Thank you! Because of the generosity of so many of you, FAME has been able to send help and hope to partners in India AND begin to replenish our Emergency Relief Fund.
One partner gift came with the following note. “It’s been 15 months since we sent a gift to FAME to help replenish your Emergency Fund to help with the first COVID-19 outbreak. Now you’re helping with an even deadlier outbreak in India. We’ve been praying earnestly for healing for India and the Gospel to spread faster than the virus.”
What a GREAT comment and prayer – that is exactly the need to which we have responded together with you!
There are 11 current FAME partners working in India who are bringing hope to a place where there was NO HOPE even BEFORE THE COVID outbreak!
Earlier this year, millions of Hindus took the once every 12-year pilgrimage to Haridwar to dip in the Ganges river. They believe that if they dip into the Ganges at the prayer ghats (steps into the river) that it will set them free from the cycle of birth and death. One BBC news reporter interviewed a man who said, “I am not afraid. The virus will be killed- such is the purity of the water of the Ganges river.” Their hope is in a set of steps they believe are the “footprint of Vishnu” and the water of the Ganges river.
They believe this “holy dip” in the Ganges river will cleanse their sins. Your FAME Partners in India are teaching and teaching and teaching thousands about the One True God, and His Son Jesus Christ who is the ONLY way to have sins forgiven. “For there is no other name by which we can be saved.” Acts 4:12
Thank you if you have been able to send help to India through FAME or another partner! The gospel is needed in this second most populated country in the world! Of course, right now, saving a life physically will extend it and allow them to hear and/or respond to the good news!
One partner wrote, “We had a good friend, a healthy girl from Punjab, highly dedicated Christian, well educated, talented. She ignored mild symptoms for 10 days, and then died after 2 days in a coma.” This is a terrible situation- BUT she knew the Lord and had the hope that comes in Jesus Christ. Millions do not have that hope – they put their hope in Vishnu, the principal deity of Hinduism – or thousands of other gods.
Your partnership is saving lives! Aside from the Pandemic impact on India – There are 5 Sustainable projects ready and/or on hold for completion in India. Thank you for joining us in helping to spread the gospel faster than the virus!