You’ve heard the phrase, “Thinking outside the box.” FAME and FAME partners do that a lot to be able to strategically use medical evangelism. (Don’t miss reading the Airplane Emergency Ultrasound story below)
But I’d like to thank so many of you for making it possible that we can think about the box.
Our Warehouse is full of boxes. Empty boxes, small boxes, large boxes, and full boxes. Each and every box is labeled, organized, categorized, and inventoried. Our team of staff and volunteers are organized and efficient! Then these boxes travel the world to or with our partners, the medical evangelists!
But where does WHAT’S INSIDE THE BOX come from? From donors and partners like you! Whether it is a Hospital or Medical provider who updates and donates prior equipment from their facility to groups of students or church members who collect over-the-counter supplies – they all are “boxed” and shipped to impact lives.
But not only do our partners use what is IN THE BOX, they also do evangelism
OUTSIDE THE BOX! We recently just heard this story from a team who took a large donation of medicines with them on a Mission trip to Guatemala.
We sent a large donation of lidocaine along with other medicines to him and his team who were traveling.
On day 5 of this 8-day trip, the doctor dropped our Mission Resource Director a short email to thank him for the donated medicines and to report that they had already performed over 200 surgeries and they still had three+ days to go. Hundreds of people had also heard the good news of Jesus!
Then on his way home, he reported that this happened:
Well…I guess the medical portion of my trip is not over yet! Just as I sat back in my seat,
drinking a coffee and watching a movie…, I heard the overhead speaker say if there is a doctor on board come to row 15! I went there to see 79-year-old Maria (a Guatemalan) with sudden onset of severe left leg pain. She told me she has vascular problems. I could not feel a pulse behind her left knee nor any pulses on her left foot; her wrist pulses were very strong. I travel with my pocket ultrasound and sent the stewardess to get my bag. I placed the linear high-frequency probe behind her left knee and turned on the color flow doppler, lighting up the blood flow a little behind the knee but not in the foot. I diagnosed her with an ischemic left leg (blocked arterial blood flow) and told the stewardess the arrange an ambulance to meet us at the gate and take her immediately to the hospital in Atlanta (now only 45 minutes away) for definitive care and possible surgery. Maria will get to keep her leg! I love my little pocket ultrasound!
What’s in a box at or from FAME? Evangelistic tools like medicines, equipment, supplies, and diagnostic tools!
Check out our website here to see ways you too can donate, or collect and donate “evangelistic tools” that will save lives; both physically and then spiritually!
Additionally, when you give to FAME, you position us to acquire, house, and ship all these items to medical evangelism partners around the world.
Thank you for making this possible because of your partnership!