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

Recently Damien went with his mom Katie on a FAME short term trip to Mexico! He became a valuable part of the team doing small tasks helping with the medical outreach and education.  He was impacted greatly and grasped a young vision of helping more in the future!

Because he went on the trip he automatically was added to the FAME mailing list and received a recent letter telling about unfunded global healthcare projects.  Honestly, we probably wouldn’t have sent it to him but now I am glad we did.  Because of his heart response.

His mom posted the following on social media:

FAME sends out a monthly newsletter and keeps you updated on projects that need funded. Our newsletter is addressed to Damien because he went on a recent mission trip through FAME. I read it to him and he immediately took the envelope and filled it with his piggy bank money. He had over $55 he wanted to donate and said, “I really want them to be able to buy what they need.” Forrest was then inspired to give as well.

If we all had faith like a child these projects would be funded in no time!

Remind you of anyone Jesus mentioned?  The woman who gave ALL she had when Jesus witnessed her quiet offering quickly came to mind for me.  Damien gave all he had, and his younger brother was impacted too!

Paul said,  Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. 1 Timothy 4:12 NIV

I have received a lot of communications from a lot of great causes, I’m sure you have too!  May we all respond with childlike faith when invited to participate in great works!

God Bless!

Bill Warren
Executive Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Over 46,000 refugees are fleeing Sudan, returning to South Sudan, the country many of them fled during the civil war 6 years ago! 

In the capital city, Khartoum, the fighting between rival Generals included airstrikes and fighting in neighborhood streets.  One family reports trying to get a bus ticket but ended up taking the journey in a donkey cart stacked with their only remaining belongings.

Obviously, this influx of people creates a humanitarian crisis including food, water, and medical care!

One of your FAME partners is in the middle of caring for many of these displaced people,
AND YOU MADE IT POSSIBLE!

Dr. John of the clinic in Malek, South Sudan is not only caring for primary care needs, but a new maternity clinic and delivery room which FAME funded, was planned to be treating 45-55 mothers before this crisis; NOW it is going to be ready for even more!

Refugees touch the heart of God, and we know they matter to you – and YOU ARE HELPING!  This is to let you know that the crisis’ you hear about in the news – are places that YOU are often making a difference when you partner with FAME!

Thank you for touching the lives of the world’s most vulnerable!

Bill Warren
Executive Director

By the end of this year, this new Mother and Child clinic waiting room will be full of patients who will NO LONGER have to travel many hours under difficult and unsafe conditions to find care.

Additionally, your FAME global partner will not have to treat people in open-air facilities or just under a shade tree!

 

 

 

 

 

Nana is 16 weeks pregnant and expecting her first child.  She and her husband Samuel are excited about their future.  Samuel, a rice farmer in the valley near the new clinic, is hoping for the clinic to be completed soon.  This is because construction on the 18-mile road (that takes 2 hours to travel) has not been completed because of funding issues.

I traveled that road last fall, and their concern is justified!  They hope to NOT have to travel out of their community.  The current Clinic facility is just not large enough to accommodate the Mother and Child’s needs – this NEW facility will change that and is nearing completion!

FAME would like to send the last $20,000 needed in July!  If the mission receives this funding in July, they are only 3 months from being finished – and BECAUSE OF YOUR generosity parents like Nana and Samuel will have a safe place to bring their child into the world.  That’s good news!

The even better news is that THE good news being spread by this mission partner has led to 246 Churches being started!

Your partnership matters!  You ARE making a difference.

Because of you not only will this clinic be full – but heaven too!

Bill Warren
Executive Director