07/27/08 - 08/02/08

Dear seafarer's friends, 07/27/08 - 08/02/08

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Eph. 1:2)
ships visited this week
10 ships on Monday:
MYRA, SANKO SPRING, STOLT VESTLAND, RAS MAERSK, OLYMPIC FLAIR, and ESHIPS
DUGON - All Filipino; All Filipino; Russian, and Filipino; Danish, and Filipino; Filipino, Russian, and
Greek; Filipino, Russian, and Polish. Prayed with the Christians and blessed the vessels.
BBC EMS - Russian, and Ukrainian. Receptive.
SKODSBORG - Polish. Receptive.
IKAN SEPAT - Chinese, and Filipino. We were on this ship last June 30. Nearly a month ago. We
shared a little bit music and they liked it. They also liked "The Hope" DVDs we gave to them.
SURREY - Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Turkish, and Indian. 1 Indian Christian on board.
Steven Chao from WHCC came and helped visiting the vessels.
11 ships on Tuesday:
BBC ARAMIS, KEN, SENTINEL II, HAPPY BEE, SANKO SPRING, FICKMERS TOKYO, BRUSSEL,
and SELENDANG INTAN - All Filipino; All Filipino; All Filipino; All Filipino; All Filipino; Filipino, and
German; Filipino, Sri Lanka, and Indian; Filipino, Indian, and Russian. Prayed and blessed the vessels.
SAFMARINE CAVALLA, and CAPELLA - All Ukrainian; Russian, and Lithuania. Receptive.
DARYA SUR - All Indian. 5 Christians on board. Prayed with a Christian and a Hindu.
5 ships on Wednesday:
CARIBBEAN CARRIER, and JANNIE-C - All Russian; Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Portuguese,
Irish, and Spanish. Not very open but responsive.
SONG HAI - All Chinese. This was the first time we had been on this ship. We had a small evangelistic
meeting on board. We had Christian songs and testimony, and concluded with a salvation prayer.
There were about fourteen people together in the mess room. The commissar was a little bit shocked.
He was the only one didn't accept any of our Gospel materials.
MARE DI NAPOLI - Italian, and Romanian. Short visit but receptive.
CHEMSTAR PRINCESS - 4 Korean officer and Myanmar crew. 2 Myanmar Christians on board. We
sang some Christian songs together, and prayed the salvation prayer with the Christians and the
Buddhists. There are many naked and starved people on the street and country side. They wanted us
to pray for them. So we did and blessed the vessel.
Pastor Jonathan Chiu from Formosan Evangelical Church came and helped the ministry a lot. He was here with me last Wednesday also, but I forgot to mention about it on the last week visitation report. My apology. He was asked to baptize the Chinese general steward on PAC ADARA. Praise God.
8 ship on Saturday:
BORON NAVIGATOR, MCT MONTE ROSA, CHALLENGE PHOENIX, EEC PACIFIC, STAR THETA,
and RICKMERS HAMBURG - All Filipino; All Filipino; Indian, and Filipino; Ukrainian, Indian, and
Filipino; Ukrainian, Russian, and Filipino; Ukrainian, Romanian, Sri Lanka, and Filipino. Sent them the
Gideon Bibles, blessed the vessels and took 2 Filipino seamen to Seafarers' Center.
STELLA AZZURRA - Romanian, and Itlalian. Delivered to them the Scriptures and Jesus DVDs.
CAPELLA - Lithuania. This was a revisit. Blessed the crew and the vessel.
Pastor Malone wrote:
Thomas Tao is fulfilling the Great Commission by energetically evangelizing the seafarers. He's taking brothers with him to do the ship visitation. Pray for his health as he's carrying a heavy work load.
My beloved son, Mark, and his gracious wife, Angela, have opened up their home to me. They've
honoring me by taking such good care of me including my darling daughter, Paula who is a nurse. I'm following my cardiologist instructions by taking my prescribed medication. Walking 1 - 2 miles a day and eating right are challenges. Sleeping good at night helps me to function better the next day. Pray for my health and family as I regain my strength and help more in the ministry.
Pray also for our board meeting, Aug.12, and Thomas ordination, Aug. 24, at his home church,
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