Early one morning, on my recent trip to Asia, your FAME Medical Mission partner picked me up at 5:00 am to go to the groundbreaking and cornerstone placement in the photo shown here. I’ll tell you why it was so early in a moment.
This visit was initially to see the completed clinic and church building you helped fund in 2020. The project construction began in January of 2020, and as you can imagine there were many obstacles, but I was able to visit this unique building and see evangelism happening on the First floor – the Clinic, AND on the Second floor – the Church Auditorium! What a great model of compassionate caregiving like Jesus AND sharing the gospel! But even though this building was completed in 2 years during an aggressive national shutdown for the pandemic; this medical mission is under intense scrutiny by government officials who would love to stop the spread of the gospel.
Once the caregiving begins in a country like this, favor grows among the community leadership because Jesus followers treat ALL people with value. But let’s get back to the early morning groundbreaking and cornerstone placement. In this country, Christian leaders who would obviously be connected to Christians from outside of their country could be targets of persecution. So that is why the event with my participation was done under the cover of darkness.
How exciting is it, that immediately after one Clinic/Church building is complete, this partner is breaking ground on another? Once this building is sharing the love and care of Jesus, favor will grow in the community; so this global partner had me at the ground breaking before dawn and back to my hotel to prevent interruption to the advanciment of medical evangelism.
YOU and YOUR generosity allow FAME to say “Yes!” to global partners like these…so that more people will say “Yes!” to Jesus!!