Dear seafarer's friends, 10/21/07 - 10/27/07
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Php. 1:2)
ships visited this week
8 ships on Monday:
NAVIGATOR SATURN, CLIPPER TOBAGO, CONSOLIDATOR, ATLANTIC
FORTUNE, and BRAUNSCHWEIG - Polish, British, Ukrainian, and mainly Filipino.
Most of them liked the English Christian music and hymns which we have planty in
cassette and DVD.
ATLANTIC RUNNER - Ukrainian, and Russian. They liked the Scriptures we gave them
in their own language.
DE SHAN - Chinese. Good visit. 11 people prayed the salvation prayer in group and by
individuals including the captain.
GOLDEN FLORENCE - Korean, and Burmese. 2 Christians 1 Korean and 1 Burmese.
2 salvations, 1 Burmese and the Korean captain. The Holy Spirit was really working on
this vessel.
7 ships on Wednesday:
BUM CHIN - Indian.Very receptive. 8 Christians and 4 salvations. A few of them were
kind of rejective.
ANETTE THERESA, and CHIPPER KRYSTAL - All Filipino. Responsive. Praise the
Lord for their humble spirit.
FORMOSA FOURTEEN - All Chinese. This ship came to Houston last July, but we
missed it. Almost all the gospel materials were gone this time. Took 3 to shopping,
captain, chief engineer, and the 2nd officer. 5 salvations.
RISANGER, THETIS, and AFRICAN AZALEA - Mainly Filipino. Good visit as usual.
Prayed for them and their families.
6 ships on Thursday:
BBC ATLANTIC, ROMNY, and VOIDOMATIS - Russian, and Ukrainian. Met some
orthodox Christians.
MONTEGO - Greek, and mainly Filipino. They received the gospel materials and the
blessings.
STENA CONQUEROR - Romanian, Receptive. They all like the passion of the Christ
movie.
DATRINE STAR - Chinese. We were on this ship just last September 19, only 5
weeks ago. 5 new crew members including the captain. They got on the ship after mid
night last night. 5 salvations including the captain. Some follow up with the old crew,
encouraged them to read the Bible and pray.
11 ships on Friday:
SAGA MUSKETEER, MOSKALVO, and HAPPY FELLOW - Polish, Russian,
Ukrainian, and Filipino. Regular visit.
STAR EAGLE, JO BETULA, JIPRO DREAM, GASCHEM BERGEN, and NEW
AEALAND STAR - Mainly Filipino, Russian, Korean, German, Ukrainian, and
Madivian. Responsive in general, a few were indifferent..
AMAZON - All Indian. 3 Christians, 1 salvation.
CRYSTAL OCEAN - Chinese. We were on this ship last Feburary 12. 12 salvations.
Had a long talk with the captain, he didn't want the formality, so we did't pray, but he
he admits Jesus is in his heart. Right before leaving, 1 seaman asked to pray, then 10
of them got together and we prayed the salvation prayer. What a wonderfu work of the
Holy Spirit. This ship was in Vancouver last May.
ETERNAL CONFIDENCE - Chinese. We were on this ship last March 14. About 12
of them are new crew. They all have short pass. Most of them were busy to go to the
seamens' club to make phone calls after dinner. 9 people were able to pray the
salvation prayer individually. And all the gospel materials were finished.
Steve Yeboah is going to visit this vessel again tonight.
Pastor Malone was still resting at his son Mark's house this week. He started to visit some
ships now.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. (Php. 4:23)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Friday, October 19, 2007
10/14/07 - 10/20/07
Dear seafarer's friends, 10/14/07 - 10/20/07
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Eph. 1:2)
ships visited this week
11 ships on Monday:
JOYOUS LAND, and CHOPIN - Chinese; Chinese and Polish. 7 salvations including
the captain.. 1 salvation on the 2nd ship.
SAFMARINE CAVALLA, SOUTH GATE, and CLIPPER FAITH - Ukrainian,
Montenegrin, Turkish, and Russian. Good response.
GLORY, MED LEGEND, PACIFIC ACE, BOW SIRIUS, GOODRICH BAY, and
EASTWIND - Russian, Greek, Ukrainian, and mainly Filipino. Good visits. Gave 3 a
ride to the security gate.
4 ships on Tuesday:
EMERALD STAR - Russian, Lithuania, and Latvian.. Receptive. They found the
cheaper phone cards were selling, they told everybody on the ship. Therefore more
people got the Gospel materials.
OVERSEAS ARIADMAR, and FEDERAL PRIDE - All Filipino. Responsive. An African American security guard requested to pray for him.
YI CHANG HAI - All Chinese. At least 2 seamen on this vessel were previously met.
14 seamen were moved by the Holy Spirit to stand up and pray the salvation prayer
together at the meal. 3 more opened their hearts to received Jesus Christ. A cell
phone was offered for them to use, but they refused.
10 ships on Thursday:
STOLT TOPAZ, GENMAR AGAMEMNON, VOYAGER II, KAREELA SPIRIT, BBC
IRELAND, and BOW PRIMA - Russian, Ukrainian, Indian, Norwegian, Swedish,
Romanian, and mainly Filipino. 1 Filipino salvation. Confirmed other Filipinos' faith.
NECHES - Indian. 11 Christians and 4 salvations.
GOLDEN JANE - Korean, and Myanmar. 2 salvations, 1 Korean and 1 Myanmar.
SCF TOMSK - Russian, Very receptive. 1 Christian showed up. He got all the
Scriptual materials.
KANG YUAN - Chinese. We were on this ship last June 22. 7 new crew members.
5 salvations. A little follow up with the captain.
5 ships on Friday:
LUCY PG - Polish, British, and South American. Receptive and good visit.
NS STELLA, and MARE PACIFIC - Mainly Russian, Georgian, and Latvian.
Responsive. Pray for the Baltic countries. There are many many Christians there.
UBC TAMPICO - All Filipino. Made sure they had the faith in Jesus Christ not
themselves.
NEW CONSTELLATION - 7 Chinese, 2 Indian, and Filipino. 6 Chinese salvations, 1
went ashore. 1 Hindu salvation. They all claimed that we are sinners and Jesus is in
our hearts. Prayed with Filipino Christian captain and blessed the vessel.
Pastor Malone was still resting at his son Mark's house this week. He is getting better everyday.
Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love. (Eph. 6:24)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Eph. 1:2)
ships visited this week
11 ships on Monday:
JOYOUS LAND, and CHOPIN - Chinese; Chinese and Polish. 7 salvations including
the captain.. 1 salvation on the 2nd ship.
SAFMARINE CAVALLA, SOUTH GATE, and CLIPPER FAITH - Ukrainian,
Montenegrin, Turkish, and Russian. Good response.
GLORY, MED LEGEND, PACIFIC ACE, BOW SIRIUS, GOODRICH BAY, and
EASTWIND - Russian, Greek, Ukrainian, and mainly Filipino. Good visits. Gave 3 a
ride to the security gate.
4 ships on Tuesday:
EMERALD STAR - Russian, Lithuania, and Latvian.. Receptive. They found the
cheaper phone cards were selling, they told everybody on the ship. Therefore more
people got the Gospel materials.
OVERSEAS ARIADMAR, and FEDERAL PRIDE - All Filipino. Responsive. An African American security guard requested to pray for him.
YI CHANG HAI - All Chinese. At least 2 seamen on this vessel were previously met.
14 seamen were moved by the Holy Spirit to stand up and pray the salvation prayer
together at the meal. 3 more opened their hearts to received Jesus Christ. A cell
phone was offered for them to use, but they refused.
10 ships on Thursday:
STOLT TOPAZ, GENMAR AGAMEMNON, VOYAGER II, KAREELA SPIRIT, BBC
IRELAND, and BOW PRIMA - Russian, Ukrainian, Indian, Norwegian, Swedish,
Romanian, and mainly Filipino. 1 Filipino salvation. Confirmed other Filipinos' faith.
NECHES - Indian. 11 Christians and 4 salvations.
GOLDEN JANE - Korean, and Myanmar. 2 salvations, 1 Korean and 1 Myanmar.
SCF TOMSK - Russian, Very receptive. 1 Christian showed up. He got all the
Scriptual materials.
KANG YUAN - Chinese. We were on this ship last June 22. 7 new crew members.
5 salvations. A little follow up with the captain.
5 ships on Friday:
LUCY PG - Polish, British, and South American. Receptive and good visit.
NS STELLA, and MARE PACIFIC - Mainly Russian, Georgian, and Latvian.
Responsive. Pray for the Baltic countries. There are many many Christians there.
UBC TAMPICO - All Filipino. Made sure they had the faith in Jesus Christ not
themselves.
NEW CONSTELLATION - 7 Chinese, 2 Indian, and Filipino. 6 Chinese salvations, 1
went ashore. 1 Hindu salvation. They all claimed that we are sinners and Jesus is in
our hearts. Prayed with Filipino Christian captain and blessed the vessel.
Pastor Malone was still resting at his son Mark's house this week. He is getting better everyday.
Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love. (Eph. 6:24)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Thursday, October 11, 2007
10/07/07 - 10/13/07
Dear seafarer's friends, 10/07/07 - 10/13/07
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Gal. 1:3)
ships visited this week
5 ships on Monday:
BERGE SUMMIT - Indian. 7 Christians. The officials in the custom were on board. So
everyone was busy. 1 salvation. Gave away some Scriptures.
STOLT JADE, AIGRAN D. and SANKO SUPREME - Norwegian, Croatian, Romanian,
Italian, and mainly Filipino. Good visits on all the ships. Prayed and encouraged them.
They were very very appreciative of the visit.
GOLD RIVER - Chinese, and Russian. 7 people came to pray the salvation prayer, and
we gave thanks to the Lord at the meal. Took the 2nd officer and the bosun to
shopping. They received Jesus into their hearts too.
2 ships on Tuesday:
HEBEI COURAGE - Chinese. They were cleaning the holes, so most of the people
were busy, but still, the whole box of Scriptual materials were gone. 9 seamen
accepted Jesus is in their hearts. One of them was the electrician. He read many
parts of the Bible before. He has a lap top in his room and using 2 big Chinese
characters "感恩”which means "Thanksgiving" for his screen saver. After we prayed,
he took Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.
CIELO DI MONFALCONE - Italian, Ukrainian, and mainly Indian. 6 Indian Christians.
Victor was the 2nd cook. He is a Christian and a pianist. He leads the choir and plays
the piano whenever he is home, but God called him to be a seafarer. He has been with
the sea for 10 years. Pray that he can lead other Christians to worship Him on board
too. 1 salvation.
14 ships on Wednesday:
XANADU, BELUGA FICTION, AFRICAN FERN, MARATHON, TAMBOURIN, RENA,
SEA HOPE, TENNA KOSAN, and JO SPRUCE - Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, German,
Bulgarian, Polish, Swedish, Dutch, and mainly Filipino. They all got the Scriptural
materials except the Swedish and the Dutch. Blessed all the ships.
BBC FRANCE, ONEGO BREEZE, TRISTEIN, AMBERJACK, FIONA - German,
Ukrainian, and Russian. Good response from all these vessels.
5 ships on Thursday:
OVERSEAS PORTLAND, and PAC DUBHE - Filipino, Myanmar, Singaporian,
Chinese, and Hollander. 1 Singapor Christian. 6 Chinese salvations.
NORD OPTIMISER - Indian. 1 Christian (the chief cook) and 1 salvation..
GAO QIANG, and CHIPOLBROK SUN - Chinese. We were on the 1st ship last May
28, and the 2nd ship last June 4. There was 1 Christian on the 2nd ship, the chief
cook. Both ships had 8 salvations.
Nancy and Thomas are going to a short term mission at El Paso, Tx. this weekend, will be back Monday.
Pastor Malone was resting at his son Mark's house this week. He is getting better gradually.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen. (Gal. 6:18)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Gal. 1:3)
ships visited this week
5 ships on Monday:
BERGE SUMMIT - Indian. 7 Christians. The officials in the custom were on board. So
everyone was busy. 1 salvation. Gave away some Scriptures.
STOLT JADE, AIGRAN D. and SANKO SUPREME - Norwegian, Croatian, Romanian,
Italian, and mainly Filipino. Good visits on all the ships. Prayed and encouraged them.
They were very very appreciative of the visit.
GOLD RIVER - Chinese, and Russian. 7 people came to pray the salvation prayer, and
we gave thanks to the Lord at the meal. Took the 2nd officer and the bosun to
shopping. They received Jesus into their hearts too.
2 ships on Tuesday:
HEBEI COURAGE - Chinese. They were cleaning the holes, so most of the people
were busy, but still, the whole box of Scriptual materials were gone. 9 seamen
accepted Jesus is in their hearts. One of them was the electrician. He read many
parts of the Bible before. He has a lap top in his room and using 2 big Chinese
characters "感恩”which means "Thanksgiving" for his screen saver. After we prayed,
he took Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.
CIELO DI MONFALCONE - Italian, Ukrainian, and mainly Indian. 6 Indian Christians.
Victor was the 2nd cook. He is a Christian and a pianist. He leads the choir and plays
the piano whenever he is home, but God called him to be a seafarer. He has been with
the sea for 10 years. Pray that he can lead other Christians to worship Him on board
too. 1 salvation.
14 ships on Wednesday:
XANADU, BELUGA FICTION, AFRICAN FERN, MARATHON, TAMBOURIN, RENA,
SEA HOPE, TENNA KOSAN, and JO SPRUCE - Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, German,
Bulgarian, Polish, Swedish, Dutch, and mainly Filipino. They all got the Scriptural
materials except the Swedish and the Dutch. Blessed all the ships.
BBC FRANCE, ONEGO BREEZE, TRISTEIN, AMBERJACK, FIONA - German,
Ukrainian, and Russian. Good response from all these vessels.
5 ships on Thursday:
OVERSEAS PORTLAND, and PAC DUBHE - Filipino, Myanmar, Singaporian,
Chinese, and Hollander. 1 Singapor Christian. 6 Chinese salvations.
NORD OPTIMISER - Indian. 1 Christian (the chief cook) and 1 salvation..
GAO QIANG, and CHIPOLBROK SUN - Chinese. We were on the 1st ship last May
28, and the 2nd ship last June 4. There was 1 Christian on the 2nd ship, the chief
cook. Both ships had 8 salvations.
Nancy and Thomas are going to a short term mission at El Paso, Tx. this weekend, will be back Monday.
Pastor Malone was resting at his son Mark's house this week. He is getting better gradually.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen. (Gal. 6:18)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Sunday, October 7, 2007
9/30/07 - 10/06/07
Dear seafarer's friends, 9/30/07-10/06/07
Praise the Lord, Pastor Malone is back home now. He had a leaky valve in his heart, that's why he is keeping coughing. He doesn't need a surgery but a lot of rest. He stays in his son
Mark's house, and it's probablly gona take him another week for the full recovery.
Praise the Lord Pastor Malone still doing some directing working of this ministry. Visited 10 ships today.
THIA MATINA, SAFMARINE TEXAS, FICKMERS DALIAN, EQUINOX SEAS, and
ARMERIA - Russian, Indian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Greek, and manily Filipino. Good
visits. Blessed the ships.
JAEGER, and EIGER - Ukrainian, and Russian. Responsive. I learned a new work,
MAKA means thank you.
CHEMICAL PIONEER - American. Blessed the ship.
PACIFIC JAVA - Filipino, Chinese, Myanmar, Russian, and British. There was a female
cadet from Hong Kong. She is a Christian. A lot of Gospel material was given out, the
ship and the crew's family were blessed.
MARITIME DIAMOND - Chinese. It was a rather short visit. They got their Scriptual
materials. 1 salvation.
May the Grace of the Lord be with your spirit.
Your brothers in Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Praise the Lord, Pastor Malone is back home now. He had a leaky valve in his heart, that's why he is keeping coughing. He doesn't need a surgery but a lot of rest. He stays in his son
Mark's house, and it's probablly gona take him another week for the full recovery.
Praise the Lord Pastor Malone still doing some directing working of this ministry. Visited 10 ships today.
THIA MATINA, SAFMARINE TEXAS, FICKMERS DALIAN, EQUINOX SEAS, and
ARMERIA - Russian, Indian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Greek, and manily Filipino. Good
visits. Blessed the ships.
JAEGER, and EIGER - Ukrainian, and Russian. Responsive. I learned a new work,
MAKA means thank you.
CHEMICAL PIONEER - American. Blessed the ship.
PACIFIC JAVA - Filipino, Chinese, Myanmar, Russian, and British. There was a female
cadet from Hong Kong. She is a Christian. A lot of Gospel material was given out, the
ship and the crew's family were blessed.
MARITIME DIAMOND - Chinese. It was a rather short visit. They got their Scriptual
materials. 1 salvation.
May the Grace of the Lord be with your spirit.
Your brothers in Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
2007-visits
Dear seafarer's friends, 12/31/06 - 1/06/07
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Php. 1:2)
12/30:FIESTA, AEGEAN PRIDE and BONASIA - Filipino. Prayed and blessed them. They
took many Scriptures. Very humble men.
AZOV WIND - Georgian. The country has a rich Christian heritage. Receptive to the
Gospel.
OCEAN CHIE - Indian. Good reception. Prayed with the 3 Christians, 3 Hindus
received Jesus.
1/1/07: LU XUN - Chinese. Very receptive. Knew some seamen from previous ships. They
took many Scriptures, tracts, Christian liturature and DVD's. Some salvations.
OCEANICLAND and BOW GORGONILLA - Filipino. New year blessing to them and
their families.
GOLDEN CHARLOTTE - Korean and Burmese. 1 Christian and 3 salvations. Revival is
breaking out among the Hindus, Buddhists and Chinese.
1/2/07: ORION GIGHWAY and RICKMERS ANTWERP - Filipino. They were busy but got a
lot of Scriptures. Prayed with them.
1/3/07: 6 vessels comprising of 9 Germans and all the rest Filipinos. Filipinos were
receptive, but the Germans unbelieving. Pray for Germany.
LUCY OLDENDORFF - Chinese. Steve Yeboah took nearly half of the seamen to
church and shopping. The Holy Spirit was alive as most came running to obtain their
Scriptures.
3 ships on Thursday:
BULK CANADA - 19 Indian, 1 Romanian 2nd engineer and 1 Pakistanian captain. 4
Christians. Blessed the crew and their families.
YOUNG SPRING - 21 Chinese. Second visit. Many got the Scriptures and many
salvations.
GOLDEN TAKA - 11 korean and 9 Myanmar. Initial visit.
4 ships on Friday:
HOEGH TRAPPER - 25 Chinese. Great harvest, Many came to Christ.
ENERGY CHANCELLER - 20 Russian.
JO ACER - 24 Filipino. Good and short visit.
SANMAR SERENADE - 25 Indian. Nice visit, all Pastor Malone's friends.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. (Php. 4:23)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 1/07/07 - 1/13/07
Grace and peace to you from God our Father. (Col. 1:2)
7 ships on Monday:
MAR REINA - 22 Filipino. Very receptive. Took many Scriptures.
AEGEAN PRIDE - 18 Filipino and 5 Greek. Blessed the crew and their families.
GROUSE ARROW - 18 Filipino and 5 Croatian. Blessed the ship.
BOW FLORA - 16 Filipino and 9 Norwegian. Got many Scriptures.
THORB JORG - 20 Russian. Gave away Scriptures. Pray for Russia.
AFRICAN PUMA - 27 Russian.
PANAM CELESTE - Indian. 4 Christians on board. 2 salvations and 1 baptized.
6 ships on Wednesday:
ASTRO ALTAIR - 15 Filipino and 15 Greek. Receptive. Blessed the ship.
JO ACER - 25 Filipino. Some got the Scriptures.
SOMA - 14 Indonesian, 5 Polish and 4 Greek. All Indonesian are Muslem but they
still accept Bibles and DVDs.
ANGELINA THE GREAT N - Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Polish. Short visit.
FORMOSA NINE - 21 Chinese. Open and Receptive. Several friends on board. Took
the chief engineer to shopping.
STOLT BASUTO - Filipino. A bunch of them got the Scriptures, Jesus DVDs and the
Passion of the Christ DVDs. Prayed with them joyfully.
9 ships on Thursday:
CHRYSOULA S - 10 Filipino, 1 Romanian and 9 Greek. Blessed the crew and their
families.
STAR FUJI - 21 Filipino.
RICKMERS DALIAN - 17 Filipino, 5 Romanian, 2 Polish and 2 Chinese. Good visit.
GROUSE ARROW - Revisit.
BELUGA SPIRIT - Filipino. Warm visit.
POCHARD - 15 Russian /Ukrainian, 2 Romanian and 1 Polish.
KRISTIN PICER - 20 Filipino. Chief officer came down the gangway and received the
Scriptures.
NORGAS SHASTA - 11 Chinese, 4 Russian and 1 Filipino. We visited this ship last
November 27. Except the Chinese cook we all met before, better knew each other the
second time. They all got the new Scriptural materials.
SARGASSO - 15 Filipino and 5 Indian. They received some Scriptures. Prayed and
blessed them.
Grace be with you. (Col. 4:18)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 1/14/07 - 1/20/07
Grace and peace to you. (1Th. 1:1)
1/12: UAL COBURG and GOLDEN STAR - Filipino ships. As usual, favorable visits.
Encouraged 1 born again to have Bible study on vessel.
ATLANTIC RUNNER and CLIPPER LEGEND - Russian ships. Fair visits. Shared the
Word with them.
PANAM FELICE - Indian. It's a revisit. Most of the crew have changed. 1 Hindu for
salvation.
1 ship on Monday:
CHEMBULK WESTPORT - Burmese It was a night bitter, cold and windy, but it was
like homecoming. 1 Christian and 3 salvations.
2 ships on Wednesday:
FORMOSA TEN - Chinese. Good follow up and visited with them for 2 hours. Some
salvations and captain acknowledged Jesus as Savior.
CLIPPER GOLFITO - Crotian and Burmese. The entire crew was very receptive. The
Spirit is moving. 5 Burmese renounced Buddhism and was born again by the blood of
Jesus.
8 ships on Thursday:
APAGEON - 23 Filipino and 1 Ukrainian. Very responsive.
OCEAN SUNRISE - 21 Filipino. Good visit. Confirmed their faith.
ISABEL KNUTSEN - 14 Filipino. 3 Norwegian and 1 Romanian. Blessed the ship.
TOSCANA - 22 Polish. Short but good visit.
STOLT CONFIDENCE - 24 Filipino, Polish, Croation and Finlander. Reconfirm their
Christian faith.
ADVENTURER - 20 Russian. Received the Scriptures.
HANHAI - 24 Chinese. There was a young commissar on board. Many received the
Scriptures, and 4 salvations. Captain was very close to confess his faith.
MAROUDIO - 11 Filipino and 5 Greek. Prayed and blessed the ship.
2 ships on Friday:
SENECA - 15 Indonesian and 4 Russian. Very receptive. Pray for Russia.
BEIHAI - 24 Chinese. 2 Christians on board. A young commissar on the ship.
4 salvations.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. (1Th. 5:28)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 1/21/07 - 1/27/07
Grace and peace to you from god the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (2Th. 1:2)
5 ships on Monday:
CABO NEGRO II - 18 Burmese and 3 Korean. It was a miracle. 9 salvations, 3
Christians. Captain is a Chrisian.
GOLDEN VENUS - 17 Filipino and 2 Russian. Prayed for the ship.
CHOPIN - Polish. Nice and short visit.
ATLANTIC QUEEN - 20 Filipino. They came and got some Scriptures and Jesus
DVDs.
PAC DUBHE - 16 Chinese, 4 Filipino, 2 Singapore and 1 Romanian captain. Shared
the Gospel and many received their Scriptures.
5 ships on Wednesday:
HOEGH TROVE - 23 Filipino. Prayed and blessed the ship.
HANJIN CALCUTTA - 14 Filipino, and 4 Korean. Receptive.
CHEMICAL SUPPLIER - 23 Indian. We were on this ship last August 7. Prayed with
them and some salvations.
CHIPOLBROK SUN - 27 Chinese. We were on this ship last August 14. Half of the
crew has been changed since. It's a Chinese-Polish shipping company's vessel. They
got most of the Scriptural materials.
SUNSHINE SKY - 11 Korean and 8 Myanmar. Good visit. Prayed and bless the crew.
5 ships on Thursday:
UNIVERSAL AFRICA LINE - Filipino and Romanian. Responsive.
UAL ABERDEEN - Filipino, Russian and Dutch. Good visit.
DS MIRAGE - 21 Indian. 7 Christians. Some of them knew us. Prayed and shared the
Words.
SEA FLOURISH - 25 Chinese. 6 salvations including the Commissar.
ALMASI - 15 Filipino, 1 Ukrainian and 3 Greek. Short but warm visit.
3 ships on Friday:
SITEAM SATURN - 18 Filipino and 6 Crotian. Very welcomed and receptive.
JING AN CHEN - 26 Chinese. Commissar on the ship but was very friendly.1 salvation.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. (2Th. 3:18)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 1/28/07 - 2/03/07
Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. (1Ti. 1:2)
3 ships on Monday:
PACIFIC CELEBES - 22 Filipino, 3 Ukrainian and 5 Chinese. Half of the Filipino came
to pray together, and 4 Chinese prayed the salvation prayer. It was a good visit.
SEA FORCE - 14 Filipino and 4 Ukrainian. Prayed and blessed the ship.
YICK ZAO - 32 Chinese. Many stoped watch their TV and joined prayer with us. One
Christian on board and one old friend.
3 ships on Wednesday:
GULF STREAM - 12 Indian and 9 Filipino. 3 Indian Chjristians. Very Receptive..
GOLDEN TIFFANY - 10 Myanmar, 2 Chinese and 10 Korean. A sweet memory.
SHENG QIANG - 23 Chinese. We were on this ship last October 9. All of them are old
friends. Prayed with them and learned a lot from the Chinese too.
7 ships on Friday:
CATHRIN OLDENDORFF - Mixed crew, Filipino, Russian, Ukrainian, Ghana, Sri Lanka
and Maldive. Prayed for the ship.
MINANUR CEBI - Turkish. Open and welcomed. We stayed for a while. 2 slvations.
SEABOSS - 20 Filipino, very receptive.
SOUTHERN FIGHTER - 20 Myanmar. Very friendly, keeping asking for more
Scriptures, DVDs and music tapes.
BBC SWENDEN - Russian and Ukrainian. Receptive. Prayed for Russian.
SPAR LYNX - 21 Indian and 2 Chinese. Everyone is young and receptive. Some
salvations.
MASCOTT - 10 Polish. They got the Scriptures and we prayed for Poland.
Grace be with you. (1Ti. 6:21)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 2/04/07 - 2/10/07
Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. (2Ti. 1:2)
02/03:FORMOSA EIGHT - Since we visit these company's ships frequently, we've built an
relationship over the years. Many new converts and others are growing in their faith.
Praised the Lord.
1 ship on Sunday:
SPAR LYNX - Took 2 Chinese to Chinese church, and baptized them on the ship.
8 ships on Monday:
NICKOLAOS - 11 Ukrainian. Contacted several of them, prayed, open and receptive.
GREEN COSTA RICA - 10 Filipino, 6 Ukrainian and 1 Polish. Prayed and blessed the
ship. They all got their own Scriptural materials.
HANJIN PENANG - 14 Filipino and 4 Korean. Prayer with the Filipino Christians and
confirmed their faith in Jesus Christ.
TRIUMPH - 2 Greek and 23 Filipino. Made sure that the salvation is by faith in Jesus
not by our own good works.
ISLAND OASIS - 20 Filipino. 1 salvation.
MILLENNUM FALCON - Filipino crew.
PANAM EXPRESS - 18 Filipino, 3 Russian and 5 Romanian. 9 salvations, good visit.
HIGH VENTURE - 26 Indian. The pump man Romeo was a born again Christian, he
invited us to his cabin and we had a good fellowship together.
1 ship on Tuesday:
JAG LEELA - Indian. Another company's ship which we frequently revisit. A warmly
response where more seed was planted. A pumpman was led to Christ in 1998. He's
on fire for Jesus and many are coming to the Savior by his witnessing.
6 ships on Wednesday:
TERRIER, STAR FLORIDA, SENTINEL II,SIMURGH and MARIA KNUTSEN -
Norwegian and Filipino. Most of the filipinos we talk with say they're going to heaven
because of good works. Pray that they will believe they're saved by God's grace
through faith in Jesus.
ARE - Visited this vessel before. Some new contacts. They were receptive to the
Gospel especially the Russian DVD Jesus movie.
6 ships on Thursday:
OOCL FORTUNE - 21 Chinese, 5 Filipino and 1 Croatian. Prayed with many. The
Chinese were very open especialy the chief officer. The 5 Filipinos all got their NIV
New Tastement. the ship. We were on board before the immigration officers. Thanks
be to God we had the permission.
ST. LOUIS EXPRESS - American. They got Bibles from the seamen' club.
NEDLLOYD CLARENCE - Indonesian and Dutch, very receptive. Prayed for Dutch.
HANSA BERLIN - Russian. Receptive.
ASHIYA STAR - 23 Chinese and 1 Japanese. A four month old new ship and receptive.
Some salvations.
NS POWER - 21 Russian. Another 5 month old new ship. Most of them got the
Scriptures and prayed for Russian.
The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you. (2Ti. 4:22)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 2/11/07 - 2/17/07
Grace, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. (Tit. 1:4)
5 ships on Monday:
CRYSTAL OCEAN - 22 Chinese. Open and receptive. Several salvations.
GRAND VIEW - 23 chinese. Prayed and blessed the ship. Some salvations.
BAUTA - 22 Filipino and 1 Polish. Prayer with the Filipino.
SEA SWIFT - 27 Chinese. We were on this ship before. Many friends.
SAGA ADVENTURE - 22 Indian. Good response.
6 ship on Tuesday:
VINLAND SAGA, GAZ MERIDIAN, SEAEXPLORER, AND SYN ALCOR - A few
Danish, Italian, Romanian, Spanish and mostly Filipinos. Most of them came to
receive their Scriptures including the Europeans. Ministered to some and blessed
them and their families.
PLATTE - Indian. Another new vessel. A great response. 1 salvation.
GOLDEN JANE - Korean and Burmese. Koreans were not responsive, but the
Burmese were. 4 Christians and 2 received the new life in Jesus. We can learn from
them about witnessing.
2 ships on Wednesday:
MARITIME CUATE - Indian. A good response. 5 Christians and 2 salvations including
a Nepalese. Had a long visit with the chief engineer, who was a very humble person.
GULMAR - Turkish. Wow! The Holy Spirit paved fhe way for a Gospel witness. Some
fourght over the big box of Turkish Scriptures. They waanted more. 2 salvations.
4 ships on Thursday:
HARRIETTE N - 10 Filipino and 24 Indian. Prayed with many.
TAMAN - 22 Russian. Most of them got the Scriptural materials.
BAO AN CHENG - 30 Chinese. Not very responsive but the Scriptures were almost
gone.
TORM EMILIE - Indian and Russian. Prayed for them.
7 ships on Friday:
PAC ACRUX - 15 Chinese, Filipino and Pakistanian captain. Initial visit and came back
for the second time, very responsive. 1 Chinese Christian. Took two to Wal Mart.
SAFMARINE TEXAS - 13 Filipino, Russian and Ukrainian. Prayed for the ship.
RICKMERS SINGAPORE - Filipino and 2 Polish. Prayed for the crew.
SAGA DISCOVERY - Indian crew.
BOW PUMA - 27 Filipino. Prayed with the crew.
GENCO CARRIER - 23 Chinese. Half an hour nice initial visit.
STOVE TRANSPORT - 19 Chinese and 2 Myanmar. Some friends on board. Had a
long talk with the captain and the chief engineer but was close to salvation.
Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. (Tit. 3:15)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 2/18/07 - 2/24/07
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Phm. 3)
2/17: CASTOR - Russian. Captain is born again. We spent a lengthy time together sharing.
His crew came to receive their Scriptures. Blessed them, their families and the ships.
PERLA II - Peru, Ecuador, Honduas and Niearagua. 3 boxes of Scriptures and DVDs
were given to them. They'll take them to their churches, families and friends.
REF STAR - Russian. Very good visit. Very receptive. Spent 2 hours on the vessel
ministering to them.
1 ship on Sunday:
GENCO CARRIER - Took 10 Chinese seamen to WHCC and China Town. 4 converted.
4 ships on Monday:
PANAM PACIFICO - Croatian and Burmese. What an awesome God we serve. 2
Burmese Christians are great witnesses of their faith by their words and actions. 8
burmese wanted Jesus as a result of their testifying.
MURAT KIRAN - 23 Turkish. Open and receptive.
GENCO CARRIER - 23 chinese. Second visit. Prayed and blessed the ship. Moree
salvations.
REF STAR - Russian. Distributed the DVD's..
2 ships on Tuesday:
CHEMBULK KOBE - Burmese. It was like homecoming. There was 1 Christian and
2 salvations.
LEROS - Russian. Only 10 Russian on board. Gave out some Scriptures.
2 ships on Wednesday:
SAGA DISCOVERY and BOW RIO - Indian. The first was unreceptive and the latter
very receptive. Good visit and planted much seed. Blessed the captain his crew and
his families.
4 ships on Thursday:
S KALA - 16 Filipino and 8 Indian. Prayed with many.
DA QIANG - 23 Chinese. Most of them got the Scriptures. Commissar was very
friendly. The chief cook kniw us. We prayed that they all knew the Lord.
EXPLORER - 10 Greek and 14 Filipino. Responsive and prayed for the ship.
RENE - Romanian and French. Prayed for them.
6 ships on Friday:
HAI CHANG - 26 Chinese. Captain received Jesus.
NAVIOS HORIZON - 22 Russian crew. 2 salvations.
STAR IKEBANA - 22 Filipino. Prayed with the crew.
GOLDEN FLORDENCE - 12 Korean and 6 Myanmar. We met 1 born again Korean
Christian. He is the leader of others.
DINGXIANGHAI - 25 Chinese. Some salvations.
CEREN URKMEZ - Turkish. Prayed for Turkey.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you spirit. (Phm. 25)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 2/25/07 - 3/03/07
Greetings,
2/23:SEIJIN, NYACK PRINCESS and LADY - Japanese and mainly Filipino. Good visits and
responsive to God's love and faithfulness. Took Scriptures, blessed them, their
families, and their vessels.
NICKMARIANAO ICE - Russian. Rrvisited them a monthy ago. They shipped chicken
to Cuba and returned to load more.
PANAM CARIBE - Croatian and Burmese. 1 Christian and 1 salvation. More Burmese
are coming to the port and this gives us opportunities to build relationships.
WLADYSLAW ORKAN - Polish. Unresponsive. Pray for Poland.
2/24: ORIENTAL PROTEA and MARCELA LADY - Russian and mainly Filipino. It's amazing
how many previous contacts with the seamen. They are humbled by our prayers,
blessings, love and encouragement.
5 ships on Monday:
HOLLY GALAXY - 12 Korean and 8 Chinese. There were 2 Chinese jumped ship. We
were fortunate enough to be allowed to visit the ship,
OLMECA - 22 Indian. 5 Christians, Receptive.
NORD ENDEAVOUR - Filipino. Prayed and blessed the ship.
LEROS - Indian and Russian. We were on this ship before, all Indians are our friends.
KARIN - 10 Filipino, 1 Russian and 1 German.
2 ships on Tuesday:
MATIRA - Greek and Filipino. Crew were busy, but had a good visit with the second
officer. Took Scriptures and blessed them.
CEC MISTRAL - Russian. Unresponsive. Pray for Russia.
4 ships on Wednesday:
MIRANDA ROSE and WABASH - Indian. Good visit as usual. They are very hospitable
and receptive. Bave them many Scriptures and 1 salvation. Took 4 shopping.
GERTRUDE OLDENDORFF - 10 nationalities - The Filipinos and Africans were most
receptive.
SCM ELPIDA - Russian. Chief officer came to recieve the Scriptures. 1 Muslim from
Malaysia came to receive the Jesus movie and other materials.
2 ships on Thursday:
PAOLA - 2 Filipino and 18 Myanmar. Prayed with many.
AGIASMA - 34 Indian. Many got the Scriptures. Some salvations.
11 ships on Friday:
JO SYCAMORE - Filipino and Dutch.
BAFFIN - Indian. Indian crew. 7 Christian. Prayed with the crew.
FRIJSENBORG - Polish, Romanian and Bulgarian.
BBC CAROLINA - Fillipino and Russian. Blessed ship.
FEDERAL POWER - 19 Indian 2 Polish.
CEC MORNING - Ukrainian. SANKO BRIGHT - Irish, Polish and Filipino.
EAGLE TUCSON - Chinese, Russian, Filipino, Indian and Malaysian.
CUMBRIA - Russian, Bulgarian and Filipino.
BRAGE ATLANTIC - Polish and Filipino. STOLT SPRAY - Russian and Latvian.
Prayed for the crew and their families.
Grace be with you all. (Heb. 13:25)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 3/04/07 - 3/10/07
Grace and peace be yours in abundance. (1 Pet. 1:2)
3/3: FORMOSA 13 - Chinese. Took a whole box of the written, sopken and visual Word of
God. Very receptive. Had a good visit with the Taiwanes captain. He accepted Jesus in
front of his crew. Blessed him, his crew and their families.
BRO PROMOTION - Swedish. Unresponsive. Pray for Swiden.
CS STEALTH - Malaysian, Indian, Singaporean and Ghanaian. 5 Christians. Shared
Hesus with them.
10 ships on Monday:
HOLMEN - 21 Indian. 4 Christians. We were on this ship last year.
RICKMERS NEW ORLEANS - 2 Chinese and Filipino, Receptive.
RICKMERS HAMBURG - Filipino and Croatian. Prayed and blessed the ship.
ATRIXCO - Russian, Ukrain, Romanian, Polish and Croatian.
PACIFIC MAKASSAR - Filipino, Chinese and British.
SENTINEL II - Filipino, Croatian, Polish, Norwegian and Russian.
NORWID - Polish.
SEA FORCE, EFDIM JUNIOR - Mainly Filipino. Pray for Bob and his family, he has 4
children and his wife died 11 years ago.
STOLT SPAN - Russian, Ukrainian and Lithuania.
1 ships on Tuesday:
VEGA SPRING - Indian. It's a joy visiting the Indian ships.Took Scriptures, DVDs and
blessed them. 1 salvation.
6 ships on Wednesday:
SENANUR CEBI - 20 Turkish. Good visit as usual. They are very hospitable
BBC NORTH SEA - Russian and German.
ALANYA - Turkish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Polish and Ukrainian, receptive.
ROW ENGINEER - 22 Indian. No Christians. Many came to recieve the Scriptures.
2 salvations.
HULGUR - 13 Filipino and 12 Indian.
LIAN SHUN HU - 27 Chinese. Very receptive. Many knew us from other ships and
many salvations. Some China shipping company began to help seamen to get visa
to come ashore in the US.
4 ships on Thursday:
STEFANIA I - Romanian, Russian and Myanmar. Prayed with many Myanmar.
HONESTY OCEAN - 21 Chinese. Many got the Scriptures. Some salvations.
THOR NEPTUNE - 21 Thai.
WESTERHAVEN - Filipino, Ukrainian and Pollish.
Peace to all of you who are in Christ. (1 Pet. 5:14)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 3/11/07 - 3/17/07
Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. (2 Pet. 1:2)
3/9: SICHEM DEFIANCE, INDUSTRIAL DESTINY, SAFMARINE ANGOLA and STAR
GRIP - Russian and mainly Filipino. Good responses. Gave out Scriptures, prayed and
blessed them and their families.
OCEAN EAGLE - Russian and Burmese. God is moving mightily among the Burmese,
2 salvations.
SIFAS EILDON - Spanish, Russian and Sri Lanka. 2 Sri Lanka Christians.
TASMAN ADVENTURER - 8 nationalities. Short visit, because the ship was sailing.
3/10:PORT RUSSEL - Romanian. They were so grateful to receive their Scriptures. Prayed
with the captain and blessed the vessel.
STOLT PROTECTOR - Russian. Unresponsive. Prayed for Russia.
HEIDMAR BRAZOS - Indian. Very receptive. The Christians and some Hindus came
for their Scriptures, 1 salvation.
ORIENT CARP - Filipino. 8 Chinese Rice U. students came to visit these seamen
while denied access at another terminal where a Chinese ship was located.
8 ships on Monday:
CHANG QIANG - 26 Chinese. 4 Christians. We were on this ship last year.
SOUTHERN SPIRIT - 24 Chinese. Receptive. Many received Jesus in their hearts.
BOW FIRDA - Filipino and Nowegian. Prayed and blessed the ship.
JO ASPEN, GOLD INDUS and STAR GRIP - Mainly Filipino and Korean.
ETERNAL CONFIDENCE - 21 Chinese. Initial visit.
MONCHEGORSK - Russian. Initial visit.
SENTINEL II - Filipino, Croatian, Polish, Norwegian and Russian.
NORWID - Polish.
SEA FORCE, EFDIM JUNIOR - Mainly Filipino. Pray for Bob and his family, he has 4
children and his wife died 11 years ago.
STOLT SPAN - Russian, Ukrainian and Lithuania.
4 ships on Wednesday:
ETERNAL CONFIDENCE - 21 Chinese. Chief officer is an old friend, all others are
new. Captain is a Christian. One OS is a believer but not baptized yet. Lots of
salvations. We were on this ship last May 12.
DESTREL ARROW - Filipino, Nowegian and British. Blessed the ship.
MARGARETHA GREEN - Filipino, Russian and Ukrainian. Pray for the crew.
STOLT SPAN - Russian, Ukrainian and Lithuania. We were on this ship 2 days ago.
4 ships on Thursday:
FORMOSAGAS DIAMOND - 24 Chinese. Prayed with many salvation prayers. We
were on this ship last Dec. 9.
NORGAS ENERGY - 7 Chinese, 5 Russian, Filipino and 2 Spinish. Many got the
Scriptures. We were on this ship last May 11.
JOVIALITY - 30 Chinese. We were on this ship last Jan. 30. Captain got saved.
BARENTS SEA - Russian. Prayed for Russia.
To him be glory both now and forever! (2 Pet. 3:18)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 3/18/07 - 3/24/07
Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father's son, will be with us in truth and love. (2 Jn. 3)
3/13:MONCHEGORSK - Russian. These Russians are from Murmansk, a city close to the
north pole. They can tell you what bitter cold is like despite the beautiful summers.
Very receptive. Prayed with the captain and blessed their ship.
DOBRUSH - Russian. Good visit and knew some from previous vessels.
ALKYON - Filipino. Blessed them and their families.
TASMAN ADVENTURER - 8 nationalities. Short visit, because the ship was sailing.
3/16:JO ASK and SIGLOO MOSS - Indian and mainly Filipino. Counseled 5 Filipinos as we
focused on spiritual growth. They realized that it's faith in Jesus that saves. Prayed
and blessed them.
MARIANAO ICE - Russian. Follow up visit after they took chicken to Cuba last month.
3/17:FORMOSA FOURTEEN - Chinese. Captain received Jesus as his personal savior. He
has a similar heart condition as Pastor Malone, asked to call his home office in Hong
Kong for a relief.
FORMOSA SIX - Chinese. After witnessing to him. 24 years old Zhu received Jesus
into his heart. We've keeping in touch by email.
STAVANGER PRINCE - Chinese. Had many friends on all of these Chinese vessels.
A great response from them. Prayed, blessed them and their families.
STOLT EFFORT, BOW EUROPE and HAVIS - Mainly Filipino. Had a productive day
on all of these vessels. God's Spirit is moving mightly in these last days of harvest
time.
5 ships on Monday:
SEA CONFIDENCE - 22 Chinese. Initial visit.
MASTRO GIORGIS II - Filipino, 17 Indian, 14 Christians and Ukrainian. Receptive. We
visited this ship and revisited it again, just for the Christians on board.
WINA - 23 Chinese. The holy Spirit moved, the team worked, they all got the
Scriptures and many believed.
TEAM TCTINIA - Mainly Filipino, Peruvian, Spanish and Ukrainian.Prayed for the ship.
STAR FRASER - Filipino. Prayed for the crew and their families.
1 ship on Tuesday:
SEA CONFINDECE - 17 Chinese, 5 Hong-Kongnese, 4 Myanmar. We were on this
ship last Oct. 20. Met one baptized Chinese Christian, baptized another one. The first
one can lead the second one.
8 ships on Wednesday:
GOLDEN DOMINIQUE - Korean and Burmese. This is God's time for Burma like it was
for Korea back in the fifties. 1 Bumese Christian and 4 came for salvation. It's a
miracle as we witness God working today before the soon coming of the rapture.
PERLA - Peruvian, It was like homecomecoming. Some knew for many years.
YUEHAI - Chinese. A great response as they came for their Scriptures. The captain
received Jesus in his heart after a time of sharing.
JANNIE-C - Polish, Romanian and Brazilian. They came to receive their Scriptures and
prayed with them.
CAPE AKROTIRI, OVERSEAS ALLENMAR, KENT PIONEER and TAGUS -
Norwegian, Russian and mainly Filipino. Had good visits. Prayed, blessed them and
their families.
5 ships on Thursday:
STENA CONCORD - Indian and Russian. 3 Indian Christians. Blessed the Christians..
TAIXING - 27 Chinese. Many got the Scriptures. Not very open, a few salvations.
MAZURY and NORWID - Both are Polish. Prayed for the ships.
OCEAN JADE - 9 Korean and 9 Filipino. Prayed for the crew and their families.
Peace to you. The friends here send their greetings. (3 Jn. 15)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 3/25/07 - 3/31/07
Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance. (Jude. 2)
3/23:NORDANA MATHILDE - A warm reception by the captain. There were 18 on board and
most of them received Jesus as their Savior. They prayed before they ate in the mess
room.
TETEVEN - Bulgavian. It was good to visit Bulgarian seamen. They received many
Scriptures, prayed and blessed their families.
BBC HOLLAND - Visited them 4 months ago. They received more Scriptures.
BELUGA FASCINATION and UBC BREMEN - Russian and mainly Filipinos. Both
nationalities came to receive the Word and pray.
3/24:LIAN YUN HU - Chinese tanker. They all got excited watching the "Jesus" DVD.
CLIPPER MERMAID - Indian. The 7 Indian Christians were devote witnesses.
Encouraged by their piety and sincerity, blessed them and their families.
SEABOARD ADVENTURER and KYRIAKOULA - Greek, Polish, Indonesian, Maldivian
and mainly Filipino. Warmly welcomed on board.
7 ships on Monday:
CLIPPER KAREN and NORGAS TRAVELLER - Filipino and Russin. Prayed for the
ships and their families.
MARITIME ROSEMARY - Filipino and Indian. Prayed for the crew.
PLATINUM - Filipino and Greek. Short visit.
TAI HAPPINESS - 21 Chinese. Tqiwanese ship with mainland China's crew. Many
accepted Jesus Christ into their hearts.
EW HENFIELD - Georgian. .Prayed for the ship.
HIGH PERFORMANCE - Indian.
3 ship on Tuesday:
HERON - Filipino. Good visit with the chief officer. He mentioned a sever storm in the
Pacific which God saved the crew and the vessel.
HIGH ENDEAVOUR - Indian. Had some friends on board. counseled a Christian who
wasn't sure of his salvation.
EW HENFIELD - Georgian. A former Russian state. Unresponsive. Pray for Georgia.
4 ships on Wednesday:
IKAN SELANGAT - 19 Chinese and 7 Filipino. Great response from the Chinese and
the Philippine captain.
BOW CHAIN - Filipino and Norwegian, Prayed with the crew.
GULF ESPRIT - 9 Filipino, 5 Romanian, 3 Indian and Bangladesh. They came for their
Scriptures.
SIGAS EILDON - Russian, Spanish and Sri Lanka. We found a lot of Christian
materials left out from other sea port. We took them, hopefully those can be used on
other ships.
6 ships on Thursday:
NENA C - Ukrainian. Receptive.
RICKMERS SEOUL - 2 Chinese, Filipino and Polish. They came happily for the
Scriptures.
STAR EAGLE - Mainly Filipino. Prayed for the ships.
TAI AN CHENG - 24 Chinese. Not very open. Some had their Scriptures from previous
visits. Some salvations.
GASCHEM WESER - Filipino, Polish and German.
NIPPON STAR - Maldivian, Filipino, Russian and Polish. It's so amazed to see that
they got their own language Christian materials.
6 ships on Friday:
CHEMTRANS SUN and NICOS I. V. - Mainly Filipino.
INDUSTRIAL DAWN - Filipino and Ukrainian. Delighted to receive the Scriptures.
VANESSA C - Cape Verdian, Romanian, Polish, Ukrainian and Hungarian.
INDUSTRIAL CHARGER - 13 Filipinos. Confirmed their faith.
XIANG AN CHENG - 30 Chinese. Good response. 2 of them already believed, but not
baptized yet. One is a four-generation Christian, the other is from a Christian
college. 9 received Jesus including the captain.
To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy - to the only god our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages now and forevermore! Amen.. (Jude. 24,25)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 4/01/07 - 4/07/07
Grace and peace to you.
1 ship on Sunday:
IKAN SELANGAT - Steve Yeboah went to the ship again, and they all got saved this
time. 4 Baptized.
6 ships on Monday:
MINERVA MAYA and JO BETULA - Greek and mainly Filipino.Good visites. Prayed
and blessed them and their families during this holy week.
AYSE AKSOY - Turkish. Everybody was rushing to get their own Scriptures.
OVERSEAS BERYL - Russian. Blessed the ship.
STOLT PERSEVERANCE - Filipino, Norwegian, Austrian and Belgium. Short visit.
SPRUCE GALAXY - 9 Chinese and 11 Korean. 4 month old brand new Japanese
made ship. 1 salavation.
5 ships on Wednesday:
SAGA VOYAGER, GREAT MARY and ELKA SIRIUS - Filipino. We celebrated Holy
Week together. Exceptional response. Prayed and blessed their faimilies.
AEGEAN TRADER - Indian. 5 Christians and 1 salvation. Some others was seeking
the truth about the resurected Christ.
GOLDEN FRIENDSHIP - Korean and Burmese. 5 Christians and 2 salvations. Gave
the Christian Burmese second officer many Scriptures for distribution. Burmese and
Indonesian Bibles are difficult to obtain. Pray for God to meet this need. We were on
this ship last July 17.
4 ships on Thursday:
JIAN QIANG - Chinese. The agent denied our access on the ship. Security is
tightening.
TORM CAROLINE - Italian, Russian and Indian. Nearly denied access on this one too,
God intervened. 2 Indian Christians and 3 seekers. Prayed with the Italian captain,
blessed the vessel during these holy days.
NEW CONCORD - 13 Korean and 5 Filipino. Prayed for the ship.
GREAT BLOSSOM - 24 Chinese. Intial visit, prayed with one seaman.
SUZAKU - 21 Chinese. One is missing, the mess boy. They went ashore and he got
lost. Prayed that he will get back before the ship sails. Almost everone got their
Scripture, except the third engineer. Stayed on board for over 3 hours, some got saved
some had a lot of questions.
3 ships on Friday:
PIRGAS. - 15 Peruvian. A full lord box of Scriptural materials was completely gone.
NORGAS SONOMA - 9 Chinese, Spanish, Filipino and Russian. The Spanish captain
knew us. Generally, very receptive. We were on this ship last July 19.
GREAT BLOSSOM - Second visit. The captain believed Jesus in his heart, but didn't
want to pray with us.
The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people. Amen. (Rev.22: 21)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 4/08/07 - 4/14/07
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. (Ro. 1:7)
7 ships on Monday:
CHEMSTAR DUKE - 6 Korean and 17 Myanmar. 3 Christains and 3 converts.
FU AN CHENG - 25 Chinese. 1 Christian and 6 converts. We were on this boat last
Oct. 20. Half of the crew are new. Captain is our friend, we had a good fellowship
together.
SIGLOO STAR - Danish, Russian, Polish, Bulgarian and 15 Sri Lanka. SERNITY I,
SICHEM ANNE, RICKMERS JAKARTA and BRAUNSCHWEIG - Greek, Russian,
Ukrainian, Polish, Korean and mainly Filipino. Bless the crew and their family
members.
4 ships on Tuesday:
MOSELLE - 24 Indian. 4 Christians. Responsive, prayed with them and blessed them.
MOUNT RAINIER and BROVIG OCEAN - Mainly Filipino, German, Polish and
Russian.
WADI HALFA - Egyptian. Very friendly and receptive. They took the only arabic Bible
we had.
8 ships on Wednesday:
COLUMBIAN EXPRESS - Indian and Filipino. 8 Christians, very receptive, prayed with
the Christians.
AL FARABI, CLIPPER MOON and HASSI MESSAOUD 2 - Mainly Filipino, Indian,
Norwegian, Polish and Russian. Prayed and blessed the ship.
OVERSEAS BERYL and SIGLOO TOR - Russian. Pray for Russia.
FATMA ANA - Turkish. Gave out a lot of materials. Pray for Turkey.
WADI HALFA - A revisit. They got more Arabic Jesus DVD.
3 ships on Thursday:
MERLIN CHAMPION - 37 Indian, 2 Christians. Pray for the Hindus.
FU DA - 26 Chinese. They all standed up and prayed while they were eating the meal.
Pray for the Buddhists in China.
CHEMBULK SINGAPORE - 20 Myanmar and 1 Ukrainian, 3 Christians. Warmly
welcomed. Praye for the Buddhists.
1 ship on Saturday:
Steve went on FU DA again, and baptized 7 people including the capatain, the cheif
engineer and the chief cook.
To the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen. (Ro. 16:27)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 4/15/07 - 4/21/07
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (1Co. 1:3)
4/13: SYN ACRAB, TORM CECILIE, MAERSK RADIANT, ISABEL KNUTSEN and SCM
ATHINA - Norwegian, Russian, Italian, Romanian, and mainly Filipino. Good visits.
Most of the seamen were very receptive. 1 born again Filipino is a testimony to his
faith wherever he goes.
4/14: UAL MALABO and FORTUNE EPOCH - Russian and mainly Filipino. Prayed and
blessed them.
ALAATTIN BEY - Turkish. Very friendly and hospitable. They took the whole box of
Scriptures. Openly discussed the difference between Jesus and Muhumed with a
seaman, and answered his questions honestly.
8 ships on Monday:
FILIA, MERION BREEZE, SAGA MONAL, MARIELLE BOLTEN and DIAMOND
GLORY - Greek, Ukrainian, Russian, Italian and mainly Filipino. Prayed with them.
ANJA and ATLIXCO - Croatian, Romanian and mainly Russian. Gave the Scriptures.
SPAR TOPAZ - 20 Indian, 4 Christians. 1 salvation. Pray for the new convert.
1 ship on Wednesday:
FR8 ENDEAVOUR - Indian. tremendous response. Prayed with captaian who is an
earnest seeker of the truth. 7 Christians on board and 2 salvatians including a young
cadet. Spent 2 hours with the crew bercause the spirit of the lord was present.
7 ships on Thursday:
BUNGA KANTAN SATU - Mainly Indian, 1 Bangladesh. 3 Christians. Pray for the
Moslem.
NEW EMINENCE - 20 Chinese. 6 salvations including the captain. Pray for China.
FUCHEWHAI - Chinese. Initial visit.
MARY H - Ukrainian. Receptive.
NCC MEKKA and ATLANTIC ARROW - Norwegian, mainly Filipino. Prayed for the
crew and their families.
BOGDAN - Bulgarian. Gave out Bulgaria Scriptures.
4 ships on Friday:
CHEMBULK NEW ORLEANS - Myanmar and Croatian. 3 Christians. Several friends
on board too. Warmly welcomed. 2 salvations.
STOLT STREAM and MSC PEGGY - Russian and Ukrainian. Open and responsive.
OOCL FAITH - Chinese, Filipino, Malaysian and British. 5 Chinese, 2 Filipino
salvations.
The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. My love to all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen. (1Co. 16:23,24)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 4/22/07 - 4/28/07
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (2Co. 1:2)
4/21: DUBAI FAITH - Ukrainian. Good response. Knew one seaman for many years. They
took many Scriptures. Prayed with the captain and blessed the vessel.
GENMAR ALEXANDRA - Indian and Filipino. Visited them before they sailed. Blessed
them.
FU ZHOU HAI - Steve and Frank went to visit them. 2 salvations.
4 ships on Monday:
NEW POWER and ELKA BENE - Greek, Crotian, Russian and mainly Filipino. Prayed
with them.
GINGA KITE - Korean and Chinese. Gave the Scriptures. Visited 2 times.
FU ZHOU HAI - 33 Chinese. 1 Christian. 4 salvations. This is the second visit. Pray for
the new converts.
3 ships on Tuesday:
STAR IKEBANA - Filipino. FU ZHOU HAI - Chinese. Seven people from West Houston
Chinese Church visited this 2 ships in the evening. We brought guitar with us. We
really had a wonderful fellowship with the Filipino Christians and saw the Chinese got
saved.
CHAMBULK SAVANNAH - Burmese. Very open to the gospel. Took many Scriptures.
Like Chinese, now is the time to reach Buma. Pray for Byanmar.
2 ships on Wednesday:
S PROVENCE - French, Ivory Coast and Romanian. 3 out of 5 Ivory Coast Africans are
Christiran and the other 2 muslim. They took Jesus DVD in French. Romanians were
very receptive and took Scriptures. Pray for France.
GENMAR CONSTANTINE - Portuguese and Filipino. Filipinos receptive. Pray for the
Portuguese.
7 ships on Thursday:
ATLANTIC PROJECT - Russian. Receptive.
DIAMOND GLORY, LORETTA D, AMBER K and FIESTA - Mainly Filipino, Bulgarian,
Croatian and Ukrainian. Filipinos were very responsive, prayed for the crew and
their families and blessed the ships.
JEANETTE - Indian. 4 Christians including the captain. Prayed for the 2 new converts.
HISTRIA IVORY - 24 Romanian. Gave out Romania Scriptures.
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. (2Co. 13:14)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 4/29/07 - 5/05/07
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Gal. 1:3)
4/28: UBC SINGAPORE - Filipino. Very receptive. Took many Scriptures. Prayed and
blessed the vessel.
GENMAR REVENGE - Portuguese, Romanian and Filipino. All 3 nationalities were
very open to the Gospel. The Holy Spirit was active and stirred their hearts.
GOLDEN CHARLOTTE - Korean and Burmese. 1 Christian and 2 salvations.
5 ships on Monday:
DOVER CASTLE - Sri Lanka, Yugoslavvian and Filipino. 3 Christians and 1 cadet
salvation. Prayed with them. Pray for Sri Lanka.
GUANGZHOU HIGHWAY, IMPERIAL FORTUNE and UAL AFRICA - Bulgarian,
Korean, Dutch, Portuguese and mainly Filipino. Prayed and blessed the ships.
ARKHANGELSK - Russian. Gave the Scriptures and Jesus DVDs..
6 ships on Wednesday:
POS KNIGHT - 20 Chinese. Initial visit. They all have short pass.
BBC GERMANIA, BELUGA ETERNITY and ATHINEA - Russian, Ukrainian, German,
Greek and mainly Filipino. Receptive, prayed and blessed the ship.
XIAMEN SKY - 22 Chinese. Many came to pray the salvation prayer, God knows their
hearts. Bosun told us that he was the one we baptizised last year.
BW DENISE - Indian and French. 3 India Christians. Indians were very responsive.
Pray for French.
2 ships on Thursday:
BOW SANTOS - Korean and Burmese. This ship came under the power of the Holy
Spirit. A repeat of yesterday on the Chinese vessel, the Burmese cleaned out of the
Scriptures. The Korean captain Lee is a Christian and a dedicated witness for Jesus.
It's amazing what God can accomplish with one believer.
DOMENICO IEVOLI - Italian, Russian and Indian. All 3 nationalities were open to the
Gospel. 3 Indian Christians who also witnessed to their faith.
Steve took 9 from POS KNIGHT to his church, and baptized them.
5 ships on Friday:
POS KNIGHT - Chinese. Third visit, captain was real nice. The Holy Spirit was really
moved. Prayed with more than 10 people.
CLIPPER TRANSPORTER - Indian and Chinese. Fairly open. 1 salvation.
LIAN SHUN HU - 27 Chinese. We were on this ship last March 7. Same crew, but still
gave out a lot of scriptural materials.
POPLAR ARROW - Filipino, Polish and Ukrainian. Prayed for the ship and blessed
them.
BBC SCOTLAND - Russian and German. Receptive.
Saturday: Steve took 6 more from POS KNIGHT to his church and had the baptism.
Computer was down during the weekend, that's why this email was late.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen. (Gal. 6:18)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 5/06/07 - 5/12/07
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Eph. 1:2)
5/05: HORIZON - Indian. Awesome responses. 7 Christians. Prayed with many of the crew,
2 salvations. India dislike other coutries is open to the Gospel.
MARIDA PATERNA - Russian. Exceptional response. They took many Scriptures.
Prayed and blessed them. Took 3 shopping.
MCT MONTE ROSA - Russian and Turkish. Gave out Jesus DVD's.
9 ships on Monday:
BERGE NINGBO - Indian. 2 Christians.
SANKO BRIGHT, ATLANTIC FALCON, BOW GORGONILLA, STAR FRASER, and
STAR FUJI - Bulgarian, Korean, Japanese and mainly Filipino. Prayed with them. Pray
for Japan.
BASIC RELANCE - Korean and Chinese. We were on this ship before. Gave out all
materials. Prayed and blessed the ship.
INDIAN REEFER - Russian. Gave the Jesus DVDs and the passion of the Christ.
PACIFIC JAVA - British, Ukrainian, Chinese and Filipino. Not responsive except the
Filipino.
5 ships on Tuesday:
DYNAMIC EXPRESS, SEATROUT, MERIOM PRIDE and WAWASAN CELESTE -
Croatian, Russian and mainly Filipino. Prayed and did some counselling. It's amazing
the amount Scriptures the seamen are taking for themselves and their families.
GOLDEN TAKA - Korean and Burmese. 1 Korean Christian who took some Scriptures
to share with others. God is looking for that 1 witness.
2 ships on Wednesday:
ALAM MAKMUR - Chinese, Filipino and Indian captain. Great response from
everywhere. Captain is a Christian and that helps a lot for the Gospel to deliver.
KANG MAN - Chinese. We were on this ship last September 7, half of the crew
changed. 1 Christian cadet on board, he is very young. Prayed with many and shared
Word with one. Pray for the 2nd officer, he was kind of rejective.
5 ships on Thursday:
BELUGA REVOLUTION - Russian, Ukrainian and German. Blessed the ship.
FRONTIER ANGEL and NORD PRINCESS - Filipino, Korean and Danish. Blessed the
crew and their families.
GRAND WAY - 26 Chinese. Had a long fellowship with the captain and the
commissar and others. It's a wonderful opportunity to witness to them. Pray for the
working class in China.
CHEMBULK KOBE - Burmese. 1 Christian.
CIELO DI LONDRA - Indian and Italian. Initial visit.
Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love. (Eph. 6:24)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 5/13/07 - 5/19/07
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Php. 1:2)
Beginning with this E-mail we've changing the format for easy reading. These are some
miraculous encounters we had on there ships.
5/12: FAIRCHEM DANUBE - The Burmese seamen were eating in their messroom, as the
sole Christian was praying, the chief cook wanted to pray with us to receive Jesus.
5/13: ALAM MAKMUR - Filipino and Chinese. We took 2 Chinese to church and shopping.
A total of 12 were saved from over 3 visitations.
Ships visited this week:
3 ships on Monday.
BIANCO ID, KRIOS, and LS JACOBA.
3 ships on Tuesday.
PANAM FLOTA - As the 4 Indian Christians were praying together, a Hindu joined us
to receive Jesus as his personal savior. Discussing Christianity with the captain for a
long time.
EUGENIA B - Filipino.
WADI HALFA - This Egyptian ship is coming to Houston every month. Many are
having a great interest in Christianity, especially as they've been viewing Jesus and the
Passion of the christ. We've building an relationship.
9 ships on Wednesday.
ASTRO VENUS - As 10 Filipinos were together waiting to load the ship, they were
called to pray, and all of them received Jesus.
OVERSEAS ELIANE, SEACOD, TIKHVIN, OCEAN SUNRISE, STAR EAGLE,
PRETTY TIME, ORIENTAL PROTEA, and BOW SUMMER.
The Russians and Filipinos were mostly receptive. Much of God's Word was
distributed.
4 ships on Thursday.
TAI HAPPINESS, GRAND WAY, NORGAS SONOMA, and JING AN CHENG.
We visited all these Chinese ships this year. Their welcomes felt just like coming
home. They came to pray with us as groups, individuals joined to pray too.
10 ships on Friday.
BERGE TRADER - Indian. 10 Christians on board, 2 salvations. It's amazing to see
so many Indian Christians on a ship. They witnessed to us actually.
MYKALI, SPRINGWOOD, KUBAN, SKS TRENT, GAS HORIZON, and LINDOS.
Bulgarian, Turkish, Filipino, Ukrainian, and mainly Russian.
HARRIETTE N, SKS TRENT, and WESTERHAVEN.
Indian, Russian, Dutch, and mainly Filipino.
We ended up staying on KUBAN and watching TBN, Hal Lindsey till 8:oo pm. What a
wonderful day.
1 ship on Saturday.
CHIPOLBROK MOON - Chinese. 2 salvations. One of them is a cadet, and he is ready
to get baptized. Pray for his younger brother who is also a seaman.
In closing we would like to thank each and every supporter of Lifeline to seamen for the continued prayers and gifts to this vital ministry to seafarers. God continues to do mighty works in these mens lives. Our desire in this news letter/e-mail is to communicate with you all what the Lord is doing on the water front.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. (Php. 4:23)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 5/20/07 - 5/26/07
Grace and peace to you from God our Father. (Col. 1:2)
Ships visited this week:
5 ships on Monday.
PANAM CELESTE, and DS VANGUARD - Indian. 3 Christians and 6 Christians on
these ships. It's exciting to see 8 souls wanted to come to Christ. Took 4 to shopping.
STAR EXPRESS and TORM RAGNHILD - Korean, Danish, and manily Filipino.
JING AN CHENG - Chinese. Took the only one who has short pass, the fourth
engineer to shopping. They are happy and we are happy. It was the golden opportunity
to ask them to pray with us, and they did too.
5 ships on Tuesday.
DUKHAN - Indian. 5 Christians were praying together, 3 Hindu joined us
to receive Jesus as his personal savior. 2 muslims were seeking after the truth. Much
Scripture was distributed.
PANAMA EXPRESS, RICKMERS ANTIVERP, JO CEDAR, and TINEKE - Russian,
Korean, Croatian, Maldives, and mainly Filipinos. It's amazing to witness the power of
God at work in their lives.
2 ships on Wednesday.
MARITIME KELLY ANNE - Filipino, Chinese, Indian, and Malaysian. We could see
that seamn from different countries, different faiths came to Christ. They have the most
difficult gangway position we have ever seen, but we made it. Thank be to God.
TAI HUA HAI - 34 Chinese. It was a large crowd. We contacted the captain prior to
coming aborad. All of God's Word and literatures were distributed.
9 ships on Thursday.
YASA GULTEN - Turkish. We met one friend. Hospitable but generally a little bit
resistant to the Gospel. Pray for Turkish.
SEABOARD CHILE II, BBC ROSARIO, BBC EGYPT, and ICE VICTORY - Russian,
Ukrainian, Polish, German, Indian, Pakistanian, Romanian, and mainly Filipino.
Blessed the ships and prayed for their family members.
OHIO, and INIREPID RELIANCE - Indian. Indian people are very religious people. Most
of them agreed with all the gods. We just tell them that Jesus is the way, the truth,
and the life, and we should worship the only one true and living God.
CEC MEADOW - Russian. Responsive.
HISTRIA CORAL - Romanian. Receptive, and took all the Scriptures and materials.
We visited all these Chinese ships this year. Their welcomes felt just like coming
home. They came to pray with us as groups, individuals joined to pray too.
1 ship on Saturday.
JING AN CHENG - 3 guys from West Houston Chinese Church came to visit this ship
with us. One more salvation. Thank the Lord we went through the security guard, and
thanks WHCC for the manpower supply.
We are grateful to all of you who support this ministry thru prayers and finances.
Grace be with you. (Col. 4:18)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 5/27/07 - 6/02/07
Grace and peace to you. (1Th. 1:1)
5/26: JO KIRI, CLIPPER STAMFORD, BAYTUR, and KERIM - Indian, Filipino, and mainly
Turkish. Aothough it was raining, victory was wonon board the ships. At first, the Turks
were somewhat resistant, but as the Jesus DVD was shown, they became more
receptive. Many Muslims are more open when they see the truth about Jesus, John
14:6.
Ships visited this week:
3 ships on Monday.
GAO QIANG - Chinese. We arrived a little bit before she sailed. Everybody was busy,
still some ones stopped and prayed with us. Bless to the ones who are hunger and
thirst. We were on this last February 12.
SAGA MUSKETEER - Polish, and Russian. Initial visit.
ACTIVE - Filipino. Confirmed their faith, blessed the ship and their families.
5 ships on Wednesday.
SANKO COMMANDER, MAERSK PROGRESS, BW SUND, and ATHENS 2004 -
Mainly Filipino, Indian, Romanian, Norwegian, and British. Prayed for the ships and
distributed the Sxritures and materials.
IKAN VERACRUZ - Chinese, and Filipino. Prayed with the captain and 3 with the
salvation prayer.
4 ships on Thursday.
IKAN SELANGAT - Chinese, and Filipino. Some friends on board, they recognized us
through previous visit. As 3 and 4 started praying, more were attracted to join us, what
a joy. We were on this ship last March 28.
KOSMOS, and JO HEGG - All Filipino. Very responsive.
CLIPPER LIS - Indian. 8 Christians on board. Pray for the chief cook's wife, she is half
paralyzed at home.
6 ships on Friday.
FORMOSA EIGHT, and COS LUCKY - Chinese. We were on both ships last year.
Both ships are friendly. Some resistance from the captain, commissar, and the chief
officer, but they were good responses. It was happy to meet some old faces.
LACANDON - Indian. Very hospitable. 3 Christians, 1 seeker. Captain is a Christian.
AGIA SOFIA, and UBC BATON ROUGE - German, Romanian, and mainly Filipino.
PANAM SOL - Indian. One Christian. Some other Hindus were seekers for the truth.
Prayed with the captain, he was very receptive.
Pray for Pastor Malone's rib. He got injured a little bit, and is on the way to recovery.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. (1Th. 5:28)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 6/03/07 - 6/09/07
Grace and peace to you from god the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (2Th. 1:2)
Ships visited this week:
4 ships on Monday.
CHIPOLBROK SUN - Chinese. We invited them to pray at dinner, half of them joined
us. Some knew us, most of them are new crew.
MARYLISA V, GLORY ACE, and SAFMARINE ANGOLA - Russian, Greek, and
mainly Filipino. They said we are God send. Amen. And blessed the ships.
3 ships on Wednesday.
BBC SCANDINAVIA - Russian. Wide open. They were very appreciated with the
Scriptural materials we gave.
MANDARIN MOON - Chinese. Prayed with many and baptized one in the engin room.
ST. PAULI - Myanmar, Croatian, and mainly Filipino. Prayed for the ship and their
family members..
5 ships on Thursday.
ELENI G - Romanian, and Filipino. Nice fellowship with a Filipino Christian. His name
is Johnny.
DD FIDELITY - Russian. Short but a very friendly visit.
JOSCO SUZHOU, YANG HAI, and FORMOSA TEN - Chinese. One Christian on those
ships. We baptized two seamen on YANG HAI. One of them has a Christian family
background, the other is an assistant captain whom God made ready for baptism for a
long time.
Please keep praying for Pastor Malone's rib condition. He is slowly recovering.
Thomas Tao will be out of town from 6/8 to 6/16. No e-mail next week. It will be resumed the
following week.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. (2Th. 3:18)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 6/17/07 - 6/23/07
Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. (1Ti. 1:2)
6/8: OCEAN LUCK - Chinese. 2 boxes of Scriptures were clean out. Had a long
conversation with the captain, at first he was resistant, but the Holy Spirit moved on
him to believe.
6/9: PANAM OCEANICA - Indian. 2 Hindus for salvation. One of them said he wants to join
the Mercy ship. Took 2 shopping.
PANAM LINDA - Croatian and Burmese. 2 Burmese for salvation. One became a
Christian because his wife quietly witnessed to him about Jesus.
SANTIAGO, KATJA, and SAIJIN - Russian, Romanian, Japanese, and Filipino. Good
opportunities for witnessing.
6/11: GOLDEN JANE - Korean and Burmese. Good response. There was 1 Christian and 1
salvation. Burmese are humble people.
CEC CRISTOBAL, and FROST 5 - Russian.
RICKMERS TOKYO, and WINDSOR CASTLE - Filipino and Bulgarian.
OCEAN ALLIANCE - Indian. It's exciting to witness God working on the ships. He
always arranges your meeting with the seamen. He knows those who are receptive to
His word.
6/12: PANAM ATLANTICO - Croatian, and Burmese. So many Burmese known from
previous voyages. The door is open for a Gospel witnese. 1 Christian and 1 salvation.
MARATHA, and SEA FORCE - Greek, and Filipino - God's Word and prayer bathed
these vessels. Pray for Greece.
6/13: CHEMBULK GILBRALTAR - Burmese. It's amazing to stand back and watch the Holy
Spirit move in the lives of people. God can use 1 Christian to influence many others.
The chief cook became a Christian through his wife, and now he is witnessing 1
seaman for salvation.
YUAN PING SEA, and GENMAR WISDOM - Bothe Chinese. It's a miracle seeing the
Holy Spirit drawing people to Jesus. They received many Scriptures. One Christian
took so many Bibles, tracts, DVD's, CD's, VCD's, audio cassettes, and Christian
literatures back to his church in China.
6/14: BW BORG, and CLIPPER VALOR - Indian. Both ships were very responsive. Many
Christians on board. Had a long conversation with a cadet who is so near to accepting
Christ.
XU CHANG HAI - Chinese. The commissar was reluctant. God answers prayer. Some
came to be saved. Ministered to the captain who eventually received Jesus, and
prayed with the chief officer before he went to the doctor.
6/15: SEA SWIFT - Chinese. Many friends on board. Frank Yu witnessed to many and
sharing the Word. We had a waterfront ministry too as we publicly prayed with a
longshoreman.
6/16: UAL GABON, CARIBBEAN TRADER, CLIPPER KRISTIN, NISSAN KOSAR,
DELZOURKE, and SAGA MORUS - Russian, Croatian, and the rest Filipinos.
Distributed many Scriptures and good response.
BW NICE - French, and Indian. Spent 2 hours on board. 7 Christians and 2 salvations.
Counseled and prayed with some. Pray for France.
Ships visited this week:
4 ships on Monday.
GREAT PRESTIGE, and LU XUN - Indian, Bangladesh, and Chinese. The Chinese are
glad to see Chinese overseas. The captain and the commissar said they welcomed
the Christians.
CHEMICAL SUPPLIER - Indian. 2 Christians. 1 Hindu for salvation. We were on this
ship before.
LODESTAR GRACE - Filipino. Prayed and blessed the ship.
6 ships on Thursday.
YUCEL, and SAFMARINE HOUSTON - Ukrainian, and Russian. Fairly receptive.
JO BETULA, STAR IKEBANA, and PLATINUM - Mainly Filipino, and Greek. The Holy
Spirit moved fifteen Filipino seamen together to pray on the pier next to the ship.
STENA CONCEPT - Indian, Russian, and Croatian. Four Christians on the ship. Pray
for the Christian motor man, his family and his 2 year old child.
6 ships on Friday:
GO TRADER, ABRAM SCHULTE, GAZ MERIDIAN, and ANNA L - Russian,
Venezuelan, Spanish, Greek, and mainly Filipino. Warmly welcomed. The Christian on
board said not too many places asked about their spiritual life conditions.
FORMOSA THIRTEEN, and KANG YUAN - Chinese. A short visit on FORMOSA 13,
but a long talk with the captain and the chief engineer on KANG YUAN. 1 Christian on
board. Both ships reacted positively on the salvation prayer.
Grace be with you. (1Ti. 6:21)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 6/24/07 - 6/30/07
Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. (2Ti. 1:2)
6/23: SANKO TITAN and LAWEL GALAXY - Filipino. Gave out Scriptures and prayed for
them, their families and vessel. They are a very gentle and humble people.
ALAATTIN BEY - Turkish. This is the third time visited them in 6 months. Trying to
build relationships by loving them and discussing the difference between Jesus and
Muhammad. The seed is planted.
Ships visited this week:
4 ships on Monday.
SAGA TUCANO, SENTINEL II, and RICKMERS SINGAPORE - British, Norwegian,
Crotian, Polish, and Mainly Filipino. Prayed and blessed the ship as usual, but with
different people.
BAO AN CHENG - Chinese. We were on this ship last February 15. Most of the crew
has been changed. Almost everone welcomed us except the commissar and the
captain. We prayed with the ones whose hearts have been softened by the Holy Spirit
and asked Jesus Christ to come into their hearts.
7 ships on Wednesday:
LOK MAHESHWARI - Indian. 5 Christians on board. Very receptive.
SOUTHERN SPIRIT - Chinese. Initial visit.
STAR FUJI, UBC BATON ROUGE, and ORKNEY SPIRIT - Mainly Filipino, Indian,
Norwegian, Russian, and Latvian. Confirmed their faith in Jesus alone not on their own
good works.
STOLT SUN - Indian, Short visit.
LIAN SHUN HU - Chinese. We were on this ship last May 4. Some of the crew
members have been changed since. Blessed the ship and blessed the people who
prayed with us. The captain, the commissar, and the doctor were very open, friendly,
and hospitable.
6 ships on Thursday.
AEGEAN FAITH, NCC RIYAD and STOLT DEVON - Filipino, and Russian. Receptive.
SOUTHERN SPIRIT - Chinese. We were on this ship last March 12. Some crew
changed some remained. They invited us to their cabins, we prayed there.
STOLT SUN, and ARAYA - Indian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. We were stoped
to go on the ships, but the Scriptures were still given out.
The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you. (2Ti. 4:22)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 7/01/07 - 7/07/07
Grace, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. (Tit. 1:4)
6/29: BALGARKA - Bulgarian. It was good to visit a Bulgarian vessel again. They were very
receptive and good contacts.
THOR NEPTUNE - Thai. No Christians. No response. Pray for Thailand.
YAUR PUMA - Peru. This ship comes here regularly. Many friends and many
Scriptures taken.
AZIZI, BARKALD, SLOTERGRACHT, PARTHENON, MOLDA, MEGALONESSOS,
ALIAKMON, and BERGE DANUTA - Russian, Greek, and mainly Filipino. It's great to
visit so many nationalities and honor the Lord. Gave out many Scriptives, prayed and
blessed them and their families.
6/30: PORT SAID, STOLT INVENTION, TOSCA, ATLANTIC FRONTIER, GOLD INDUS,
MINERVA RITA, and AYOR WIND - Russian, Georgian, and mainly Filipino. On each
of these vessels the seamen gladly came to receive God's Word. Many opportunities
for witnessing, sharing and counseling. Blessed them and their families.
Ships visited this week:
6 ships on Monday.
CAPE YORK - Chinese. There was a royal welcome. The chief cook is a Christian and
took many Scriptures. They saw the Jesus movie and many received Him as their
personal Savior including the chief engineer and chief officer. The captain claimed to be
Budhist.
CEC MIRAGE, BBC TRINDAD, ANNEMORIE B, SEAPOUET, and NAVIGA - Indian,
Russian, and Mainly Filipino. As usual, many were open to the Gospel and good
response.
5 ships on Tuesday:
RICKMERS NEW ORLEANS, BERGEN ARROW, JO MAPLE, and MARIANAO ICE -
Indian, Russian, and mainly Filipino. Great visits and good response.
TOP WING - Chinese. As usual, an exceptional visit with many coming into contact
with God's Word. They received Jesus' love openly.
3 ships on Wednesday:
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WINONA, GRAND NAPOLI, and PACIFIC FLORES - Italian, Indian. Romanian,
Filipino, Russian, and Chinese. Great opportunities for witnessing and building on
relationships. Many old faces from previous contacts, and so glad to visit them again.
8 ships on Thursday.
MARE ADVIACUM - Italian, and Indian. Warm welcome from both nationalities. 5
Indians received Jesus in their hearts. There were also 4 Indian Christians.
PANAM CARIBE - Croatian, and Burmese. Chief cook is a long time Christian. 3
Burmese said the salvation prayer.
JO SYPRESS, UAL CONGO, UAL ROTTERDOM, BALTIMAR ORION, UAL COBURG,
and ATLANTIC NAVIGATOR - Polish, Russian, and mainly Filipino. It's a privilege and
honor to preach the Word and witness the Holy Spirit at work.
4 ships on Friday:
YACU PUMA - Filipino.
M/V CLIPPER FAITH - Indian, Ukrainian, Filipino, and Burmese. 3 Indian Christians.
Good visit.
ZHONG HAI, and IKAN PROGRESO - Chinese; Chinese, and Filipino. Good response
from the Chinese crew, we all standed up and said grace before the evening meal.
8 ships on Saturday:
EVI, YEARGNHCK, STAR EAGLE, and CEC FANTASY - Filipino, Ukrainian, and
Russian. Prayed for the ships and their family members. Gave out gospel tracts.
M.V. J DUCKLING - Indian. 5 Christians. Many prayed the salvation prayer.
PACIFIC FLORES, and NORGAS NAPA - Filipino, Chinese, and Russian, Chinese. . Many knew us from the Rrssian, Chinese ship. Many were asking more about the
Gospel materials because their relatives are Christians.
RESTLESS - Russian, Ukrainian, and Georgian. Gave them Christian literatures and
blessed the ship.
Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. (Tit. 3:15)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 7/08/07 - 7/14/07
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Phm. 3)
Ships visited this week:
3 ships on Monday:
TRIPLE EVER - Filipino. Blessed their faith and the ship.
DS VANGUARD - Indian. 8 Christians. We were on this ship before. Some knew us.
JIN QIANG - Chinese. We visited this ship long time ago. When we prayed "I am a
sinner", it always touches someones hearts. May Jesus give them peace and hope.
5 ships on Tuesday:
SICHEM ANELINE, AFRICAN KITE, ROSBORG, SEASON TRADER, and AURORA
SAPPHINE - Russian, and mainly Filipino. Distributed many Scriptures, booklets,
VCD's and music CD's. Prayed and blessed them and their familes.
9 ships on Wednesday:
STX ACE 1 - Korean, and Chinese. 2 Korean Christians. We finished all the Korean
and Chinese materials.
JO SELJE, STOLT CONCEPT, NILS B, and HARRIETTE N - Indian, Ukrainian, and
mainly Filipino. They like Daily bread, Christian music CD in English. Prayers and
blessings from the Lord.
BBC AFRICA, and BAVARIA - Ukrainian, and Russian. Good response.
NILS B, and ATLANTIC GALAXY - Only one Ukrainian, the rest are all Indian. The
1st ship had 5 Christians, and so many joined us for the salvation prayer. The 2nd
ship had 4 christians, and we had a good fellowship together.
3 ships on Thursday.
BERNARDO QUINTANA A - Indian, and Filipino. 3 Indian Christians.We were warmly
welcomed.
MARITIME PEACE - Chinese. Many confessed they believed in Jesus, and prayed the
salvation prayer, and said that Jesus is in their hearts including the captain. Took 3 to
shopping.
MOON SEA - Chinese. Initial visit..
4 ships on Friday:
JOELMARE, and BRITISH EXPLORER - Mainly Filipino, Indian, and British officers.
Pray for Joshua, a Filipino Christian. He and his Christian girl friend are going to get
married.
GALAHAD - Korean. 8 Christians. That was a short and sweet visit.
MOON SEA - Chinese. Stayed on board for over 3 hours. Finished all the materials.
3 seamen came forward individually and claimed their faith in Christianity. Prayed with
them about Jesus and his salvation.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you spirit. (Phm. 25)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 7/15/07 - 7/21/07
Greetings,
Ships visited this week:
8 ships on Monday:
HATO - Mainly Polish, and 1 Russian. Good response.
FORTUNE EXPRESS, PACIFIC BULKER, UYMA, LIMERICK SPIRIT, and VINLAND
SAGA - All Filipino, Gave out Scriptures, prayer books, DVD's, blessed their families
and their ships.
FORMOSA SIX - Chinese. We visited this ship last March. They were busy, but the
chief engineer and the chief officer were willing to receive Jesus into their hearts.
HAMBURG STAR - Russian, Ukrainian, and Latvian, Responsive.
4 ships on Tuesday:
CARIBBEAN CARRIER, and SEA PEARL - Russian, Ukrainian, and Estonia.
Distribute Scriptures, and Christian literatures.
GINGA LANNER - Korean, and Chinese. 3 Korean Christians. One Chinese prayed.
XIANG AN CHENG - Chinese. We were on this ship last March 30. Over half of the
crew changed. Some still remember us and open. Prayed with some, and need to pray
that we'll be friends in Christ.
4 ships on Wednesday:
SOCOL 1 - Russian. Very good response.
BRITISH LIBERTY - All Indian. 5 Christians including the captain. Warmly welcomed.
1 salvation from reading the salvation prayer.
NAVISION LOGGER - Chinese. 2 salvations. The 3rd officer got baptized on the ship.
He said that he believed in Jesus because Jesus was a great man. Pray for him and
the ship. The ship is 21 years old, didn't pass the inspection and was detained by the
coast guard. Pray for the motor man, he has three children, 2 younger ones were a
twin. In China this is very rare today.
C EXPRESS - American, and 2 Honduras. We talked to one Honduras, he is a
Christian and received a Scripture.
Thursday and Saturday.
We will email to you next week.
Grace be with you all. (Heb. 13:25)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 7/22/07 - 7/28/07
Greetings,
7/14: 4 ships
SYN ACRAB - Italian and Filipino. A Bible study was held with 2 Filipinos. 2 hours
was spent on board ministerring, counseling and praying.
ALARA K - Turkish. They were very open and listened to the testmony of Jesus. Both
sides of the officers and crew watched the Jesus movie.
CAJA DATCHES, and GLOBAL GARNET - Russian and Filipino. Good visits.
7/19: 6 ships
KAPITAN KUDLAY, STOLT DEVON, MONIUSZHO, EMERALS C, and RICKMERS
HAMBURG - Russian, Polish, Indian, and Filipino. Distributed God's Word and planted
the Seed. The Spirit will produce the harvest.
PANAM FLOTA - Indian. Visited this vessel 2 months ago. After seeing the Jesus
movie and the passion of the Christ, they wanted to lean more about the Christian
faith. 1 salvation and blessed the Captain.
Ships visited this week:
6 ships on Monday:
BOW SKY, STOLT EFFORT, and CARIBBEAN TRADER - Filipino, and Norwegian;
Filipino, and Crotian; Filipino, and Ukrainian. Distribute Scriptures. Encouraged to see
one born again Christian.
CLIPPER LEADER - Russian, Ukrainian, Latvian, and Lithuania. Took Scriptures to
the vessel and blessed the crew.
PANAM FELICE, and SAGA VIKING - All Indian. 5 and 4 Christians. 1 salvation.
6 ships on Wednesday:
GASCHEM WESER - German, Polish, and mainly Filipino. Prayed and blessed the
ship as usual. Those individual Christians were so precious.
ST. GEORG - Filipino, Croatian, and mainly Myanmar. 3 Myanmar Christians.
TRANS CATALONIA - Norwegian, Polish, and mainly Romanian. Romanian are mostly Christians. Some took the Scriptures. Some already had the Scriptures. Just gave
them the Jesus DVD movies.
COS GLORY - Chinese. Couldn't get through the guard house, but let the grard took
some gospel materials to the ship.
LISA J - Filipino, and mainly Ukrainian. Very receptive and hospitable. The chief officer
was watching the Jesus DVD in his room. Took 2 Filipino and 2 Ukrainian to shopping.
GOLDEN DOMINIQUE - Korean, and Myanmar. 1 salvation.
7 ships on Thursday.
FAIRCHEM FILLY, and BULK CANADA - Indian; Indian, and Romanian. 4 and 4 Indian
Christians. Intial visit on second ship.
BBC WESER, and CAPTAIN P - Mainly Filipino, Sri Lanka, Maldimian, and Ukrainian.
OILER 4 - Turkish. Receptive with some friends on board.
THOR BECTAR - Thailand. 1 Christian. Prayed and blessed the ship.
NS CENTURY - Russian. Responsive and friendly.
8 ships on Friday:
CHEMICAL MARKETER, CHEM VEGA, and BULK CANADA - Mainly Indian, Turkish
and Romanian. 2nd engineer on the last ship is Christian. We talked a lot about the
book Genesis.
BOW POWER, IRENE, PADRE, and TINOS - Mainly Filipino, Greek on the last ship.
Most of them are Catholics one Baptist. But in heaven we have no denominations.
LAGUNA D. - Italian, and Romanian. Good visit.
1 ship on Saturday:
HAI AN CHENG - Chinese. Chief officer is a Christian. We were on this ship May 17,
2006. This is a new crew. A couple belong to the Evangelical Exploration team from
West Houston Chinese Church joined our visitation. 3 salvations, 2 of them have
Christian relatives.
Grace and peace be yours.
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 7/29/07 - 8/04/07
Greetings,
7/28: 8 ships
SYN ALCOR, BELUGA RECOMMENDATO, OREGA VOYAGER, NOVAID, IMME
OLDENDORFF, KEMERI, TAMA HOPE, CALIFORNIAN HYWAY, and SAGA WIIND -
Italian, Polish, German, and mainly Russian, and Filipino. It was an exciting day
sharing Jesus with so many seamen. They were receptive and the door was open for
the future witnesses. There was one born again Filipino who was really on fire for
Jesus. Others pointed the finger at him and said that he is a real Christian. Pray for
the unbelieving seamen that they too will have Jesus in their hearts.
Ships visited this week:
5 ships on Monday:
MEHMET AKSOY - Turkish. When they are away from home, they're not fearful to
respond to the truthj of Jesus. Stayed on board 2 hours ministering to them.
MADRISA, and FLORIANA BREEZE - All Filipino. Many of them have Jesus in their
hearts and have the faith to go to heaven through Jesus. Hhort visits.
THOR ENERGY - Thai. Took many Thai gospel booklets. 1 Christian.
TOURAINE - Chinese. Captain is Bengalese. Very nice and friendly visit. Took 4 to
shopping and prayed with them. We were on this last December 25,
6 ships on Tuesday:
NAUTILUS, ELISE SCHULTE, BW HAVFOST, and CHANCE - Filipino, and Peruvian;
Filipino, and Russian; Mainly Filipino. Pray that the Filipino Christians can have a
church service on the ship.
JI LI HU - Chinese. We were on this ship July 12, 2006. Prayed with many individuals.
Salvation is drawing near.
NORD OPTIMISER - Indian. 2 salvations. The chief cook is a Christian. Some Uuslims
liked and took their own language Bible.
3 ships on Wednesday:
HELENE SELMER, MOLDAVIA, and ROMNY - Romanian, and mainly Russian. Good
visits. Receptive.
7 ships on Thursday.
FU AN CHENG, HAI AN CHENG, SUZAKU, and NAVISION LOGGER - All Chinese.
We have been on all those ship this year. They all very open except the one with a
commissar and without the short pass to go ashore. Baptized one on SUZAKU.
He called his Christian father in China and let him know right after the Baptism.
CIELO DI VANCOUVER - Italian, and mainly Indian. 8 Christians. Initial visit.
RICKMERS SEOUL, and JA SUNRISE - Romanian, and mainly Filipino. Responsive.
6 ships on Friday:
DS MONTROSE - Indian. 9 Christians on board. 4 Hindus are interested in knowing
Jesus and prayed the salvation prayer with us.
SHI DAI 6 - Chinese. Hardly see a Chinese ship this freely talked about salvation,
Jesus, and the Bible. The chief engineer kept us in his room talked about Christianity.
The commissar said that he is a Christian and he belived in Jesus. The captain asked
us to go to his room to talked about righteousness and love. We ended up in asking
Jesus to come into our hearts.
TORINIA, and BERGE DANUTA - British, Indian, Latvian, Norwegian, and mainly
Filipino. Prayed and blessed the ship.
NATACHA-C, and CEC MERMAIA - Romanian, and mainly Russian. Good visit.
Grace be with you all. (Heb. 13:25)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 8/05/07 - 8/11/07
Grace and peace be yours in abundance. (1 Pet. 1:2)
8/04: 5 ships
STAR GRIP, LARA RICKMERS, NAUIOS ACHILLES, and LEOPOLD STAFF -
Filipino, Polish, and Burmese. Ministered to them with the Word.
CIELO DI VANCOURVER = Italian, and Indian. Prayed and blessed the 8 Christians
including the Italian captain and chief engineer. There were 3 Indian seekers including
Muslim.
Ships visited this week:
6 ships on Monday:
OVERSEAS FRAN, JOSE BRIGHT, and PERELIK - Filipino, Burnese, and Bulgarian.
Extended visits with the last 2 vessels. 3 Burmese received Jesus on the Jose Bright.
The captain is near to believing. The response was God directed. There was a born
again, Spirit filled Christian on the Perelik. A kindred spirit opens the way for a Gospel
witness.
EAGLE AURIGA - Indian, and 1 Singapore. 2 Christians
SOUTHERN SPIRIT - Chinese. We were on this ship last June 28. Took 4 to shopping.
NAVISION LOGGER - Chinese. This is the 20th day they stayed in port. The ship is
repairing. They are short of drinking water, so we sent them 144 bottles of fresh water
and prayed with them. They appreciated very much.
4 ships on Tuesday:
BOW SAGA, and BOW HUNTER - Filipino. Short and pleasant visit.
ZHEN HUA 10 - Chinese. Was not allowed to go into the mess room. Distributed the
materials on the deck. They all came, one by one, until the material was finished.
Although they were busy, we still prayed the salvation prayer and bless the shop.
NAVISION LOGGER - Chinese. Brought more drinking water to the ship, and 3 more
seamen got baptized.
5 ships on Wednesday:
NAVISION LOGGER - Chinese.
ANTALINA, and ALIA R - Ukrainian; Ukrainian, and mainly Filipino.
GENCO SUCCESS - Chinese.
PACIFIC CELEBES - Filipino, and Chinese.
Peace to all of you who are in Christ. (1 Pet. 5:14)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 8/12/07 - 8/18/07
Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. (2 Pet. 1:2)
8/08: 3 ships
BOW SAGA, and PLATTE - Filipino, and Indian. Good response. 1 Indian salvation.
The Holy Spirit moved him to read bhe Bengali N. T., and as the Word was explained,
he received Jesus.
BLUE MASTER - Burmese. There were no Christians on board. But 1 received Jesus.
His mother was a Christian, and she had a great influence on him.
8/09: 1 ship
TOPFLIGHT - korean, and Burmese. Spent 2 hours on the vessel. There were 2
Burmese Christians and 2 salvations. After a discussion the Korean chief engineer
received Jesus as his personal Savior.
8/10: 5 ships
ATLAS HIGHWAY, FORTUNE EPOCH, and STAR FRASER - Filipino. Good
response.
FAIRCHEM STALLION - Indian. 4 Christians including the captain and 3 salvations. 2
had family members Christians and the third went to a Christian school for 14 years.
Amazing.
CHEMBUCK TORTOLA - Burmese. 1 Christian and 3 salvations. 2 of them had
members of their families Christians. This was a harvest day.
8/11: 4 ships
SEABOARD RELIANCE, NARA, and RAINIER SPIRIT - Russian, and mainly Filipino.
As usual, good visits.
GAS FRIEND - korean, and Chinese. 2 Koreans for salvation including the captain. 1
Chinese Christian and 4 were very responsive. Spent more than an hour on board.
Ships visited this week:
1 ship on Sunday:
GENCO SUCCESS - Chinese. Took 4 to West Houston Chinese Church to the
worship service and the Sunday School.in the morning. Spent 4 1/2 hours shopping
with them in the afternoon. They all prayed the salvation prayer and appreciated the
help..
7 ships on Monday:
HIGHTIDE, NORTH POINT, DELFA, and JO ASPEN - Mainly Filipino, Indian,
Romanian, Italian, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian. Very good visits. The Filipino always
invited us to stay on board.
SAFMARINE CAVALLA - Ukrainian. Initial visit.
WHISTLER - Chinese. Only 4 of them had short pass. Not very welcomed, but 2
salvations.
NICOLACS A - Myanmar, and Russian. Very friendly ship. 3 salvations.
6 ships on Tuesday:
NAVISION LOGGER - Chinese. This is the 5th time we visited this ship this month
and the 2nd time with a truck lord of drinks and banana from Miquel Lopez - Christian
Alliance. The captain prayed the salvation prayer with us.
DOXA, SCANDA, and CHANNEL RANGER - Greek, Russian, and mainly Ukrainian.
Receptive, The captain of Channel Ranger is a Christian. We made a friend and took
him to Wal Mart..
SANKO GALAXY, and OCEAN JADE - Filipino; Korean, and Filipino. They were so
appreciative when they received the Christian materials and very humbled when we
prayed.
2 ships on Wednesday:
OVERSEAS REBECCA - Ukrainian. Responsive.
STOLT CREATIVITY - Filipino. Good visit as usual.
8 ships on Friday:
HOLMEN - Indian. 6 Christians on board including the captain. Prayed with them and
blessed the ship. Rather a short and friendly visit.
LARCH ARROW - Polish, Russian, and Burmese. A nice and pleasant visit.
SEASPRAT, SUPER ADVENTURE, IRON MANOLIS, and JO SYCAMORE - Mainly
Filipino, Dutch, German, Russian, and Ukrainian. They were very thankful in getting
the Gospel materials. And one came forward to claim that he is a born again
Christian.
BARBARA VAUGHT - American. Gave out one NIV N.T.
DAZAN - Russian. Receptive.
To him be glory both now and forever! (2 Pet. 3:18)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 8/19/07 - 8/25/07
Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father's son, will be with us in truth and love. (2 Jn. 3)
8/17: 5 ships
ISLAND OASIS, CEC COMMANDER, and RICKMERS JAKARTA - Russian, and
mainly Filipino. 1 Russian for salvation and the Filipinos confessed Christ as their
Savior.
WINDSOR CASTLE - Sri Lanka , and Filipino. Great response. 1 Sri Lankan Christian
and 1 renounced Buddhism and accepted Jesus.
CHEMSTAR PRINCESS - Burmese - Wow! What a Spirit led reception!. As we were in
the messroom 3 Christians came to pray. After others were invited to pray with us, 9 of
them came forward to believe Jesus, and they all acknowledged that Jesus was in
their hearts.
Ships visited this week:
4 ships on Monday:
MARE CARIBBEAN - Mainly Russian. Good and short visit. One Christian.
FORMOSA ELEVEN - Chinese. We were on this ship March 6, 2007. Some knew us.
7 salvations.
STOLT TENACITY, and BOW CHEETAH - Filipino. Friendly ships. Faith confirmed.
4 ships on Tuesday:
RICKMERS JAKARTA , STOVENIJA, PAROS , and VIBORG - Filipino; Croation, and
. Burmese. It was some eventful visits with these seamen.
8 ships on Wednesday:
STAVANGER BAY , and HALKI - Norwegian, Greek, Filipino, and Chinese. Prayed
with the Chinese and the Filipino.
BAUTIC CAPTAIN - Russian, and Bulgarian.
TAI HARVEST - Chinese. Prayed with the crew and the captain.
CSAV RIO GRANDE - Bulgarian. An exceptionally good response. 4 salvations and
took 4 to make phone calls home.
SIFNOS SUN - Filipino. LUCAS OLDENDORFF - 10 nationalities. English is the
medium language of communication. The Ghanaian chief officer received the Word for
the vessel.
IDC 3 - Turkish. Let's reach the Turks now because the country has recently eleted to
be an Islamic state. Spent 2 hours on board ministering. The captain did pray for
Jesus to come into his life as the Son of God and Savior.
4 ships on Thursday:
ATLIXCO, and NS CONCEPT - Russian, and Croatian. Prayed with the Russian 3rd
officer Alex. He was very glad to receive God's Word.
STAR FUJI - Filipino. We had been to this ship before, still they were friendly and
receptive.
DAEBO PIONEER - Chinese. More than 10 people prayed to invite Jesus in their
hearts including the captain. Took 3 to shopping.
10 ships on Friday:
GOOD PROVIDENCE - Indian. 3 Christians on board. First they said there were no
Christian on the ship, after we got in the mess room we found out things were different.
6 Hindus and Muslims were praying with us. The Holy Spirit really moved them to say
Jesus is in their hearts.
WEDELLSBORG - Polish, and Romanian. Good visit, and receptive.
AGATHONISSOS, STOLT ENDURANCE, ELKA ATHINA, MINERVA HELLEN and
BOW AMERICAS - Mainly Filipino, Greek, and Ukrainian. Again, Most of them were
happy and satisfy to get the materials. We were glad to lead them to pray and blessed
the ship.
ATHENS STAR, and TRISTEIN - Ukrainian, and Russian. Good response.
HAVJIN ANTWERP - Korean, and Indonesian. We met 1 Korean Christian, and many
Indonesian received the Scriptures.
Peace to you. The friends here send their greetings. (3 Jn. 15)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 8/26/07 - 9/01/07
Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance. (Jude. 2)
8/25: 2 ships
AVAX, and AFRICAN EAGLE - Filipino, and Indian. Prayed with them and blessed
them and their families. There were 11 Indian Christians, and they witnessed to tbe
others.
Ships visited this week:
5 ships on Monday:
GULF ELAN - Romanian, Indian, and Filipino. 3 Indian Christians.
OVERSEAS ANIA - Russian. Receptive.
GALAHAD - Korean. Most Korean sailors are officers now, this ship is exceptional.
Distributed some booklets on this ship.
GENCO MARINE, and MARITIME ALLIANCE - Chinese. Good visits and responses.
There were some salvations and seekers. They took so many Scriptures to take back
to China. Spent more than 2 hours on each ships.
7 ships on Wednesday:
YELLOW STONE - Myanmar. 3 Christians including the captain. There was a great
openness to the Gospel.
JAN DLUGOSZ - Chinese, and Polish. SWIFT SPLIT - Chinese, Ukrainian, and
Croatian. Didn't meet all the Chinese but left enough materials for each one of them,
and encouraged them to trust in Jesus. Many said they had friends and relatives who
believed in Jesus.
ISABELLA KOSAN - Filipino. Shared the prayer together and blessed the ship.
GREEN FREEZER, ANEGO EXPLORER, and LIBBY G - Filipino and mainly Russian.
Shared with them Jesus' love.
5 ships on Thursday:
CEC COPENHAGEN, and FADELSIA - Ukrainian, and Mainly Filipino. They all have
Jesus in their hearts, but most of them are not sure they are going to heaven because
their faith in Jesus. So, pray for their faith in Jesus.
INNOVATOR I, and SICHEM CHALLENGE I - Russian. They liked the Christian
materials. Pray that they read the them.
NORDANA MATHILDE - Chinese. They all have the Chinese Scriptures. A few of them
came up to ask for the English Scriptures. 18 of them on board, half of them were
humble enough to agree to pray with us. Praise to God for the readiness of their
hearts.
3 ships on Friday:
CLIPPER STAMFORD - Indian, Filipino, and Chinese. 7 Indian Christians on the ship,
2 salvations, 1 Chinese and 1 Hindu.
FROST 2 - Russian. Good response.
OCEAN BELLE - 2 Korean, and 18 Chinese. We were on this ship last November 2.
Half of the Chinese opened their hearts for Jesus. Took the Korean captain, he is a
Christian, and the Korean chief engineer to shopping and came back, and took 3
Chinese to Wal Mart again.
To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy - to the only god our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages now and forevermore! Amen.. (Jude. 24,25)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 9/02/07 - 9/08/07
Grace and peace to you.
9/01: 5 ships
MARI DI REVENNA - Romanian. Great response. Took so much of God's Word. Many
professed to be Christians.
SPAR TOPAY - Indian. 5 Christians and 2 seekers. Had a long talk with a Sik who
took the Jesus film.
BOW SEA, SIAMARE, and SKAFTAFELL - Russian and mainly Filipino. They took
many Scriptures and prayed. Pray for global revival. We've on the threshold of the
greatest ingathering of souls in human history. Open your eyes and behold the work
God is performing.
ships visited this week
6 ships on Monday:
KRISTINA THERESA, ST. MARIEN, INDUSTRIAL CHARGER, and BALTIMAR
ORION - Ukrainian, and mainly Filipino. Prayed and strengthened their faith.
CEC FAITH - Russian. Responsive.
TAI AN CHENG - Chinese. We were on this ship last March 29. There were some
believers, seekers and old friends. They took many Scriptures. 2 salvations.
5 ships on Tuesday:
STAR EAGLE, ISABEL KNUTSEN, and GASCHEM ICE - Filipino. It was a good
testimony that they all claimed to be Christians. Pray that Jesus Christ is not just a
religion for them.
FAIRCHEM BRONCO - Indian. Some Christians.
GANG QIANG - Chinese. 3 salvations and many seekers.
6 ships on Thursday:
FREJA OCEAN - Indian. 6 Christians and 1 salvation.
GASCOGNE - West Africa. There were many Christians on board. They took the
English Scriptures.
CEC LEADER - Russian. Receptive as usual.
CEC BLUE, and ALAM SENANG - Pakistan, Indoneisian, Fillipino, Chinese, and
Malay. Prayed with 1 Chinese and 1 Filipino.
TAIXING - Chinese. We were on theis ship last March 22. Half of the crew knew us.
Many opened their hearts for Jesus because their friends and relatives are Christians.
So, don't give up praying for our kinsmen.
6 ships on Friday:
UNION RANGER, and DORA - Filipino. A born again Christian received all the DVDs
materials and Scriptures.
SEABORN, and MINERVA VASO - Russian. Ukrainian, German, Greek, and mainly
Filipino/ Good response.
BBC MISSISSIPPI - Russian, and Ukrainian. Short visit but receptive.
GUANG MING FENG - Chinese. 3 cadets and other 2 seamen received Jesus. They
were so amazed and excited about the testimony and the Jesus story.
The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people. Amen. (Rev.22: 21)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Php. 1:2)
12/30:FIESTA, AEGEAN PRIDE and BONASIA - Filipino. Prayed and blessed them. They
took many Scriptures. Very humble men.
AZOV WIND - Georgian. The country has a rich Christian heritage. Receptive to the
Gospel.
OCEAN CHIE - Indian. Good reception. Prayed with the 3 Christians, 3 Hindus
received Jesus.
1/1/07: LU XUN - Chinese. Very receptive. Knew some seamen from previous ships. They
took many Scriptures, tracts, Christian liturature and DVD's. Some salvations.
OCEANICLAND and BOW GORGONILLA - Filipino. New year blessing to them and
their families.
GOLDEN CHARLOTTE - Korean and Burmese. 1 Christian and 3 salvations. Revival is
breaking out among the Hindus, Buddhists and Chinese.
1/2/07: ORION GIGHWAY and RICKMERS ANTWERP - Filipino. They were busy but got a
lot of Scriptures. Prayed with them.
1/3/07: 6 vessels comprising of 9 Germans and all the rest Filipinos. Filipinos were
receptive, but the Germans unbelieving. Pray for Germany.
LUCY OLDENDORFF - Chinese. Steve Yeboah took nearly half of the seamen to
church and shopping. The Holy Spirit was alive as most came running to obtain their
Scriptures.
3 ships on Thursday:
BULK CANADA - 19 Indian, 1 Romanian 2nd engineer and 1 Pakistanian captain. 4
Christians. Blessed the crew and their families.
YOUNG SPRING - 21 Chinese. Second visit. Many got the Scriptures and many
salvations.
GOLDEN TAKA - 11 korean and 9 Myanmar. Initial visit.
4 ships on Friday:
HOEGH TRAPPER - 25 Chinese. Great harvest, Many came to Christ.
ENERGY CHANCELLER - 20 Russian.
JO ACER - 24 Filipino. Good and short visit.
SANMAR SERENADE - 25 Indian. Nice visit, all Pastor Malone's friends.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. (Php. 4:23)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 1/07/07 - 1/13/07
Grace and peace to you from God our Father. (Col. 1:2)
7 ships on Monday:
MAR REINA - 22 Filipino. Very receptive. Took many Scriptures.
AEGEAN PRIDE - 18 Filipino and 5 Greek. Blessed the crew and their families.
GROUSE ARROW - 18 Filipino and 5 Croatian. Blessed the ship.
BOW FLORA - 16 Filipino and 9 Norwegian. Got many Scriptures.
THORB JORG - 20 Russian. Gave away Scriptures. Pray for Russia.
AFRICAN PUMA - 27 Russian.
PANAM CELESTE - Indian. 4 Christians on board. 2 salvations and 1 baptized.
6 ships on Wednesday:
ASTRO ALTAIR - 15 Filipino and 15 Greek. Receptive. Blessed the ship.
JO ACER - 25 Filipino. Some got the Scriptures.
SOMA - 14 Indonesian, 5 Polish and 4 Greek. All Indonesian are Muslem but they
still accept Bibles and DVDs.
ANGELINA THE GREAT N - Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Polish. Short visit.
FORMOSA NINE - 21 Chinese. Open and Receptive. Several friends on board. Took
the chief engineer to shopping.
STOLT BASUTO - Filipino. A bunch of them got the Scriptures, Jesus DVDs and the
Passion of the Christ DVDs. Prayed with them joyfully.
9 ships on Thursday:
CHRYSOULA S - 10 Filipino, 1 Romanian and 9 Greek. Blessed the crew and their
families.
STAR FUJI - 21 Filipino.
RICKMERS DALIAN - 17 Filipino, 5 Romanian, 2 Polish and 2 Chinese. Good visit.
GROUSE ARROW - Revisit.
BELUGA SPIRIT - Filipino. Warm visit.
POCHARD - 15 Russian /Ukrainian, 2 Romanian and 1 Polish.
KRISTIN PICER - 20 Filipino. Chief officer came down the gangway and received the
Scriptures.
NORGAS SHASTA - 11 Chinese, 4 Russian and 1 Filipino. We visited this ship last
November 27. Except the Chinese cook we all met before, better knew each other the
second time. They all got the new Scriptural materials.
SARGASSO - 15 Filipino and 5 Indian. They received some Scriptures. Prayed and
blessed them.
Grace be with you. (Col. 4:18)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 1/14/07 - 1/20/07
Grace and peace to you. (1Th. 1:1)
1/12: UAL COBURG and GOLDEN STAR - Filipino ships. As usual, favorable visits.
Encouraged 1 born again to have Bible study on vessel.
ATLANTIC RUNNER and CLIPPER LEGEND - Russian ships. Fair visits. Shared the
Word with them.
PANAM FELICE - Indian. It's a revisit. Most of the crew have changed. 1 Hindu for
salvation.
1 ship on Monday:
CHEMBULK WESTPORT - Burmese It was a night bitter, cold and windy, but it was
like homecoming. 1 Christian and 3 salvations.
2 ships on Wednesday:
FORMOSA TEN - Chinese. Good follow up and visited with them for 2 hours. Some
salvations and captain acknowledged Jesus as Savior.
CLIPPER GOLFITO - Crotian and Burmese. The entire crew was very receptive. The
Spirit is moving. 5 Burmese renounced Buddhism and was born again by the blood of
Jesus.
8 ships on Thursday:
APAGEON - 23 Filipino and 1 Ukrainian. Very responsive.
OCEAN SUNRISE - 21 Filipino. Good visit. Confirmed their faith.
ISABEL KNUTSEN - 14 Filipino. 3 Norwegian and 1 Romanian. Blessed the ship.
TOSCANA - 22 Polish. Short but good visit.
STOLT CONFIDENCE - 24 Filipino, Polish, Croation and Finlander. Reconfirm their
Christian faith.
ADVENTURER - 20 Russian. Received the Scriptures.
HANHAI - 24 Chinese. There was a young commissar on board. Many received the
Scriptures, and 4 salvations. Captain was very close to confess his faith.
MAROUDIO - 11 Filipino and 5 Greek. Prayed and blessed the ship.
2 ships on Friday:
SENECA - 15 Indonesian and 4 Russian. Very receptive. Pray for Russia.
BEIHAI - 24 Chinese. 2 Christians on board. A young commissar on the ship.
4 salvations.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. (1Th. 5:28)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 1/21/07 - 1/27/07
Grace and peace to you from god the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (2Th. 1:2)
5 ships on Monday:
CABO NEGRO II - 18 Burmese and 3 Korean. It was a miracle. 9 salvations, 3
Christians. Captain is a Chrisian.
GOLDEN VENUS - 17 Filipino and 2 Russian. Prayed for the ship.
CHOPIN - Polish. Nice and short visit.
ATLANTIC QUEEN - 20 Filipino. They came and got some Scriptures and Jesus
DVDs.
PAC DUBHE - 16 Chinese, 4 Filipino, 2 Singapore and 1 Romanian captain. Shared
the Gospel and many received their Scriptures.
5 ships on Wednesday:
HOEGH TROVE - 23 Filipino. Prayed and blessed the ship.
HANJIN CALCUTTA - 14 Filipino, and 4 Korean. Receptive.
CHEMICAL SUPPLIER - 23 Indian. We were on this ship last August 7. Prayed with
them and some salvations.
CHIPOLBROK SUN - 27 Chinese. We were on this ship last August 14. Half of the
crew has been changed since. It's a Chinese-Polish shipping company's vessel. They
got most of the Scriptural materials.
SUNSHINE SKY - 11 Korean and 8 Myanmar. Good visit. Prayed and bless the crew.
5 ships on Thursday:
UNIVERSAL AFRICA LINE - Filipino and Romanian. Responsive.
UAL ABERDEEN - Filipino, Russian and Dutch. Good visit.
DS MIRAGE - 21 Indian. 7 Christians. Some of them knew us. Prayed and shared the
Words.
SEA FLOURISH - 25 Chinese. 6 salvations including the Commissar.
ALMASI - 15 Filipino, 1 Ukrainian and 3 Greek. Short but warm visit.
3 ships on Friday:
SITEAM SATURN - 18 Filipino and 6 Crotian. Very welcomed and receptive.
JING AN CHEN - 26 Chinese. Commissar on the ship but was very friendly.1 salvation.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. (2Th. 3:18)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 1/28/07 - 2/03/07
Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. (1Ti. 1:2)
3 ships on Monday:
PACIFIC CELEBES - 22 Filipino, 3 Ukrainian and 5 Chinese. Half of the Filipino came
to pray together, and 4 Chinese prayed the salvation prayer. It was a good visit.
SEA FORCE - 14 Filipino and 4 Ukrainian. Prayed and blessed the ship.
YICK ZAO - 32 Chinese. Many stoped watch their TV and joined prayer with us. One
Christian on board and one old friend.
3 ships on Wednesday:
GULF STREAM - 12 Indian and 9 Filipino. 3 Indian Chjristians. Very Receptive..
GOLDEN TIFFANY - 10 Myanmar, 2 Chinese and 10 Korean. A sweet memory.
SHENG QIANG - 23 Chinese. We were on this ship last October 9. All of them are old
friends. Prayed with them and learned a lot from the Chinese too.
7 ships on Friday:
CATHRIN OLDENDORFF - Mixed crew, Filipino, Russian, Ukrainian, Ghana, Sri Lanka
and Maldive. Prayed for the ship.
MINANUR CEBI - Turkish. Open and welcomed. We stayed for a while. 2 slvations.
SEABOSS - 20 Filipino, very receptive.
SOUTHERN FIGHTER - 20 Myanmar. Very friendly, keeping asking for more
Scriptures, DVDs and music tapes.
BBC SWENDEN - Russian and Ukrainian. Receptive. Prayed for Russian.
SPAR LYNX - 21 Indian and 2 Chinese. Everyone is young and receptive. Some
salvations.
MASCOTT - 10 Polish. They got the Scriptures and we prayed for Poland.
Grace be with you. (1Ti. 6:21)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 2/04/07 - 2/10/07
Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. (2Ti. 1:2)
02/03:FORMOSA EIGHT - Since we visit these company's ships frequently, we've built an
relationship over the years. Many new converts and others are growing in their faith.
Praised the Lord.
1 ship on Sunday:
SPAR LYNX - Took 2 Chinese to Chinese church, and baptized them on the ship.
8 ships on Monday:
NICKOLAOS - 11 Ukrainian. Contacted several of them, prayed, open and receptive.
GREEN COSTA RICA - 10 Filipino, 6 Ukrainian and 1 Polish. Prayed and blessed the
ship. They all got their own Scriptural materials.
HANJIN PENANG - 14 Filipino and 4 Korean. Prayer with the Filipino Christians and
confirmed their faith in Jesus Christ.
TRIUMPH - 2 Greek and 23 Filipino. Made sure that the salvation is by faith in Jesus
not by our own good works.
ISLAND OASIS - 20 Filipino. 1 salvation.
MILLENNUM FALCON - Filipino crew.
PANAM EXPRESS - 18 Filipino, 3 Russian and 5 Romanian. 9 salvations, good visit.
HIGH VENTURE - 26 Indian. The pump man Romeo was a born again Christian, he
invited us to his cabin and we had a good fellowship together.
1 ship on Tuesday:
JAG LEELA - Indian. Another company's ship which we frequently revisit. A warmly
response where more seed was planted. A pumpman was led to Christ in 1998. He's
on fire for Jesus and many are coming to the Savior by his witnessing.
6 ships on Wednesday:
TERRIER, STAR FLORIDA, SENTINEL II,SIMURGH and MARIA KNUTSEN -
Norwegian and Filipino. Most of the filipinos we talk with say they're going to heaven
because of good works. Pray that they will believe they're saved by God's grace
through faith in Jesus.
ARE - Visited this vessel before. Some new contacts. They were receptive to the
Gospel especially the Russian DVD Jesus movie.
6 ships on Thursday:
OOCL FORTUNE - 21 Chinese, 5 Filipino and 1 Croatian. Prayed with many. The
Chinese were very open especialy the chief officer. The 5 Filipinos all got their NIV
New Tastement. the ship. We were on board before the immigration officers. Thanks
be to God we had the permission.
ST. LOUIS EXPRESS - American. They got Bibles from the seamen' club.
NEDLLOYD CLARENCE - Indonesian and Dutch, very receptive. Prayed for Dutch.
HANSA BERLIN - Russian. Receptive.
ASHIYA STAR - 23 Chinese and 1 Japanese. A four month old new ship and receptive.
Some salvations.
NS POWER - 21 Russian. Another 5 month old new ship. Most of them got the
Scriptures and prayed for Russian.
The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you. (2Ti. 4:22)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 2/11/07 - 2/17/07
Grace, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. (Tit. 1:4)
5 ships on Monday:
CRYSTAL OCEAN - 22 Chinese. Open and receptive. Several salvations.
GRAND VIEW - 23 chinese. Prayed and blessed the ship. Some salvations.
BAUTA - 22 Filipino and 1 Polish. Prayer with the Filipino.
SEA SWIFT - 27 Chinese. We were on this ship before. Many friends.
SAGA ADVENTURE - 22 Indian. Good response.
6 ship on Tuesday:
VINLAND SAGA, GAZ MERIDIAN, SEAEXPLORER, AND SYN ALCOR - A few
Danish, Italian, Romanian, Spanish and mostly Filipinos. Most of them came to
receive their Scriptures including the Europeans. Ministered to some and blessed
them and their families.
PLATTE - Indian. Another new vessel. A great response. 1 salvation.
GOLDEN JANE - Korean and Burmese. Koreans were not responsive, but the
Burmese were. 4 Christians and 2 received the new life in Jesus. We can learn from
them about witnessing.
2 ships on Wednesday:
MARITIME CUATE - Indian. A good response. 5 Christians and 2 salvations including
a Nepalese. Had a long visit with the chief engineer, who was a very humble person.
GULMAR - Turkish. Wow! The Holy Spirit paved fhe way for a Gospel witness. Some
fourght over the big box of Turkish Scriptures. They waanted more. 2 salvations.
4 ships on Thursday:
HARRIETTE N - 10 Filipino and 24 Indian. Prayed with many.
TAMAN - 22 Russian. Most of them got the Scriptural materials.
BAO AN CHENG - 30 Chinese. Not very responsive but the Scriptures were almost
gone.
TORM EMILIE - Indian and Russian. Prayed for them.
7 ships on Friday:
PAC ACRUX - 15 Chinese, Filipino and Pakistanian captain. Initial visit and came back
for the second time, very responsive. 1 Chinese Christian. Took two to Wal Mart.
SAFMARINE TEXAS - 13 Filipino, Russian and Ukrainian. Prayed for the ship.
RICKMERS SINGAPORE - Filipino and 2 Polish. Prayed for the crew.
SAGA DISCOVERY - Indian crew.
BOW PUMA - 27 Filipino. Prayed with the crew.
GENCO CARRIER - 23 Chinese. Half an hour nice initial visit.
STOVE TRANSPORT - 19 Chinese and 2 Myanmar. Some friends on board. Had a
long talk with the captain and the chief engineer but was close to salvation.
Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. (Tit. 3:15)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 2/18/07 - 2/24/07
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Phm. 3)
2/17: CASTOR - Russian. Captain is born again. We spent a lengthy time together sharing.
His crew came to receive their Scriptures. Blessed them, their families and the ships.
PERLA II - Peru, Ecuador, Honduas and Niearagua. 3 boxes of Scriptures and DVDs
were given to them. They'll take them to their churches, families and friends.
REF STAR - Russian. Very good visit. Very receptive. Spent 2 hours on the vessel
ministering to them.
1 ship on Sunday:
GENCO CARRIER - Took 10 Chinese seamen to WHCC and China Town. 4 converted.
4 ships on Monday:
PANAM PACIFICO - Croatian and Burmese. What an awesome God we serve. 2
Burmese Christians are great witnesses of their faith by their words and actions. 8
burmese wanted Jesus as a result of their testifying.
MURAT KIRAN - 23 Turkish. Open and receptive.
GENCO CARRIER - 23 chinese. Second visit. Prayed and blessed the ship. Moree
salvations.
REF STAR - Russian. Distributed the DVD's..
2 ships on Tuesday:
CHEMBULK KOBE - Burmese. It was like homecoming. There was 1 Christian and
2 salvations.
LEROS - Russian. Only 10 Russian on board. Gave out some Scriptures.
2 ships on Wednesday:
SAGA DISCOVERY and BOW RIO - Indian. The first was unreceptive and the latter
very receptive. Good visit and planted much seed. Blessed the captain his crew and
his families.
4 ships on Thursday:
S KALA - 16 Filipino and 8 Indian. Prayed with many.
DA QIANG - 23 Chinese. Most of them got the Scriptures. Commissar was very
friendly. The chief cook kniw us. We prayed that they all knew the Lord.
EXPLORER - 10 Greek and 14 Filipino. Responsive and prayed for the ship.
RENE - Romanian and French. Prayed for them.
6 ships on Friday:
HAI CHANG - 26 Chinese. Captain received Jesus.
NAVIOS HORIZON - 22 Russian crew. 2 salvations.
STAR IKEBANA - 22 Filipino. Prayed with the crew.
GOLDEN FLORDENCE - 12 Korean and 6 Myanmar. We met 1 born again Korean
Christian. He is the leader of others.
DINGXIANGHAI - 25 Chinese. Some salvations.
CEREN URKMEZ - Turkish. Prayed for Turkey.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you spirit. (Phm. 25)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 2/25/07 - 3/03/07
Greetings,
2/23:SEIJIN, NYACK PRINCESS and LADY - Japanese and mainly Filipino. Good visits and
responsive to God's love and faithfulness. Took Scriptures, blessed them, their
families, and their vessels.
NICKMARIANAO ICE - Russian. Rrvisited them a monthy ago. They shipped chicken
to Cuba and returned to load more.
PANAM CARIBE - Croatian and Burmese. 1 Christian and 1 salvation. More Burmese
are coming to the port and this gives us opportunities to build relationships.
WLADYSLAW ORKAN - Polish. Unresponsive. Pray for Poland.
2/24: ORIENTAL PROTEA and MARCELA LADY - Russian and mainly Filipino. It's amazing
how many previous contacts with the seamen. They are humbled by our prayers,
blessings, love and encouragement.
5 ships on Monday:
HOLLY GALAXY - 12 Korean and 8 Chinese. There were 2 Chinese jumped ship. We
were fortunate enough to be allowed to visit the ship,
OLMECA - 22 Indian. 5 Christians, Receptive.
NORD ENDEAVOUR - Filipino. Prayed and blessed the ship.
LEROS - Indian and Russian. We were on this ship before, all Indians are our friends.
KARIN - 10 Filipino, 1 Russian and 1 German.
2 ships on Tuesday:
MATIRA - Greek and Filipino. Crew were busy, but had a good visit with the second
officer. Took Scriptures and blessed them.
CEC MISTRAL - Russian. Unresponsive. Pray for Russia.
4 ships on Wednesday:
MIRANDA ROSE and WABASH - Indian. Good visit as usual. They are very hospitable
and receptive. Bave them many Scriptures and 1 salvation. Took 4 shopping.
GERTRUDE OLDENDORFF - 10 nationalities - The Filipinos and Africans were most
receptive.
SCM ELPIDA - Russian. Chief officer came to recieve the Scriptures. 1 Muslim from
Malaysia came to receive the Jesus movie and other materials.
2 ships on Thursday:
PAOLA - 2 Filipino and 18 Myanmar. Prayed with many.
AGIASMA - 34 Indian. Many got the Scriptures. Some salvations.
11 ships on Friday:
JO SYCAMORE - Filipino and Dutch.
BAFFIN - Indian. Indian crew. 7 Christian. Prayed with the crew.
FRIJSENBORG - Polish, Romanian and Bulgarian.
BBC CAROLINA - Fillipino and Russian. Blessed ship.
FEDERAL POWER - 19 Indian 2 Polish.
CEC MORNING - Ukrainian. SANKO BRIGHT - Irish, Polish and Filipino.
EAGLE TUCSON - Chinese, Russian, Filipino, Indian and Malaysian.
CUMBRIA - Russian, Bulgarian and Filipino.
BRAGE ATLANTIC - Polish and Filipino. STOLT SPRAY - Russian and Latvian.
Prayed for the crew and their families.
Grace be with you all. (Heb. 13:25)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 3/04/07 - 3/10/07
Grace and peace be yours in abundance. (1 Pet. 1:2)
3/3: FORMOSA 13 - Chinese. Took a whole box of the written, sopken and visual Word of
God. Very receptive. Had a good visit with the Taiwanes captain. He accepted Jesus in
front of his crew. Blessed him, his crew and their families.
BRO PROMOTION - Swedish. Unresponsive. Pray for Swiden.
CS STEALTH - Malaysian, Indian, Singaporean and Ghanaian. 5 Christians. Shared
Hesus with them.
10 ships on Monday:
HOLMEN - 21 Indian. 4 Christians. We were on this ship last year.
RICKMERS NEW ORLEANS - 2 Chinese and Filipino, Receptive.
RICKMERS HAMBURG - Filipino and Croatian. Prayed and blessed the ship.
ATRIXCO - Russian, Ukrain, Romanian, Polish and Croatian.
PACIFIC MAKASSAR - Filipino, Chinese and British.
SENTINEL II - Filipino, Croatian, Polish, Norwegian and Russian.
NORWID - Polish.
SEA FORCE, EFDIM JUNIOR - Mainly Filipino. Pray for Bob and his family, he has 4
children and his wife died 11 years ago.
STOLT SPAN - Russian, Ukrainian and Lithuania.
1 ships on Tuesday:
VEGA SPRING - Indian. It's a joy visiting the Indian ships.Took Scriptures, DVDs and
blessed them. 1 salvation.
6 ships on Wednesday:
SENANUR CEBI - 20 Turkish. Good visit as usual. They are very hospitable
BBC NORTH SEA - Russian and German.
ALANYA - Turkish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Polish and Ukrainian, receptive.
ROW ENGINEER - 22 Indian. No Christians. Many came to recieve the Scriptures.
2 salvations.
HULGUR - 13 Filipino and 12 Indian.
LIAN SHUN HU - 27 Chinese. Very receptive. Many knew us from other ships and
many salvations. Some China shipping company began to help seamen to get visa
to come ashore in the US.
4 ships on Thursday:
STEFANIA I - Romanian, Russian and Myanmar. Prayed with many Myanmar.
HONESTY OCEAN - 21 Chinese. Many got the Scriptures. Some salvations.
THOR NEPTUNE - 21 Thai.
WESTERHAVEN - Filipino, Ukrainian and Pollish.
Peace to all of you who are in Christ. (1 Pet. 5:14)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 3/11/07 - 3/17/07
Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. (2 Pet. 1:2)
3/9: SICHEM DEFIANCE, INDUSTRIAL DESTINY, SAFMARINE ANGOLA and STAR
GRIP - Russian and mainly Filipino. Good responses. Gave out Scriptures, prayed and
blessed them and their families.
OCEAN EAGLE - Russian and Burmese. God is moving mightily among the Burmese,
2 salvations.
SIFAS EILDON - Spanish, Russian and Sri Lanka. 2 Sri Lanka Christians.
TASMAN ADVENTURER - 8 nationalities. Short visit, because the ship was sailing.
3/10:PORT RUSSEL - Romanian. They were so grateful to receive their Scriptures. Prayed
with the captain and blessed the vessel.
STOLT PROTECTOR - Russian. Unresponsive. Prayed for Russia.
HEIDMAR BRAZOS - Indian. Very receptive. The Christians and some Hindus came
for their Scriptures, 1 salvation.
ORIENT CARP - Filipino. 8 Chinese Rice U. students came to visit these seamen
while denied access at another terminal where a Chinese ship was located.
8 ships on Monday:
CHANG QIANG - 26 Chinese. 4 Christians. We were on this ship last year.
SOUTHERN SPIRIT - 24 Chinese. Receptive. Many received Jesus in their hearts.
BOW FIRDA - Filipino and Nowegian. Prayed and blessed the ship.
JO ASPEN, GOLD INDUS and STAR GRIP - Mainly Filipino and Korean.
ETERNAL CONFIDENCE - 21 Chinese. Initial visit.
MONCHEGORSK - Russian. Initial visit.
SENTINEL II - Filipino, Croatian, Polish, Norwegian and Russian.
NORWID - Polish.
SEA FORCE, EFDIM JUNIOR - Mainly Filipino. Pray for Bob and his family, he has 4
children and his wife died 11 years ago.
STOLT SPAN - Russian, Ukrainian and Lithuania.
4 ships on Wednesday:
ETERNAL CONFIDENCE - 21 Chinese. Chief officer is an old friend, all others are
new. Captain is a Christian. One OS is a believer but not baptized yet. Lots of
salvations. We were on this ship last May 12.
DESTREL ARROW - Filipino, Nowegian and British. Blessed the ship.
MARGARETHA GREEN - Filipino, Russian and Ukrainian. Pray for the crew.
STOLT SPAN - Russian, Ukrainian and Lithuania. We were on this ship 2 days ago.
4 ships on Thursday:
FORMOSAGAS DIAMOND - 24 Chinese. Prayed with many salvation prayers. We
were on this ship last Dec. 9.
NORGAS ENERGY - 7 Chinese, 5 Russian, Filipino and 2 Spinish. Many got the
Scriptures. We were on this ship last May 11.
JOVIALITY - 30 Chinese. We were on this ship last Jan. 30. Captain got saved.
BARENTS SEA - Russian. Prayed for Russia.
To him be glory both now and forever! (2 Pet. 3:18)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 3/18/07 - 3/24/07
Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father's son, will be with us in truth and love. (2 Jn. 3)
3/13:MONCHEGORSK - Russian. These Russians are from Murmansk, a city close to the
north pole. They can tell you what bitter cold is like despite the beautiful summers.
Very receptive. Prayed with the captain and blessed their ship.
DOBRUSH - Russian. Good visit and knew some from previous vessels.
ALKYON - Filipino. Blessed them and their families.
TASMAN ADVENTURER - 8 nationalities. Short visit, because the ship was sailing.
3/16:JO ASK and SIGLOO MOSS - Indian and mainly Filipino. Counseled 5 Filipinos as we
focused on spiritual growth. They realized that it's faith in Jesus that saves. Prayed
and blessed them.
MARIANAO ICE - Russian. Follow up visit after they took chicken to Cuba last month.
3/17:FORMOSA FOURTEEN - Chinese. Captain received Jesus as his personal savior. He
has a similar heart condition as Pastor Malone, asked to call his home office in Hong
Kong for a relief.
FORMOSA SIX - Chinese. After witnessing to him. 24 years old Zhu received Jesus
into his heart. We've keeping in touch by email.
STAVANGER PRINCE - Chinese. Had many friends on all of these Chinese vessels.
A great response from them. Prayed, blessed them and their families.
STOLT EFFORT, BOW EUROPE and HAVIS - Mainly Filipino. Had a productive day
on all of these vessels. God's Spirit is moving mightly in these last days of harvest
time.
5 ships on Monday:
SEA CONFIDENCE - 22 Chinese. Initial visit.
MASTRO GIORGIS II - Filipino, 17 Indian, 14 Christians and Ukrainian. Receptive. We
visited this ship and revisited it again, just for the Christians on board.
WINA - 23 Chinese. The holy Spirit moved, the team worked, they all got the
Scriptures and many believed.
TEAM TCTINIA - Mainly Filipino, Peruvian, Spanish and Ukrainian.Prayed for the ship.
STAR FRASER - Filipino. Prayed for the crew and their families.
1 ship on Tuesday:
SEA CONFINDECE - 17 Chinese, 5 Hong-Kongnese, 4 Myanmar. We were on this
ship last Oct. 20. Met one baptized Chinese Christian, baptized another one. The first
one can lead the second one.
8 ships on Wednesday:
GOLDEN DOMINIQUE - Korean and Burmese. This is God's time for Burma like it was
for Korea back in the fifties. 1 Bumese Christian and 4 came for salvation. It's a
miracle as we witness God working today before the soon coming of the rapture.
PERLA - Peruvian, It was like homecomecoming. Some knew for many years.
YUEHAI - Chinese. A great response as they came for their Scriptures. The captain
received Jesus in his heart after a time of sharing.
JANNIE-C - Polish, Romanian and Brazilian. They came to receive their Scriptures and
prayed with them.
CAPE AKROTIRI, OVERSEAS ALLENMAR, KENT PIONEER and TAGUS -
Norwegian, Russian and mainly Filipino. Had good visits. Prayed, blessed them and
their families.
5 ships on Thursday:
STENA CONCORD - Indian and Russian. 3 Indian Christians. Blessed the Christians..
TAIXING - 27 Chinese. Many got the Scriptures. Not very open, a few salvations.
MAZURY and NORWID - Both are Polish. Prayed for the ships.
OCEAN JADE - 9 Korean and 9 Filipino. Prayed for the crew and their families.
Peace to you. The friends here send their greetings. (3 Jn. 15)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 3/25/07 - 3/31/07
Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance. (Jude. 2)
3/23:NORDANA MATHILDE - A warm reception by the captain. There were 18 on board and
most of them received Jesus as their Savior. They prayed before they ate in the mess
room.
TETEVEN - Bulgavian. It was good to visit Bulgarian seamen. They received many
Scriptures, prayed and blessed their families.
BBC HOLLAND - Visited them 4 months ago. They received more Scriptures.
BELUGA FASCINATION and UBC BREMEN - Russian and mainly Filipinos. Both
nationalities came to receive the Word and pray.
3/24:LIAN YUN HU - Chinese tanker. They all got excited watching the "Jesus" DVD.
CLIPPER MERMAID - Indian. The 7 Indian Christians were devote witnesses.
Encouraged by their piety and sincerity, blessed them and their families.
SEABOARD ADVENTURER and KYRIAKOULA - Greek, Polish, Indonesian, Maldivian
and mainly Filipino. Warmly welcomed on board.
7 ships on Monday:
CLIPPER KAREN and NORGAS TRAVELLER - Filipino and Russin. Prayed for the
ships and their families.
MARITIME ROSEMARY - Filipino and Indian. Prayed for the crew.
PLATINUM - Filipino and Greek. Short visit.
TAI HAPPINESS - 21 Chinese. Tqiwanese ship with mainland China's crew. Many
accepted Jesus Christ into their hearts.
EW HENFIELD - Georgian. .Prayed for the ship.
HIGH PERFORMANCE - Indian.
3 ship on Tuesday:
HERON - Filipino. Good visit with the chief officer. He mentioned a sever storm in the
Pacific which God saved the crew and the vessel.
HIGH ENDEAVOUR - Indian. Had some friends on board. counseled a Christian who
wasn't sure of his salvation.
EW HENFIELD - Georgian. A former Russian state. Unresponsive. Pray for Georgia.
4 ships on Wednesday:
IKAN SELANGAT - 19 Chinese and 7 Filipino. Great response from the Chinese and
the Philippine captain.
BOW CHAIN - Filipino and Norwegian, Prayed with the crew.
GULF ESPRIT - 9 Filipino, 5 Romanian, 3 Indian and Bangladesh. They came for their
Scriptures.
SIGAS EILDON - Russian, Spanish and Sri Lanka. We found a lot of Christian
materials left out from other sea port. We took them, hopefully those can be used on
other ships.
6 ships on Thursday:
NENA C - Ukrainian. Receptive.
RICKMERS SEOUL - 2 Chinese, Filipino and Polish. They came happily for the
Scriptures.
STAR EAGLE - Mainly Filipino. Prayed for the ships.
TAI AN CHENG - 24 Chinese. Not very open. Some had their Scriptures from previous
visits. Some salvations.
GASCHEM WESER - Filipino, Polish and German.
NIPPON STAR - Maldivian, Filipino, Russian and Polish. It's so amazed to see that
they got their own language Christian materials.
6 ships on Friday:
CHEMTRANS SUN and NICOS I. V. - Mainly Filipino.
INDUSTRIAL DAWN - Filipino and Ukrainian. Delighted to receive the Scriptures.
VANESSA C - Cape Verdian, Romanian, Polish, Ukrainian and Hungarian.
INDUSTRIAL CHARGER - 13 Filipinos. Confirmed their faith.
XIANG AN CHENG - 30 Chinese. Good response. 2 of them already believed, but not
baptized yet. One is a four-generation Christian, the other is from a Christian
college. 9 received Jesus including the captain.
To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy - to the only god our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages now and forevermore! Amen.. (Jude. 24,25)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 4/01/07 - 4/07/07
Grace and peace to you.
1 ship on Sunday:
IKAN SELANGAT - Steve Yeboah went to the ship again, and they all got saved this
time. 4 Baptized.
6 ships on Monday:
MINERVA MAYA and JO BETULA - Greek and mainly Filipino.Good visites. Prayed
and blessed them and their families during this holy week.
AYSE AKSOY - Turkish. Everybody was rushing to get their own Scriptures.
OVERSEAS BERYL - Russian. Blessed the ship.
STOLT PERSEVERANCE - Filipino, Norwegian, Austrian and Belgium. Short visit.
SPRUCE GALAXY - 9 Chinese and 11 Korean. 4 month old brand new Japanese
made ship. 1 salavation.
5 ships on Wednesday:
SAGA VOYAGER, GREAT MARY and ELKA SIRIUS - Filipino. We celebrated Holy
Week together. Exceptional response. Prayed and blessed their faimilies.
AEGEAN TRADER - Indian. 5 Christians and 1 salvation. Some others was seeking
the truth about the resurected Christ.
GOLDEN FRIENDSHIP - Korean and Burmese. 5 Christians and 2 salvations. Gave
the Christian Burmese second officer many Scriptures for distribution. Burmese and
Indonesian Bibles are difficult to obtain. Pray for God to meet this need. We were on
this ship last July 17.
4 ships on Thursday:
JIAN QIANG - Chinese. The agent denied our access on the ship. Security is
tightening.
TORM CAROLINE - Italian, Russian and Indian. Nearly denied access on this one too,
God intervened. 2 Indian Christians and 3 seekers. Prayed with the Italian captain,
blessed the vessel during these holy days.
NEW CONCORD - 13 Korean and 5 Filipino. Prayed for the ship.
GREAT BLOSSOM - 24 Chinese. Intial visit, prayed with one seaman.
SUZAKU - 21 Chinese. One is missing, the mess boy. They went ashore and he got
lost. Prayed that he will get back before the ship sails. Almost everone got their
Scripture, except the third engineer. Stayed on board for over 3 hours, some got saved
some had a lot of questions.
3 ships on Friday:
PIRGAS. - 15 Peruvian. A full lord box of Scriptural materials was completely gone.
NORGAS SONOMA - 9 Chinese, Spanish, Filipino and Russian. The Spanish captain
knew us. Generally, very receptive. We were on this ship last July 19.
GREAT BLOSSOM - Second visit. The captain believed Jesus in his heart, but didn't
want to pray with us.
The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people. Amen. (Rev.22: 21)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 4/08/07 - 4/14/07
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. (Ro. 1:7)
7 ships on Monday:
CHEMSTAR DUKE - 6 Korean and 17 Myanmar. 3 Christains and 3 converts.
FU AN CHENG - 25 Chinese. 1 Christian and 6 converts. We were on this boat last
Oct. 20. Half of the crew are new. Captain is our friend, we had a good fellowship
together.
SIGLOO STAR - Danish, Russian, Polish, Bulgarian and 15 Sri Lanka. SERNITY I,
SICHEM ANNE, RICKMERS JAKARTA and BRAUNSCHWEIG - Greek, Russian,
Ukrainian, Polish, Korean and mainly Filipino. Bless the crew and their family
members.
4 ships on Tuesday:
MOSELLE - 24 Indian. 4 Christians. Responsive, prayed with them and blessed them.
MOUNT RAINIER and BROVIG OCEAN - Mainly Filipino, German, Polish and
Russian.
WADI HALFA - Egyptian. Very friendly and receptive. They took the only arabic Bible
we had.
8 ships on Wednesday:
COLUMBIAN EXPRESS - Indian and Filipino. 8 Christians, very receptive, prayed with
the Christians.
AL FARABI, CLIPPER MOON and HASSI MESSAOUD 2 - Mainly Filipino, Indian,
Norwegian, Polish and Russian. Prayed and blessed the ship.
OVERSEAS BERYL and SIGLOO TOR - Russian. Pray for Russia.
FATMA ANA - Turkish. Gave out a lot of materials. Pray for Turkey.
WADI HALFA - A revisit. They got more Arabic Jesus DVD.
3 ships on Thursday:
MERLIN CHAMPION - 37 Indian, 2 Christians. Pray for the Hindus.
FU DA - 26 Chinese. They all standed up and prayed while they were eating the meal.
Pray for the Buddhists in China.
CHEMBULK SINGAPORE - 20 Myanmar and 1 Ukrainian, 3 Christians. Warmly
welcomed. Praye for the Buddhists.
1 ship on Saturday:
Steve went on FU DA again, and baptized 7 people including the capatain, the cheif
engineer and the chief cook.
To the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen. (Ro. 16:27)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 4/15/07 - 4/21/07
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (1Co. 1:3)
4/13: SYN ACRAB, TORM CECILIE, MAERSK RADIANT, ISABEL KNUTSEN and SCM
ATHINA - Norwegian, Russian, Italian, Romanian, and mainly Filipino. Good visits.
Most of the seamen were very receptive. 1 born again Filipino is a testimony to his
faith wherever he goes.
4/14: UAL MALABO and FORTUNE EPOCH - Russian and mainly Filipino. Prayed and
blessed them.
ALAATTIN BEY - Turkish. Very friendly and hospitable. They took the whole box of
Scriptures. Openly discussed the difference between Jesus and Muhumed with a
seaman, and answered his questions honestly.
8 ships on Monday:
FILIA, MERION BREEZE, SAGA MONAL, MARIELLE BOLTEN and DIAMOND
GLORY - Greek, Ukrainian, Russian, Italian and mainly Filipino. Prayed with them.
ANJA and ATLIXCO - Croatian, Romanian and mainly Russian. Gave the Scriptures.
SPAR TOPAZ - 20 Indian, 4 Christians. 1 salvation. Pray for the new convert.
1 ship on Wednesday:
FR8 ENDEAVOUR - Indian. tremendous response. Prayed with captaian who is an
earnest seeker of the truth. 7 Christians on board and 2 salvatians including a young
cadet. Spent 2 hours with the crew bercause the spirit of the lord was present.
7 ships on Thursday:
BUNGA KANTAN SATU - Mainly Indian, 1 Bangladesh. 3 Christians. Pray for the
Moslem.
NEW EMINENCE - 20 Chinese. 6 salvations including the captain. Pray for China.
FUCHEWHAI - Chinese. Initial visit.
MARY H - Ukrainian. Receptive.
NCC MEKKA and ATLANTIC ARROW - Norwegian, mainly Filipino. Prayed for the
crew and their families.
BOGDAN - Bulgarian. Gave out Bulgaria Scriptures.
4 ships on Friday:
CHEMBULK NEW ORLEANS - Myanmar and Croatian. 3 Christians. Several friends
on board too. Warmly welcomed. 2 salvations.
STOLT STREAM and MSC PEGGY - Russian and Ukrainian. Open and responsive.
OOCL FAITH - Chinese, Filipino, Malaysian and British. 5 Chinese, 2 Filipino
salvations.
The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. My love to all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen. (1Co. 16:23,24)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 4/22/07 - 4/28/07
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (2Co. 1:2)
4/21: DUBAI FAITH - Ukrainian. Good response. Knew one seaman for many years. They
took many Scriptures. Prayed with the captain and blessed the vessel.
GENMAR ALEXANDRA - Indian and Filipino. Visited them before they sailed. Blessed
them.
FU ZHOU HAI - Steve and Frank went to visit them. 2 salvations.
4 ships on Monday:
NEW POWER and ELKA BENE - Greek, Crotian, Russian and mainly Filipino. Prayed
with them.
GINGA KITE - Korean and Chinese. Gave the Scriptures. Visited 2 times.
FU ZHOU HAI - 33 Chinese. 1 Christian. 4 salvations. This is the second visit. Pray for
the new converts.
3 ships on Tuesday:
STAR IKEBANA - Filipino. FU ZHOU HAI - Chinese. Seven people from West Houston
Chinese Church visited this 2 ships in the evening. We brought guitar with us. We
really had a wonderful fellowship with the Filipino Christians and saw the Chinese got
saved.
CHAMBULK SAVANNAH - Burmese. Very open to the gospel. Took many Scriptures.
Like Chinese, now is the time to reach Buma. Pray for Byanmar.
2 ships on Wednesday:
S PROVENCE - French, Ivory Coast and Romanian. 3 out of 5 Ivory Coast Africans are
Christiran and the other 2 muslim. They took Jesus DVD in French. Romanians were
very receptive and took Scriptures. Pray for France.
GENMAR CONSTANTINE - Portuguese and Filipino. Filipinos receptive. Pray for the
Portuguese.
7 ships on Thursday:
ATLANTIC PROJECT - Russian. Receptive.
DIAMOND GLORY, LORETTA D, AMBER K and FIESTA - Mainly Filipino, Bulgarian,
Croatian and Ukrainian. Filipinos were very responsive, prayed for the crew and
their families and blessed the ships.
JEANETTE - Indian. 4 Christians including the captain. Prayed for the 2 new converts.
HISTRIA IVORY - 24 Romanian. Gave out Romania Scriptures.
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. (2Co. 13:14)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 4/29/07 - 5/05/07
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Gal. 1:3)
4/28: UBC SINGAPORE - Filipino. Very receptive. Took many Scriptures. Prayed and
blessed the vessel.
GENMAR REVENGE - Portuguese, Romanian and Filipino. All 3 nationalities were
very open to the Gospel. The Holy Spirit was active and stirred their hearts.
GOLDEN CHARLOTTE - Korean and Burmese. 1 Christian and 2 salvations.
5 ships on Monday:
DOVER CASTLE - Sri Lanka, Yugoslavvian and Filipino. 3 Christians and 1 cadet
salvation. Prayed with them. Pray for Sri Lanka.
GUANGZHOU HIGHWAY, IMPERIAL FORTUNE and UAL AFRICA - Bulgarian,
Korean, Dutch, Portuguese and mainly Filipino. Prayed and blessed the ships.
ARKHANGELSK - Russian. Gave the Scriptures and Jesus DVDs..
6 ships on Wednesday:
POS KNIGHT - 20 Chinese. Initial visit. They all have short pass.
BBC GERMANIA, BELUGA ETERNITY and ATHINEA - Russian, Ukrainian, German,
Greek and mainly Filipino. Receptive, prayed and blessed the ship.
XIAMEN SKY - 22 Chinese. Many came to pray the salvation prayer, God knows their
hearts. Bosun told us that he was the one we baptizised last year.
BW DENISE - Indian and French. 3 India Christians. Indians were very responsive.
Pray for French.
2 ships on Thursday:
BOW SANTOS - Korean and Burmese. This ship came under the power of the Holy
Spirit. A repeat of yesterday on the Chinese vessel, the Burmese cleaned out of the
Scriptures. The Korean captain Lee is a Christian and a dedicated witness for Jesus.
It's amazing what God can accomplish with one believer.
DOMENICO IEVOLI - Italian, Russian and Indian. All 3 nationalities were open to the
Gospel. 3 Indian Christians who also witnessed to their faith.
Steve took 9 from POS KNIGHT to his church, and baptized them.
5 ships on Friday:
POS KNIGHT - Chinese. Third visit, captain was real nice. The Holy Spirit was really
moved. Prayed with more than 10 people.
CLIPPER TRANSPORTER - Indian and Chinese. Fairly open. 1 salvation.
LIAN SHUN HU - 27 Chinese. We were on this ship last March 7. Same crew, but still
gave out a lot of scriptural materials.
POPLAR ARROW - Filipino, Polish and Ukrainian. Prayed for the ship and blessed
them.
BBC SCOTLAND - Russian and German. Receptive.
Saturday: Steve took 6 more from POS KNIGHT to his church and had the baptism.
Computer was down during the weekend, that's why this email was late.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen. (Gal. 6:18)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 5/06/07 - 5/12/07
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Eph. 1:2)
5/05: HORIZON - Indian. Awesome responses. 7 Christians. Prayed with many of the crew,
2 salvations. India dislike other coutries is open to the Gospel.
MARIDA PATERNA - Russian. Exceptional response. They took many Scriptures.
Prayed and blessed them. Took 3 shopping.
MCT MONTE ROSA - Russian and Turkish. Gave out Jesus DVD's.
9 ships on Monday:
BERGE NINGBO - Indian. 2 Christians.
SANKO BRIGHT, ATLANTIC FALCON, BOW GORGONILLA, STAR FRASER, and
STAR FUJI - Bulgarian, Korean, Japanese and mainly Filipino. Prayed with them. Pray
for Japan.
BASIC RELANCE - Korean and Chinese. We were on this ship before. Gave out all
materials. Prayed and blessed the ship.
INDIAN REEFER - Russian. Gave the Jesus DVDs and the passion of the Christ.
PACIFIC JAVA - British, Ukrainian, Chinese and Filipino. Not responsive except the
Filipino.
5 ships on Tuesday:
DYNAMIC EXPRESS, SEATROUT, MERIOM PRIDE and WAWASAN CELESTE -
Croatian, Russian and mainly Filipino. Prayed and did some counselling. It's amazing
the amount Scriptures the seamen are taking for themselves and their families.
GOLDEN TAKA - Korean and Burmese. 1 Korean Christian who took some Scriptures
to share with others. God is looking for that 1 witness.
2 ships on Wednesday:
ALAM MAKMUR - Chinese, Filipino and Indian captain. Great response from
everywhere. Captain is a Christian and that helps a lot for the Gospel to deliver.
KANG MAN - Chinese. We were on this ship last September 7, half of the crew
changed. 1 Christian cadet on board, he is very young. Prayed with many and shared
Word with one. Pray for the 2nd officer, he was kind of rejective.
5 ships on Thursday:
BELUGA REVOLUTION - Russian, Ukrainian and German. Blessed the ship.
FRONTIER ANGEL and NORD PRINCESS - Filipino, Korean and Danish. Blessed the
crew and their families.
GRAND WAY - 26 Chinese. Had a long fellowship with the captain and the
commissar and others. It's a wonderful opportunity to witness to them. Pray for the
working class in China.
CHEMBULK KOBE - Burmese. 1 Christian.
CIELO DI LONDRA - Indian and Italian. Initial visit.
Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love. (Eph. 6:24)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 5/13/07 - 5/19/07
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Php. 1:2)
Beginning with this E-mail we've changing the format for easy reading. These are some
miraculous encounters we had on there ships.
5/12: FAIRCHEM DANUBE - The Burmese seamen were eating in their messroom, as the
sole Christian was praying, the chief cook wanted to pray with us to receive Jesus.
5/13: ALAM MAKMUR - Filipino and Chinese. We took 2 Chinese to church and shopping.
A total of 12 were saved from over 3 visitations.
Ships visited this week:
3 ships on Monday.
BIANCO ID, KRIOS, and LS JACOBA.
3 ships on Tuesday.
PANAM FLOTA - As the 4 Indian Christians were praying together, a Hindu joined us
to receive Jesus as his personal savior. Discussing Christianity with the captain for a
long time.
EUGENIA B - Filipino.
WADI HALFA - This Egyptian ship is coming to Houston every month. Many are
having a great interest in Christianity, especially as they've been viewing Jesus and the
Passion of the christ. We've building an relationship.
9 ships on Wednesday.
ASTRO VENUS - As 10 Filipinos were together waiting to load the ship, they were
called to pray, and all of them received Jesus.
OVERSEAS ELIANE, SEACOD, TIKHVIN, OCEAN SUNRISE, STAR EAGLE,
PRETTY TIME, ORIENTAL PROTEA, and BOW SUMMER.
The Russians and Filipinos were mostly receptive. Much of God's Word was
distributed.
4 ships on Thursday.
TAI HAPPINESS, GRAND WAY, NORGAS SONOMA, and JING AN CHENG.
We visited all these Chinese ships this year. Their welcomes felt just like coming
home. They came to pray with us as groups, individuals joined to pray too.
10 ships on Friday.
BERGE TRADER - Indian. 10 Christians on board, 2 salvations. It's amazing to see
so many Indian Christians on a ship. They witnessed to us actually.
MYKALI, SPRINGWOOD, KUBAN, SKS TRENT, GAS HORIZON, and LINDOS.
Bulgarian, Turkish, Filipino, Ukrainian, and mainly Russian.
HARRIETTE N, SKS TRENT, and WESTERHAVEN.
Indian, Russian, Dutch, and mainly Filipino.
We ended up staying on KUBAN and watching TBN, Hal Lindsey till 8:oo pm. What a
wonderful day.
1 ship on Saturday.
CHIPOLBROK MOON - Chinese. 2 salvations. One of them is a cadet, and he is ready
to get baptized. Pray for his younger brother who is also a seaman.
In closing we would like to thank each and every supporter of Lifeline to seamen for the continued prayers and gifts to this vital ministry to seafarers. God continues to do mighty works in these mens lives. Our desire in this news letter/e-mail is to communicate with you all what the Lord is doing on the water front.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. (Php. 4:23)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 5/20/07 - 5/26/07
Grace and peace to you from God our Father. (Col. 1:2)
Ships visited this week:
5 ships on Monday.
PANAM CELESTE, and DS VANGUARD - Indian. 3 Christians and 6 Christians on
these ships. It's exciting to see 8 souls wanted to come to Christ. Took 4 to shopping.
STAR EXPRESS and TORM RAGNHILD - Korean, Danish, and manily Filipino.
JING AN CHENG - Chinese. Took the only one who has short pass, the fourth
engineer to shopping. They are happy and we are happy. It was the golden opportunity
to ask them to pray with us, and they did too.
5 ships on Tuesday.
DUKHAN - Indian. 5 Christians were praying together, 3 Hindu joined us
to receive Jesus as his personal savior. 2 muslims were seeking after the truth. Much
Scripture was distributed.
PANAMA EXPRESS, RICKMERS ANTIVERP, JO CEDAR, and TINEKE - Russian,
Korean, Croatian, Maldives, and mainly Filipinos. It's amazing to witness the power of
God at work in their lives.
2 ships on Wednesday.
MARITIME KELLY ANNE - Filipino, Chinese, Indian, and Malaysian. We could see
that seamn from different countries, different faiths came to Christ. They have the most
difficult gangway position we have ever seen, but we made it. Thank be to God.
TAI HUA HAI - 34 Chinese. It was a large crowd. We contacted the captain prior to
coming aborad. All of God's Word and literatures were distributed.
9 ships on Thursday.
YASA GULTEN - Turkish. We met one friend. Hospitable but generally a little bit
resistant to the Gospel. Pray for Turkish.
SEABOARD CHILE II, BBC ROSARIO, BBC EGYPT, and ICE VICTORY - Russian,
Ukrainian, Polish, German, Indian, Pakistanian, Romanian, and mainly Filipino.
Blessed the ships and prayed for their family members.
OHIO, and INIREPID RELIANCE - Indian. Indian people are very religious people. Most
of them agreed with all the gods. We just tell them that Jesus is the way, the truth,
and the life, and we should worship the only one true and living God.
CEC MEADOW - Russian. Responsive.
HISTRIA CORAL - Romanian. Receptive, and took all the Scriptures and materials.
We visited all these Chinese ships this year. Their welcomes felt just like coming
home. They came to pray with us as groups, individuals joined to pray too.
1 ship on Saturday.
JING AN CHENG - 3 guys from West Houston Chinese Church came to visit this ship
with us. One more salvation. Thank the Lord we went through the security guard, and
thanks WHCC for the manpower supply.
We are grateful to all of you who support this ministry thru prayers and finances.
Grace be with you. (Col. 4:18)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 5/27/07 - 6/02/07
Grace and peace to you. (1Th. 1:1)
5/26: JO KIRI, CLIPPER STAMFORD, BAYTUR, and KERIM - Indian, Filipino, and mainly
Turkish. Aothough it was raining, victory was wonon board the ships. At first, the Turks
were somewhat resistant, but as the Jesus DVD was shown, they became more
receptive. Many Muslims are more open when they see the truth about Jesus, John
14:6.
Ships visited this week:
3 ships on Monday.
GAO QIANG - Chinese. We arrived a little bit before she sailed. Everybody was busy,
still some ones stopped and prayed with us. Bless to the ones who are hunger and
thirst. We were on this last February 12.
SAGA MUSKETEER - Polish, and Russian. Initial visit.
ACTIVE - Filipino. Confirmed their faith, blessed the ship and their families.
5 ships on Wednesday.
SANKO COMMANDER, MAERSK PROGRESS, BW SUND, and ATHENS 2004 -
Mainly Filipino, Indian, Romanian, Norwegian, and British. Prayed for the ships and
distributed the Sxritures and materials.
IKAN VERACRUZ - Chinese, and Filipino. Prayed with the captain and 3 with the
salvation prayer.
4 ships on Thursday.
IKAN SELANGAT - Chinese, and Filipino. Some friends on board, they recognized us
through previous visit. As 3 and 4 started praying, more were attracted to join us, what
a joy. We were on this ship last March 28.
KOSMOS, and JO HEGG - All Filipino. Very responsive.
CLIPPER LIS - Indian. 8 Christians on board. Pray for the chief cook's wife, she is half
paralyzed at home.
6 ships on Friday.
FORMOSA EIGHT, and COS LUCKY - Chinese. We were on both ships last year.
Both ships are friendly. Some resistance from the captain, commissar, and the chief
officer, but they were good responses. It was happy to meet some old faces.
LACANDON - Indian. Very hospitable. 3 Christians, 1 seeker. Captain is a Christian.
AGIA SOFIA, and UBC BATON ROUGE - German, Romanian, and mainly Filipino.
PANAM SOL - Indian. One Christian. Some other Hindus were seekers for the truth.
Prayed with the captain, he was very receptive.
Pray for Pastor Malone's rib. He got injured a little bit, and is on the way to recovery.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. (1Th. 5:28)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 6/03/07 - 6/09/07
Grace and peace to you from god the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (2Th. 1:2)
Ships visited this week:
4 ships on Monday.
CHIPOLBROK SUN - Chinese. We invited them to pray at dinner, half of them joined
us. Some knew us, most of them are new crew.
MARYLISA V, GLORY ACE, and SAFMARINE ANGOLA - Russian, Greek, and
mainly Filipino. They said we are God send. Amen. And blessed the ships.
3 ships on Wednesday.
BBC SCANDINAVIA - Russian. Wide open. They were very appreciated with the
Scriptural materials we gave.
MANDARIN MOON - Chinese. Prayed with many and baptized one in the engin room.
ST. PAULI - Myanmar, Croatian, and mainly Filipino. Prayed for the ship and their
family members..
5 ships on Thursday.
ELENI G - Romanian, and Filipino. Nice fellowship with a Filipino Christian. His name
is Johnny.
DD FIDELITY - Russian. Short but a very friendly visit.
JOSCO SUZHOU, YANG HAI, and FORMOSA TEN - Chinese. One Christian on those
ships. We baptized two seamen on YANG HAI. One of them has a Christian family
background, the other is an assistant captain whom God made ready for baptism for a
long time.
Please keep praying for Pastor Malone's rib condition. He is slowly recovering.
Thomas Tao will be out of town from 6/8 to 6/16. No e-mail next week. It will be resumed the
following week.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. (2Th. 3:18)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 6/17/07 - 6/23/07
Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. (1Ti. 1:2)
6/8: OCEAN LUCK - Chinese. 2 boxes of Scriptures were clean out. Had a long
conversation with the captain, at first he was resistant, but the Holy Spirit moved on
him to believe.
6/9: PANAM OCEANICA - Indian. 2 Hindus for salvation. One of them said he wants to join
the Mercy ship. Took 2 shopping.
PANAM LINDA - Croatian and Burmese. 2 Burmese for salvation. One became a
Christian because his wife quietly witnessed to him about Jesus.
SANTIAGO, KATJA, and SAIJIN - Russian, Romanian, Japanese, and Filipino. Good
opportunities for witnessing.
6/11: GOLDEN JANE - Korean and Burmese. Good response. There was 1 Christian and 1
salvation. Burmese are humble people.
CEC CRISTOBAL, and FROST 5 - Russian.
RICKMERS TOKYO, and WINDSOR CASTLE - Filipino and Bulgarian.
OCEAN ALLIANCE - Indian. It's exciting to witness God working on the ships. He
always arranges your meeting with the seamen. He knows those who are receptive to
His word.
6/12: PANAM ATLANTICO - Croatian, and Burmese. So many Burmese known from
previous voyages. The door is open for a Gospel witnese. 1 Christian and 1 salvation.
MARATHA, and SEA FORCE - Greek, and Filipino - God's Word and prayer bathed
these vessels. Pray for Greece.
6/13: CHEMBULK GILBRALTAR - Burmese. It's amazing to stand back and watch the Holy
Spirit move in the lives of people. God can use 1 Christian to influence many others.
The chief cook became a Christian through his wife, and now he is witnessing 1
seaman for salvation.
YUAN PING SEA, and GENMAR WISDOM - Bothe Chinese. It's a miracle seeing the
Holy Spirit drawing people to Jesus. They received many Scriptures. One Christian
took so many Bibles, tracts, DVD's, CD's, VCD's, audio cassettes, and Christian
literatures back to his church in China.
6/14: BW BORG, and CLIPPER VALOR - Indian. Both ships were very responsive. Many
Christians on board. Had a long conversation with a cadet who is so near to accepting
Christ.
XU CHANG HAI - Chinese. The commissar was reluctant. God answers prayer. Some
came to be saved. Ministered to the captain who eventually received Jesus, and
prayed with the chief officer before he went to the doctor.
6/15: SEA SWIFT - Chinese. Many friends on board. Frank Yu witnessed to many and
sharing the Word. We had a waterfront ministry too as we publicly prayed with a
longshoreman.
6/16: UAL GABON, CARIBBEAN TRADER, CLIPPER KRISTIN, NISSAN KOSAR,
DELZOURKE, and SAGA MORUS - Russian, Croatian, and the rest Filipinos.
Distributed many Scriptures and good response.
BW NICE - French, and Indian. Spent 2 hours on board. 7 Christians and 2 salvations.
Counseled and prayed with some. Pray for France.
Ships visited this week:
4 ships on Monday.
GREAT PRESTIGE, and LU XUN - Indian, Bangladesh, and Chinese. The Chinese are
glad to see Chinese overseas. The captain and the commissar said they welcomed
the Christians.
CHEMICAL SUPPLIER - Indian. 2 Christians. 1 Hindu for salvation. We were on this
ship before.
LODESTAR GRACE - Filipino. Prayed and blessed the ship.
6 ships on Thursday.
YUCEL, and SAFMARINE HOUSTON - Ukrainian, and Russian. Fairly receptive.
JO BETULA, STAR IKEBANA, and PLATINUM - Mainly Filipino, and Greek. The Holy
Spirit moved fifteen Filipino seamen together to pray on the pier next to the ship.
STENA CONCEPT - Indian, Russian, and Croatian. Four Christians on the ship. Pray
for the Christian motor man, his family and his 2 year old child.
6 ships on Friday:
GO TRADER, ABRAM SCHULTE, GAZ MERIDIAN, and ANNA L - Russian,
Venezuelan, Spanish, Greek, and mainly Filipino. Warmly welcomed. The Christian on
board said not too many places asked about their spiritual life conditions.
FORMOSA THIRTEEN, and KANG YUAN - Chinese. A short visit on FORMOSA 13,
but a long talk with the captain and the chief engineer on KANG YUAN. 1 Christian on
board. Both ships reacted positively on the salvation prayer.
Grace be with you. (1Ti. 6:21)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 6/24/07 - 6/30/07
Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. (2Ti. 1:2)
6/23: SANKO TITAN and LAWEL GALAXY - Filipino. Gave out Scriptures and prayed for
them, their families and vessel. They are a very gentle and humble people.
ALAATTIN BEY - Turkish. This is the third time visited them in 6 months. Trying to
build relationships by loving them and discussing the difference between Jesus and
Muhammad. The seed is planted.
Ships visited this week:
4 ships on Monday.
SAGA TUCANO, SENTINEL II, and RICKMERS SINGAPORE - British, Norwegian,
Crotian, Polish, and Mainly Filipino. Prayed and blessed the ship as usual, but with
different people.
BAO AN CHENG - Chinese. We were on this ship last February 15. Most of the crew
has been changed. Almost everone welcomed us except the commissar and the
captain. We prayed with the ones whose hearts have been softened by the Holy Spirit
and asked Jesus Christ to come into their hearts.
7 ships on Wednesday:
LOK MAHESHWARI - Indian. 5 Christians on board. Very receptive.
SOUTHERN SPIRIT - Chinese. Initial visit.
STAR FUJI, UBC BATON ROUGE, and ORKNEY SPIRIT - Mainly Filipino, Indian,
Norwegian, Russian, and Latvian. Confirmed their faith in Jesus alone not on their own
good works.
STOLT SUN - Indian, Short visit.
LIAN SHUN HU - Chinese. We were on this ship last May 4. Some of the crew
members have been changed since. Blessed the ship and blessed the people who
prayed with us. The captain, the commissar, and the doctor were very open, friendly,
and hospitable.
6 ships on Thursday.
AEGEAN FAITH, NCC RIYAD and STOLT DEVON - Filipino, and Russian. Receptive.
SOUTHERN SPIRIT - Chinese. We were on this ship last March 12. Some crew
changed some remained. They invited us to their cabins, we prayed there.
STOLT SUN, and ARAYA - Indian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. We were stoped
to go on the ships, but the Scriptures were still given out.
The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you. (2Ti. 4:22)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 7/01/07 - 7/07/07
Grace, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. (Tit. 1:4)
6/29: BALGARKA - Bulgarian. It was good to visit a Bulgarian vessel again. They were very
receptive and good contacts.
THOR NEPTUNE - Thai. No Christians. No response. Pray for Thailand.
YAUR PUMA - Peru. This ship comes here regularly. Many friends and many
Scriptures taken.
AZIZI, BARKALD, SLOTERGRACHT, PARTHENON, MOLDA, MEGALONESSOS,
ALIAKMON, and BERGE DANUTA - Russian, Greek, and mainly Filipino. It's great to
visit so many nationalities and honor the Lord. Gave out many Scriptives, prayed and
blessed them and their families.
6/30: PORT SAID, STOLT INVENTION, TOSCA, ATLANTIC FRONTIER, GOLD INDUS,
MINERVA RITA, and AYOR WIND - Russian, Georgian, and mainly Filipino. On each
of these vessels the seamen gladly came to receive God's Word. Many opportunities
for witnessing, sharing and counseling. Blessed them and their families.
Ships visited this week:
6 ships on Monday.
CAPE YORK - Chinese. There was a royal welcome. The chief cook is a Christian and
took many Scriptures. They saw the Jesus movie and many received Him as their
personal Savior including the chief engineer and chief officer. The captain claimed to be
Budhist.
CEC MIRAGE, BBC TRINDAD, ANNEMORIE B, SEAPOUET, and NAVIGA - Indian,
Russian, and Mainly Filipino. As usual, many were open to the Gospel and good
response.
5 ships on Tuesday:
RICKMERS NEW ORLEANS, BERGEN ARROW, JO MAPLE, and MARIANAO ICE -
Indian, Russian, and mainly Filipino. Great visits and good response.
TOP WING - Chinese. As usual, an exceptional visit with many coming into contact
with God's Word. They received Jesus' love openly.
3 ships on Wednesday:
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WINONA, GRAND NAPOLI, and PACIFIC FLORES - Italian, Indian. Romanian,
Filipino, Russian, and Chinese. Great opportunities for witnessing and building on
relationships. Many old faces from previous contacts, and so glad to visit them again.
8 ships on Thursday.
MARE ADVIACUM - Italian, and Indian. Warm welcome from both nationalities. 5
Indians received Jesus in their hearts. There were also 4 Indian Christians.
PANAM CARIBE - Croatian, and Burmese. Chief cook is a long time Christian. 3
Burmese said the salvation prayer.
JO SYPRESS, UAL CONGO, UAL ROTTERDOM, BALTIMAR ORION, UAL COBURG,
and ATLANTIC NAVIGATOR - Polish, Russian, and mainly Filipino. It's a privilege and
honor to preach the Word and witness the Holy Spirit at work.
4 ships on Friday:
YACU PUMA - Filipino.
M/V CLIPPER FAITH - Indian, Ukrainian, Filipino, and Burmese. 3 Indian Christians.
Good visit.
ZHONG HAI, and IKAN PROGRESO - Chinese; Chinese, and Filipino. Good response
from the Chinese crew, we all standed up and said grace before the evening meal.
8 ships on Saturday:
EVI, YEARGNHCK, STAR EAGLE, and CEC FANTASY - Filipino, Ukrainian, and
Russian. Prayed for the ships and their family members. Gave out gospel tracts.
M.V. J DUCKLING - Indian. 5 Christians. Many prayed the salvation prayer.
PACIFIC FLORES, and NORGAS NAPA - Filipino, Chinese, and Russian, Chinese. . Many knew us from the Rrssian, Chinese ship. Many were asking more about the
Gospel materials because their relatives are Christians.
RESTLESS - Russian, Ukrainian, and Georgian. Gave them Christian literatures and
blessed the ship.
Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. (Tit. 3:15)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 7/08/07 - 7/14/07
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Phm. 3)
Ships visited this week:
3 ships on Monday:
TRIPLE EVER - Filipino. Blessed their faith and the ship.
DS VANGUARD - Indian. 8 Christians. We were on this ship before. Some knew us.
JIN QIANG - Chinese. We visited this ship long time ago. When we prayed "I am a
sinner", it always touches someones hearts. May Jesus give them peace and hope.
5 ships on Tuesday:
SICHEM ANELINE, AFRICAN KITE, ROSBORG, SEASON TRADER, and AURORA
SAPPHINE - Russian, and mainly Filipino. Distributed many Scriptures, booklets,
VCD's and music CD's. Prayed and blessed them and their familes.
9 ships on Wednesday:
STX ACE 1 - Korean, and Chinese. 2 Korean Christians. We finished all the Korean
and Chinese materials.
JO SELJE, STOLT CONCEPT, NILS B, and HARRIETTE N - Indian, Ukrainian, and
mainly Filipino. They like Daily bread, Christian music CD in English. Prayers and
blessings from the Lord.
BBC AFRICA, and BAVARIA - Ukrainian, and Russian. Good response.
NILS B, and ATLANTIC GALAXY - Only one Ukrainian, the rest are all Indian. The
1st ship had 5 Christians, and so many joined us for the salvation prayer. The 2nd
ship had 4 christians, and we had a good fellowship together.
3 ships on Thursday.
BERNARDO QUINTANA A - Indian, and Filipino. 3 Indian Christians.We were warmly
welcomed.
MARITIME PEACE - Chinese. Many confessed they believed in Jesus, and prayed the
salvation prayer, and said that Jesus is in their hearts including the captain. Took 3 to
shopping.
MOON SEA - Chinese. Initial visit..
4 ships on Friday:
JOELMARE, and BRITISH EXPLORER - Mainly Filipino, Indian, and British officers.
Pray for Joshua, a Filipino Christian. He and his Christian girl friend are going to get
married.
GALAHAD - Korean. 8 Christians. That was a short and sweet visit.
MOON SEA - Chinese. Stayed on board for over 3 hours. Finished all the materials.
3 seamen came forward individually and claimed their faith in Christianity. Prayed with
them about Jesus and his salvation.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you spirit. (Phm. 25)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 7/15/07 - 7/21/07
Greetings,
Ships visited this week:
8 ships on Monday:
HATO - Mainly Polish, and 1 Russian. Good response.
FORTUNE EXPRESS, PACIFIC BULKER, UYMA, LIMERICK SPIRIT, and VINLAND
SAGA - All Filipino, Gave out Scriptures, prayer books, DVD's, blessed their families
and their ships.
FORMOSA SIX - Chinese. We visited this ship last March. They were busy, but the
chief engineer and the chief officer were willing to receive Jesus into their hearts.
HAMBURG STAR - Russian, Ukrainian, and Latvian, Responsive.
4 ships on Tuesday:
CARIBBEAN CARRIER, and SEA PEARL - Russian, Ukrainian, and Estonia.
Distribute Scriptures, and Christian literatures.
GINGA LANNER - Korean, and Chinese. 3 Korean Christians. One Chinese prayed.
XIANG AN CHENG - Chinese. We were on this ship last March 30. Over half of the
crew changed. Some still remember us and open. Prayed with some, and need to pray
that we'll be friends in Christ.
4 ships on Wednesday:
SOCOL 1 - Russian. Very good response.
BRITISH LIBERTY - All Indian. 5 Christians including the captain. Warmly welcomed.
1 salvation from reading the salvation prayer.
NAVISION LOGGER - Chinese. 2 salvations. The 3rd officer got baptized on the ship.
He said that he believed in Jesus because Jesus was a great man. Pray for him and
the ship. The ship is 21 years old, didn't pass the inspection and was detained by the
coast guard. Pray for the motor man, he has three children, 2 younger ones were a
twin. In China this is very rare today.
C EXPRESS - American, and 2 Honduras. We talked to one Honduras, he is a
Christian and received a Scripture.
Thursday and Saturday.
We will email to you next week.
Grace be with you all. (Heb. 13:25)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 7/22/07 - 7/28/07
Greetings,
7/14: 4 ships
SYN ACRAB - Italian and Filipino. A Bible study was held with 2 Filipinos. 2 hours
was spent on board ministerring, counseling and praying.
ALARA K - Turkish. They were very open and listened to the testmony of Jesus. Both
sides of the officers and crew watched the Jesus movie.
CAJA DATCHES, and GLOBAL GARNET - Russian and Filipino. Good visits.
7/19: 6 ships
KAPITAN KUDLAY, STOLT DEVON, MONIUSZHO, EMERALS C, and RICKMERS
HAMBURG - Russian, Polish, Indian, and Filipino. Distributed God's Word and planted
the Seed. The Spirit will produce the harvest.
PANAM FLOTA - Indian. Visited this vessel 2 months ago. After seeing the Jesus
movie and the passion of the Christ, they wanted to lean more about the Christian
faith. 1 salvation and blessed the Captain.
Ships visited this week:
6 ships on Monday:
BOW SKY, STOLT EFFORT, and CARIBBEAN TRADER - Filipino, and Norwegian;
Filipino, and Crotian; Filipino, and Ukrainian. Distribute Scriptures. Encouraged to see
one born again Christian.
CLIPPER LEADER - Russian, Ukrainian, Latvian, and Lithuania. Took Scriptures to
the vessel and blessed the crew.
PANAM FELICE, and SAGA VIKING - All Indian. 5 and 4 Christians. 1 salvation.
6 ships on Wednesday:
GASCHEM WESER - German, Polish, and mainly Filipino. Prayed and blessed the
ship as usual. Those individual Christians were so precious.
ST. GEORG - Filipino, Croatian, and mainly Myanmar. 3 Myanmar Christians.
TRANS CATALONIA - Norwegian, Polish, and mainly Romanian. Romanian are mostly Christians. Some took the Scriptures. Some already had the Scriptures. Just gave
them the Jesus DVD movies.
COS GLORY - Chinese. Couldn't get through the guard house, but let the grard took
some gospel materials to the ship.
LISA J - Filipino, and mainly Ukrainian. Very receptive and hospitable. The chief officer
was watching the Jesus DVD in his room. Took 2 Filipino and 2 Ukrainian to shopping.
GOLDEN DOMINIQUE - Korean, and Myanmar. 1 salvation.
7 ships on Thursday.
FAIRCHEM FILLY, and BULK CANADA - Indian; Indian, and Romanian. 4 and 4 Indian
Christians. Intial visit on second ship.
BBC WESER, and CAPTAIN P - Mainly Filipino, Sri Lanka, Maldimian, and Ukrainian.
OILER 4 - Turkish. Receptive with some friends on board.
THOR BECTAR - Thailand. 1 Christian. Prayed and blessed the ship.
NS CENTURY - Russian. Responsive and friendly.
8 ships on Friday:
CHEMICAL MARKETER, CHEM VEGA, and BULK CANADA - Mainly Indian, Turkish
and Romanian. 2nd engineer on the last ship is Christian. We talked a lot about the
book Genesis.
BOW POWER, IRENE, PADRE, and TINOS - Mainly Filipino, Greek on the last ship.
Most of them are Catholics one Baptist. But in heaven we have no denominations.
LAGUNA D. - Italian, and Romanian. Good visit.
1 ship on Saturday:
HAI AN CHENG - Chinese. Chief officer is a Christian. We were on this ship May 17,
2006. This is a new crew. A couple belong to the Evangelical Exploration team from
West Houston Chinese Church joined our visitation. 3 salvations, 2 of them have
Christian relatives.
Grace and peace be yours.
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 7/29/07 - 8/04/07
Greetings,
7/28: 8 ships
SYN ALCOR, BELUGA RECOMMENDATO, OREGA VOYAGER, NOVAID, IMME
OLDENDORFF, KEMERI, TAMA HOPE, CALIFORNIAN HYWAY, and SAGA WIIND -
Italian, Polish, German, and mainly Russian, and Filipino. It was an exciting day
sharing Jesus with so many seamen. They were receptive and the door was open for
the future witnesses. There was one born again Filipino who was really on fire for
Jesus. Others pointed the finger at him and said that he is a real Christian. Pray for
the unbelieving seamen that they too will have Jesus in their hearts.
Ships visited this week:
5 ships on Monday:
MEHMET AKSOY - Turkish. When they are away from home, they're not fearful to
respond to the truthj of Jesus. Stayed on board 2 hours ministering to them.
MADRISA, and FLORIANA BREEZE - All Filipino. Many of them have Jesus in their
hearts and have the faith to go to heaven through Jesus. Hhort visits.
THOR ENERGY - Thai. Took many Thai gospel booklets. 1 Christian.
TOURAINE - Chinese. Captain is Bengalese. Very nice and friendly visit. Took 4 to
shopping and prayed with them. We were on this last December 25,
6 ships on Tuesday:
NAUTILUS, ELISE SCHULTE, BW HAVFOST, and CHANCE - Filipino, and Peruvian;
Filipino, and Russian; Mainly Filipino. Pray that the Filipino Christians can have a
church service on the ship.
JI LI HU - Chinese. We were on this ship July 12, 2006. Prayed with many individuals.
Salvation is drawing near.
NORD OPTIMISER - Indian. 2 salvations. The chief cook is a Christian. Some Uuslims
liked and took their own language Bible.
3 ships on Wednesday:
HELENE SELMER, MOLDAVIA, and ROMNY - Romanian, and mainly Russian. Good
visits. Receptive.
7 ships on Thursday.
FU AN CHENG, HAI AN CHENG, SUZAKU, and NAVISION LOGGER - All Chinese.
We have been on all those ship this year. They all very open except the one with a
commissar and without the short pass to go ashore. Baptized one on SUZAKU.
He called his Christian father in China and let him know right after the Baptism.
CIELO DI VANCOUVER - Italian, and mainly Indian. 8 Christians. Initial visit.
RICKMERS SEOUL, and JA SUNRISE - Romanian, and mainly Filipino. Responsive.
6 ships on Friday:
DS MONTROSE - Indian. 9 Christians on board. 4 Hindus are interested in knowing
Jesus and prayed the salvation prayer with us.
SHI DAI 6 - Chinese. Hardly see a Chinese ship this freely talked about salvation,
Jesus, and the Bible. The chief engineer kept us in his room talked about Christianity.
The commissar said that he is a Christian and he belived in Jesus. The captain asked
us to go to his room to talked about righteousness and love. We ended up in asking
Jesus to come into our hearts.
TORINIA, and BERGE DANUTA - British, Indian, Latvian, Norwegian, and mainly
Filipino. Prayed and blessed the ship.
NATACHA-C, and CEC MERMAIA - Romanian, and mainly Russian. Good visit.
Grace be with you all. (Heb. 13:25)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 8/05/07 - 8/11/07
Grace and peace be yours in abundance. (1 Pet. 1:2)
8/04: 5 ships
STAR GRIP, LARA RICKMERS, NAUIOS ACHILLES, and LEOPOLD STAFF -
Filipino, Polish, and Burmese. Ministered to them with the Word.
CIELO DI VANCOURVER = Italian, and Indian. Prayed and blessed the 8 Christians
including the Italian captain and chief engineer. There were 3 Indian seekers including
Muslim.
Ships visited this week:
6 ships on Monday:
OVERSEAS FRAN, JOSE BRIGHT, and PERELIK - Filipino, Burnese, and Bulgarian.
Extended visits with the last 2 vessels. 3 Burmese received Jesus on the Jose Bright.
The captain is near to believing. The response was God directed. There was a born
again, Spirit filled Christian on the Perelik. A kindred spirit opens the way for a Gospel
witness.
EAGLE AURIGA - Indian, and 1 Singapore. 2 Christians
SOUTHERN SPIRIT - Chinese. We were on this ship last June 28. Took 4 to shopping.
NAVISION LOGGER - Chinese. This is the 20th day they stayed in port. The ship is
repairing. They are short of drinking water, so we sent them 144 bottles of fresh water
and prayed with them. They appreciated very much.
4 ships on Tuesday:
BOW SAGA, and BOW HUNTER - Filipino. Short and pleasant visit.
ZHEN HUA 10 - Chinese. Was not allowed to go into the mess room. Distributed the
materials on the deck. They all came, one by one, until the material was finished.
Although they were busy, we still prayed the salvation prayer and bless the shop.
NAVISION LOGGER - Chinese. Brought more drinking water to the ship, and 3 more
seamen got baptized.
5 ships on Wednesday:
NAVISION LOGGER - Chinese.
ANTALINA, and ALIA R - Ukrainian; Ukrainian, and mainly Filipino.
GENCO SUCCESS - Chinese.
PACIFIC CELEBES - Filipino, and Chinese.
Peace to all of you who are in Christ. (1 Pet. 5:14)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 8/12/07 - 8/18/07
Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. (2 Pet. 1:2)
8/08: 3 ships
BOW SAGA, and PLATTE - Filipino, and Indian. Good response. 1 Indian salvation.
The Holy Spirit moved him to read bhe Bengali N. T., and as the Word was explained,
he received Jesus.
BLUE MASTER - Burmese. There were no Christians on board. But 1 received Jesus.
His mother was a Christian, and she had a great influence on him.
8/09: 1 ship
TOPFLIGHT - korean, and Burmese. Spent 2 hours on the vessel. There were 2
Burmese Christians and 2 salvations. After a discussion the Korean chief engineer
received Jesus as his personal Savior.
8/10: 5 ships
ATLAS HIGHWAY, FORTUNE EPOCH, and STAR FRASER - Filipino. Good
response.
FAIRCHEM STALLION - Indian. 4 Christians including the captain and 3 salvations. 2
had family members Christians and the third went to a Christian school for 14 years.
Amazing.
CHEMBUCK TORTOLA - Burmese. 1 Christian and 3 salvations. 2 of them had
members of their families Christians. This was a harvest day.
8/11: 4 ships
SEABOARD RELIANCE, NARA, and RAINIER SPIRIT - Russian, and mainly Filipino.
As usual, good visits.
GAS FRIEND - korean, and Chinese. 2 Koreans for salvation including the captain. 1
Chinese Christian and 4 were very responsive. Spent more than an hour on board.
Ships visited this week:
1 ship on Sunday:
GENCO SUCCESS - Chinese. Took 4 to West Houston Chinese Church to the
worship service and the Sunday School.in the morning. Spent 4 1/2 hours shopping
with them in the afternoon. They all prayed the salvation prayer and appreciated the
help..
7 ships on Monday:
HIGHTIDE, NORTH POINT, DELFA, and JO ASPEN - Mainly Filipino, Indian,
Romanian, Italian, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian. Very good visits. The Filipino always
invited us to stay on board.
SAFMARINE CAVALLA - Ukrainian. Initial visit.
WHISTLER - Chinese. Only 4 of them had short pass. Not very welcomed, but 2
salvations.
NICOLACS A - Myanmar, and Russian. Very friendly ship. 3 salvations.
6 ships on Tuesday:
NAVISION LOGGER - Chinese. This is the 5th time we visited this ship this month
and the 2nd time with a truck lord of drinks and banana from Miquel Lopez - Christian
Alliance. The captain prayed the salvation prayer with us.
DOXA, SCANDA, and CHANNEL RANGER - Greek, Russian, and mainly Ukrainian.
Receptive, The captain of Channel Ranger is a Christian. We made a friend and took
him to Wal Mart..
SANKO GALAXY, and OCEAN JADE - Filipino; Korean, and Filipino. They were so
appreciative when they received the Christian materials and very humbled when we
prayed.
2 ships on Wednesday:
OVERSEAS REBECCA - Ukrainian. Responsive.
STOLT CREATIVITY - Filipino. Good visit as usual.
8 ships on Friday:
HOLMEN - Indian. 6 Christians on board including the captain. Prayed with them and
blessed the ship. Rather a short and friendly visit.
LARCH ARROW - Polish, Russian, and Burmese. A nice and pleasant visit.
SEASPRAT, SUPER ADVENTURE, IRON MANOLIS, and JO SYCAMORE - Mainly
Filipino, Dutch, German, Russian, and Ukrainian. They were very thankful in getting
the Gospel materials. And one came forward to claim that he is a born again
Christian.
BARBARA VAUGHT - American. Gave out one NIV N.T.
DAZAN - Russian. Receptive.
To him be glory both now and forever! (2 Pet. 3:18)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 8/19/07 - 8/25/07
Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father's son, will be with us in truth and love. (2 Jn. 3)
8/17: 5 ships
ISLAND OASIS, CEC COMMANDER, and RICKMERS JAKARTA - Russian, and
mainly Filipino. 1 Russian for salvation and the Filipinos confessed Christ as their
Savior.
WINDSOR CASTLE - Sri Lanka , and Filipino. Great response. 1 Sri Lankan Christian
and 1 renounced Buddhism and accepted Jesus.
CHEMSTAR PRINCESS - Burmese - Wow! What a Spirit led reception!. As we were in
the messroom 3 Christians came to pray. After others were invited to pray with us, 9 of
them came forward to believe Jesus, and they all acknowledged that Jesus was in
their hearts.
Ships visited this week:
4 ships on Monday:
MARE CARIBBEAN - Mainly Russian. Good and short visit. One Christian.
FORMOSA ELEVEN - Chinese. We were on this ship March 6, 2007. Some knew us.
7 salvations.
STOLT TENACITY, and BOW CHEETAH - Filipino. Friendly ships. Faith confirmed.
4 ships on Tuesday:
RICKMERS JAKARTA , STOVENIJA, PAROS , and VIBORG - Filipino; Croation, and
. Burmese. It was some eventful visits with these seamen.
8 ships on Wednesday:
STAVANGER BAY , and HALKI - Norwegian, Greek, Filipino, and Chinese. Prayed
with the Chinese and the Filipino.
BAUTIC CAPTAIN - Russian, and Bulgarian.
TAI HARVEST - Chinese. Prayed with the crew and the captain.
CSAV RIO GRANDE - Bulgarian. An exceptionally good response. 4 salvations and
took 4 to make phone calls home.
SIFNOS SUN - Filipino. LUCAS OLDENDORFF - 10 nationalities. English is the
medium language of communication. The Ghanaian chief officer received the Word for
the vessel.
IDC 3 - Turkish. Let's reach the Turks now because the country has recently eleted to
be an Islamic state. Spent 2 hours on board ministering. The captain did pray for
Jesus to come into his life as the Son of God and Savior.
4 ships on Thursday:
ATLIXCO, and NS CONCEPT - Russian, and Croatian. Prayed with the Russian 3rd
officer Alex. He was very glad to receive God's Word.
STAR FUJI - Filipino. We had been to this ship before, still they were friendly and
receptive.
DAEBO PIONEER - Chinese. More than 10 people prayed to invite Jesus in their
hearts including the captain. Took 3 to shopping.
10 ships on Friday:
GOOD PROVIDENCE - Indian. 3 Christians on board. First they said there were no
Christian on the ship, after we got in the mess room we found out things were different.
6 Hindus and Muslims were praying with us. The Holy Spirit really moved them to say
Jesus is in their hearts.
WEDELLSBORG - Polish, and Romanian. Good visit, and receptive.
AGATHONISSOS, STOLT ENDURANCE, ELKA ATHINA, MINERVA HELLEN and
BOW AMERICAS - Mainly Filipino, Greek, and Ukrainian. Again, Most of them were
happy and satisfy to get the materials. We were glad to lead them to pray and blessed
the ship.
ATHENS STAR, and TRISTEIN - Ukrainian, and Russian. Good response.
HAVJIN ANTWERP - Korean, and Indonesian. We met 1 Korean Christian, and many
Indonesian received the Scriptures.
Peace to you. The friends here send their greetings. (3 Jn. 15)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 8/26/07 - 9/01/07
Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance. (Jude. 2)
8/25: 2 ships
AVAX, and AFRICAN EAGLE - Filipino, and Indian. Prayed with them and blessed
them and their families. There were 11 Indian Christians, and they witnessed to tbe
others.
Ships visited this week:
5 ships on Monday:
GULF ELAN - Romanian, Indian, and Filipino. 3 Indian Christians.
OVERSEAS ANIA - Russian. Receptive.
GALAHAD - Korean. Most Korean sailors are officers now, this ship is exceptional.
Distributed some booklets on this ship.
GENCO MARINE, and MARITIME ALLIANCE - Chinese. Good visits and responses.
There were some salvations and seekers. They took so many Scriptures to take back
to China. Spent more than 2 hours on each ships.
7 ships on Wednesday:
YELLOW STONE - Myanmar. 3 Christians including the captain. There was a great
openness to the Gospel.
JAN DLUGOSZ - Chinese, and Polish. SWIFT SPLIT - Chinese, Ukrainian, and
Croatian. Didn't meet all the Chinese but left enough materials for each one of them,
and encouraged them to trust in Jesus. Many said they had friends and relatives who
believed in Jesus.
ISABELLA KOSAN - Filipino. Shared the prayer together and blessed the ship.
GREEN FREEZER, ANEGO EXPLORER, and LIBBY G - Filipino and mainly Russian.
Shared with them Jesus' love.
5 ships on Thursday:
CEC COPENHAGEN, and FADELSIA - Ukrainian, and Mainly Filipino. They all have
Jesus in their hearts, but most of them are not sure they are going to heaven because
their faith in Jesus. So, pray for their faith in Jesus.
INNOVATOR I, and SICHEM CHALLENGE I - Russian. They liked the Christian
materials. Pray that they read the them.
NORDANA MATHILDE - Chinese. They all have the Chinese Scriptures. A few of them
came up to ask for the English Scriptures. 18 of them on board, half of them were
humble enough to agree to pray with us. Praise to God for the readiness of their
hearts.
3 ships on Friday:
CLIPPER STAMFORD - Indian, Filipino, and Chinese. 7 Indian Christians on the ship,
2 salvations, 1 Chinese and 1 Hindu.
FROST 2 - Russian. Good response.
OCEAN BELLE - 2 Korean, and 18 Chinese. We were on this ship last November 2.
Half of the Chinese opened their hearts for Jesus. Took the Korean captain, he is a
Christian, and the Korean chief engineer to shopping and came back, and took 3
Chinese to Wal Mart again.
To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy - to the only god our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages now and forevermore! Amen.. (Jude. 24,25)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
Dear seafarer's friends, 9/02/07 - 9/08/07
Grace and peace to you.
9/01: 5 ships
MARI DI REVENNA - Romanian. Great response. Took so much of God's Word. Many
professed to be Christians.
SPAR TOPAY - Indian. 5 Christians and 2 seekers. Had a long talk with a Sik who
took the Jesus film.
BOW SEA, SIAMARE, and SKAFTAFELL - Russian and mainly Filipino. They took
many Scriptures and prayed. Pray for global revival. We've on the threshold of the
greatest ingathering of souls in human history. Open your eyes and behold the work
God is performing.
ships visited this week
6 ships on Monday:
KRISTINA THERESA, ST. MARIEN, INDUSTRIAL CHARGER, and BALTIMAR
ORION - Ukrainian, and mainly Filipino. Prayed and strengthened their faith.
CEC FAITH - Russian. Responsive.
TAI AN CHENG - Chinese. We were on this ship last March 29. There were some
believers, seekers and old friends. They took many Scriptures. 2 salvations.
5 ships on Tuesday:
STAR EAGLE, ISABEL KNUTSEN, and GASCHEM ICE - Filipino. It was a good
testimony that they all claimed to be Christians. Pray that Jesus Christ is not just a
religion for them.
FAIRCHEM BRONCO - Indian. Some Christians.
GANG QIANG - Chinese. 3 salvations and many seekers.
6 ships on Thursday:
FREJA OCEAN - Indian. 6 Christians and 1 salvation.
GASCOGNE - West Africa. There were many Christians on board. They took the
English Scriptures.
CEC LEADER - Russian. Receptive as usual.
CEC BLUE, and ALAM SENANG - Pakistan, Indoneisian, Fillipino, Chinese, and
Malay. Prayed with 1 Chinese and 1 Filipino.
TAIXING - Chinese. We were on theis ship last March 22. Half of the crew knew us.
Many opened their hearts for Jesus because their friends and relatives are Christians.
So, don't give up praying for our kinsmen.
6 ships on Friday:
UNION RANGER, and DORA - Filipino. A born again Christian received all the DVDs
materials and Scriptures.
SEABORN, and MINERVA VASO - Russian. Ukrainian, German, Greek, and mainly
Filipino/ Good response.
BBC MISSISSIPPI - Russian, and Ukrainian. Short visit but receptive.
GUANG MING FENG - Chinese. 3 cadets and other 2 seamen received Jesus. They
were so amazed and excited about the testimony and the Jesus story.
The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people. Amen. (Rev.22: 21)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
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