I go to the store more than I’d like. And when I go, I often pass the pharmacy area to get to the parts of the store I need or prefer. It hit me the other day that I pass 10-15 ROWS of medicine and supplies! We call these OTC or Over-the-Counter medicines, these are things we consider standard and expect them to be in stock when we need them. We here in America are frustrated and surprised when they are not available.

The majority of the world does not have the same experience!

You can help! FAME sends OTC medicines with teams and in shipments to over 40 countries every year! I just learned that the FAME warehouse supplies are actually very low.

Are you going to the store? Click here to see the list of OTC Medicines that are a priority for FAME partners, and pick up an item or two- mail them to FAME and you will impact many who have little resources or hope!

If you’d like to take it a step further, do like our friends at First Church of Christ in Greendale, Indiana. They went to www.fameworld.org/shipping-medicines-and-supplies and set up what we call a “Cardboard Pharmacy” at their church. FAME sends an email packet and boxes you can use to ship items collected back to FAME. This Church just informed us that 9 boxes of OTC medicines are ready to come to FAME.

Going to the store. Such a common part of our lives here, but an opportunity to change lives around the world!

Thank you for your partnership!!

Bill Warren
Executive Director

So many people were being treated for their sicknesses and diseases that a large crowd had gathered. One man, in particular, was blind and kept calling out hoping to be treated – he was heard and treated, receiving his sight. The physician who tells the story says, “Instantly he could see, and he began to follow Jesus.” The crowd that gathered was so large a short man ran ahead of the crowd and climbed a tree so he could see!

Of course, the story above is Jesus the Great Physician, the blind man he healed, Luke who recorded it, and Zacchaeus who climbed the tree. Jesus said, “..I came to seek and save the lost.” The mission of FAME is continuing HIS mission!

Earlier this summer your FAME teams treated people so they could receive sight.

Every time a FAME Short Term Trip Team is serving in a community a crowd gathers,  including tree climbers so they can see the excitement!

Your generosity allows FAME to lead and send teams to open the door for the gospel around the world!

If you’d like to GO on a team, we want 1/3 of our teams to be medical professionals- which means 2/3 are not, and there is a spot for anyone who wants to serve the world’s most vulnerable.

Trips for 2023 are being released and announced- save this webpage www.fameworld.org/mission-trips to keep up with Trips you could consider joining to bring help and hope in the name of Jesus!

Your impact in Ukraine through FAME has been a story of contrasts and impact.

First, through your FAME staff’s partnerships, some nearly miraculous deliveries have occurred! In the midst of shipping chaos and a war-torn system, FAME partners have received two shipments of catheters for angiography at the children’s cardio center in Kyiv! These pictured heart catheters were in the FAME Indianapolis warehouse just months ago – AND NOW they are in use in Ukraine!

A surprising situation of stability in the midst of chaos, providing life-saving supplies with the Compassion of Jesus.

Second, heartbreaking destruction and loss for FAME partner health-care evangelists! This picture is of Lenny’s* home in the Dnipro region. She has been the link to hundreds of vulnerable “Babushkas” and children in the midst of bombings, fighting, and air raids. She has been providing medicine, bandages, and essential supplies that YOU provided through FAME. Each delivery and visit includes the gospel message – and many receive the “mp3-like” player full of the Bible, the gospel, and encouraging sermons.

Lenny has now moved her ministry to the refugee camp shown above and is a light and joy to others even though very little hope exists as they worry about the approaching winter.

Your partnership with FAME impacts people at a moment of great need, and the compassion, love, and message of Jesus shines bright and full of hope!

Keep praying for your partners in Ukraine and around the world- as together, YOU and FAME bring hope to over 5000 people every day with access to health care that brings access to the gospel.

It couldn’t be done without you!

* “Lenny’s” name has been changed for privacy.

Last Saturday, on a phone call with a potential partner, we heard their desperate need for partnership so that thousands could be impacted in a closed SE Asia Nation! They have been helping oppressed people who do not have the basic services we in America consider customary. Such needs include health facilities and basic health supplies!

They said, We have been taking Tylenol with us on our evangelism outreaches. Just having Tylenol to meet basic needs has allowed us to share Jesus with people! We never imagined the opportunities that would come through medical outreaches and supplies!

This mission has been working diligently for years reaching remote people in SE Asia, and now they have an open door of opportunity into another Country! They had not heard of FAME until this year when someone who went to college with him shared FAME’s work and recommended he reach out to us!

You can make the same type of connections and open new doors of evangelism through your network of friends, family, and colleagues.

You can send help and hope by partnering with FAME in prayer or by collecting medicines and supplies for our mission partners and short-term mission trips (see our website for lists).

You are a partner in reaching closed countries when you give to FAME!

You are a partner we can count on – Thank you!

Even villages that have been closed to evangelism will have access to the good news because of access to health care and because YOU partner with FAME!

 

Thank you for your continued partnership with FAME through your prayers for the ministry. Each month we are blessed in knowing that you have come alongside us in praying for the FAME board, volunteers, mission partners, scholarship recipients, the staff, church visits and conventions or events.

This month, with so many of the kids going back to school, we ask that you partner with us in praying for our FAME scholarship recipients who are studying to become medical professionals in their home countries. These Christian students all desire to serve God through their medical professions. Each of these students are sponsored by a FAME Partner mission.

Please pray also for a short-term medical mission trip that will be leaving at the end of the month to serve with Central Brazil Mission. This team of 10 participants will be serving on a boat trip along the Amazon River. They will be docking at multiple remote villages along the river and will treat patients experiencing both physical and spiritual needs. Patients will make their way on board the boat to be seen by medical professionals on the team.

We also ask for your continued prayers for our partners in Ukraine and Haiti. Please pray that they will remain strong in their faith during these turbulent times. Recently, our FAME partner in Ukraine gave an update on the ministry there and wrote,  Russia needs to understand that just like David and Goliath, just like Gideon, this battle isn’t about human strength.  This is a battle of good and evil.  Ukraine may not have modern weapons or sufficient numbers of soldiers, but they have God with them.  The people of Ukraine continue to need our prayers most of all.

Thank you once again for your faithfulness and your partnership in prayer for FAME.

Blessings in the coming month.

Click Here for the August Prayer Calendar