01/02/11 - 01/08/11

Dear seafarer's friends, 01/02/11 - 01/08/11


Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus

Christ. (Phm. 3)

ships visited this week

10 ships on Monday:

TILDA KOSAN, BASIC RELIANCE, CHEMTRANS SUN,

BANGKOK HIGHWAY, SAFMARINE TEXAS, IKAN

ALTMIRA, BBC ALABAMA, and SIGLOO ENDURANCE -

All Filipino; All Filipino; Filipino, and Russian; Filipino, and

Bulgarian; Filipino, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian; Filipino, Chinese,

and one Myanmar captain, and one Ghanaian electrition;

Filipino, Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish; Filipino, Russian,

Sri Lanka, and two Chinese. We visited the third ship a little

bit over two years ago, the fourth ship last Nov., the fifth ship

last Oct. We were on the second ship last Sep., the sixth ship

last Nov. (See pic. 1 for some of the crew on board). We were

on the last ship just last month. This time was only a revisit.

Prayed with some of them and blessed the ships. Receptive.

DARIA, and BLUE SPIRIT - All Polish; Russian, and

Ukrainian. All responsive.

6 ships on Tuesday:

IRON KNIGHT, TOCCATA, UZAVA, BBC POLONIA,

CLIPPER CARIBE, and YAN DANG HAI - All Filipino;

Filipino, Ukrainian, and Estonian; Latvian, Lithuanian, and

Russian; Russian, German, and Ukrainian; Croatian, and

Myanmar; All Chinese. We visited the fifth ship last Aug.

(See pic. 2 for some of the crew on the first ship. Captain is

on the far left). (See pic. 3 for some of the crew on the last

ship. Captain is on the far left). Prayed with them and blessed

the ships.

Steven Chao from WHCC came and helped the ministry

today.

1 ship on Wednesday:

FORMOSA SEVEN - All Chinese. We were on this ship last

Aug. There was one Christian on board, the second officer.

Actually he is the assistant chief officer. (See pic. 4 for some

of the crew, the assistant chief officer sits in the very front).

Prayed with them and for their families. All receptive.

8 ships on Thursday:

SEABOARD PERU, LINGE TRADER, CAROLINE SCAN,

ATLANTIC MAJESTY, and RICKMERS JAKARTA -

Filipino, and Polish; Filipino, and Ukrainian; Filipino, Russian,

and Ukrainian; Filipino, Chinese, and Myanmar; Filipino,

Romanian, Chinese, and Sri Lanka. We visited the second

ship last Nov. We were on the fourth ship last Jan., the last

ship last Aug. (See pic. 5 for some of the crew on the fourth

ship). (See pic. 6 for the Filipino chief engineer, the one on

the far left, and us). He is going home within a week or so,

and he gave me his phone number, so I can contact him when

I go to Manila in March 19-23 for the World Mission

Conference. Prayed with them and blessed the ships. The

whole crew was very receptive. When I asked a Chinese

able seaman, "do you believe in Jesus?" he said, "here in this

boat we all believe.

Someone who doesn't want his name to be mentioned from

FBCC came and helped the ministry today.

8 ships on Friday:
DIAMOND GLORY, STAR SAVANNAH, FAABORG,

MARINA ACE, BEECH GALAXY, ATLANTIC MAJESTY,

RICKMERS JAKARTA, and BW BOSS - All Filipino; All

Filipino; Filipino, and Russian; Filipino, and Korean; Filipino,

and Indian; Filipino, Chinese, and Myanmar; Filipino,

Romanian, Chinese, and Sri Lanka; Filipino, Indian, Russian,

Ukrainian, Latvian, and Norwegian. We visited the first ship

last Sep., the third and the fourth ships last Nov. There was

only one Indian Christian on the fifth ship, an ordinary

seaman. (See pic. 7, the one in the middle is the O.S.) Prayed

with them and blessed the crew. A revisit on both the sixth

and the seventh ships. Made arrangement for Steven Yeboah to

pick them up to church tomorrow night on the sixth ship.


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The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you spirit. (Phm. 25)


Your brother in Christ Thomas Tao