Dear seafarer's friends, 03/14/10 - 03/20/10
Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. (1Ti. 1:2)
Our web-link is: www.lifelinetoseamen.org
ships visited this week
8 ships on Monday:
MARIANN, NAVIGATOR MARS, UBC LIVORNO, and NAESBORG
- All Filipino; Filipino, Russian, and Polish; Filipino, Russian, and Polish; Turkish,
Ukrainian, and Bulgarian. We visited the last ship last Dec. Prayed with them
and blessed the ships. All receptive.
TORM CECILIE, SUJITRA NAREE, VALIANT/EVERGLADES, and
LEOPOLD STAFF - All Indian; All Thai; All American; All Polish. We were
on the first ship last Oct. There were two Christians on board, bosun, and an
able seaman. (See picture 1, the second one from the right is the bosun). I
prayed with him and blessed the ship. One Hindu asked me, "Where is the
book? I want to read it." I gave him the Holy Bible and prayed together with
him with the salvation prayer. He was very precious about "the book". We
were on the last ship last Jun. All responsive.
6 ships on Tuesday:
AGIOS NIKOLAS, STENA STEALTH, and ALBANE - All Filipino; Filipino,
Indian, and Latvian; All Indian. We were on the second ship last Dec. There
was no Indian Christian on board. The Indian chief mate invited me to dinner.
(See picture 2, the one on the right is the chief mate, the one the left is the
Filipino chief cook). There were four Christians on the last ship, Third mate,
fitter, a cadet, and a motorman. (See picture 3, the motorman is on the left). He
was signing off and going home today. Prayed with them and blessed the crew.
SAPPHIRE STAR, CHEMBULK GIBRALTAR, and GENCO SUCCESS -
All Russian; All Myanmar; All Chinese. We were on the second ship last Dec.,
the last ship way over two years ago. (See picture 4 for part of the crew, the
captain is the fourth one from the left). I prayed with them. It's not just a ritual,
but something they will never forget.
5 ships on Thursday:
SICHEM HONG KONG, DREGGEN, EAGLE TORRANCE, GINGA TIGER,
and NS CHAMPION - All Indian; All Indian; Filipino, three Chinese, and Indian;
Korean, and ten Chinese; All Russian. We were on the first ship over one year
ago. There were two Christians on board this time, chief cook, and second officer.
(See picture 5 for part of the crew). There were three Christians on the second
ship, third engineer, one motorman, and one able seaman. (See picture 6 for part
of the crew). There were three Indian Christians on the third ship, chief cook, a
cadet, and a pump man. (See picture 7 for the Filipino chief cook, and two of the
Indian crew). We didn't see the three Chinese seamen. They went ashore. We
left the Chinese gospel materials on board for them. We met one Chinese able
seaman on the fourth ship. They were extremely busy, and some of the Koreans
were resistant to the Scripture we gave to them. Yet, we prayed on the other
ships and blessed their families.
Someone from FBCC came and helped the ship visitation today.
7 ships on Friday:
AGIOS NIKOLAS, ASIAN GLORY, AFRICAN EVERGREEN, and IKAN
SELANGAT - All Filipino; Filipino, and Russian; Filipino, and Russian; Filipino,
Chinese, and one Polish captain. We were on the last ship just last month. The
Chinese chief officer wanted to stay here and learn to be a pastor from me. I told
him that he needed to pray for this matter. He was very quiet then. (See picture 8
for most of the Chinese crew). The ships we visited were mostly receptive.
STOLT VALOR, FIDELITY, and YACU PUMA - All Indian; Indian, Filipino,
and one Romanian; All Peruvian. We were on the first ship last Oct. There were
seven Christians on this ship, chief cook, general steward, third officer, third
engineer, two able seamen, and one ordinary seaman. (See picture 9 for part of
the crew). Very responsive.
Someone from FBCC came and helped the ministry today.
3 ships on Saturday:
EPMC 20, GAS MIRACLE, and SICHEM EDINBURGH - All Chinese; Korean,
Chinese; Indian, and Filipino. We were on the second ship last month. This time
was a short revisit. We were on the last ship last Oct. (See picture 10 for the
Filipino crew with Rev. Jonathan on the far left, and Yindau on the second from the
right). There was one Indian Christian on board, the third officer. He was sleeping.
We prayed with the Hindu second officer (see picture 11, the one in the middle).
We prayed with the captain on the first ship. (See picture 12, the third one from
the left is the captain). The ship was sailing, so we did everything in a hurry.
Rev. Jonathan Lin and Yingdau Lu from HCC came and helped the ministry today.
Pastor Malone's grandson Tyler was out of the hospital Monday and was resting at home
the whole week. Thank you all for your prayers.
Grace be with you. (1Ti. 6:21)
Your brothers In Christ Tom Malone and Thomas Tao
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