I don’t know exactly how many people are thankful for you…but I can give you some numbers to start with!

• 87 received Surgeries at Peredo Christian Hospital in Haiti last year
• 383 had Surgeries in Mashoko Hospital in Zimbabwe so far this year
• 3765 patients were treated at Charles Selby Hospital in the Philippines last year
• 7,109 patients visit Jacmel Haiti in 2023
• 14 people received ultrasound scans when a team from this Philippines Hospital took a two-hour drive from the hospital to Marag Valley, carrying their supplies, walked for 20 minutes to reach a boat. Then it was a 45-minute boat ride to reach the destination.
• 1 little weak eight year old girl who had a 105 degree fever when being carried onto the Medical Mission Boat on the Amazon River was treated with antibiotic and ibuprofen

These are just a few thousand of the people I know who are THANKFUL FOR YOU! There are others directly around your daily life too, but when you partner with FAME financially, over 2 Million People are Thankful for you every year!

You are FAME, and they are grateful for ALL THAT FAME does for the nearly 80 global partners annually.

When I am planning for the next year or so, sometimes I wish I could see the future. John did.

He saw “…every tribe and language and people and nation….” Seven times he recorded that they would be part of the Kingdom of God in the book of Revelation.

One thing I know about the future is that YOU are part of reaching every tribe and language and people and nation when you partner with FAME ! If the Lord allows, next year will be similar to this year;

• teams will travel to countries to open doors for the gospel
• medical equipment and supplies will be shipped to support global partners
• scholarships will be given to students serving with a FAME global partner
• grants will be given to sustainable projects to provide access to healthcare where there is limited access to healthcare and the gospel currently

Impact will occur among every tribe and language and people and nation!

 

 

 

 

 

That is what the future holds! One place we’d like to see a sustainable project finished is with a highly evangelistic partner who is building a Clinic “for children, moms, dads, and their families that will be a HUB for reaching people in this region with the gospel. Delivering high quality patient centered healthcare will draw patients from all over opening the door for evangelism.” They presented FAME with plans having the following headings:

• On Site Evangelism
• Follow Up of New Converts
• Recurring On-site Evangelism
• Gospel literature campaign
• Off-Site Evangelism and Community Outreach

When I think about next year and the future I am grateful for YOU and the global partners who are reaching every tribe and language and people and nation by intentional Medical Evangelism. When you partner with FAME in the last two months of 2024, you are supporting the fulfillment of the vision Jesus gave to John in the book of Revelation.

Some FAME partners are brand new in 2024 as your impact grows and increases around the globe. But other FAME partners have been connected for decades, and their influence is astonishing!

One such partner has established many clinics across their country. Each location is remote, requiring half a day to a full day to travel between them, not only because of the distance but also due to the poor road conditions—if you can even call them roads. These clinics serve as true outposts of the gospel in predominantly Muslim communities. On a recent visit by one of our FAME staff members, they observed that every church building connected to most of the clinics (either on the property or adjacent) was solidified or built after the establishment of the clinic. Each building, a hut-like structure, currently holds around 100 people for services. However, at more than one of these sites, construction is underway for simple but larger church buildings that will accommodate 500+ people for a service!

Each clinic has a chaplain who is the pastor of the church or a pastor in the church! The founder of this mission – whom I will name and identify next week in “Part Two” said the quote above on the subject line. It is from the middle of this sentence, Why do we partner with FAME? Because Medical Evangelism…it works! For sharing the gospel and church planting.