Taking local traffic patterns into account, rural Americans have an average travel time of 17 minutes to the nearest hospital, while those in suburban and urban communities have an average travel time of 12 minutes and 10 minutes, respectively.

In Africa, nearly 50% of the population have more than 2 hours to travel to the nearest hospital, with 28% of those being more than 24 hours of travel to reach such a hospital!

 

With that fact – Obstetric crises are common!  One FAME global partner is a CMF (Christian Missionary Fellowship) Clinic which has served expectant mothers for many years.  A focus of this clinic has been HIV+ mothers – with wonderful results of 98% success in no transfer of HIV to the babies!

But this wonderful clinic has had to halt all services except prenatal care.  The Ivory Coast Government is requiring them to have an Ambulance for emergency situations before they are allowed to continue with maternity services that include the delivery of babies!

This Ambulance is one of the 11 sustainable projects for which Bill Warren is running on Saturday, November 7th in the Monumental Half-Marathon.

Are you looking forward to 2021?  Ready to leave 2020 in the rearview mirror? Me too- but there are some generosity opportunities that expire on December 31, 2020, which are worth noting! Here are two resources we’d like you to see, which can help increase your stewardship as we approach the end of this unique year.

One:  A Guide to Year-End Giving

Compiled by our partners CDF Foundation, this Guide can help you reach your personal generosity goals and protect your financial planning

Two:  CARES Act Fact Sheet

Unique generosity opportunities that will expire on December 31, 2020, connected to the CARES Act of 2020.

Download these resources, and if you have any questions please contact Jeff Coon jcoon@fameworld.org or 317-675-7373 and he will answer, or connect you to a partner who can answer your questions.

This week I was on a Zoom call and was asked if we ever worked together with other ministries.  Well, the answer is YES.

That is what we do!

Can I name a few partnerships for you?

First, we only go into the “uttermost parts of the earth” where there are partner ministries who have requested our teamwork and ministry with sustainable partnerships, shipping equipment and supplies, and sending short-term teams.  That is where the evangelism happens because FAME helps open doors for our global partners.

Second, we only are able to do ministry because of individuals and churches like you who partner financially with us- there is no FAME ministry- it is OUR ministry with you!

Third, we work in partnership with other parachurch ministries to support the global partners we share in the world.  Here is a short-list of a partner and an example of partnership

TEAM Expansion– Last week co-sponsored Community Health Evangelism (CHE) Training at the FAME headquarters, preparing Trainers headed to global partner locations

IDES – International Disaster Emergency Services – recently FAME and IDES have partnered on a Hospital in Pakistan, and Ambulances in the Philippines and Honduras

CMF- Christian Missionary Fellowship– Sustainable Project collaboration in Africa and SE Asia, clinics, hospitals, mobile clinics, and medical resources

PBT-Pioneer Bible Translators – For many years FAME has provided the basic medical supplies for PBT team leaders as they head to the field.  Recent conversations have begun for one Translator in Papua New Guinea to help outfit a clinic they are using for medical evangelism.

So, yes; we work with other ministries- that is what we do!

And by the way, the original question…when I’m asked, “who is our greatest partner?”  It is YOU!  And others like you.

FAME – Partners in Medical Evangelism is who we are, and what we do!

Jeff Coon

Director of Development.

The pandemic has reached into the most remote parts of the world – but SO HAVE YOU!

For months, Myanmar appeared to have escaped a major COVID-19 outbreak. Between March and August, cases were limited to 374 with only six deaths. The last fatality was recorded in April, and no local transmissions were reported between July 16 and August 16. But on August 16, everything changed. A second wave of COVID-19 cases erupted and quickly spread to Yangon, with smaller clusters now being found across the country, including the remote area of North Myanmar!

In early September, 17 preachers gathered in remote North Myanmar in the village of Putao.   Putao is tucked into the Himalayan foothills where there are no paved roads!  They met to divide up the critical medical supplies purchased with Funds sent by FAME which you made possible!  The $1500 sent by FAME was exchanged for 1,950,000 kyats!

These great men scattered around the mountain villages and they were able to provide infrared thermometers, sanitizers, masks, and medicines for 45 churches.  Forty-Five Churches with one gift!   Also, now is the rainy season, the season that the people in Myanmar most suffer from various kinds of illnesses and diseases.

These preachers become the frontline workers where there is no doctor.  Many of them have minimal training from FAME teams teaching Health Education and CHE (Community Health Evangelism); but without proper resources, training is only minimally helpful. Now, because of you, and other partners like you- even Himalayan foothill villages are more prepared for what’s ahead.

 

That’s multiplying your impact!  Thank you for your partnership in the remotest parts of the earth!

Bill Warren
Executive Director

Thank you for your continued support of the ministry of FAME through prayer. Our partners, scholarship recipients, volunteers, board members and staff are blessed by your devotion to prayer for our ministry. Your prayers are making an impact in lives all around the world!

This month we ask you to partner with us in praying for our FAME Board of Directors as they prepare for the Semi-Annual FAME Board of Directors meeting on October 17. Please pray for each of the wonderful FAME Board members that God has put in place and that they continue to be guided by the Spirit in making decisions regarding the ministry.

Please also pray for many of the FAME volunteers who come in on a weekly or monthly basis. We are so grateful for these volunteers who give of their time and talents to help further the mission of FAME in seeing people come to Christ through medical evangelism. If you would like to volunteer at FAME, either individually or as a group, please contact Barry Reed, FAME’s Director of Mission Resources at BarryR@fameworld.org.

Other items to pray for include:

• FAME Executive Director, Bill Warren, as he raises funds for the Reeves Project Fund through his participation in Indy-thon and the Run for Global Health. If you would like to learn more about this run, visit our website at www.fameworld.org/want-to-go-for-a-run
  
• Community Health Evangelism (CHE) TOT 1 Training October 5-8 being held at FAME in Indianapolis. www.fameworld.org/sustainable-projects/che.

Thank you for your partnership in medical evangelism through prayer!

Blessings in the coming month.

Click here for the October Prayer Calendar