03/06/11 - 03/12/11

Dear seafarer's friends, 03/06/11 - 03/12/11

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ. (Eph. 1:2)

ships visited this week
5 ships on Monday:
NORD IZUMO, BBC ROMANIA, ADAM ASNYK,
VINASHIP DIAMOND, and OCEAN BELLE - Filipino, and
Japanese; Russian, and Ukrainian; All Polish; All VietNamese;
All Chinese. We visited the second ship last Dec., the third ship
last Oct. We were on the last ship last Nov. (See pic. 1 & 2 for
part of the crew). Prayed with them and blessed the crew. All
receptive.
Steven Chao from WHCC came and helped the ministry today.
4 ships on Tuesday:
LYRA LEADER, JANA, BBC PLUTO, and OCEAN BELLE
- Filipino, and Japanese; Russian, and Ukrainian; German,
Russian, and Ukrainian; All Chinese. We visited the second
ship last Jul., the last ship yesterday. Blessed the ships.
6 ships on Thursday:
QUEEN ACE, ATHENS HIGHWAY, CAVATINA, STOLT
VALOR, FPMC23, and SAT NUNKI - All Filipino; Bulgarian,
and Filipino; Swedish, and Filipino; Indian, Egyptian, and
Russian; All Chinese; All Chinese. We visited the second ship,
and the fourth ship both on last Dec. There were three Indian
Christians on the fourth ship, a pump man, a motorman, and a
wiper. There was one Christian on the fifth ship, the fourth
engineer. (See pic. 3, on the far left is the Chinese Christian
fourth engineer). (See pic. 4 & 5 for part of the crew). Prayed
with them, and they all receptive. A short visit on the last ship.
Hope the ship will stay till Saturday evening.
5 ships on Friday:
STOLT SUN, XENA, LONDON TRADER, AMAZING, and
SAT NUNKI - Filipino, and Russian; Filipino, Croatian, and
Russian; Filipino, Latvian, Russian, and Ukrainian; All Turkish;
All Chinese. We were on the first ship last Nov. A revisit on
the last ship. The ship may be sailing tonight, but we still hope
the Gospel team can come tomorrow on the ship. Prayed with
them and blessed them and they all receptive.
2 ships on Saturday:
VINASHIP DIAMOND, and AMAZING - All VietNamese;
All Turkish. Both ships were a revisit. Fifteen of us went to the
ships. We did personal evangelism to both. We sang Amazing
on the last ship. They wanted us to sing it again. (See pic. 6 for
our group). Blessed their crews. We gave them Scriptures and
Jesus DVDs. They were responsive.
Just like last week, Fort Bend Community Church sent more
(twelve) people, Wenwu He, Yi Zhang, Xiang Ouyang, Jenny
Ye, Esmond Li, Cao Zhao, Shawn Tan, Chun Li, Tony
Yeung, Deming Mao, Ke Wang, and one anonymity to help this
ministry. Yingdau Lu from Houston Chinese Church Payton
Huang from WHCC also came and helped the visitation today.

The dock reports will be stopped for two weeks, because Nancy
and I, Sandy and Yingdau Lu are going to Manila for the World
Seafarers Mission Conference. This report will resume after March
29.

Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.
(Eph. 6:24)

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