As a partner with FAME, you have already been helping Ukraine’s Most Vulnerable!!! 

Impacting the world’s most vulnerable is what YOU do through FAME every day!  Refugees are being helped in Africa, Asia, and Europe in an ongoing way by FAME partners year-round.  By partnering with FAME you ARE HELPING HUMANITARIAN CRISIS’ every day – but your impact includes something that many don’t – an Evangelism message and the hope that comes from Jesus! 

In 2016 a current Ukrainian ministry with 39 community health workers scattered throughout that country began receiving medical equipment and supplies from FAME.  Well before most of the world knew of any conflict between Russia and Ukraine, these partners, the young man pictured in particular, provided Wound Care Supplies that were given by FAME to a rescue organization on the front lines to treat and care for victims of violence in the war zone! 

In other words, you have been providing the “boots-on-the-ground” the medical supplies they need as they share the hope of Jesus for 6 years! 

Here are 3 recent stories from the last few weeks:

1. The head of a Ukrainian surgical hospital expressed his gratitude as this FAME partner provided crutches for the hospital when the hospital had NONE!  These were processed, repaired, and shipped from Indianapolis!!!

2.  A FAME partner community health worker Thanks God for your prayers- she shares that one Babushka (grandmother) was resting on her bed in her room when her son called her outside to see how he was working in the garden preparing it for Spring.  She got up and went outside.  At that very moment, a huge shell flew into her window in the bedroom where she was just resting and destroyed the wall and everything in the room.  

3. Additionally, a large Emergency Fund gift was just approved to help refugees who are being safely cared for by an Evangelistic organization that has been training leaders, but is now caring for a growing number of Refugees! 

Your FAME partners have been courageous- taking food to Ukrainian soldiers, making runs in their vehicles to take people to safety, visiting the elderly, and taking them a stockpile of food/blankets/medicines at great risk to their own lives.  Power is off, water is off, store shelves are emptying, gasoline is hard to get.  The lines of vehicles waiting to be processed at borders reach up to 30 kilometers long. 

Help and hope is being given to the people of Ukraine, now and for the last 6 years, because of YOU!  Here is what one partner reported, “our team is doing everything they can wherever they are, leading, loving, sharing the Gospel.  And people are listening…”  They also share, “Our team is alive…this is the direct hand of God…”

When you partner with FAME, you partner with heroes like these in Ukraine and over 50 other countries this last year!  Even when the news media did not report on the Ukrainian war zone, YOU WERE ALREADY HELPING THERE! 

Thank you for your partnership in prayer and generosity!

**To give to the Ukraine Emergency Fund Click Here  and choose Ukraine-Emergency Relief in the drop down. 

For years a young couple had been creating much trouble for a FAME partner’s work among a  remote people group.   This husband and wife criticized the gospel and raised up many young people to oppose their work.  They were so aggressive that they would work with these radical young people to chase the evangelists and workers from their neighborhoods in the villages.

This faithful FAME partner put them on their prayer lists for over one year. 

Recently the husband became very ill and it became serious!  His wife went to the ministry to ask for help and prayer.  This ministry had the Grand Opening of a brand-new clinic in February which FAME funded through YOUR generosity! 

“We responded quickly to go to him, pray for him and help all that we could!  We added them to all of our prayer cells at the churches and also in our Tuesday fasting, we prayed for his speedy recovery.” 

By the grace of God, work of the medical care at the clinic, and prayer he was cured.  The husband and wife started coming to Church on Sundays.  Your FAME partner reported March 6th in an email, “Today they asked me to give baptism for the remission of their sin.  After their baptism, they both smiled for the first time.  Because of their life change, they took the new names, Mercy and Stephen.” 

Because of you, stories like this happen every day!  Every day over 5,500 people hear the Gospel Message when they receive Medical Care through FAME’s partners!  And not only are they treated in the name of Jesus, but MANY also receive eternal hope because of you! 

Thank you for your partnership with FAME. The world’s most vulnerable are less vulnerable because of you! 

 

Dear Prayer Partner,

Thank you for your continued partnership with FAME through prayer. We find it a great blessing in knowing you have come alongside us in prayer as we pray for our mission partners, volunteers, scholarship recipients, board of directors, staff, sustainable healthcare projects, shipments of medical equipment and supplies, short-term mission trips, as well as various church visits and conferences.

This month, please partner with us in praying for the people of Ukraine, and especially our mission partners there. Last week we received an email from the Director of one of these missions who wrote, “I ask that you try to put yourself in the shoes of those we have named for prayer…imagine choosing to leave people who you cannot take with you – elderly, ill, new believers, not yet believers, your church family, your neighbors…imagine having to leave people behind…you have a vehicle, but most of them don’t.  Imagine leaving behind your house and most of your things…  Imagine leaving those things behind and not being sure where to go, what is the safest way to go, and what you might experience along the way.  Yes, our amazing team knows the Lord, and trusts in Him…but we are talking about incredibly hard circumstances.”  These ministries have team members all throughout the country and they are in need of prayer for safety, as well as wisdom and discernment during this time of uncertainty.

Please also pray for a short-term medical mission team that will be going to Mexico at the end of the month to serve with Worldwide Hispanic Outreach (WWHO) in La Biznaga, Mexico. This team of 11 will be participating in medical outreaches in rural communities providing medical care and health education. Pray for the mission doctors and hosts, team members, and those to whom they will be providing medical care. Dr. Elsy Fuentes of WWHO writes, “I believe each patient that walks through our door is searching for physical healing. As we gain their trust, we share the real meaning of being healthy which is having abundant life in our Lord Jesus.”

Others to pray for this month include FAME scholarship recipients that are studying to become medical professionals in their home countries. Currently, FAME is providing scholarships to 12 students in 7 countries who are all studying to become doctors, nurses, or other medical professionals. These students will then serve with a sponsoring mission upon graduation for a set time, providing medical care in the name of Christ in their home country.

Pray also for various volunteer groups that will be serving this month at FAME, new church partnerships, new mission/ministry partnerships, church visits, and FAME partners in countries that are experiencing persecution and unrest.

Thank you again for your partnership in prayer.

Click here for the March Prayer Calendar

An unlikely partnership is sending help and hope from the Indy 500 to FAME partners in Ukraine.

Partnership is powerful, more powerful than a car that drives 220+ mph!  Let me explain:

Recently, FAME received word that the Indianapolis 500 medical facility had 18 Hospital beds/stretchers to donate to FAME.  These had been used for drivers, crew members, and others who needed medical care at the track. 

At the same time, FAME scheduled a meeting to discuss a Container shipment of needed medical supplies including hospital beds/stretchers to be shipped to partners in Ukraine! 

These very beds from the greatest spectacle in racing could help some of the world’s most vulnerable during a crisis larger than we yet know.

Additionally, another partner serving the people of U.k.r.a.i.n.e has given us 39 healthcare workers for whom to pray AND 6 which are in the most Eastern and vulnerable areas.  Can you just pray for them, even though we don’t include their names here – can you pray for the 39 FAME partner Workers in that country currently at risk? 

Because of YOU and generous partners like you- FAME is able to respond to opportunities immediately to help those in the line of disaster, and in risky vulnerable places.  

Thank you for your partnership that brings help and hope even to places of darkness.

Maraiah lives 9 km away from a FAME Partner Hospital in India.  He is of the Yanadi people, who are among the poorest of all, mostly illiterate.  They live apart from other castes because of their different customs and fear. 
For years Maraiah was the breadwinner for the family. But tragically he became totally paralyzed.  All his children left, and his wife attempted to care for him, but when she goes out for low-paying daily wages there is no one to take care of him.

His wife explained the extreme situation to the Project Manager of DLRH, Vincent, while Vincent was meeting some Christians nearby their remote village.  He was deeply touched and asked them to come to the David and Lois Rees Hospital. They didn’t have any money but he urged them to come.  

The David and Lois Rees Hospital was named by the community leaders David and Lois served for decades eradicating leprosy in that region– YOU and FAME partnered with DLRH to build the facilities decades ago- and currently FAME is helping the next step to remodel and “re-purpose” this first-class facility in a way that will allow them to become fully self-supporting and self-sustaining allowing them to be independent and not need funding from out of country ever again!

They came the next day. Vincent introduced Maraiah to the DLRH doctor, who treated them without charging fees, prescribed the needed medicine. They could not afford them, so Vincent paid for them himself.
Maraiah is now able to stand up and take a few steps. He is under medication at home, continuing treatment and improving greatly. Vincent introduced Jesus to him, and many are praying for him.  His wife carries him partway to church because he and his wife now love Jesus.  

Does this remind you of anyone?  “Go and report what you have seen and heard:  The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, those with leprosy are cleansed…and the poor are told the good news.”  Luke 7:22

Thank you for your partnership which makes stories like this possible!  You are partnering with hundreds of hospitals, clinics, and missions to BE LIKE JESUS bringing healing and hope to the world’s most vulnerable just like Maraiah.

Your Christ-like generosity is impacting millions!  If you would like to know more about this project in India click below:

Click here for more information about the DLRH project. 

“The situation in Ukraine is very unstable and fragile.” reports a FAME partner to Ukraine.  Can you consider helping FAME replenish our Emergency Fund because we just sent help to Ukraine? FAME attempts to keep an Emergency Fund ready for a swift response, and then keep it replenished.  Without delving into the political elements of the Ukrainian situation, let me tell you about this partner, and then what they are doing.

This Ukraine partner has 20 points of contact in West Ukraine and 19 points of contact in East Ukraine.  These points of contact are the people who are caring for and treating some of the most vulnerable, especially the elderly in Ukraine.  Here in the US, we don’t realize the abandonment that occurs in many countries for the elderly, this FAME partner brings help and hope daily.

Here’s the situation they explained:  The concern is that if an invasion occurs water, heat, electricity, internet, phone will be lost as well as access to funds in the bank.  Most people in Ukraine do not own their own vehicles, so public transportation (trains, buses, flights, etc.)  might also be impacted. Those in their care really have no choice at all but to stay put so most of the 39 workers are inclined to stay right where they are.  Please pray for their protection.

The Emergency Funds FAME just transferred is to cover an immediate shipment to every one of these 39 Health Care workers – they report that their shipping company seems to be able to deliver in just about any situation but they needed to move quickly!   FAME must stand with them as they courageously serve in the midst of hardship.  Their stateside contact shared, “I do not want them to feel abandoned or that we don’t care about them in such a desperate time.  God knows all of this, He sees and knows every one of our team, our pastors and churches, and our precious elderly and disabled.  He will not leave them, He will not abandon them.”  

Thank you for your partnership, if you wish to respond to this Emergency you can go to www.fameworld.org/donate and choose Ukraine-Emergency Relief .  Any gift at this time will strengthen FAME’s ability to daily meet the needs of our Global Partners, just like we have for 56 Missions in the last twelve months, because of your generosity!

One of the Sustainable elements of your Impact through FAME is our Scholarship Program.  Students who are recommended by a FAME partner, make a commitment to study in their country, and serve the medical mission following graduation can qualify.  We thought you would like to get a glimpse of their locations, plans, and time of graduation! 

That is your impact!  Their long-term potential impact is exciting- we are seeing it play out from previous scholarship recipients.  Here are two examples:

Honduras –  A 2004 Scholarship recipient is now the Director of the Medical Clinic he visited as a child.  Additionally, he is teaching in the School of Medicine in Tegucigalpa! 

Kenya– the FAME Board just approved Phase One of many phases of a new Healthcare system in a remote and underserved region of that Country.  The lead Physician is Daniel Koitatoi, a recent graduate and FAME Scholarship recipient. 

The Sustainability of what YOU are doing around the globe is advancing the Kingdom of God! 

Thank you for your partnership!
 
Bill Warren
Executive Director

 

Take More Naps! 

That’s what the email recommended to have an amazing 2022!  Well, that was number 16, before that there were excellent ideas:

• Talk to yourself in a more encouraging way. There’s no one else like you alive on the globe today.
• Write a “not to do list”.  –That caught my eye… 

But the one that stood out was

• Determine how you will impact other people in the world.  Be a world-changer! 

You have ALREADY figured that out!  At least to some degree, because as you partner with FAME you impact thousands of the world’s most neglected, ignored, and hopeless people by bringing help and hope through medical evangelism. 

Here’s how big your impact will be in 2022!!!

If tomorrow morning you received an email from EVERY PERSON YOU HELPED IN 2021 through FAME, and you decided to read each name and country for 5 seconds before you deleted the email.  It would take you 1380 hours, that’s 65 Days to read/delete the first Million emails!!! 

That’s when you’d need to take more naps!  

YOU ARE A WORLD-CHANGER!  YOU DO IMPACT OTHER PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. 

You can mark that off your list to figure out for 2022- now you just need to figure out how to

• Drink more water
• Exercise first thing every morning 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTNERSHIP AND GENEROSITY IN 2021!  This next year of 2022 has more needs coming our way from around the world- all opportunities for you to do what you are already doing!  Being a world-changer! 

Thank you, and God Bless you and your family in 2022!
 
Bill Warren
Executive Director

The time has come again for the beginning of a new year. One of hope and promise. I recently ran across a quote from Charles Spurgeon that I felt was an appropriate goal for this coming year. As we make our New Year’s resolutions, may our utmost resolution be that we bless the Lord no matter our circumstances.

“I am sure that I may claim that the beginning of another year is a good time to begin blessing the Lord. For the mercies of another year, the forgiveness of another year, the provision, the instruction, the guidance, the supplies of another year, for the mercies of the year on which we enter with a good heart of hope, for all our fears which have been averted, for all our hopes which have been fulfilled, for all that we have learned, for all that we have experienced, let us carry out this happy resolution that, from this time forth, we will bless the Lord!” – Charles Spurgeon

Thank you so much for your faithful prayers for the ministry of FAME and our partners around the world. We find it a blessing to know that you are partnering with us each month and day in prayer. This month, please partner with us in praying for the following that are on each day of the January calendar:

• FAME Board members as they continue to lead the ministry
• FAME Sustainable Healthcare projects that were approved at the last FAME Board meeting and are underway or will be so soon. Please pray for the funding needed for each of these projects, that the construction process will go smoothly, and that through these projects, the love of Jesus will be shown through medical evangelism.
• Our mission partners in Myanmar, India, and Haiti that continue to be under extreme pressure due to government control or civil unrest
• Church visits that Executive Director, Bill Warren will be making
• Volunteer groups that will be serving in the FAME warehouse, including a student volunteer group from Western Illinois University.
• Mark Yeaton, who will be climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro during the middle of the month to help raise funds for a clinic in Kenya. Rich Nye of a local news station in Indianapolis, IN did a story about Mark and his climb that you can watch here. www.wthr.com/article/news/local/columbus-teacher-to-climb-kilimanjaro-to-raise-money-for-medical-clinic-in-kenya

Blessings in the coming year.

Click Here for the January 2022 Prayer Calendar.