04/10/11 - 04/16/11

Dear seafarer's friends, 04/10/11 - 04/16/11

Grace and peace to you. (1Th. 1:1)

ships visited this week
4 ships on Monday:
STAR HERDLA, VEGA SPRING, HARBOUR FEATURE, and
TAIXING - All Filipino; Indian, and one Russian; All Ukrainian;
All Chinese. We were on the first ship last Jun. This was just
an initial visit. There were six Christians on the second ship,
captain, chief mate, chief cook, general steward, third engineer,
and an ordinary seaman. (See pic. 1 & 2 for part of the crew).
(See pic. 3, the chief cook to the left, and the g.s. to the right).
Prayed and blessed the ships. All receptive.
2 ships on Tuesday:
TROMA, and TAIXING - All Filipino; All Chinese. This was
a revisit on the second ship. (See pic. 4 for one of the crew).
We were stopped by the commissar not to go into the mess
room. So we delivered the Scripture and Jesus DVD on the
deck. Prayed with the first ship and blessed the crew.
5 ships on Thursday:
FLINTERSTREAM, VEGA SPRING, RICKMERS DALIAN,
ATLANTIC MIGHT, and HONG HING - Dutch, and
Indonesian; Indian, and one Russian; Filipino, two Chinese,
Romanian, and German; Filipino, and Chinese; All Chinese. We
were on the second ship last Monday. This was a revisit. We
visited the third ship a year before last Aug. We were on the
fourth ship last Feb. (See pic. 5 & 6 for some of the crew on
board). Shared with them about Jesus. There were two seamen
willing to accept Jesus as their friends. (See pic. 7 for some of
the crew on the last ship). Prayed with them and blessed the
ship.
7 ships on Friday:
BOW ANDINO, UBC BALBOA, SEABOARD AMERICA,
BBC VIRGINIA, ESNA, CESTENI, and TAI PROSPERITY -
All Filipino; All Filipino; Filipino, and Polish; Filipino, and
Ukrainian; All Egyptian; All Turkish; All Chinese. We were on
the sixth ship last May. Prayed and blessed the ships.
Payton Huang from WHCC came and helped the ministry
today.
5 ships on Saturday:
CHEMBULK HONG KONG, BBC ROMANIA, ATLANTIC MIGHT,
TAI PROSPERITY, and JIN ZHOU - All Indian; Russian, and
Ukrainian; Filipino, and Chinese; All Chinese; All Chinese. We
were on the first ship a year before last Jan., the second ship
last Mar. the third ship two days ago, the fourth ship yesterday,
the last ship a year before last Jul. There were five Christians on
the first ship, chief engineer, fourth engineer, and three
motorman. (See pic. 8, for part of the crew on the fourth ship).
(See pic. 9 for some of the crew on the last ship). Shared
Gospel with the captain, not much advancement.
Ying Dau Lu from HCC came and helped the ministry today.
3/22 - Steven Chao went to visit two ships, Heng Chang - All
Chinese; and Bangkok Highway - Filipino, and another country,
while I was in Manila.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. (1Th. 5:28)

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