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

How confident would you be of receiving care from nurses whose training did not include having any nursing equipment or supplies?

Without your partnership and FAME, there are nursing schools that would be in that exact situation. One such partner, in a central African nation, has two hospitals and a nursing school. But recently, they were unable to acquire needed medical equipment and supplies. FAME was able to send a shipment that included blood pressure cuffs and stethoscopes for the nursing students. Shockingly, these were something that they could not get because of cost, shipping, and supply chain issues.

This ministry is touching the lives of thousands of people through the hospital, but without a new flow of trained medical professionals, the needs of the community will never be met. This nursing school is a critical piece of the evangelism network of this hospital ministry.

Julie, a young girl, was having difficulty breathing and no one in her family knew why. She was able to go to the emergency room at one of these hospitals and the nursing staff there was able to identify what was wrong because they were well-trained and well-equipped. This could’ve been an emergency without a positive outcome if it hadn’t been for your generosity!

You allow FAME to say “Yes!”, to global partner’s requests for help.

Every time FAME is able to say, “Yes!, more people say “Yes” to Jesus and the hope that He brings.

Thank you for your partnership. 

Bill Warren
Executive Director

FAME has partnerships all over the world with those that are bringing help and hope to those who desperately need healthcare and the gospel. We now have 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 has the capacity to 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. The church started with six people and is now running 120-150. They baptized 20 people in July!

There is very limited access to healthcare in Tanzania and particularly in this area. In response to the lack of access to healthcare,  FAME is partnering with Remember the Children to build a Healthcare Clinic to meet the medical needs of the orphans, the 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.

The Pastor of the local church said, We as a Church intend to use this opportunity to reach all who will come to access medical care, including those who are desperate for life, to tell how Jesus is the best Father to the Fatherless, how He is a help to the helpless, how He is hope to those who have no hope. Malolo is predominantly Muslim so the need for the gospel is great.

FAME has committed $30,000 toward the $44,000 needed to construct the clinic.

Your continued partnership with FAME will help orphans and so many more!!

I’m surrounded.  That may be an overstatement, but I feel like the conversations I have every week here in the States include at least one “knee replacement” surgery of someone I know.  Even among the FAME staff, there are close connections to knee replacement surgeries this month!

And we have good shoes, cars, safe environments, and GREAT medical care options including follow-up care! 

One FAME shipping partner serves in Ecuador doing orthopedic surgeries on people who would never have such an opportunity!  This ministry started by two orthopedic surgeons from Alabama now has treated thousands of patients for nearly 40 years.

But most moving is the work they do with children.  These children and their families have been able to not only receive the hope that comes after such a surgery…but they have heard the good news of the gospel.  This surgery center shares the gospel to those people who otherwise have no hope to correct their musculoskeletal conditions.

Another shipping partner is arriving today to pick up walkers and other mobility equipment from your FAME Indianapolis warehouse.  But even more shocking to me was when one ministry partner had such a need, that they were able to have FAME ship 434 walkers to their global workers!

Thank you for your partnership in Medical Evangelism!

 

What a joy to hear of the arrival of medical equipment and supplies to our partners around the globe.  Sometimes we receive kind notes of thanks and other times we receive pictures…and often a picture is worth a thousand words!

This equipment had a long journey from Indianapolis to Ghana! These photos of the unloading and moving of equipment and supplies into the facility tell a lot of the story, but the story includes some things not shown.

These supplies will support the 7 Clinics around Ghana that have been part of the evangelistic outreach that has started 246 Churches!

Your partnership with FAME sends help and hope that opens doors for the gospel and starts churches that will save lives for years to come!

Thank you for your partnership!

Bill Warren
Executive Director 

 

Thank you so much for your partnership with FAME through prayer. Your prayers are making an impact all around the world!

This month, please join us in prayer for our upcoming mission trips in 2023 and 2024, church visits that Executive Director, Bill Warren and Director of Development, Jeff Coon will be making, some wonderful volunteer groups, shipments of medical supplies being sent to FAME mission partners, and FAME staff members. We are truly blessed to have you as a prayer partner each month.

With July 4^th coming up, I am reminded of the freedoms that we have here in the U.S. including our freedom in Christ. Some scriptures that talk about such freedom include:

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5;1 (NIV)

To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. John 8:31-32 (NIV)

Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever.  So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.   John 8:34-36 (NIV)

You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. Galatians 5:13 (NIV)

A devotional from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association I feel sums up our freedom in Christ very well. It states, “From cover to cover, God’s Word points to freedom in Christ. And God doesn’t leave us wondering how to grab hold of the freedom He offers. It starts with acknowledging our brokenness—and admitting we are slaves to sin. And it ends with choosing Jesus and following Him daily. Only He can break the bonds of slavery and lead us to true freedom, now and forever”.

May you have a wonderful 4^th, as you celebrate all the freedoms we have and hold dear.

Blessings in the coming month,

Click here for the July Prayer Calendar