04/06/08 - 04/12/08

Dear seafarer's friends, 04/06/08 - 04/12/08

Grace and peace to you. (1Th. 1:1)
ships visited this week
8 ships on Monday:
ORIENTAL, PAC ALTAIR, ORION HIGHWAY, and POLYHRONIS - Filipino, and Greek; Filipino, and
Chinese; mixed crew but mainly Filipino; All Filipino. Prayed with 2 Chinese one of them was a
Buddhist on PAC ALTAIR. Also prayed with the Christian Filipino chief officer.
CAPE BILBAO, MARIDA PATNOS, and MARIANAO ICE - Russian; Russian; Russian, and Ukrainian.
MARIANAO ICE comes in Houston once every two months regularly, loading chicken. Receptive.
AALBORG - Polish, Romanian, and Bulgarian. Gave out the Scripture and Gospel materials and
blessed the ship.
7 ships on Tuesday:
SEIJIN, ISABEL KNUTSEN, and CLIPPER TOBGO - Filipino, Japanese; Filipino, Russian; Filipino,
Filipino, Ukrainian. They all receptive.
KONDOR EXPLORER, and BBC FRANCE - Ukrainian, and Russian; German, Russian, and Ukrainian.
Russian Bibles are low in stock now, but whatever I gave out they took it.
PANUM ATLANTICO - Burmese, and Croatian. Two Christians on this vessel but they went to shore.
open his heart for Jesus. Prayed with one Burmese and blessed the vessel.
INCE ATLANTIC - Turkish. They didn't have short pass, but they were so friendly. Finish distributing
all the Gospel materials.
12 ships on Wednesday:
SIAN-C, BBC TOGO, RICKMERS HAMBURG, ROSARIE A. DESGAGNES, TOWER BRIDGE,
GLORIOUS SUNRISE, AEGEAN GLORY, and BALTIMAR SATURN - Filipino, Romanian; Filipino,
Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish; Filipino, Polish; Filipino, Russian, Polish, and Bulgarian; Filipino,
Russian, and Indian; All Filipino; Filipino, Russian, and Greek; All Filipino. There was a Filipino
Christian came to me on BALTIMAR SATURN and said that he was a born again Baptist. I asked him if
they had Bible study on the ship. He said they used to, but now it only happened once in a while. I gave
him some Bible study materials for encouragement and prayed with him. It's a thrill to know that the
idea of "church" is beginning to form on some of these Filipino ships.
IEVOLI SPLENDOR, STOLT LOYALTY, and KENT TRADER - All Russian; Russian, Ukrainian;
Russian, Ukrainian, and Burmese. Good visits and good responses.
GLOBAL ESCORT - Korean, and Burmese. 2 Korean and 1 Burmese Christians.
10 ships on Thursday:
ASSTRO ALTAIR, FUSUS, and MARITIME JEONGAM - All Filipino. MARITIME JEONGAM sometimes
have church service on the ship. Chief officer is the leader. Please pray for his 20 years daughter's
painful stomach.
NS CENTURY, TEAM SPIRIT, and VORUTA - All Russian; All Russian; Russian, Ukrainian, and
lithuania. Receptive.
DIKLO, SITAVERA - Croatian; Indian. The Indian ship has four Christians on board. Encouraged them
and prayed with them.
GIOVANNI DP - Italian, Romanian, and Latvian. Very interested in the Scriptures.
SABRATA STAR - Indonesian, and Montenegrin. Responsive.
4 ships on Friday:
SAGA MINERVA - Polish. Gave out the Jesus' DVDs and blessed the vessel.
BBC ENGLAND, and FORTUNE EPOCH - Russian, and Filipino; Japanese, Korean, and Filipino.
Prayed for the crew and their family members.
ALAM SELAMAT - Chinese. 3 baptized Christians on board including the captain. One is still smoking.
Pray the Lord will change his heart as well as his life. 6 came to me and we prayed the salvation
prayer. Took 2 to Wal Mart.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. (1Th. 5:28)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao