Saturday, June 21, 2008

06/15/08 - 06/21/08

Dear seafarer's friends, 06/15/08 - 06/21/08

Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance. (Jude. 2)
ships visited this week
4 ships on Monday:
FR8 ENDURANCE - All Indian. Four Christians on board. Prayed with two Hindu and two Christians.
They loved to watch the Jesus DVD movie.
CHIPOLBROK MOON, and SAFMARINE DOUALA - All Chinese. No Christian on both vessels. Not
allowed to go to the mess room at the first ship. Only stayed on deck to distribute some Scriptures
and materials. Prayed with six people to receive Jesus on the second ship including the captain and
the chief engineer.
RICKMERS SINGAPORE - One Polish captain, Sri lanka, German, and mainly Filipino. We were on
this ship last February. Gave away the newly received German and Sri Lanka Jesus DVD. Blessed the
crew and the vessel.
Steven Chao from WHCC came and helped the ship visitation with me,
6 ships on Wednesday:
SKS TANA, and LYCASTE PEACE - All Russian; 2 Russian, and Indian. 10 Indian Christians on the .
second ship. Prayed with 2 Christians and 2 Hindus. Blessed the crew and their families.
STAR GEIRANGER, PINE TRADER, and HEROS - All Filipino; Croatian, and Filipino; Norwegian, and
Filipino. Delivered God's Word and strengthened their faith.
LI BAI - All Chinese. No Christian. The commissar was surprisingly open to the Christianity. We, the
captain and the chief engineer were praying together. But they don't think Americans have a culture.
Pastor Jonathan Chiu from Formosan Evangelical Church came and helped the visitation today.
6 ships on Thursday:
GO TRADER, EASTWIND, and TANJA JACOB - Romanian, Greek, and Filipino; Greek, and Filipino;
Croatian, Montenegro, German, Ukrainian, and Filipino. They liked the Jesus DVDs and the English
Christian songs CDs. Prayed with them.
. CED MIRAGE - All Russian. Receptive.
RAVEN ARROW, and SPT CRUSADER - All Indian but 1 Myanmar; All Indian. Indian ships are
usually hospitable. Each ship had 2 Indian Christians. Prayed with the Christians as well as the Hindu
and Muslim. Gave them many NIV NTs, Jesus DVDs, and cassette tapes.
4 ships on Saturday:
BRILLIANT SKY, SITEAM EXPLORER, and GLORIANA - All Filipino; Croatian, 2 Chinese, and
Filipino; Ukrainian, Filipino, and mainly Indian.
JING AN CHENG - All Chinese. No short pass. We were on this ship many times before. The crew
was totally rearranged. Some knew me from previous visits, even on the other ships. To get in this
dock was a miracle because I forgot the badge today. Another miracle was that as soon as we got on
the ship, we met the only one Christian on board. The minute he found out that one of us is a pastor,
that was Pastor Jonathan Ling, he went to tears right there. He told us that he got a lot of pressure
from the ship, because everybody knows he is a Christian. And everyone was laughing at him when he
didn't go along with them to the prostitutes. He got a beautiful smile on his face when we left.
Pastor Ling, Mrs. Kelly Kao, and Daniel Jen from HCC came and helped visitation. They helped a lot.
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

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