07/10/11 - 07/16/11

Dear seafarer's friends, 07/10/11 - 07/16/11

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ. (1 Co. 1:3)

ships visited this week
1 ship on Sunday:
IKAN ACAPULCO - All Filipino. I took two seamen,
Aries the able seaman and Jesse a wiper to West Houston
Chinese Church for English Sunday School and Worship
Service. Then we went to Best Buy in the afternoon. We
prayed before we depart from each other.
8 ships on Monday:
DIAMOND GLORY, AS ELBIA, SHIPPAN ISLAND,
and SEABOARD RELIANCE - All Filipino; All Filipino;
Filipino, and Russian; Filipino, Indian, and Polish. We visited
the first ship last Jan., the third ship last Apr., the last ship last
Aug. Prayed with them and blessed the ships.
VIL ATLANTIC, ADAM ASNYK, PORT MOUTON, and
FULL RICH - Russian, and Sri Lanka; All Polish; All Chinese;
All Chinese. We visited the second ship last Mar., the last ship
last Aug. (See pic. 1 for some of the crew on the last ship,
second one from the right is bosun). (See pic. 2 for the captain
second one from the right). We shared the Gospel with the
ones in the second pic. They all agreed to pray the salvation
prayer with us. An initial visit on the third ship.
Ying Dau Lu from Houston Chinese Church came and helped
the ministry today.
4 ships on Tuesday:
BW PRINCE, GULF PEARL, VALLOMBROSA, and
PORT MOUTON - All Filipino; Filipino, Romanian, Indian,
and Bengalese; Italian, and Indian; All Chinese. We were on
the first ship a year before last Aug., the last ship yesterday.
(See pic. 3 for part of the crew on the second ship). (See pic.
4 & 5 for some of the crew on the last ship). Hsiao Ping
was trying to shared the Gospel to them, wishing all of them
could be saved by his talk. It was close.
Hsiao Ping Chao from West Houston Chinese Church came
and helped the ministry today.
5 ships on Thursday:
STAR EVVIVA, MARITIME TAESHIO, SCARLET IBIS,
RICKMERS SINGAPORE, and NS POWER - All Filipino;
Filipino, and Korean; Filipino, Indian, and Ukrainian; Filipino,
Romanian, and Sri Lanka; All Russian. We visited the first ship
last May. (See pic. 6 for part of the crew on board). Prayed
with them and blessed the ship. (See pic. 7 for some of the
crew on the third ship. The one sits there is the captain.) We
were on the fourth ship last Mar. (See pic. 8 for one Sri Lanka
on the left and one Filipino on the right on board). Prayed with
them and blessed the crew. We visited the fifth ship a year
before last May.
8 ships on Friday:
VICTORIA KOSAN, OVERSEAS SPINOS, MAEMI II,
COVE ISLAND, SITEAM LEADER, TAGUS, AZOV SEA,
and SKAFTAFELL - All Filipino; All Filipino; Filipino, and
Indian; Filipino, and Russian; Filipino, Russian, and Latvian;
Filipino, Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish; All Russian; All
Russian. We visited the first ship just a year ago, the third ship
last Oct. (See pic. 9 the chief engineer in the middle, pic. 10
the one on the far right). This Filipino chief engineer's name is
Ireneo Pavis. He took the seminar of the Church on the Ocean
from the Philippines. Philip Vandercook in New Orleans
emailed me to contact Ireneo, so I came. This was amazing. We
were on the fourth ship last May, the fifth ship last Jan., the last
ship a year before last May. Prayed with them and blessed the
ships.
Someone from FBCC came and helped the ministry today.
2 ships on Saturday:
HARBOUR CLOUD, and MEGAN C - Filipino, and Russian;
Filipino, Russian, and Romanian. We visited the first ship two
years before last May. (See pic. 11 & 12 for some of the crew).
Prayed for the ship and blessed the crew. Gave them Scriptures
and Jesus DVDs.
Ying Dau Lu,and Janet Shiu from HCC came and helped the
ministry today.

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. My love to all of you in
Christ Jesus. Amen. (1 Co. 16: 23, 24)

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