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Stories of how your support helps us to "bind up wounds and bring healing to the brokenhearted"

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On Call is a quarterly publication from World Medical Mission written to those who support our work with doctors and dentists in hospitals around the world. In each issue we include stories of how your support helps us to "bind up wounds and bring healing to the brokenhearted." You can also see a list of mission hospitals asking for help and consider volunteering your services if you are a doctor in one of the listed specialties. Read each issue here by downloading the Adobe pdf file.

From the latest On Call:

“Doctor, He Believes!”

Dr. Joel Tumlison is serving through the Post-Residency Program in Honduras

Joel and Cinthya Tumlison with their daughters, Linda (left) and Lisa

Don Adriano is a man in his 70s whom I first saw in consultation about two months ago. He had seen several doctors already. He had the highest PSA I remember seeing. I think it was like 130. He had been recommended to have a prostate biopsy previously, but couldn't afford it. By the time he came to see me he had started losing weight, appetite, and energy. He was anemic with a hematocrit of around 25. I figured he had prostate cancer.

I began speaking to him about Jesus and we prayed with him. His brother, who always accompanies him, informed me that Don Adriano had not placed his faith in Christ yet, but had many family members praying for him for years.

At Hospital Loma de La Luz, after you see the doctor, you go to the chaplain for counseling, prior to going to the pharmacy. So, off Don Adriano and his brother went. I wandered into the lobby 30 minutes later and Don Adriano's brother came up to me smiling from ear to ear. "Doctor, he believes!” he said. “He just put his faith in Christ!" I was amazed. I turned around to see Don Adriano seated. He didn’t have an ear-to-ear grin, but a satisfied smile, the most peaceful smile I have seen. I spoke with him about his decision and congratulated him. He expressed his joy at having eternal life. He said he was happy to know Jesus. That, my friends, is a good day.

This story just highlights something the Lord has been teaching me, not just through this man's life, but in many experiences with patients. José, a man I witnessed to with a gunshot to the abdomen, repented of his sins, received Christ in faith, and is following Him, joyful and thankful that Christ saved his life. This required very little effort on my part, just stating the obvious to him.

The man who shot him—whom José apparently hacked with a machete—also repented and dedicated his life to Christ through the witness of our nurses and my statement of the obvious, once again, that God had spared his life, too. He had a machete chop about 5 cm from his jugular vein and carotid artery!

Several other patients I have been involved with in the hospital and clinic have also received eternal life through Christ. It really has been joyous! And you know what? They were ready. They just needed someone to share it with them.

So, I encourage all of you to share your faith. Ask those around you if they know Jesus, if they have been forgiven, if they have received eternal life in Christ. It really is important. You're in a position to do it, to offer God's gift to them. I just wanted to encourage you to do so. God is doing the work, and He really has prepared people. Just get involved.