Saturday, March 5, 2011

02/27/11 - 03/05/11

Dear seafarer's friends, 02/27/11 - 03/05/11

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lore Jesus
Christ. (Gal. 1:4)

ships visited this week
6 ships on Monday:
STAR FLORIDA, SHIRAKAMI, and SAFMARINE KWANZA
- All Filipino; All Filipino; All Ukrainian. We were on the first
ship last Oct., the second ship last Aug., the last ship last Dec.
Prayed with them and blessed the ships. Receptive.
JIA XING, SAT NUNKI, and SILVER PHOENIX - All
Chinese; All Chinese; Indian, and one Chinese. A revisit on the
first ship from two weeks ago. (See pic. 1 for the captain on the
left). We were on the second ship last Nov. There were five
Indian Christians on the last ship, chief cook, second cook,
second officer, one ordinary seaman, and electrician. (See pic. 2
for some of the Indian crew on board). (See pic. 3 for the only
one Chinese third engineer on the ship). Steven was
evangelizing him. he was very close to salvation.
Steven Chao from WHCC came and helped the ministry today.
7 ships on Tuesday:
TARGALE, EGS TIDE, SCM FEDRA, and TORM
MOSELLE - All Russian; Indonesian, and Ukrainian; Filipino,
Russian, and Croatian; All Indian. We visited the first ship last
Apr., the third ship last Sep. There were four Indonesian
Christians on the second ship, second mate, third engineer, one
ordinary seaman, and one motorman. There were five
Christians on the last ship, chief cook, second cook, bosun,
fitter, and electrician. (See pic. 4 for part of the crew). Prayed
with them and blessed the crew.
DA PENG HAI, C.S. RAINBOW, and WAVE FRIEND - All
Chinese; All Chinese; All Chinese. (See pic. 5 for part of the
crew on the first ship). (See pic. 6 for some of the crew on the
crew on the last ship). There were two believers on board.
Preyed with them and blessed their families.
Steven Chao from WHCC came and helped the ministry again
this week.
2 ships on Wednesday:
C.S. RAINBOW, and IKAN ALTAMIRA - All Chinese;
Filipino, Chinese, Myanmar, and Ghanaian. Took four seamen
(See pic. 7) to Wal Mart. Prayed with them and gave them
Bible, Jesus film, and Christian testimonial materials. An initial
visit on the second ship.
7 ships on Thursday:
NS SILVER, NORTHERN WOLVERINE, ACM DAISY,
FAABORG, and NCC SUDAIR - All Russian; All Russian; All
Ukrainian; Russian, and Filipino; Russian, Indian, and Filipino.
We visited the fourth ship last Jan. A Filipino seaman wanted
me to pray for him and his family on the last ship. All receptive.
EAGLE KLANG, and NORDOCEAN - Indian, Filipino, and
three Chinese; Filipino, Peruvian, Sri Lanka, Polish, Romanian,
Bulgarian, and one Chinese. There were two Indian Christians
on the first ship, a motorman, and a pump man. (See pic. 8 for
Chinese second mate on board). We prayed together and
blessed the crew. (See pic. 9 for the only Chinese engine cadet
on the far left on the second ship). Prayed with him and for
the ship.
10 ships on Friday:
LAKE HAKONE, AS ORELIA, ATLANTIC FALCON,
ONEGTO CHINOOK, GASCHEM BALTIC, RICKMERS
SINGAPORE, KENT SUNSET, and IKAN ATAMIRA - All
Filipino; All Filipino; Filipino, and Korean; Filipino, and Polish;
Filipino, German, and Polish; Filipino, Sri Lanka, and
Romanian; Filipino, Dutch, Ukrainian, and Russian; Filipino,
Chinese, Myanmar, and Ghanaian. We were on the sixth ship
last Oct. A revisit on the last ship. Prayed with them and they
all responsive.
MARIENBORG, and CLIPPER GOLPITO - All Thai;
Myanmar, and Croatian. There were two Myanmar Christians
on the second ship, fourth engineer, and an able seaman.
1 ship on Saturday:
IKAN ATAMIRA - Filipino, Chinese, Myanmar, and Ghanaian.
This time was a revisit. Ten of us were singing and witnessing
to the Chinese crew. We also did the personal evangelism to
four individuals including a Filipino electrician. (See pic. 10, the
one on the left is the chef cook). (See pic. 11, the one on the
right is an cadet). Prayed with them and blessed their families.
The response was positive.
This month is the Mission Month for Fort Bend Community
Church. Jason Chow, Sulisa Lo, Kun Liu, Powei Feng, Tianmu
Zang, Gordon Ruan, Chaoran Yang, and one anonymity from
FBCC. Some of them are students from Rice Univ. And
Yingdau Lu from Houston Chinese Church came and helped
the ministry today. (See pic. 12 & 13)

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
(Gal. 6:18)




























































































































































































































































































Your brother in Christ Thomas Tao
www.lifelinetoseamen.org
832-775-5074

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