03/08/09 - 03/14/09

Dear seafarer's friends, 03/08/09 - 03/14/09

Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. (2 Pet. 1:2)
Our web-link is: www.lifelinetoseamen.org
ships visited this week
3 ships on Monday:
NEW ACTIVITY, MARDI GRAS, and HAWK BAY - Filipino, and Chinese;
All Chinese; All Chinese. They were very glad to see Chinese visitors. The
Filipinos wanted the Tagalog Scripture and Jesus DVDs so desperately. Blessed
them and the ship. We prayed with crew on the second ship. And we prayed
with the Captain (see picture) and the crew separately on the third ship.
Steven Chao from WHCC came and helped the visitation today.
12 ships on Tuesday:
ATOYAC, STOLT HILL,MEDI VALENCIA, CHESAPEAKE BELLE, JO
ASK, UBC SANTA MARTA, and KICKAPOO BELLE - All Filipino.
Responsive. We visited the second ship, the third ship, and fifth ship before.
Mostly Catholics on those ships. They don't have enough Scriptures which we
provide some for them.
MARDI GRAS, and HAWK BAY - All Chinese. Both visits were short revisit.
KASZUBY, BBC PERU, and CEC ACCORD - All Polish; Russian, and
Filipino; All Russian. Receptive.
11 ships on Wednesday:
HAWK BAY - All Chinese. Revisit.
MALTE B, BBC FRANCE, CLIPPER CARIBE, BOLERO, UAL CYPRUS,
BALGARKA, TORM ESTRID, and CHAMPION STAR - Russian, and
Filipino; Russian, Ukrainian, and German; Myanmar, Croatian, and Ukrainian;
Swedish, Ukrainian, and Filipino; Dutch, Polish, and Indonesian; All Bulgarian;
Danish, Croatian, and Filipino; Croatian, Montenegrin, Indonesian, Indian, and
Filipino. We visited the first ship, the second ship, the third ship, the fourth ship,
the sixth ship, and the eighth hip before. They all responsive.
NORDIC RUTH, and ATLANTIC BREEZE - All Indian. We were on the first
ship last November. Two Christians on board. Two Christians on the second
ship. Prayed with one of them.
7 ships on Thursday:
BALSA 72, ORIENTAL EMERALD, and PACIFIC LEADER - All Filipino;
Korean, and Filipino; Indian, Sri Lanka, Thai, and Filipino. We visited the second
ship just last month, the third ship last Jul. There was one Korean Christian on the
second ship, the Chief Engineer. It used to be all Chinese on this ship.
BBC AMAZON, CLIPPER LANCER, and CALEDONIA - All Russian;
Russian, Ukrainian, Latvian, and Lithuanian. It's all receptive.
LI BAI - All Chinese. We were on this ship last Jul. Everyone was changed, it's
a completely new crew. (see pictures)
6 ships on Friday:
SAGA WIND, and UAL ANTWERP - All Filipino. We visited the first ship
more than a year ago, the second ship in last Jan. One Able Seaman knew me
from last Jan. (see picture). I prayed with two.
SIGLOO POLAR, and CHEMSTAR EAGLE - All Russian; Korean, and
Myanmar. It's the first time on the first ship, and a second time in last two years on the second ship. Two Korean Christians and more than one Myanmar
Christian on board. I didn't see all of them.
TORM ESBJERG, and MANISAMUT NAREE - All Indian; Indian, and Thai.
The second ship used to be a Chinese crew. We visited her more than a year
ago. I didn't see any Christian on the first ship, but prayed with two Hindus.
3 ships on Saturday:
CRYSTAL OCEAN, OCEAN BELLE, and BIG GLORY - All Chinese. Just
checking to see how many can come ashore. Only the Chief Engineer from BIG
GLORY (see picture), came with me to the Steven Tang's Evangelical Meeting.
We prayed the salvation prayer in my car before he got back to his ship.
To him be glory both now and forever! (2 Pet. 3:18)

Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao