Joel and Cinthya Tumlison always knew that they wanted to serve overseas and since Cinthya is a native Honduran, she was committed to return after college.  She had never heard of Hospital Loma de Luz but during a visit to a family practice residency program in Georgia, they met Dr. Wesley Harris who had worked many places in Honduras and one of those places was Loma de Luz.  Three years later, when Joel was almost finished with his family practice residency in Tulsa, OK,  he learned that Samaritan’s Purse had recently opened a Post Residency Grant Program through its World Medical Mission branch.  The program matches a recent medical resident graduate to a mission hospital in a developing or third world country and pays for the doctor to go and be a medical missionary for two years.  Shortly before visiting Loma de Luz hospital, as Joel says, “we found out that we were not selected.  We were very sad about it; yet the Lord had given us a sense of peace about coming to the hospital.  We still came to visit, interviewed, and were happy to know that the hospital did want us to come.  We trusted that the Lord would make a way for us to come back for long term.  The same day we got back to the US from our visit to the hospital, we got a call from World Medical Mission.  They told us that an anonymous donor had just donated enough money to send one more doctor to the mission field!  Praise the Lord for HIS Provision!  After our two years are over, we would love to come back.  But we will have to find a sending agency and raise up a financial support team so that we can continue being here.”

     Cinthya stays at home with the girls and tutors some MKs in Spanish.  She has a heart for training Hondurans to go to the 10/40.  She is also working on her thesis paper to earn a MA in Teaching Second Languages from UALR.

Sending agency: 
Samaritan’s Purse/WMM
Attn: Post-Residency Program
P.O. Box 3000, Boone, NC 28607
(828) 262-1980
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/Serving_Overseas/Post_Residency

Tumlisons in Honduras
Apdo. Postal 901
La Ceiba, Honduras
CA 31101
Email: thetumlisons@gmail.com

US Address:
1221 Mitchell Street
Conway, AR 72034

Here are some Tumlison blogs you can follow:
www.thetumlisonian.blogspot.com

www.myauthenticthesis.blogspot.com