06/19/11 - 06/25/11

Dear seafarer's friends, 06/19/11 - 06/25/11

Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance. (Jude 2)

ships visited this week
5 ships on Monday:
AMUR STAR, STOLT NORLAND, FULL WEALTH, SEA LILY, and
SAT BELLATRIX - Filipino, German, and Polish; All Russian; All
Chinese; All Chinese; All Chinese. We visited the third ship and
the last ship just last weekend. (See pic. 1 for some of the
crew on the fourth ship). (See pic. 2 for some of the crew on
the last ship). Prayed with them and blessed the crew.
Ying Dau Lu from Houston Chinese Church came and helped
the ministry today.
5 ships on Tuesday:
KARAWEIK, A.S. OCTAVIA, RICKMERS SHANGHAI, NORD BRIGHT,
and FULL WEALTH - All Filipino; All Filipino; Filipino, and
Romanian; All Russian; All Chinese - We were on the third
ship last Jan. The last ship yesterday. (See pic. 3 for part of
the crew and the captain, second from the right). (See pic. 4
for the Christian captain Sun in the middle). Prayed with them
and blessed the crew. Took the fourth engineer to Wal Mart.
and Macy's.
Steven Chao from West Houston Chinese Church came and
helped the Lifeline to Seamen ministry today.
1 ship on Wednesday:
FULL WEALTH - All Chinese. We went to the ship yesterday. I
just came by myself today. I gave the captain some Christian
literature , shared some thoughts about the Scripture and we
prayed together for our families and for the crew.
7 ships on Thursday:
GLOBAL SAIKAI, GDF SUEZ GHENT, MINERVA LISA, NIKATOR,
AMOREA, IZUMO PRINCESS, and XENIA - All Filipino; All Filipino;
Filipino, and Greek; Filipino, and Greek; Filipino, and Greek;
Filipino, and Greek; Latvian, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian. (See pic.
5 for part of the crew on the fifth ship). (See pic. 6 for part of
the crew on the last ship).
An anonymous person from Fort Bend Community Church, and
Jason Skinner from WHCC came and helped the ministry today.
3 ships on Friday:
JO KIRI, E.R. BRIGHTON, and YELLOWSTONE - All Filipino; All
Filipino; Myanmar, and Polish. We visited the first ship last Jul.,
the last ship last week. (See pic. 7 for an able seaman and me
on the first ship). Prayed with them and blessed the ships.
5 ships on Saturday:
CHEMROUTE BRILLIANT, BOW RIYAD, SAFMARINE TEXAS, SPAR
URSA, and FORMOSA THIRTEEN - Filipino, and Korean; Filipino,
Norwegian, and Irish; Filipino, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian; All
Indian; All Chinese. We were on the second ship last Aug., the
third ship last Apr., the last ship just last year. (See pic. 8 for
the captain, and pic. 9 for part of the crew on the last ship).
Prayed with them and blessed the ships.

To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you
before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy - to
the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority,
through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages now and
forevermore! Amen. (Jude 24,25)

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