In a small mountain village, a young girl was carried to a clinic after traveling in Pastor Philip’s car for over 12 hours to reach the clinic. Many of FAME’s partners LIKE YOU heard her story and wanted to help prevent such a tragedy from occurring again.
FAME partnered with YOU, churches around the country, Asia Christian Services (ACS), and IDES to send the needed funds to Pastor Philip in this small Himalayan foothills village to purchase an ambulance. Here’s the quote from ACS about the Medical Evangelism in that region.
The eastern part of the State is devoid of many basic resources and Medical Outreach has been a very effective evangelistic tool. It has given the team favor with the Government and the people in the area. Philip regularly charters a taxi to take extremely sick people to a hospital 6 hours away. IDES and FAME jointly sent funds to purchase a new vehicle to use as an ambulance, but the funds were frozen in the India bank system by the Hindu government. After much prayer and many months, the funds were released and the vehicle is in the hands of the team. THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS FAME AND IDES!
Partnership has many layers, from YOU, to churches, to global agencies, missionaries, and the indigenous leaders in the community being served. But I specifically want to recognize our partnership with IDES! FAME and IDES have been partnering with a global impact for decades, we share many churches here in the USA as partners and around the world. We both have differing focuses, but many times we overlap and are able to multiply our impact! In a book I gave to our staff a few years ago it says this:…if you have the right people with you, they will give you the courage to keep going.
I was in communication with a church partner recently as they told me about a trip they took recently, and how amazed they were to see an Ambulance in operation in this country they visited. They shared how this wonderful ministry was changing lives, and treating people in the name of Jesus, and that it was so wonderful that this ministry had somehow acquired such a wonderful Ambulance. I enjoyed the fact that they hadn’t seen or mentioned what I already knew, and then pointed out in their photos– that FAME and IDES had partnered with YOU once again to meet the need of this Central American mission Clinic.
Thank you IDES for your partnership!
Thank YOU for YOUR partnership that makes global partnerships possible!
Bill Warren
Executive Director