(above- FAME’s Mobilization Staff, Vanessa Scheel and Mallory Fehl)

I am excited to introduce the newest addition to your FAME team who will help serve you even better!

FAME is a partner in medical evangelism – and that partnership is with you, global partners in 50+ countries, and many others, including partnering with those who step out in faith and go on the FAME short-term trips!

In January, Vanessa Scheel joined the FAME staff as our new Mobilization Coordinator after serving as a participant on a FAME short-term trip to South Africa in 2024. She studied International Health, with a minor in Spanish, at Western Michigan University and completed the final semester of her undergraduate degree studying and interning in Spain. She is also certified as a Nursing Assistant, with clinical experience ranging from general medicine to neonatal intensive care.

She is excited to be here in Indy with FAME and to combine her clinical and international experience to help cultivate and expand the mobilization team.

FAME is increasing our staff in a way that will help make short-term mission trips more accessible and impactful for those on the teams and those whom the teams serve!

Maybe you should consider going on a FAME trip! The need is for NON-medical and medical trip participants on every team.

Dr. Kent Brantly, a Medical missionary who survived Ebola and served with a FAME partner mission said, “We are not the healers, nor the saviors. We are simply vessels, instruments in the hands of the Great Physician.”

Thank you for being an instrument in the hands of the Great Physician!

 

** If you would like more information about upcoming short-term trips, visit our website at www.fameworld.org/short-term-trips or contact Mallory Fehl at mfehl@fameworld.org or Vanessa Scheel at vscheel@fameworld.org.

Leaders face a lot of questions and Jesus was no different. On one occasion an expert in the fine print details of the Law questioned Jesus. After Jesus’ return question the man answered to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart…and Love your neighbor as yourself.” Jesus commended him, and then the expert asked, “Who is my neighbor?”

The political climate of Jesus’ day and the divided culture of ethnicity included a lot of hatred – so Jesus told the Story of the Samaritan who helped the man on the road to Jericho. But Jesus didn’t just define loving your neighbor in theory…he lived it! A number of times we can see him compelled to action to heal and care for others because of his love for them! In Luke 7 we have him come across a grieving mother and Luke records that “…his heart went out to her…” and then he raised her son from the dead in the middle of the funeral procession.

Your love is shown when you partner with FAME. I can honestly say, that just as Paul expressed in Corinthians, “The love of Christ compels us…” FAME also is compelled by the love of Christ, just as you are compelled by the love of Christ to partner with us.

One of your FAME partners reported that a mother and her children were all found in their home all with high fevers. The children were sleeping and very sick in bed with her when the dad and husband returned from working many hours walk away from them. He immediately ran many miles to the clinic and I’m glad to report that the response was one of love. The dad didn’t have to wait in line, schedule an appointment, wait for the scheduling department to call back with available appointments….. A nurse immediately traveled with the father bringing antibiotics with her and both children and mother had turned the corner by evening.

A simple medical solution – but only possible because of the love of Christ in the nurse at the FAME clinic. What I didn’t tell you is that the clinic was BUSY that day, but her heart went out to him! The love of Christ compels your FAME partners to do what they do.

Thank you for loving your neighbors when you partner with FAME. Because our global partners love neighbors on your behalf every day.

I’m grateful to serve in a ministry where your global partners’ hearts go out to people like Jesus!!!

I am thankful for your partnership!

 

Blessings,

As a valued partner, you are making an impact that goes far beyond a one-time gift. Your generosity fuels the sustainability of FAME’s global partnerships, ensuring that when a clinic, hospital, or training program is established, it doesn’t just fade away when the initial resources are used.

Through FAME, you are providing not just a gift, but a lasting solution—one that continues to serve communities, equip healthcare workers, and work toward independence and sustainability.

One of my greatest honors is seeing how partners like you help mobilize a global community, creating sustainable solutions to the lack of access to healthcare and the gospel.

The first photo below is when I attended the 2016 dedication of the first floor of a clinic in Kenya. The sustainable model they implemented resulted in the additional photos from the 2024 dedication of the three-story, Level 4 hospital, which was built on the success of the clinic.

Thank you for standing with us.

 

Thank you so much for your continued support of the ministry of FAME through prayer. We find it a blessing to have you come alongside us each day praying for FAME staff, board members, mission partners, trip participants, scholarship recipients, volunteers, shipments of medical supplies, healthcare projects, church visits and other items of ministry.

This month we ask for prayers for a FAME mission trip that left on January 31 for Malawi to serve with Akonda Ministries through medical outreaches. Medical outreaches open doors for our Malawi hosts to engage in personal relationships with those who come to receive treatment from our team. Through those relationships, the good news of Jesus can be shared, and ultimately lives will be transformed. Our ultimate goal is to bring glory to God in all that we do while serving in Malawi! Please pray for not only the team, but also the people they will be treating in the name of Christ.

We also ask for prayers for the FAME staff that give of their time and talents to further the ministry of FAME so that the world’s most vulnerable may be touched by the love of Christ through medical evangelism. Please pray that the Lord guides them as they serve.

Continue to pray as well for many of our faithful volunteers that serve the ministry. These people give of their time and talents so that people around the world can receive the medical care they need and can hear the Good News. FAME truly could not do all it does without the help of so many.

Lastly, please pray for Executive Director, Bill Warren as he travels to Asia to meet with FAME Partners in the Philippines and Thailand. He will be visiting some of the sustainable healthcare projects FAME was able to help fund through the support of so many of our faithful donors. We look forward to seeing how God will use these projects for His glory.

Blessings in the coming month.

February Prayer Calendar