How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news,
who proclaim peace,
who bring good tidings, who say to Zion,
“Your God reigns!”        Isaiah 52:7 (NIV)

In recent months, much recognition and praise have been stated about the wonderful and beautiful people who serve in our healthcare system. We see yard signs and banners in front of hospitals, long-term care facilities and homes, expressing gratitude to these individuals who face the fears of the current health care crisis every day. How wonderful it is to be surrounded by countless skilled and trained individuals who have extensive facilities and resources to help us stay well and care for us when we are ill. Yet, at FAME, we know this is not a reality for everyone around the world. No, hundreds of millions do not have access to healthcare.

Over FAME’s 50-year history, we have had the honor to partner with countless beautiful servants who practice medical service among the “ends of the earth” people. Heroes who are dedicated to offering medical care where it previously was not offered. And in doing so, proclaiming peace, good tidings, and good news. Your partnership with FAME has allowed us to ship many pallets of care items to forty servants with beautiful feet in Ukraine. These servants care for 2,000 elder orphans, providing wound care, hygiene care, prayer, and gospel teaching. The living conditions these elders experience in Ukraine creates a high-risk environment, yet they are heroes who persist in offering help and hope to these vulnerable individuals every week. Your partnership with FAME has allowed us to provide five pallets worth of needed care items since March 1st.

This is just one example of where your partnership is helping us equip those beautiful servants. Since March, FAME has not only helped servants in Ukraine but also Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Columbia, Honduras, Japan, India, and Mozambique. In all those places around our world, Kingdom servants are leveraging those resources to help people see that Our God reigns!

Thank you for partnering with us at FAME.

Barry Reed
FAME Director of Mission Resources

 

Your FAME Global partners are disrupting the lack of access to healthcare with sustainable models that lead to evangelism!

Scarcity of access to healthcare is one spoke of the wheel of inequality and injustice on the global landscape.  At a time when Americans have a raised awareness of inequality and injustice among a portion of our population, your FAME global partners have been addressing this issue for 50 years.

It is only one “spoke of a complicated wheel,” but 400 Million people have NO ACCESS to healthcare because of inequities that your partnership with FAME is actively addressing.  By partnering with FAME, you are sending help and hope to the world’s most vulnerable.

In Ghana, a pediatric cardiac care center will be the only such facility in a vast region of that country.

In Spain, a doctor is serving North African Refugees who have escaped brutality and persecution in their home countries.

In Brazil, a Medical boat on the Amazon, is the only healthcare for hundreds of villages- and then only a time or two each year.

Your FAME Global partners are disrupting the lack of access to healthcare with sustainable models that open doors to evangelism, help and hope.

Thank you for your partnership, you ARE doing something about inequality and injustice on the global stage.

Dear Friends and Partners of FAME,

Thank you for your continued partnership with the ministry of FAME through prayer. In these turbulent times, your prayers are making a difference and changing lives of those around the world.

In the parable of the Good Samaritan found in Luke 10, Jesus reminds us of the importance of helping others, no matter what race, religion or nationality. Through acts of kindness and empathy, people’s lives can be changed. Though you may not be physically helping someone at this time, you are changing lives daily through your prayers for the world’s most vulnerable, our mission partners, scholarship students, volunteers, staff, and board members.

This month please partner with us as we pray for many of our mission partners to whom we have provided medical supplies, are preparing to send supplies, or to whom we are providing funding, through your generous donations, for a sustainable healthcare project.  Pray that lives will be changed both physically and spiritually as our mission partners around the world share the love of Christ through the medical care that they provide.

We also ask that you pray for our scholarship students hat are studying to become medical professionals in their home countries. This has been a very challenging time for all students around the world. Many have had to finish the school year remotely by taking online classes. Please pray that these talented Christian young people continue to do well as they pursue their degrees.

And lastly, please pray for many of our FAME volunteers that give of their time and talents to support the ministry. Though we have not seen a lot of them over the last few months due to Covid-19 and social distancing, we pray that we will see them again soon, and we pray a blessing over them as they continue to serve God through their service.

Click here for the June Prayer Calendar

This Memorial Day Weekend in Indianapolis is going to be very different!  No Indy 500 Race.  No giant multi-family picnic we’ve been attending on and off for 20 years.

But one thing won’t change- honoring those who have gone before us.  That’s my mom, Marilyn Coon above. Last year we lost my dad a few months after his 90th birthday.  Memorial Day brings up memories of his love for his family, his love of the Lord, love of his country (WWII vet), and his love for global missions!

At FAME, remembering our past brings up memories of Bob Reeves, the foundational Executive Director of FAME.  I first met Bob when he spoke at a Faith Promise Rally at my childhood home church.  His passion for Global Missions radiated from him and Rosella as he challenged our church to change the world!

Maybe there’s someone special you’d like to honor this Memorial Day!  There are many great organizations to whom you could give, I understand that.  But here’s why I’d like to ask if you could consider a $100 Memorial Gift to FAME? FAME has been impacting nearly a million of the world’s most vulnerable (hearing the gospel and being treated in the name of Jesus) every year for 50 years.  When you give a $100 memorial gift to FAME it will have an eternal impact on 100 people.  People who have been made vulnerable by persecution, pandemic, injustice, poverty, and trafficking.  Your global FAME partners are on the frontlines of the gospel in over 40 countries- I think that is a cause worth giving an honoring memorial gift to!

Tell us who you’d like the memorial gift to honor AND add a story in a note (online or in the mail) – we’d love to share your joy remembering a life well-lived.  Click here to make your Memorial gift.

Blessings and Happy Memorial Day!

Jeff Coon
Director of Development.

 

 

 

 

 

 

P.S.  If you have another 2 minutes can I tell you about the last picture in this email?  This is Dorothy Bare and I last year in  Joplin, MO.  Dorothy and her husband Dr. Garland Bare were Medical Missionaries to Thailand beginning in the 1950s, before FAME was even a dream.  When I met her last year she said, “Garland and I said many times, If only FAME had existed when we were just getting started in Thailand.  God provided the medical equipment and supplies we needed in miraculous ways – but he and I were so thankful FAME exists for medical evangelism now!”  Garland passed away in April of 2017, what a legacy they have in the world of Medical Evangelism.

 

 

It’s time for you to know that in an ongoing survey of your global partners, great discoveries are being made.  According to the results, at least 1 person hears the gospel and is treated for every $1 given to FAME.  So when you give to FAME it’s not just a dollar amount, but also an impact amount of the number of people you touched!  Here are some highlights of your impact recently:

• Nepal – soap, sanitizers, and masks being distributed by a Katmandu orphanage
• Mozambique – oxygen equipment, and a ventilator
• Myanmar – fabric for an orphanage to sew 10,000 masks for distribution
• Honduras – masks and gloves for clinic workers
• Zimbabwe – PPE supplies for Hospital
• Haiti – various medical supplies for Hospitals and Clinics

Plus supplies were sent to missions/hospitals in:

Cambodia * Cameroon * Chad * China *  Colombia * Costa Rica * Cuba * DR of Congo  Dominican Republic * Ecuador * Ghana  Guatemala * Guinea * India * Japan * Jordan * Kenya * Liberia * Malawi * Mexico * Nicaragua * Niger * Nigeria * Panama * Philippines * Togo  Ukraine * USA

That’s YOUR global impact list!

During this crisis, you’ve made a difference in the lives of so many of the world’s most vulnerable!  More than 1 for every $1 you’ve given – and they all have a name, and they all are grateful for your generosity and partnership with FAME!

It has been so encouraging to see the outpouring of support for so many of the previously unsung heroes of the world.  My son is a Paramedic and daily confronts this pandemic crisis in Indianapolis.  Jeff, my co-worker, has a daughter-in-law that is an ICU Nurse, seeing the reality of this crisis first-hand every shift. Both are Heroes during this crisis!

Globally we are seeing your FAME partner doctors, not only treating patients but doing so much for their communities, even delivering food!  In Honduras, the lockdown is so significant that only a Doctor can get past the road-blocks.  So a FAME Impact Scholarship Recipient Doctor is delivering food to mountain villages in the 4×4 Ambulance (which you helped provide) before he begins his day at the clinic!  A Hero during this crisis!

But according to Paul, “How can they believe without hearing about Jesus?  How can they hear about Jesus without a person speaking to them?  And how can they speak about Jesus without being sent?”  That’s YOU, the one who sent!

You are a Hero during this Global Crisis, and many of you for years before now, and years to come!  I wish I could deliver an “A Hero Lives Here” sign to you because of your partnership with FAME!

The Heroes on the front-line of Medical Evangelism are able to do what they do, because of HEROES LIKE YOU!

Thank you for your partnership!

Blessings,

Bill Warren
Executive Director

Dear Friends and Partners of FAME,

Thank you for your unswerving partnership with the ministry of FAME through prayer. People all around the world are being blessed and strengthened because of you.

In Exodus 17, we see something amazing happen in the life of Moses and the Israelites. As the Israelites are wandering in the desert, they meet opposition from the Amalekites and soon Moses sends Joshua to lead troops into battle.  Moses, along with Aaron and Hur, watched the battle from a hill nearby and as Exodus 17:11 reads, “As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning.” The statement, “held up his hands” refers to a position of prayer, and when Moses prayed, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he stopped praying, the Israelites were losing. This verse shows the importance of prayer, because the victory of the battle was dependent on Moses praying. And when Moses became weary, in order to assure victory over their foe, Aaron and Hur were there to support Moses until the victory was won.

Around the world, and especially those on the “front lines”, many are most likely getting weary. And now more possibly than ever they need your help and your prayers to defeat this persistent foe by helping them “hold up their hands”. For the month of May, the focus of the prayer calendar will be those partners and organizations that FAME has helped in some way in the last few months by either sending medical supplies or sending funding to purchase supplies in order to defeat this unseen, but present enemy. And as you may be surprised to see, many of the organizations listed are in the United States. Though not the “norm” for us to do, we have found it a blessing to come alongside those in the US as well, as we unite to help those in need,

 

We also would like to request prayer for the FAME board members who give of their time and talents to lead the ministry. We ask for your prayers that the FAME Board be given wisdom and discernment during this unprecedented time.

The Amalekites were unexpected and seemed as persistent as the COVID-19 virus that is among us, however, through prayer and the support of others, the enemy was defeated. May our partners be strengthened, and may this current enemy be defeated around the world through the help of your prayers.

Many blessings to you and thank you once again for coming alongside us as we pray for our brothers and sisters around the world.

Click here for the May Prayer Calendar

At FAME we receive Thank You notes that are written by Global Partners to YOU!

 I would like to say Thank You, Thank You, Thank You once again for partnering with us to bring much-needed equipment and supplies to a very needy people in an unreached part of Africa.

AND

Thank you for the Operating Room lights, our hospital in Nampula is a surgical facility and we needed two sets of lights, which is precisely what the Lord provided through FAME!  As one of the few hospitals in our region, the government has approved our Hospital as a COVID-19 Treatment Facility here in Mozambique!

Wednesday a shipment left Indianapolis on its way to Mozambique with a ventilator, Oxygen Tank, Nebulizers, and associated supplies as well as PPE. With only 46 cases and 0 deaths in Mozambique –relatively low numbers, these healthcare providers are gearing up to meet the demands of serving people, knowing that in these under-resourced countries, the toll could be high.

Here is how one contact in Africa wrote it:

It’s an eerie feeling to be behind the rest of the world, watching and waiting for the inevitable. When even the US and Europe have trouble keeping up with healthcare related to this virus, we know that it will be even harder on our resource-poor country. We are praying and preparing as best we can.

These Thank You notes are really from them TO YOU!

I’d like to Thank you for your prayers, generosity, and partnership during these uncertain times.  God has placed YOU and FAME together for such times as these!

Watch for our next prayer calendar, coming in your email, on May 1st.  Please keep these FAME global partners in your prayers during the month of May, as this deadly virus moves into their countries.

I’m sure you don’t need to be reminded why we do, what we do; but the head surgeon at the Mozambique Hospital put it this way:

We are poised to open up our Mission Hospital now.  We plan to capitalize even more than we have before on Evangelism of the people who are lost who come to our hospital; trying to get medical care but getting spiritual care as well…even if unsuspectingly! 

Click here for a video about this Mozambique partner

Thank you again- for your partnership in Medical Evangelism!Blessings,

Bill Warren
Executive Director

Helpless!  If you feel that way about this current crisis, you are not alone.

I’ve spoken to many people who feel helpless during this crisis- because we don’t know exactly how we can help.

We are staying home, washing our hands, wearing masks, and watching the news hoping this will come to an end.

You have been bringing Help and Hope around the world with FAME for a long time.  Recently we have helped even hospitals and First Responders here in the USA, but it is beginning to look as if that is under control.  Now we are preparing for our Global Partners who are about to be hard hit by COVID-19.  This has been highly concentrated in China, Europe, the USA, and other developed countries, but that is about to change.

Vulnerable developing countries, where your FAME global partners work, will almost certainly be struck with COVID 19. The current low numbers are due either to a lack of detection or to the time lag between when the virus first spreads and when it begins to manifest. When it does strike, it will do so with a vengeance, as these countries have all the most potent risk factors. Their basic health infrastructure is inadequate. They often lack clean running water. They also have high population densities and family living systems that will impede physical distancing.

Vulnerable developing countries, where the majority of your FAME global partners work are preparing for this pandemic.

Many of you have asked, “Exactly how can I help?”

Here are some examples:

These are frequently requested items by our partners

• $100 for ten Boxes of 100 exam gloves
• $55 for 20 N95 masks
• $45 for an Infrared Thermometer
• $30 for 20 Eye Shields

Your gift of any amount to our Emergency Fund will help us be prepared to meet these expected requests.

Don’t feel helpless!  Here’s exactly how you can help.

Look at the list of frequently requested items, pick a dollar amount, and then you can know – you helped a global partner be prepared for the worst.

Click here to donate now

Or mail your check to FAME
4545 Southeastern Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46203

Blessings,
Jeff Coon
Director of Development

 

Valerie Colby and Staff, His Eyes, Honduras

At FAME, “crisis” is what we do. For 50 years, friends like you have been providing medical care – in the name of Jesus and with a Gospel message – and right now is just as “crazy” as you might anticipate.

Just this week, we’ve heard from 9 Global Partners requesting our immediate help with Personal Protection Equipment, thermometers and other various supplies they just can’t find or afford.  Because of you, and others like you, to date we have been able to respond to each request.  We have shipped supplies from our warehouse, ordered supplies to be shipped directly, and/or sent the funds needed for them to purchase supplies in-country.

I know this may be a very challenging time for you personally – so, if you are not able to help, know that I fully understand – but if you are able to help, you’ll be having an immediate and lasting impact.

For example, just yesterday we shipped a crate full of N-95’s masks, as well as surgical masks, exam gloves, and an infrared thermometer to Honduras. The request came in late last Friday and they should have the supplies in-hand just after Easter. That’s what I mean by immediate and lasting impact!

The shipping cost of that one shipment was $580– fortunately, FAME’s Emergency Fund had been replenished by many friends like you in February and we were able to send it without delay.

But because we are getting requests daily– that fund won’t last much longer. That’s why your gift right now will go to work right away.

Click here to make a special gift right now. Or, if you like, you can send a check to FAME:
4545 Southeastern Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46203

Either way, know that we are grateful, that the recipients of emergency medical supplies will be helped, and that you will be making a difference in the name of Jesus – our risen Lord and Savior!

Bill Warren
Executive Director