From the Mountains of Mexico to the barrios of Colombia, partnership brings the gospel closer to some of the poorest people.

Not long ago a FAME short-term medical and health education trip to Colombia included a pair of unlikely team members. The team was hoping to serve 500 people in Barranquilla, Colombia at the location of the future Community Health Center and saw over 800 individuals.

Part of the team was strengthened by 2 Medical Doctors from a Partner ministry in Mexico!

Did you catch that? FAME is partnering with a Husband and Wife Medical team in Mexico to support their clinics and the construction of a New Hospital – but THEY took time to strengthen the team in Colombia barrios!

In the 50 years of FAME, it has become starkly apparent that places of poverty and great need are often places without Jesus. It has become additionally consistent that those same places have no access to healthcare, so hearts are opened because of the compassionate care of people who love Jesus. FAME partners can go where other traditional evangelism methods cannot go!

Being a Global leader in Partnership through Medical Evangelism is a core value that is acted upon continually by your FAME partners around the world. Just this week, over 5000 people heard the gospel because of partnership!

We are grateful for global partners who make us all Stronger Together!

We are grateful for YOU and YOUR PARTNERSHIP too! When we lift together, we are stronger!

You don’t have to have been partnering with FAME very long to have heard the phrase  “world’s most vulnerable” from us.

Last year supplies were sent with a global partner serving refugees in Germany who had escaped from Ukraine.  But these weren’t just refugees!  These dear determined folks are part of the Ukrainian quadriplegic and paraplegic community!

Eight wheelchair-bound individuals were evacuated from Eastern Ukraine without any medical personnel or medical supplies.  The FAME partner learned of the need and within 4 days had uprooted everything and headed to Germany to care for these special people!

What a blessing YOUR support of FAME is because the supplies sent in October are still serving these refugees in their care.  Another shipment of supplies is being planned for delivery, which will continue to show the love of Jesus.

The world’s most vulnerable; YOU are impacting them every day through your partnership with FAME.

Thank you for your partnership!

Prior to a FAME partner team’s arrival, a Hospital in Cuba had been closed for two weeks!  Why?  Because they had no medical supplies or medicines to distribute.  This work among churches in the Guantanamo Mountain Range has been opening the door for the gospel in this unlikely place!

When the team arrived, they were able to deliver syringes and other supplies which FAME provided.  The supplies were enough that the hospital was able to be reopened!  The gloves, masks, and other surgical supplies were the first the staff had seen in weeks!  These nurses were moved by the unconditional generosity of these believers in Jesus!

Jose’, a pastor in the region rushed to a hospital because his 86-year-old father was dying.  Much to his dismay the hospital was so low on supplies they had reused a catheter for his father’s respiratory issues.  FAME partners are seeking options to provide needed supplies in the name of Jesus!!

Your generosity and partnership with FAME allow light to shine through Christians in countries like Cuba.  Last year International News agencies reported on an explosion at a capital city hotel and that victims were being “transported to hospitals which had no medicines” during this crisis.  Our partner who just returned from there said, “We found the lack of supplies worse than the stories and what we expected.”

When Christians and churches in these countries are able to unconditionally and lovingly share medical care – hearts open to the good news!!

Your partnership with FAME allows us to provide these evangelism tools!!!

You are invited to be surrounded by world-changers like you to celebrate a ground-breaking year breaking barriers of access to the gospel through medical evangelism!

April 15, 2023

5:00 p.m.
(doors open at 4:30 p.m.)

PLAINFIELD CHRISTIAN CHURCH
PLAINFIELD, Indiana

Join us as we celebrate a few of the thousands of stories we could tell about the miraculous impact
in nearly every time zone around the globe.

Hear and Experience the Impact of FAME like never before!

Additionally, new unprecedented opportunities will be unveiled for 2023 and beyond! The dramatic needs of the world are increasing but so are the open doors for the gospel!

• Amazing Meal by the Famous Smokehouse Catering
• Silent Auction – fun items from around the world
• Special Musical Guest
  Artist:  Jason Gray
  jasongraymusic.com

You will leave inspired!
“My Word will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire!” Isaiah 55:11

 

Tickets are $35 per person/ $60 couple/ $240 table
YOUR TICKETS ARE HERE

Thank you for your partnership with FAME through prayer. We are blessed in knowing that you faithfully come alongside us, as we pray for FAME partners, volunteers, board members, staff, scholarship recipients, and other happenings in ministry.

This month, we have included on the monthly calendar our upcoming short-term mission trips.  Medical mission teams are made up of both medical professionals and non-medical team members. Both are critical to the overall team.

Please pray for the team members that have committed to participating on these trips, for others to be moved to want to serve on these trips, for our host mission partners, and for the people that will be treated. Pray that they may be open to the gospel as they are treated in the name of Jesus. If you would like more information about short-term trips, visit our website at www.fameworld.org/mission-trips.

We also ask for prayer for our regular FAME volunteers that serve weekly in the ministry. FAME could not do all it does without the help of so many faithful volunteers. For them, we are so thankful.

In this month of February and a “month of love”, I am encouraged by the many volunteers and trip participants who because of their love for God, have decided to serve Him through the ministry of FAME. People all around the world are being treated in the name of Christ and hearing the gospel because of their service and love for others.

Over the last few weeks, the pastor of my church has taught a sermon series on the book of 1 John.  And what a chapter on love that is! The words love, loved, loves, and loving is used a total of 46 times throughout all of 1 John. Below are a few of the scriptures that speak of God’s love and the love we are to have for others.

•  “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.” – 1 John 3:1
• “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. – 1 John 3:16
• “Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.” – 1 John 3:18
• “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God”. – 1 John 4:7
• “This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John 4:9-10
• “Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is made complete in us.” – 1 John 4:11-12
• “We love because he first loved us.” – 1 John 4:19

Thank you again for showing LOVE to the ministry of FAME and others around the world through your devotion to prayer. We truly love others when we pray for them because through our prayers we welcome God’s loving presence to move in their lives.

Blessings in the coming month!

Click Here for the February Prayer Calendar