME Executive Director, Bill Warren said, “Even though several FAME  short-term medical mission trips this year have been canceled and some of our Sustainable Healthcare Projects are “on hold” because of mandated lockdowns, God is still at work!  We have heard from so many of our partners with stories of their unique opportunities to reach out and help people in their communities during a pandemic. One partner in India is waiting for the pandemic to end so they can continue work on this desperately needed primary care clinic.  Today it is just a foundation but soon it will be a place where people will find help and hope – both physically and spiritually.  In the meantime, they are feeding people who are hungry, and I recently saw pictures of the baptisms of six people.”

There are great needs among our partners, and this month we invite you to partner with us in praying for many of them and the medical projects we have committed to funding for their missions.

Other items of prayer for this month include our FAME scholarship recipients who are studying to become medical professionals, FAME’s short-term mission trips that are currently scheduled for 2021, some upcoming conferences that will now be virtual instead of in person, volunteer groups, and some church visits where Jeff Coon, FAME Director of Development will be presenting FAME and how churches can partner with us in reaching the lost through medical evangelism.

Please know that we are grateful to you and your partnership. Your prayers are making a difference in lives around the world.

Many blessings to all of you!

Click here for the September Prayer Calendar