Many times FAME partners go to the underserved and neglected where there is no access by road!
FAME has learned:
Where there is limited access to healthcare, there is limited access to the gospel.
Where there is limited access to the gospel, there is limited access to healthcare.
In the busy suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, at one of the nation’s best hospitals, is an ER Doctor who is one of the best! Year-round he treats terrible situations in the ER and the Level II Trauma Center. But his favorite “shifts” are places with no roads in Central and South America. He and his wife have been traveling to Panama, the Amazon region of Brazil, Bolivia, and Guatemala since 2005. FAME has been sending medicines, sutures, surgical equipment, and supplies for many years!
He reported from a trip this summer, “We saw 2115 patients, fitted 731 pairs of glasses, screened and treated all of the adults for hypertension and diabetes, gave nearly 1000 vitamin injections, hundreds of steroid joint injections, dozens of surgeries.., gave away hundreds of toys, and trained local missionaries/pastors how to use their new autorefractor to continue to test and fit the 4000 pairs of glasses we left them. Most importantly, we shared the Gospel message with everyone!”
Thank you for your partnership that sends the gospel to unlikely, and difficult-to-reach regions. God has been sending people to deserted areas since the church began. In Acts, we are told that an angel of the Lord told Philip to go South of Jerusalem to a desert path and he found an Ethiopian who was ready to hear the gospel.
YOU are being used by God to send messengers to areas with and without roads so the gospel can be shared!
Thank you for your partnership.
Bill Warren
Executive Director