We aren’t hearing much good news from Haiti these days! But even in the midst of crisis, God provides!

Here’s news from one of our shipping partners!

2023 was a difficult year, but by God’s grace, we are moving forward. Last February, gangs took over the Mountain where our clinic was located. Several thousand families fled their homes. Many moved in with relatives and friends near Port-au-Prince, and many families were homeless.

We have rented a nice building for Emmaus Clinic, an upgrade from our previous location. It is across the street from the police station, so probably as safe as can be in this region. We have an arrangement with the police who send two officers to our clinic.

We bought a solar panel system to provide electricity.

A pastor is regularly in the clinic, so that is a huge blessing!

He continues to thank FAME for equipping so much of the work there, as they could move most items to the new secure location!

We also just received word from a mission partner in Haiti who oversees the FAME scholarships of some nursing students there and who works at the college. She writes, We have not been able to work from our building for more than 1 month. The whole area was attacked by gangs. Praise God we were not there. The students are currently doing hospital rotations when possible.

Please pray for us. We need prayers.

Pray for Haiti, it’s complicated situation, and that God will use this time when outsiders are limited from coming in to strengthen and protect the church so it will grow and flourish! Pray also that medical evangelism will open doors to the gospel in a new way!!!

Thank you for your partnership

What lasts?

Cell Phones? A few years…

Cars? A dozen years+

Clothes? A season or two (except some men’s clothes show up for decades)

Generosity? A Lifetime and into eternity!

In 2004 Mr. Thangpu was the first patient to be seen at a hospital FAME funded in Manipur, N. E. India. He was extremely ill from T.B. and Malaria and sent from his village expected to die. Not only was he brought to health but in his own words, “Many preachers have asked me to be a Christian, but I was not convinced. Here at this beautiful hospital, I felt something very strange, a feeling that I can’t explain in human words. All I can say now is that I am healed, this must be the work of God. So, I have decided to become a Christian.” He was baptized and sent back home. The villagers were so surprised to see him back alive and shocked by his life change that the village has never been the same.

Now 20 years later, as FAME is partnering to rebuild and relocate this Hospital after being destroyed by persecution arson, Mr. Thangpu’s impact is one of tens of thousands by this hospital and 600+ church network!

What lasts? Generosity.

If you partner with FAME annually, monthly, or as led – THANK YOU FOR YOUR IMPACT!

If you’d like to consider ways you can have an even longer impact beyond your lifetime, go to www.fameworld.org/leave-a-legacy/ to learn more!

Thank you for your partnership!

2024  Missions of Hope International Clinic Joska, Kenya

I woke up this morning thinking, “The people of that region I visited need that clinic so desperately, what are we going to do?”

Yesterday I woke up thinking, “The people of that region (a different one) I visited need that clinic so desperately, what are we going to do?”

Tomorrow I will probably wake up thinking, “The people of that region (even another one) I visited need that clinic so desperately, what are we going to do?”

And the same series of events that happened yesterday and today will keep happening tomorrow:

• I will remember that we shared the need for that clinic with friends of FAME!
• I will remember that we sent the funds for that clinic to the global partner!
• I will remember that construction has begun!
• I will probably get a photo emailed to me like I did yesterday of the progress of that project, knowing that once it is completed, the people of the region will receive the loving care of Christian medical professionals and hear the good news!

Additionally,

• I will remember that God is faithful
• I will remember and give God thanks for people like YOU who make it possible for people of region after region to hear of the loving gospel of Jesus through people who treat them medically in the name of Jesus.
• I will remember that reports come telling of the churches growing where FAME is serving!

The photo above is of a hospital at Missions of Hope International (MOHI) in Kenya.  I was at the facility and saw the first floor in 2017

We sent the funds for the construction of the 2^nd and 3^rd floor pre-COVID.  Work was at a standstill and many obstacles had to be overcome!  But look at it now!

Every day I wake up knowing that the needs of the world are great!

Every day I wake up knowing that God’s people are generous!

Every day I wake up knowing that God is greater than all our needs and that He loves the people of the regions where FAME is serving even more than we do!

Thank you for making it possible for FAME to experience “Groundhog Day” every day – except every day God shows himself as the provider for village after village, and new believer after new believer!

Thank you for your partnership!

Dear Prayer Partner,

Thank you so much for your continued support of the ministry of FAME through prayer. We find it a blessing to have you come alongside us each day in praying for FAME staff, board members, mission partners, trip participants, scholarship recipients, volunteers, shipments of medical supplies, healthcare projects, church visits and other items of ministry.

February is an exciting month for FAME as we have a medical mission team going to India to serve with NACEA (North Andhra Coastal Evangelizing Association) in the middle of the month. This is a team comprised of staff members from Hancock Health. Please pray for FAME’s mission partners Drs. Rajesh and Soujanya Paul and the individuals on this team as they bring help and hope in the name of Christ through medical evangelism. Pray also for the people to whom they will be ministering that they may be blessed by the care that will be provided.

We also ask for prayer for a shipping container full of medical supplies and equipment that will soon be in route to the Philippines for Charles Selby Memorial Hospital. We also have large shipments of medical supplies going out this month to All Nations Holistic Mission in DR Congo and the mission Psalm 82:3 in Liberia. Psalm 82:3 is a recent partner and FAME will be taking a medical mission trip there in September of this year. Please pray that these shipments make it through customs without issue and that God will be glorified through the medical care for which these items will be used.

We also ask for prayer for the staff who serve at FAME, for faithful volunteer groups, and for FAME staff traveling both internationally and here in the U.S.

Thank you again for your partnership in prayer and blessings in the coming month.

Click here for the February Prayer calendar.

Thank you for your friendship to the ministry of FAME. Through your generosity and partnership with us in medical evangelism, people’s lives are being changed for eternity.

One part of our ministry, in addition to partnering with international missions to share the good news, is offering scholarships for students who are pursuing a medical education and who desire to serve in a mission hospital or clinic after graduation. These students must be from a developing nation and be recommended by a FAME mission partner.

At the end of each year, the sponsoring mission partners submit reports on the student’s progress. The students also often include a note about what a FAME scholarship means to them. Here is one such note from one of our FAME scholarship recipients.

I am now in 4th year and having done half of my med school years is just a miracle! I sit in class and when thoughts of how favored I am to be a beneficiary of the FAME scholarship I shed a tear. Because of it, I am now actualizing the dream of being a doctor. It feels like God’s purpose in my life is to serve Him as a doctor and for this I endeavor to use all I am, and all I will be for His glory.

God bless FAME and may your cups never run dry. I promise to continue doing my best in school, and may I reflect God’s goodness in all areas I am in. – Caroline (Kenya)

Thank you again for your generosity to FAME. Donations to FAME make it possible for students like Caroline to serve the Lord through medical evangelism!

Bill Warren
Executive Director

I like being under a tree in the shade, but that isn’t my greatest idea of where to go to find medical care. Unfortunately, for parents in Malawi, that USED to be the only option, and that was only once a month!

Over 47% of Malawian children are stunted from severe malnutrition, and 25% of them die before age 5! That will change soon. Right now, the partner there is building a staff housing unit to coincide with the hospital that is opening soon.

Their next project will be pediatric care. In this geographical area, parents are only able to bring their children to meet doctors once a month, under a tree, in hopes of getting the proper medical care and medications needed. Often, their resources are so limited that the children are left untreated. This ministry is changing that situation, first with the hospital and, in the future a pediatric care clinic!

When you say “Yes!” to FAME, FAME can say “Yes!” to partners like those in Malawi, Myanmar, and Mozambique! Thousands will have the opportunity to say “Yes!” to Jesus because of you!

Bill Warren
Executive Director

 

When you partner with FAME, FAME partners with churches in over 60 countries and your impact is deep and wide!

Here are some excerpts from a letter translated from Rogelio Torres Florian the Pastor of Casa Firme Christian Church in Colombia.

•  The manner that the FAME team arrived is a different manner to which these communities were accustomed. That is to say that normally the local congregations limit their testimony of the Lord to the pulpits and rarely do activities of the nature of this trip and with the alliances that were seen.
• This mission brought from God not only medical treatment and support, but also health in the spirit of healing and service for the members of the congregation Casa Firme who were committed and available in every moment they were required.
• The youth of the congregation were inspired and motivated by every member of the mission team; their testimony of the love of God and love for His work. During the visit 7 people made the decision to be baptized and 6 of those were youth.
• In terms of our ministry, we were able to

  

   establish very important contacts with organizations such as foundations, universities, military and private medical professionals. This has strengthened our work locally and these same contacts will be very important in future missions with the leading of the Lord.

When you say Yes! to FAME, FAME says Yes! to partner churches. Many times these partner churches have felt discouraged and unable to take any steps to reach into their community. These evangelistic medical camps he mentions gave them credibility in their community and opened doors WHEN HEARTS ARE MOST OPEN which is during a need or crisis.

In the same way people said “Yes!” to Jesus when he walked the earth and healed the hurting – YOU make it possible for others to be touched by the love of Jesus WHEN THEIR HEARTS ARE MOST OPEN because of illness in their families!

Thank you for your partnership!

Thank you for your prayers!

If you’d like to be part of a trip in 2024 or 2025 click HERE to go to our website and see the available trips for 2024 and the types of trips that will be available in 2025!

Happy New Year!

Bill Warren
Executive Director

Dear Prayer Partner,

It is hard to believe that another year has come and gone. What a blessing it has been having you partner with us this past year, praying for the ministry of FAME and our partners around the world.

Below are some thoughts I’d like to share from pastor Charles Swindoll as we start this new year.

How quickly does a year breeze past! Each January, some look back at the past year with heads held high as they check off all their accomplished goals. Others, however, might throw away that old calendar, feeling a sense of disappointment or even regret. The year came and went, and all the checkboxes alongside those plans and ambitions remain empty. Many know well the feelings of irritation, frustration, worry, and discouragement as they stand on the edge of a new year. The dissatisfaction seems unavoidable. In fact, even achieved resolutions often fail to eradicate these feelings. Something greater is required, something divine. We can only cast out the darkness of our difficulties, failures, and worries by truly acknowledging and embracing the goodness of God’s guiding hand in our lives.

As you prepare to enter this new year, do not miss the shining treasure that has the power to brighten even the darkest nights . . . the providence of God. – Pastor Charles R. Swindoll

This month, as we start a new month and a new year, won’t you please partner with us in praying for the following that are on each day of the January calendar?

• FAME Board members as they continue to lead the ministry
• FAME Scholarship Recipients that are studying to become medical professionals in their home countries.
• FAME monthly Volunteers that will be serving in the FAME warehouse.

Thank you again for your partnership in prayer and blessings in the coming year.

Click here for the January Prayer calendar.

The sound of a baby’s cry can be a piercing sound that breaks through silence and says,

“I’m hungry”        “I’m tired”           “I don’t feel okay”

But the message for sure is,

“I’m here!”      “I am with you!”        “Don’t forget about me!”

In 2023, thousands of babies were born in safe environments across the world, thanks to your partnership. Just this year you have made it possible for mother and child-specific medical missions to provide better care in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and S.E. Asia.

Lonnie Burley our Director of Short-Term Trips tells of a time at a medical outreach this year when a medical provider was seeing a whole family, one at a time.  But when it came time to examine the baby, their cute little look turned into a cry!  The cry probably was saying, “Mommy, I’m here!  I’m with you!  Don’t forget about me!”

Lisa Law, another one of our FAME staff was in Haiti and a pregnant woman came into the clinic at the mission. After a brief labor, and with the help of some college nursing students from Indiana, her baby was born. Lisa says, “I was in the triage area and heard the newborn baby crying as it came into the world.”  I bet it was saying, I’m here!  I’m with you!  Don’t forget about me!”

In Luke and Matthew’s gospel accounts we read about the birth of Jesus.  “She gave birth to her firstborn Son, and she wrapped him tightly in cloth and laid him in a manger.”  (Luke 2)“…the virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son and they will name him Immanuel, which is translated “God is with us.”  (Matthew 1)

I know that the song, Away in the Manger says, ‘No crying he makes’, but with all due respect to the songwriters from over a century ago; I think Jesus cried.

And when Jesus cried, he was saying, “I am here!”  “I am with you!”  “Don’t forget about me!”

This Christmas if you hear a baby cry:

One: remember there are thousands of babies who have been born and will be born soon, safely cared for around the world because of you!

Two:  Jesus, Immanuel “God with us” – wants you to know “I am here!”  “I am with you!”  “Don’t forget about me!

Thank you for saying “Yes!” to FAME that allows FAME to say “Yes!” to global partners so that more and more people can say “Yes!” to Jesus.  And that millions will know Immanuel is here, He is with them!

God Bless,

Bill Warren
Executive Director

They were not a very popular group of people. They were considered social misfits, thieves, and religious outcasts. They were considered unclean and were not able to participate in community gatherings.

I’m describing 2 groups of people; one from The Christmas Story and another from September.

The Christmas Story people spent their entire lives taking care of sheep. Their job was dangerous at times but was mostly boring and tedious. This outcast group of people is the first group to whom God announces the birth of his Son.

God dispatches an angel to this region of the world with a special announcement and invitation. Good News of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the city of David a Savior was born for you, who is the Messiah. Luke 2:10-11

Can you remember where you were and who God sent your way to announce Jesus and invite you to follow him? Maybe you were a young child or a teenager or a young adult when you heard the life-changing message of the gospel. But consider this, God used that person at a precise time in your life to share the good news and to bring you peace.

YOU are the person partnering to deliver THE MESSAGE of Jesus to the second group! It isn’t angels who are dispatched but godly believers willing to share the GOOD NEWS OF GREAT JOY among even outcasts through medical evangelism.

I’m thinking about the refugees who live in temporary camps along the Myanmar and Thailand border. Both governments ignore a 5-mile-wide stretch of the border and over 2 million refugees are there fleeing for their lives from persecution and destruction of their homes and villages.

That sounds like outcasts.

But, like hundreds of other clinics FAME has funded around the world, Grace Clinic is now open and ready to serve thousands of refugees every month in Mae Sod, Thailand – on the border with Myanmar. Because of you, and people like you they are receiving loving care in the name of Jesus and then receiving an invitation to make him their Messiah!

 

This Christmas, Thank you for partnering to deliver THE MESSAGE of Christmas year-round to those least likely to hear. Millions of lives will be changed because of you and your generosity!

God Bless,

Bill Warren
Executive Director