A Family Who Arrived With Nothing but Fear

A few weeks ago, one family—let’s call them the Htway family—arrived in Mae Sot after fleeing their village in Myanmar. The father had been injured when fighting erupted near their home. The mother carried their young son for miles through the jungle, and their daughter developed a deep cough from breathing smoke and dust as they traveled.

When they reached Mae Sot, they found only a tarp-covered patch of ground near the landfill—now home to hundreds of displaced families. Their children slept on cardboard. They had no medicine, no food, and no legal status. And, like so many refugees here, they had no access to medical care.

But that’s when they met our partners from Asia Christian Services (ACS) and the first clinic You and FAME partnered to provide. They are further away from the landfill, but now there is an opportunity to add a second clinic partnering with Rapha International and ACS.

 

 

 

 

Why This Clinic Matters Right Now

The Mae Sot Landfill Community sits at the crossroads of Thailand and Myanmar, where displaced families, migrant workers, and stateless children try to survive with no clinics, no insurance, and no protection. Hundreds in this community live in extreme poverty and thousands more across the Mae Sot border region face the same crisis. The new clinic FAME is helping build will become their only safe place to receive:

• Emergency care
• First aid
• Treatment for infections and injuries
• Medicine and diagnostics
• Health education for mothers and children
• Faith-based counseling and prayer

This clinic is more than a building—it’s a lifeline.
And today, we have a challenge gift that doubles every dollar until we reach our $23,000 Giving Tuesday goal.

You can help this family—and thousands like them—find healing and hope.

Would you make your Giving Tuesday gift today and help us close the final $23,000?
This is our moment to provide care where there is none.
This is our chance to build a clinic that will serve refugees for years to come.
And today—your gift goes twice as far.

Thank you for standing with the Htway family… and with every family longing for safety and healing.

Let’s finish strong.

 

Dear Prayer Partner,

As 2025 draws to a close, we pause to reflect on the impact that has been made around the world through medical evangelism -impact made possible because of your faithful support. Through your prayers and generosity, individuals who previously had no access to healthcare have received compassionate care and the hope of Christ. We are deeply grateful to you and your prayers for our staff, the FAME Board of Directors, our scholarship students, volunteers, mission partners, and all those we serve.

This December, we ask you to join us in prayer for many of our mission partners who humbly serve others, ministering to people in their communities around the world. These partners host our many mission teams, establish sustainable healthcare projects with funding from FAME, and receive vital medical supplies that strengthen their ability to care for others both physically and spiritually.

Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones and thank you for faithfully standing with us in prayer.

God bless,
The FAME staff and Board

Click here for the December Prayer Calendar

I am thankful for you and your faith. You have shown it to FAME through your interest, your involvement, and your investment in the work of FAME’s global partners around the world. I’ve asked Jeff Coon, FAME Director of Development to share more with you in this email.

The book of Matthew is astonishing. Read it and count how many sick people Jesus healed—it’s remarkable. Teaching the good news and healing: that’s what He did even when He wasn’t looking people were healed, they sought to simply touch the fringe of His garment—and all who touched Him were made well (Matt. 14:36).

One woman thought, “If I just touch His garments, I’ll be healed.” Immediately she was. Jesus found her and said, “Your faith has made you well.”

I’m also moved by the story of the four friends who carried their paralyzed friend to Jesus, digging through a roof to place him before the Lord. Scripture records that Jesus saw their faith and He forgave and healed the paralytic because of the faith of those who brought him to Jesus.”

YOU bring people to Jesus for healing every time you show interest, get involved, and invest in the work of FAME. Your faith is making people well. Thank you!

But may I encourage you on another level?

Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. It was His will to heal then, and it is His desire to heal now. Jesus cares about you as well—and so do we at FAME. Thousands hear the gospel and receive compassionate care in His name every day because of you. But perhaps you also need to “touch” His garment for healing. May FAME staff and I pray for you? If so, please send your requests to prayer@fameworld.org

Last week I spoke with one of your FAME partners in Africa. He told me of a man who came to their clinic with symptoms they couldn’t diagnose. They prayed for him. The following week he returned and asked, “Who did you pray to last week? Whoever He is—He healed me.”

Thank you for your partnership with FAME. Your faithful interest, involvement, and investment in medical evangelism is changing lives. And thank you for trusting FAME to pray for your health as we impact the world together. – Jeff Coon

Blessings,
Bill Warren

This is why your partnership with FAME has such a great impact.

Every one of your FAME partners is actively involved in evangelism and deeply connected to local churches and church planters. Last week, I met with one such partner from Asia. The spokesperson began by saying:
I want to start by thanking FAME! In the last two years since the clinic (provided through your generosity to FAME) opened, more than 60,000 people have been treated, and heard the Word of God.

He went on to explain:
These are not people you would expect us to reach. These are people who do not want to hear about Jesus. They avoid Jesus. They oppose Jesus. But something has happened in their lives and they need help, and they have turned to the clinic YOU helped provide.

This clinic is only one of several operated by this partner, who has served faithfully in this community for decades. The national government is openly anti-Christian, yet the village leaders themselves have told our partners:
No other religions are doing this. This favor in the community is part of medical evangelism.

This same spirit of frontline compassion and evangelism is exactly what makes our Giving Tuesday project in Mae Sot, Thailand so urgent and so promising. The only other source of compassionate medical care for the refugees is another clinic you helped provide, but it is a long walk away, and the number of refugees is overwhelming. The new clinic you help build will become their place of hope, just like the clinic that reached 60,000 people in just two years.

Your partnership builds clinics where the gospel can go where it otherwise never would.
Your generosity opens doors no one else can open.
And together, we can make Mae Sot the next place where thousands encounter both healing and the love of Christ.

Thank you for being part of the mission.

Bill Warren
Executive Director

 

Meet Mat — a student who faced persecution, but brought the Gospel home.

When you partner with FAME, you stand with the persecuted and the bold.

Mat*, a student at a Bible Institute, became a Christian in a country where it is against the law to share the Gospel in non-Christian villages. He met Christ through a FAME partner involved in medical relief, video ministry, and church planting.

After his conversion and Bible training, Mat’s family was barred from using the community well and from buying essentials in local shops. For months, they were ostracized from society. Yet through it all, they stood firm in faith and never lost their zeal for the Lord.

Mat has now returned to his home village. What began as a small gathering in his family’s home has grown into a church of twelve families worshipping together — a new light in a dark place. This transformation began with a FAME partner who used medical evangelism to open doors where the Gospel cannot be openly shared.

The vulnerable. The persecuted. The refugees. The trafficked. The oppressed.

These are the people you help when you partner with FAME — through courageous believers like Mat who never stop sharing God’s love.

That’s why this Giving Tuesday, we’re partnering with Asia Christian Services and Rapha International to build a clinic that will serve refugees, safe house residents, and their surrounding community in Southeast Asia.

Follow FAME on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn for updates — and keep your eyes out for stories about this clinic about how you can double a gift already received!

Thank you for saying “Yes!” to FAME!

Sometimes, the most life-changing miracles begin with something as simple as a roll of gauze.

At the clinic at Del Corazón de Jesucristo on the island of the Dominican Republic, Dr. Leslie and her team care for patients who are suffering from serious infections and chronic wounds. Recently, she wrote to tell us that five of her patients now come regularly for ongoing wound-care treatment—one is a young man fighting a painful infection, another is an amputee whose healing depends on careful daily care.

When Dr. Leslie’s supplies ran dangerously low, she prayed for help. And because of your partnership with FAME, boxes of desperately needed wound-care materials—bandages, antiseptic dressings, wraps, and gloves arrived just in time.

One of her patients, the young man in the photo below, was in danger of losing his leg. Infection had set in, and each day mattered. With the new supplies, the clinic team cleaned, dressed, and wrapped his wound properly. Today he is healing—step by step—because you cared enough to send what he needed most.

Your generosity is not just delivering supplies; it’s delivering hope, dignity, and the love of Christ to people who might otherwise be forgotten.

Thank you for helping FAME equip clinics like the one at Del Corazón to bring healing to both body and soul—one wound, one patient, one life at a time.

Thank you for your partnership!

Dear Prayer Partner,

As we enter this season of gratitude and reflection, we want to say how thankful we are for you and your faithful partnership in prayer. Your prayers truly make a difference and help impact lives around the world. This month, please join us in lifting up several areas of ministry where God is at work through medical evangelism.

First, please be praying for our FAME Short-Term Trip Leaders. These men and women generously give their time, energy, and talents as they lead short-term teams into different parts of the world to bring healing, hope, and the love of Christ. Pray that God will give them wisdom in planning and leading, protection as they travel, and that their service will encourage our missionary partners and open doors for the Gospel.

We would also appreciate your continued prayers for our FAME Staff. Our team works hard behind the scenes to support global partners, coordinate medical supply shipments, prepare and lead mission teams, and wisely steward the resources God provides. Please pray for unity, clear direction, and that each staff member will be strengthened and encouraged as they serve.

We also celebrate new sustainable health care projects that were recently approved at the last FAME Board meeting, and we would love your prayers over each one. These include: the construction of a Surgical Theater for the Joska Clinic in Kenya (MOHI), Phase Two of the Maternity Hospital in Malawi (Akonda Ministries), and Clean Water and Disease Prevention initiatives in Kenya (Nasha). Please pray for God’s provision, smooth progress, and that these projects will bring long-term health, hope, and opportunities for the Gospel in each community.

In addition, this month includes two large conferences where FAME will be represented: the Global Missions Health Conference (GMHC) in Louisville, KY and the International Conference on Missions (ICOM) held this year in Atlanta, GA. Please pray that God guides the conversations at these events and opens the door for new partnerships with people from around the world.

And lastly, we would like to ask for prayer for Executive Director, Bill Warren, as he visits some of our partner churches on behalf of FAME. Pray for safe travels, Spirit led conversations, and for each church to be encouraged by how God is using medical evangelism to reach people with the Gospel.

Wishing you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving!

November Prayer Calendar

At FAME, we believe short-term trips can have a long-term impact.

Recently, a small team of childbirth professionals traveled to a country where infant mortality rates are heartbreakingly high. Their goal? To train Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) using the curriculum “Helping Babies Breathe.”

These TBAs are often the most trusted women in their villages—experienced, caring, and dedicated—but their training is usually informal, passed down by observation and experience rather than instruction. As long as everything goes smoothly, births are celebrated. But when complications arise, they can quickly become life-threatening, and medical help is often many miles away.

Instead of spending a week delivering babies themselves, this team chose to equip others to save lives. Through this training, they multiplied their impact—passing on skills that will continue to protect mothers and newborns for years, even generations, to come.

Because of your partnership, FAME can send teams like this around the world—transforming short-term trips into long-term hope through medical evangelism.

Thank you for making that possible.

In a remote part of Southeast Asia, where Christians are among the least likely to receive help or support from local agencies, a young father named Arjuun* was simply trying to get to work when tragedy struck.

While traveling on his motorcycle, Arjuun was involved in a terrible accident that left both of his legs broken. Suddenly, his family faced the fear of not only his injuries, but also the loss of their only income.

Normally, the only way for someone in his village to reach a hospital for proper treatment is a five-hour bus ride over roads often washed out by monsoon rains—roads that sometimes remain unrepaired for years.

But because of your partnership with FAME, God provided another way. A local pastor and his wife, who operate a small ambulance ministry, were able to rush Arjuun to a clinic for emergency care. They serve both Christians and their neighbors—showing the love of Jesus through compassion and action.

Arjuun received excellent care, and he is now healing well. Soon, he will be able to provide for his family again.

Your support is also helping our partners in this region take the next step—building a small clinic to provide first-level care and stabilization closer to home. This will make it possible for people like Arjuun to receive help much sooner.

However, obtaining land and government permission for Christian medical facilities in this area is extremely difficult. You may remember when we shared a story a few years ago about attending a 4 a.m. groundbreaking in this same country—construction began before sunrise so local opposition wouldn’t halt the permit process.

Please continue to pray for our partners as they navigate these challenges. Your prayers and your giving make it possible for them to provide life-saving care in the name of Jesus—and to share the good news that changes lives forever.

Thank you for being part of bringing good news and great joy to people around the world through medical evangelism.

We all wake up concerned when a fever spikes in the middle of the night for a child or family member—and we find them burning hot.

That was especially true for a little boy I told you about two years ago, when we were partnering with an orphanage in rural Tanzania. He woke up crying from a fever, but his pain ran deeper—he had already lost his mother to AIDS and his father to malaria.

More than 3.1 million children in Tanzania are orphans because of AIDS and malaria.

Two years ago, the house parents rushed him to a clinic many hours away. The treatment was simple, but the fear was real—and the trip was expensive and long, often taking two hours each way.

But not anymore!

The clinic you helped fund officially opened in September—with full government documentation! It’s located right on the campus of the orphanage, school, and church—now only a two-minute walk for a house parent and child.

Until now, there had been just one small government clinic serving more than six villages. Many people walked 20–30 kilometers for care. That clinic lacked equipment and supplies, leaving expectant mothers and the sick without adequate help.

This week, I saw a video of the first mother and baby to give birth at the new clinic—resting in a room furnished by a shipment from FAME!.

According to Pastor Dionis, who is also a house parent at Eternal Families Village (part of Remember the Children), having a clinic near the church will help introduce many to the good news of Jesus Christ. The church intends to use every opportunity to share that Jesus is the best Father to the fatherless, the help for the helpless, and the hope for the hopeless.

The region is predominantly Muslim, and the need for the gospel is great.

Thank you for your partnership that brings hope to regions with little or no hope.