Saturday, November 1, 2008

10/26/08 - 11/01/08

Dear seafarer's friends, 10/26/08 -11/01/08 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)
ships visited this week
10 ships on Monday: THOR SHANGHAI, PEGASUS LEADER, INDUSTRIAL CHARGER, FEDERAL POWER, ATLANT SVENJA, FASSA, AGIA, YL
CONFIDENCE, and NANOS - All Filipino; All Filipino; All Filipino; Filipino, and Polish; Filipino, and Croatian; Filipino, and Greek;
Filipino, and Korean; Filipino, Russian, and Ukrainian; Russian, Ukrainian, Filipino, Indonesian, and Slovenian. Two Korean Christians on AGIA. Distributed the Scriptures prayed with them and blessed the crew.
ANYA - Ukrainian, and Ghana. Receptive.
Steven Chao from WHCC came and help the ship visiting. We are all learners from this ministry. 12 ships on Tuesday: AMITY ACE, NASSAUBORG, VEGA SPIRIT, and MAERSK HUMBER - All Filipino; Filipino, and Dutch; Filipino, and Indian; Filipino, British, Scottish, Indian, and Romanian. Prayed with the Indian and Filipino. One Filipino Christian on the last ship had tears in his eyes
when I prayed for his family. Blessed their crew and families.
SKALVA, SOCOL 1, CARIBBEAN CARRIER, and BBC EMS - All Lithuanian; All Lithuanian; Russian, and Estonian; Russian, Ukrainian, and German. It's a revisit on the first ship, but this time I met the friendly Christian captain. We were on the third ship last July. They all
received the Scriptures and Jesus DVDs.
BERNORA, and PUNTA ANGAMOS - All Indian; All Chilian. We were on the first ship last July. Three Christians on board. Prayed with
one Christian and one Muslim. Chilians love the N.T. Bibles. CARIBBEAN SPIRIT, and UAL CYPRUS - Myanmar, and Korean; Dutch, and Polish. There was only one Korean Christian, the chief
engineer, and only one Myanmar Christian, the general steward, on the first ship. They were very hospitable and friendly.
5 ships on Wednesday:
DANICA VIOLET, and ANYA - Filipino, and Danish; Ukrainian, and Ghana. A revisit on the second ship. Sent them more English
Bibles.
STENA FR8 1 - All Indian. We were on this ship last July. Three Christians on board. One of the Christians was extremely nice to me. He
knew me from last time. Prayed with six of them, most of them were Hindus. Blessed the ship.
CHEMBULK HONGKONG, and JOSE BRIGHT - Myanmar, and one Korean; All Myanmar. Three Christians on the first ship including
the Korean captain. One seeker whom I met five years ago at a different ship on JOSE BRIGHT. He spoke perfect Chinese Mandarin. I
gave him God's word and encouraged him to grow in faith in the Lord. It's so thrilling to see friend like that.
5 ships on Friday: NORD SPIRIT, and DIKLO - All Filipino; All Croatian. Brought them the Spiritual food. They were happy so were we.
RAINBOW, and SOPHIE RICKMERS - All Indian; Myanmar, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian. Five Christians on the Indian ship. We only met
two of them. Prayed with them and the Hindus. They all very receptive.
YIN NING - All Chinese. We were never on this ship before. This was a less than one year old ship. There were some people their parents
and families are Christians. We talked to the captain, and he received Jesus in his heart. Also some other crew members. They received all
the Scriptures and materials. At least one of them can come to church with me on Sunday. They invited us to have dumpling on board.
Payton Huang from WHCC joined the ship visiting with me today.
8 ships on Saturday: CLIPPER LEGEND, BBC ANGLIA, and MOORGATE - All Russian; Russian, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian; Russian, Ukrainian, and Danish.
As we prayed some of them, they were quite receptive.
SPAR CETUS, and ELM GALAXY - All Indian; All Bengalese. Four or five Indian Christians on the first ship. We met one of them. Prayed
with him and gave him the Scripture. No Christian on the second ship. They received the Scripture and Jesus DVD too.
NASSAUBORG - All Filipino. Very responsive.
CHIPOLBROK MOON, and SOUTHERN SPIRIT - All Chinese. We were on the first ship last June. The captain was a Buddhist, but not
far from salvation. We finished all the Gospel materials for this ship. We visited the second ship in last July. This was just an initial visit. Ting Chang Huang from WHCC came and visited the seamen with me today. Praised the Lord. Peace to you. The friends here send their greetings. (3 Jn. 15)

Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao

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