Evacuation of Elderly, Delivery of Medicine, Food Distribution all are occurring because of you and your generosity! 

Shipments of medical equipment and supplies are in route, and assistance is being given from shipments that were made before the escalation of war because of you and your partnership. This crisis in Europe is not new!     

I have a Russian word for “Thank you” to tell you about too – but before I do, can I tell you about how many people want to thank YOU?  

This week FAME is launching support for new sustainable projects in Colombia, Myanmar, Mexico, Ghana, Kenya, Honduras, Pakistan, and South Sudan.  Each of these will touch the lives of thousands!  We’ve learned that over 5,000 people HEAR THE GOSPEL and receive medical care with this message EVERY DAY! That is a lot of people who would love to say thank you! 

I really only know one Russian word- let me tell you about it. 

Many of the Ukrainians being displaced speak Russian as well as Ukrainian.  So many of them would say “Thank you” using the word “spasibo” (спасибо) instead of “dyakuyu” and this word’s literal meaning is “Let God save you”!

Amazing – that is EXACTLY the message of Medical Evangelism’s hope and help – “Let God save you!”  So when I say Thank you to you for your partnership – the message we are sending to thousands every day is Russian for Thank you – “Let God save you!” 

One of your FAME Scholarship recipients, a graduate and New Licensed Medical Doctor in Kenya reports feeling helpless due to a lack of resources, unpleasant working environment, and generally unsafe healthcare provision.  

Currently, I work in my home county, with the local government at the Kajiado county  Referral Hospital, which ideally is meant to be a level 5 hospital, but the service provision situation is wanting.  The situation here gives me a feeling of dissatisfaction and it is not a good setup to effectively show the love of Jesus.

Working at the county hospital, we are helpless due to a lack of resources, an unpleasant working environment, and generally unsafe healthcare provision.  

One week ago we lost a 23-year-old female, married, who hails from Kumpa (I know her husband), she presented at a local private clinic at Ilbissil with bleeding and Lower abdominal pain, and without any proper investigation, a procedure was performed and the uterus was perforated by mistake. This was not noticed and she was discharged home. A few days later her condition deteriorated and she came to the Kajiado referral hospital, where an ultrasound was noted to have an ectopic pregnancy, and also diagnosed with peritonitis (severe infection in the abdominal cavity), she went into septic shock and passed on 2 days after admission, the operation was delayed because the theatre was not clean and casual laborers have not been paid. This is saddening and heartbreaking.

This does not need to happen!  That is why YOU through FAME are partnering with this Doctor (who grew up in a cow dung hut in Kajiado) to develop a Self-Sustaining Healthcare System in this desperate Kenyan County.  Phase One is underway and so far FAME has committed $50,000 of the $150,000 Phase-One cost for the property to be purchased, fenced and a well drilled, preparing for the first Clinic of many in this region. Here is what this scholarship recipient said,

“It is always my dream that one day I’ll be able to offer safe quality healthcare to this desperate population, for the glory of God, as a way of thanksgiving to all of you who invested and trusted me. 

I have a dream to develop a privatized self-sustainable healthcare system in Kajiado offering both primary and secondary healthcare services to maximize revenue generation, and that in the future the system will be able to operate with minimal or no support from donors.” 

FAME is committed to a multi-year plan to impact millions of the Maasi people in this underserved region!  When you partner with FAME – you bring help and hope to the people of Kenya and nearly 60 other Nations around the world!  Thank you for your partnership! 

It was nearing 9:00 p.m. after a very long day the first weekend of April…

…and your FAME partner doctors were caring for the last of hundreds of patients seen that day. The importance of your partnership became very clear, once again.

Earlier this month one of your FAME short-term teams was serving alongside your FAME partner doctors in a remote, mountainous region of Mexico. They were hosting a Campana de Salud Familiar Gratuita (Free Family Health Campaign) in a series of villages that has no church, actually, no known Christians live there. These events treat people with the care of Jesus, but intentionally every participant hears a presentation of the gospel!

People are treated on a first-come-first-served basis (last-come, last served) and the day had been full and it was nearing 9:00 p.m. while the Doctors were patiently treating the last family of the day. It was a mom and dad with 2 young children. Your wonderful FAME team was getting tired and was ready to start their hour and a half drive back down out of the mountains to their late dinner and their soft beds.

The team was forever impacted though when they realized the family that was leaving the doctors were walking home. Your FAME team members asked the translators and partner Doctors about the family. They were the last to arrive and the last to leave because the family had walked 3 hours to come. That meant they were walking 3 hours yet that night with their 2 little children back to their home. They were taking Medicines and The Message back with them. You have heard us say, Access to Healthcare, Brings Access to the Gospel many times if you’ve been connected with FAME very long- it is SO REAL a need and your FAME team in Mexico just witnessed it a couple of weeks ago. They wanted to give them a ride, help them get to their homes and so much more- but our FAME partner doctors assured the team the family was safe and going to be okay- this is their way of life.

But your FAME doctors will follow up with them AND follow up with the community. The plan is that once 5 people become Christians in the village that a church will send a van to pick up those 5 people. Once that core group grows, the day will come that a church will be planted!

For 50 years FAME has been doing what Jesus said 2000 years ago, “He sent them to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick.” Luke 9:2

This Good Friday, remember Jesus opens doors so people see Jesus is Alive!
If you want to send the hope of the gospel – partner with FAME!
If you want to plant seeds to start churches – partner with FAME!
If you want to help treat people with the love of Jesus – partner with FAME!

I’m part of FAME, our staff is committed to FAME, hundreds of people like you, and churches like yours partner with FAME because the Message of the Gospel is shared the Medical Care!

Happy Easter!

Bill Warren
Executive Director

 

 

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A FAME partner in Ivory Coast had to shut down their mid-wife-based clinic, other than prenatal care because the Ambulance in their region was broken down and the government wouldn’t replace it.

Many of you partnered with FAME for this Ivory Coast Proper, Timely, Transportation emphasis for my “Run for Global Health”.

This week I received an email that the Ambulance HAS ARRIVED!    Here is their report:

I wanted to let you know that the ambulance has arrived at the PIM clinic in Abengourou and we are ready to begin delivering babies in our maternity. We will be the second place in town that does deliveries. In a city of over 150,000 people, you can imagine what a need that will meet!  We are excited to minister to families in our community even more as we meet their need to have a safe place to bring their children into this world. 

We can’t thank you enough for this generous gift that will allow us to serve our community in even greater ways, in the name of Jesus. 

That Thank you note is TO YOU!  You are FAME!  You make life-changing provisions possible for families around the World!

This team, we have bragged about them before, has a high success rate in bringing HIV-free babies into the world, and even greater than that, a high success rate in bringing the mothers to Jesus!

Thank you for your partnership that brings access to healthcare, bringing access to the gospel!