Dear FAME Prayer Partner,

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 a medical mission team that will be going to Kenya in partnership with CMF. Please pray for the participants and the people they will be serving.

Pray also this month for many shipments we have going out to mission partners around the world. Pray that the supplies and equipment that are sent will be a light to those around the world who need help and hope and who have little or no access to healthcare. And pray also that they may feel the love of Christ in the care that they receive as those supplies are used.

Lastly, pray for many volunteer groups that will be serving at FAME this month in the FAME warehouse. We are so appreciative of all the faithful volunteers who come and serve.  We truly could not do all we do around the world without the help of so many.

With this being the month of July and a time on July 4 for celebration, I wanted to also share an article from Bibles for America (BFA) that gives some good insight on the 4^th of July that we will be celebrating this month in the US and why it’s important. The author writes, While it’s important to be with family and friends on this day, it’s also good to reflect on why we’re celebrating. Our early forebears left England for the unfamiliar shores of America mainly because they were unhappy under the tyranny of religious persecution. Since those dawning years of our country, many others have migrated for the same reason. They gave up everything for the right to freely worship God here.

Among the many freedoms our country guarantees, what we as believers particularly hold dear is the right to worship God and to read His Word, the Bible, freely. In many countries on this earth, this freedom still does not exist.

This July 4th, as we watch fireworks and wave flags in celebration, may we also pause to reflect on our nation’s heritage. As the festivities end and the last trails of smoke glide across the summer night sky, take a moment to solemnly thank God for all that our freedom allows.

May God bless all the inhabitants of America with His salvation and the full knowledge of the truth in His Word.

Click here for the July Prayer Calendar

Flooding, Landslides, and destruction. Those describe the situation in El Salvador where your FAME partner has been a great example of partnership! The last report I saw said that 19 people have died including some children. Many of the injuries come the same way as some of the lost lives. A family of 5 near San Salvador lost their lives when the mudslide destroyed their home. But disease is always accelerated in the midst of these disruptions to sanitation and safety. The landslides are so severe that thousands have been displaced, and many day laborers have been unable to work for weeks!

100 Emergency Shelters have been established across the country but 3 are near a FAME partner clinic.

Your FAME partner reports, “We made plans on who we were helping in the shelters but the government continues to direct people to us to see how we can help with basic necessities. It’s flu season here! And we still have over 100 people in each shelter. Our PA, Jessie, nurse Sarah, and Intern Emma, have been helping this week in correlation with the Ministry of health to evaluate and assess all those in the shelters as well as those in the surrounding communities. Please pray for our medical team as we come off the adrenaline rush but still need to be putting in 100%. It’s not time to rest yet.”

Did you see the partnership? The government trusts them and is sending people to them for help, which means your FAME partner also provides hope!

FAME has received a number of emergency requests recently; for medical supplies in the Himalayan foothills, refugees in North Africa, and the Emergency Fund is a little low to meet these requests.

Each of them has a similar theme – a Crisis situation, in when there is a healthy
Partnership, a door of Opportunity for the gospel opens!

Crisis + Partnership = Opportunity

Thank you for your partnership, that makes these “add up!”

Partnership!  And God!  The only way to reach a vision so big.

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Big Audacious Goals are often spoken to set a vision, and one of your FAME partners had his 100th Birthday Celebration and his team met a critical Big Audacious Goal for a whole county in Kenya.

If you’ve ever volunteered at FAME you have probably seen or ridden the hand-cranked, three-wheeled, sturdily built wheelchairs for leg-handicapped persons, which FAME has sent hundreds around the globe.

Mel West, who started building those colorful carts in 1994 in his garage, believes one day there will be a country where everyone in the country has mobility. A place where no one crawls on the ground or has to be carried from place to place or is unable to leave their house for the lack of a mobility device. God gave Mel a vision that that country is Kenya.

The ministry he and his wife of 79 years founded let us know they would be celebrating Mel’s 100th birthday on May 9, 2024. “While we can not obtain a mobility device for every person in need in Kenya before Mel’s birthday, with help we can give mobility to everyone in need in one county” – Transzoia County.

Transzoia County is located in the Western part of Kenya and borders Uganda to the North West. It has five sub-counties namely, Enbess, Cheraganyi, Saboti, Kiminini, and Kwanza.

According to the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census, the population of Tranzoia County is 990,341 people. The first step in ensuring all persons have mobility was to determine the persons who need of an adaptive devise and what devise they needed. An assessment was conducted throughout the County by Community Health Volunteers and the disability heads of the Transzoia County Disability Network Team. They identified 6,103 disabled people in Transzoia County who need a mobility device to have mobility.

The FAME team sent a large number of devices many months ago, but in April received a message that they had only reached “4,230 pieces of adaptive equipment!

Soon after that message, our team received a 25-pallet donation from Franciscan Health Alliance. There were five pallets included in that donation of BRAND NEW, IN THE ORIGINAL BOX cases of crutches! They were loaded, along with additional walkers and wheelchairs, and sent on their way by a monthly volunteer team from Greenwood Christian Church.

On May 7th, the eve of Mel’s 100th birthday, our team received the message that 6,118 pieces of mobility equipment had been received! One county in Kenya of nearly a million people will have the provision of mobility equipment for every person who needs it!

What a vision! Because of you, partnership is providing help and hope to the world’s most vulnerable.

Thank you for partnering with FAME!

Thanks be to God for His repeated miraculous provision to meet the needs of the world!

Isn’t it fun to be part of something so amazing that happens over and over again? What’s one of your Big Audacious Goals?

Partnership, and God – nothing is impossible.

Blessings!

Bill Warren
Executive Director

Our staff is asked this often. “Are you able to do anything right now in Haiti?”

And often the follow-up question is, “How can I help?”

The first answer is “Yes!”

You have many FAME partners who are quietly serving in Haiti, even in the midst of turmoil.  I am not going to name any of them for their own safety, but yesterday I learned something new!

Food insecurity is listed as one of the current tragedies in Haiti, and children are at great risk. Through a series of events here in Indiana, FAME has received multiple pallets of Infant Formula! This is not a normal “medical” or “health” solution, but malnutrition leads to some of the most serious health problems in children. The amazing thing is that one of your FAME partners in Haiti has a quiet, trusted way to ship and deliver the medical equipment AND the Infant Formula which is such a critical need! (BTW a pallet of Infant Formula contains 1000 containers of Formula)

The answer to the second question, “How can I help?” is two part.

1. Pray. Pray for Haiti, and pray for YOUR FAME partners in Haiti, there are 16.

Pray for shipments to arrive at their destination, Pray for Haitians to find Jesus through medical evangelism!

2. Partner. Keep Partnering with FAME. It can be volunteering in Indy, going on a Short-Term Trip, collecting and sending medical equipment and supplies to FAME, or financially partnering with FAME.

When you give to the “Yes!” Fund, you don’t need to designate to Haiti, to help Haiti – the daily work at FAME has supported 63 Mission Partners this year- Haiti included. Partnering with us changes the world!

Infant Formula. One more way God provides to meet the needs of the world’s most vulnerable. If you think this story is amazing…wait until you read next week’s!