Me-lika, an eight-year-old boy faced unimaginable loss when both of his parents passed away within a year of each other. One succumbed to AIDS, and the other fell victim to malaria. Me-lika is now a resident of an orphanage where he receives compassionate care. However, life took a frightening turn when he fell seriously ill one night. A house parent monitored him and realizing the severity of his condition, swiftly placed him in a car and started on a three-hour journey to the nearest clinic. Their hopes were dashed upon arrival though as the clinic was closed. They then continued on to the hospital, another hour away, where Me-lika was admitted, treated, and eventually discharged after a few days of recovery.  All he needed was an antibiotic in a timely manner. This scary situation is too vulnerable for orphan children and their families!

FAME has a new partnership with an organization called Remember the Children. They have been working for many years in Romania and recently expanded their work to Tanzania. Remember the Children is a ministry that is focused on providing housing and families for orphans. There are 3.1 Million Orphan children in Tanzania because of Aids and Malaria.

They have already built ten homes in the village of Malolo. Each home can house twelve children and their parents, and they are filled to capacity. Homes 11 and 12 are currently under construction. A church has been started to meet the spiritual needs of the children and the community. They baptized 20 people in July! A school has been started to provide for their education. It has a capacity of 600 children and is currently at 270.

There is very limited access to healthcare in Tanzania particularly in this area. So, Remember the Children is building a Healthcare Clinic to meet the medical needs of orphans, school children, and the people in their local community. The clinic will be built next door to the church because they want to connect the physical ministry of the clinic with the spiritual ministry of the church!

 

Your partnership with FAME touches the lives of orphans, like Me-lika, part of those we call “the world’s most vulnerable” whom FAME reaches with medical evangelism!

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Going through a phase…”

Just an idiom?

So many of your FAME global partners have EXTENSIVE dreams and visions to MEET THE HEALTH NEEDS of the community they serve in order to SHOW THE LOVE OF JESUS, and then TELL THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS.  “Phases” to the Medical Evangelism process!

But those visions have humble beginnings.  A Burden, prayers, connections, open doors, sketches on napkins, conversations with leaders, building permits, funding partnerships, church connections, government approvals, obstacles, persecution, community emergency health crisis’, ground-breaking, and on and on to the moment when a person is treated in the name of Jesus by a healthcare provider and a family hears the gospel.  “Going through Phases”

Over the last year, FAME received updated photos of a hospital project of a specific room in the hospital.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Phases” that lead to people making eternal, permanent decisions for their lives!

Next time someone says, “…going through a phase….”  Think of FAME global partners who YOUR PARTNERSHIP WITH THEM takes them through hundreds of phases, fulfilling visions to bring the gospel to thousands!

Thank you for your partnership!

Not a simple answer, because, the short answer is, “No.”

But it is a “no” because FAME has no hospitals – FAME is a partner in medical evangelism!  The answer to the first question is “There is better news than having A hospital or clinic!  There are over 2000 hospitals, clinics, and ministries which have been a FAME partner!” 

In just the last 3 years FAME partnerships have supported:

• -multiple orphan care ministries
• -ministries serving abandoned babies
• -ministries rescuing trafficked children
• -hospitals and doctors specializing in children’s surgeries
• -distribution of mobility supplies for children
• –neo-natal care facilities
• –mother and child facilities
• –birthing centers

Recently a partner in a persecuted region reported that a CHE (Community Health Evangelism) Training on Trauma Healing and Recovery was led for 80 evangelists and many others.  Medical Kits and basic first aid training were provided for those evangelists.

One of those evangelists went back to his tribal region and after counseling and caring for some of the people he showed the Jesus Film to children and adults who had never even seen a moving picture.  Attached to the news was a photo of 20 people who had just been baptized…clearly most of them were children!

Your partnership is a multiplying impact partnership!

Can I re-phrase the question from the beginning of this email?

Does my partnership with FAME reach and care for children?

“Yes!”

When you say “Yes!” to FAME it allows FAME to say “Yes!” to global partners so that millions of people will say “Yes!” to Jesus!

 

“What we really need is a dental handpiece, but I know those are almost impossible to find and very expensive.” That’s what the dentist in Honduras told our staff who was visiting there last week. Barry, FAME Director of Mission Resources, answered, “You mean a dental drill?”  As the conversation continued, not only did Barry start to realize that the dental equipment this dentist needed was something that FAME had on hand, but it was also of even greater quality than this FAME partner dentist could hope to acquire.  Barry was not only able to promise delivery of a piece of equipment that will open the doors for the gospel to patients served at your FAME partner clinic in Honduras, but delivery within a week. Wednesday a suitcase with that dental drill and other equipment and supplies left with a friend of FAME, taking it to that very partner in Honduras!

One week, that’s a quick response. If it weren’t for partners like you, FAME would not be in a position to have or send the needed equipment and supplies that our global partners need to treat people in the name of Jesus, and share with them to love Jesus.

Thank you for your partnership. 

Dear Prayer Partner,

Thank you for your continued support of the ministry of FAME through prayer. We are blessed by your faithfulness each month in praying for FAME Mission Partners, volunteers, scholarship recipients, staff, board members, trip participants, shipments, projects, trips, and other various ministry activities.

This month, we ask that you join us in prayer for many of our regular FAME volunteers that come weekly or monthly to serve. We are blessed to have them use their time and talents to help further the Kingdom through the important part they play in medical evangelism.

We also ask that you pray for the FAME scholarship recipients that are studying to become medical professionals in their home countries. The current scholarship recipients are studying to become doctors, nurses, and community health workers. We are blessed to be able to provide these medical scholarships to these talented Christian young people who have a heart to serve others.

Lastly, please pray for some of the shipments of medical supplies that are being prepared to be sent to many of our mission partners around the world. Please pray that the medical supplies will be a blessing to the ministries to whom they will be going and that they will help the mission in their efforts to bring people to Christ through medical evangelism.

Blessings in the coming month.

Click here for the August Prayer Calendar