Dear seafarer's friends, 11/02/08 - 11/08/08 Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance. (Jude. 2)
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ships visited this week
2 ships on Sunday:
SOUTHERN SPIRIT, and YIN NING - All Chinese. Picked up one person on each ship to church in the morning and shopping in the
afternoon.
3 ships on Monday: SOUTHERN SPIRIT, LIAN XING HU, and FORMOSA EIGHT - All Chinese. A short revisit on the first ship. One Christian on the second ship, and he was so precious in God's eyes. We all prayed together. Praised to His name. Took two seamen to Wal Mart to shopping,
and sent them back. We were on the third ship in August, last year. Finish delivering all the Gospel Materials.
Steven Chao from WHCC came and help the ship visiting today. It's a wonderful day. 6 ships on Tuesday: IMPERIAL FORTUNE, and PACIFIC MAKASSAR - Filipino, and Korean; Filipino, British, Ukrainian, Australian, and Chinese. Prayed
with the Filipino. One Chinese seeker on the second ship. The captain was a female Australian. Taught two of them to pray the salvation
prayer.
ATLANTIC ACTION, and SICHEM PARIS - All Russian; Russian, Ukrainian, and Latvian. We were on the first ship last July. They
received the Scriptures, although some resistance.
MASUREN, and UAL ROTTERDAM - All Polish. We were on the second ship last May. They got the Scripture and Jesus DVDs. 14 ships on Thursday:
BBC CHILE, ATLANTIC LAUREL, UBC SALVADOR, OCEAN MARINER, ALITIS, and GASCHEM ICE - All Filipino; All Filipino;
All Filipino; Filipino, Russian, and Ukrainian; Filipino, Ukrainian, Greek, and Egyptian; Filipino, Russian, Ukrainian, German, and
Romanian. They all excited to get the Jesus DVDs, Scriptures, and be blessed. The Egyptian seaman was so surprised that I gave him an
Arabic NT.
BARENTS SEA, BBC FRANCE, and AFRICAN LARK - All Russian; All Russian; Russian, and Ukrainian. Receptive.
SANMAR MAJESTY, and NORDANA SOPHIE - All Indian; Indian, Thai, and Myanmar. Two Christians on the first ship. Many familiar
faces from previous visits on other Indian ships. Prayed with one Hindu to receive Jesus. One second generation Indian was born in
Myanmar on the second ship. He was the second officer. Oh, how he liked the Tamil NT.
SAKAR, NAZLI G, and IBN KHALDOUN II - All Bulgarian; All Turkish; and All Algerian. Responsive. Some Turkish were crazy about
the Ingel.
4 ships on Friday: NORDIC RUTH, and STOVE TRADITION - Indian, Chinese, and British; All Chinese. We visited the first ship just a little bit over one
month ago. They were four Indian Christians on board. Prayed with one of them. They had only one Chinese on that ship. He was a seeker,
but when we prayed for him he joined the prayer and prayed for us also. What a wonderful fellowship it was. There were many liked the
Christianisty and prayed with us on the second ship. One particular ordinary seaman wanted to invite Jesus in his heart. I led him to pray.
YELLOWSTONE, and SMOLYAN - Myanmar, and one Polish; All Bulgarian. There were three Myanmar Christians including the captain
on the first ship. The captain was a six generation Christian. Right now he is translating an English Acts commentary into Burmese language.
We prayed for him, his family and blessed the ship. The Polish was also a Christian. The Bulgarian ship was very receptive.
Payton Huang from WHCC joined the ship visiting with me today.
Saturday we had a seamen mission small group meeting at WHCC in the afternoon.
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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