Early one morning, on my recent trip to Asia, your FAME Medical Mission partner picked me up at 5:00 am to go to the groundbreaking and cornerstone placement in the photo shown here. I’ll tell you why it was so early in a moment.

This visit was initially to see the completed clinic and church building you helped fund in 2020. The project construction began in January of 2020, and as you can imagine there were many obstacles, but I was able to visit this unique building and see evangelism happening on the First floor – the Clinic, AND on the Second floor – the Church Auditorium! What a great model of compassionate caregiving like Jesus AND sharing the gospel! But even though this building was completed in 2 years during an aggressive national shutdown for the pandemic; this medical mission is under intense scrutiny by government officials who would love to stop the spread of the gospel.

Once the caregiving begins in a country like this, favor grows among the community leadership because Jesus followers treat ALL people with value. But let’s get back to the early morning groundbreaking and cornerstone placement. In this country, Christian leaders who would obviously be connected to Christians from outside of their country could be targets of persecution. So that is why the event with my participation was done under the cover of darkness.

How exciting is it, that immediately after one Clinic/Church building is complete, this partner is breaking ground on another? Once this building is sharing the love and care of Jesus, favor will grow in the community; so this global partner had me at the ground breaking before dawn and back to my hotel to prevent interruption to the advanciment of medical evangelism.

YOU and YOUR generosity allow FAME to say “Yes!” to global partners like these…so that more people will say “Yes!” to Jesus!!

Salencia was too weak to even get out of bed. Her husband and she were excited about their first child which she was expecting, but now they didn’t know what was wrong with Salencia, and if there was anything wrong with the baby.

They needed answers. They took her to a FAME partner clinic and the providers there were able to take blood for lab tests, but it was going to be 2 weeks before they could get results and know what was wrong. The good news is, they received the results and doctors gave quality care to her and the pregnancy continued to delivery of a beautiful baby girl!

The better news is, that BECAUSE OF GENEROSITY at the Night of Hope; that FAME partner clinic will have a new laboratory and results will be in hours, or days! Not weeks!

That is one of the projects that the “Yes! Initiative” at FAME’s Night of Hope will fund! But we also have another lab that has requested help to fund!

Access to the gospel, Access to healthcare are all FAME’s focus – but specifically access to answers for health questions can bring such hope! When a Mission Clinic can bring hope to those who have no hope because of unanswered medical needs – the DOOR SWINGS WIDE OPEN for them to hear the gospel!

When FAME partners can say “Yes!” to the question, “Can you help me?”

Because people like you said “Yes!”

More people say “Yes!” to Jesus!

Thank you for your partnership in bringing help and hope to the world through Medical Evangelism.

“…an angel of the Lord came down….and rolled back the stone and sat upon it.”   ‘He is not here; he has risen, just as he said.’ ”  Matthew 28:2,6

Jesus had already risen from the grave, the angel came to roll away the stone that blocked people from seeing that Jesus IS ALIVE!

So people can see that Jesus IS ALIVE…

…last month Bill participated in laying a cornerstone for a new clinic in Asia

…last week a FAME Medical team in Mexico taught women’s health lessons after treating hundreds

…the first patients were seen in a new Cardiac Care Clinic in Ghana

…supplies have been shipped to 50 countries so far this year!

The lack of access to healthcare is a barrier for people hearing the gospel- you and FAME roll away that barrier!  Anywhere there is poverty and a lack of the gospel, healthcare is usually lacking also. Vice Versa: Anywhere there is poverty and a lack of Healthcare, the Gospel is lacking also!

As you and your family celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus this Easter weekend.  Be encouraged… YOU HAVE rolled away barriers that block people from seeing that Jesus is Alive!

He is Risen!

He is Risen Indeed!

And You have MADE THAT KNOWN AND SEEN to thousands upon thousands!

Thank you for your partnership!

Bill Warren
Executive Director

Join FAME at this event and be surrounded by world-changers like you to celebrate a ground-breaking year breaking barriers of access to the gospel through medical evangelism and to celebrate a few of the thousands of stories we could tell about miraculous impact in nearly every time zone around the globe.

Bill will have just returned from overseas and will have stories and updates you won’t want to miss! 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!

April 15, 2023
5:00 p.m.
(doors open at 4:30 p.m.)

PLAINFIELD CHRISTIAN CHURCH
800 DAN JONES RD.
PLAINFIELD, IN 46168

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

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

Click Here to purchase your tickets today!

If you live more than 150 miles from Indianapolis and would like to come, we will waive the ticket cost for you to attend… just email Jeff Coon at jcoon@fameworld.org to RSVP!

Thank you for your partnership with FAME through prayer. We are so blessed to have partners like you that come alongside us daily to pray for our FAME mission partners, staff, board of directors, volunteers, mission trips, and other items of ministry.

This month please partner with us in praying for our FAME Board of Directors. The spring Board of Directors meeting will be held in mid-April and leading up to that we ask that you please pray for each of the board members that they have wisdom and are led by God as they make decisions for the ministry.

Pray also for our Annual FAME Night of Hope. This event will be celebrating stories of miraculous impact in nearly every time zone around the globe. Additionally, new 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! For more information about this event and to purchase tickets, visit our website at www.fameworld.org/2023-night-of-hope. Dinner will be provided by Smokehouse Catering and Musical Guest, Jason Gray will be performing.

This month we also ask that you continue to pray for our FAME partners in Ukraine as well as other countries where our mission partners face violence and persecution. Please continue to pray for the safety of these partners, for wisdom and discernment, and that through such hardship, people may turn to God and find Christ as their true Savior.

In reading an Easter devotion by Lysa TerKeurst, I was touched by her observations at the empty tomb and her total heart for Jesus. She ends her devotion with the following observations from Matthew 28:5-7 and prayers that go along with each part of scripture that I’d like to share:

“Do not be afraid,” — Dear God, I hand over to You those things that make me so afraid. Resurrect the parts of my faith that are squelched by fear.

“I know that you are looking for Jesus,” — God, when my soul is searching, may I know that the answer to every longing is found in You.

“He has risen,” – God, the fact that Jesus is risen should lift my head, my heart and my attitude. Help me live today as if I really believe this with every part of my life.

“just as he said,” — Dear Jesus, You keep Your promises. Show me how to live as though I believe that with every part of me. Help me trust You more, obey You more and resemble You more.

“Come and see,” — Jesus, You had the angels invite the women in to see for themselves that You had risen. You invite me into these personal revelations every day. Forgive me for sometimes rushing about and forgetting to come and see for myself … You, Your Word, Your insights.

“Then go quickly and tell his disciples,” —Jesus, I don’t want to be a secret-keeper with my faith. I want to be a bold and gracious truth proclaimer. For You. With You. Because of You. Me, whom You loved and redeemed.

Praying that this Easter is a prayerful and personal one for you as we remember Jesus and His love for us.

He has Risen!

Click Here for the April Prayer Calendar

FAME is looking to hire a Mobilization Associate to help build and grow our ministry of short-term medical mission trips. The successful applicant will have excellent organizational and people skills.  Experience with international travel is a plus.  Extensive domestic and international travel will be required.  To apply, send cover letter and resume to bwarren@fameworld.org.

Mobilization Associate Job Description

Someone saw this picture of the dump truck full of rocks being delivered, and said, “what’s so exciting about that, it’s a load of rocks?”

That is not just a load of rocks. That is the fulfillment of many dreams of a Clinic in Kisumu Kenya!

Paul, a native of the Kisumu region of Kenya, has been working with hundreds of partners teaching health education and preparing for the ability to be ready for a clinic in their region through the Water, Sanitation, Hygiene (WASH) Ministry:

• They dug a well.
• Prepared the sight.
• Acquired workers and arranged for materials.

Last year Mark Yeaton climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro to draw attention to the need and many people gave funds to provide the materials!

Last year many of YOU generously supported FAME and that helped provide the materials for building this clinic!

Yesterday, I got this photo below of a young man named William being baptized into Christ in Lake Victoria! The ministry building the Clinic is also saving lives for eternity!

Just rocks?

Makes me think of some words of Jesus:

“…rocks will cry out…”

“…upon this rock…”

“…house built on a rock…”

Because of you, a dump truck of rocks moved access to the gospel closer to the lost and poor by moving access to healthcare closer to thousands!

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!!!