Dr. Grubbs, Author of The Partridge Principle (at right)
is in the process of writing and editing stories of changed lives from FAME. 

This new book will be available sometime this fall!  Stay tuned and watch for more details.  Here is an excerpt.


     What happened on November 10, 2010 was almost miraculous. Along the eastern horizon a timid gray aura appeared in the black sky outlining the ridge of distant hills. As though it was embarrassed for disturbing the night, the gray aura blushed a delicate pink and then the sun peeked over the ridge, chasing the darkness across the treetops below. In the shadows beneath the trees something stirred, and to better discern what it was, the sun rose higher in the sky. There beneath the trees were people, hundreds, even thousands of people all moving with purpose in one direction.

     Unable to delay his sprint across the sky, the sun looked down that day upon groups of people gathering at FAME clinics, hospitals, feeding centers, and community health stations all around the world. Children were weighed, measured, immunized, prodded, and de-wormed. Wounds were dressed, babies born, cataracts removed, cleft lips repaired, cancers treated, and emotional scars soothed - and many hurting people discovered the loving touch of the Great Physician. It was almost like the day of Pentecost, while each spoke in his own language, all heard but one voice, one message, saying, "Jesus loves me, Oh He really loves me."

     Exactly forty years before, on November 10, 1970, a well-dressed man walked up the steps to a courthouse in Indiana. Above his round slightly pinkish face, his neat white hair was thinning. He spoke with a very slight lisp, disarming anyone who may be unaware of his brilliant mind and compassionate heart. He dearly loved Jesus and His church. His name was Judge Milford Anness. He carried in his briefcase a document signed by three people - Dr. Dennis Pruett, Dr. Kenneth Messman, and himself. It was the original incorporation document for the Fellowship of Associates for Medical Evangelism - FAME.

     When Judge Anness left the courthouse that day, FAME was officially a medical mission organization. It had no staff, no buildings, no income, no hospitals, clinics, feeding stations, mobile units or community health centers, and no mission partners. And no one in the world that day planned to visit a FAME clinic or hospital, nor did anyone anticipate what four decades of ministry would bring. What happened over the next forty years was almost miraculous, but how did it happen?

David Grubbs
FAME Historian, Author, Preacher, Medical Doctor, Story-teller, and more. . .