This Memorial Day Weekend in Indianapolis is going to be very different! No Indy 500 Race. No giant multi-family picnic we’ve been attending on and off for 20 years.
But one thing won’t change- honoring those who have gone before us. That’s my mom, Marilyn Coon above. Last year we lost my dad a few months after his 90th birthday. Memorial Day brings up memories of his love for his family, his love of the Lord, love of his country (WWII vet), and his love for global missions!
At FAME, remembering our past brings up memories of Bob Reeves, the foundational Executive Director of FAME. I first met Bob when he spoke at a Faith Promise Rally at my childhood home church. His passion for Global Missions radiated from him and Rosella as he challenged our church to change the world!
Maybe there’s someone special you’d like to honor this Memorial Day! There are many great organizations to whom you could give, I understand that. But here’s why I’d like to ask if you could consider a $100 Memorial Gift to FAME? FAME has been impacting nearly a million of the world’s most vulnerable (hearing the gospel and being treated in the name of Jesus) every year for 50 years. When you give a $100 memorial gift to FAME it will have an eternal impact on 100 people. People who have been made vulnerable by persecution, pandemic, injustice, poverty, and trafficking. Your global FAME partners are on the frontlines of the gospel in over 40 countries- I think that is a cause worth giving an honoring memorial gift to!
Tell us who you’d like the memorial gift to honor AND add a story in a note (online or in the mail) – we’d love to share your joy remembering a life well-lived. Click here to make your Memorial gift.
Blessings and Happy Memorial Day!
Jeff Coon
Director of Development.
P.S. If you have another 2 minutes can I tell you about the last picture in this email? This is Dorothy Bare and I last year in Joplin, MO. Dorothy and her husband Dr. Garland Bare were Medical Missionaries to Thailand beginning in the 1950s, before FAME was even a dream. When I met her last year she said, “Garland and I said many times, If only FAME had existed when we were just getting started in Thailand. God provided the medical equipment and supplies we needed in miraculous ways – but he and I were so thankful FAME exists for medical evangelism now!” Garland passed away in April of 2017, what a legacy they have in the world of Medical Evangelism.
Photo Credit: Randy Coon