07/31/11 - 08/06/11

Dear seafarer's friends, 07/31/11 - 08/06/11

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

ships visited this week
5 ships on Monday (08/01):
Vessel Name
Nationalities
Activities
STAR JAVA
All Filipino
Prayed and blessed the ship. (See pic. 1 for part of the crew)
KATHARINA
All Romania
We visited the ship last Apr. Left the Scripture and Jesus films.
ALGOA BAY
Myanmar, and Polish
We visited the ship last Jan. Prayed and blessed the crew. Left the Gospel materials.
BBC FRANCE
Russian, Ukrainian, and German
We were on the ship two years before last Apr. Left the Scriptures and materials.
IKAN SEPAT
Filipino, Myanmar, Ghanaian, and
Chinese
We were on the ship last Jan. (See pic. 2 for some of the crew on board). Prayed with them and left some Scriptures and Jesus DVDs on the ship.
Ying Dau Lu from Houston Chinese Church came helped the ministry today.

7 ships on Tuesday (08/02):
ATLANTIC PEARL
All Filipino
We were on this ship a year before last Jun. Prayed and blessed the ship.
STOLT SPAN
Filipino,
Russian, and Latvian
Prayed and blessed the crew.
HELEN BOLTEN
Filipino,
Chinese, Polish, and Russian
(See pic. 3 for the chief cook on the right). (See pic. 4 for the third officer on the right). Steve was sharing the Gospel with him. He was willingly to receive the Lord in his heart.
CHEMICAL MASTER
Filipino, Indian,
Chinese, and Bengalese
We were on the ship last May. There was one Indian Christian, chief cook on board, (See pic. 5, the one on the right is he). Steve preached to the Chinese fourth engineer, he was very close to salvation. (See pic. 6 for the Chinese guy).
MAERSK KAYA
Filipino, Thai, Indian, Russian, and British
Left Scriptures, Gospel materials and Jesus DVDs on board. Prayed and blessed their families.
SICHEM MARSEILLE
All Indian
There was only one Christian on board, the chief cook. Prayed and blessed the crew.
NAVIG8 FIDELITY
All Indian
We were on the ship two years before last Jun. There were three Christians on board, chief cook, chief engineer, and a pump man. (See pic. 7 for some of the crew). Prayed and blessed the ship.
Hsiao Ping Chao from West Houston Chinese Church came and helped the ministry today.

3 Ships on Thursday (08/04):
ZIA BELLE
All Filipino
Left the Scripture and Jesus movie on the ship.
MAASE
All Indian
There were two Christians on board, chief cook and the second officer. (See pic. 8 for some of the crew). Prayed and blessed the ship.
MARITEC
All Chinese
An initial visit on boat. (See pic. 9 for part of the crew).

7 Ships on Friday (08/05):
JBU ORIENT
All Filipino
Prayed and blessed the crew’s families.
NIPPON HIGHWAY
All Filipino
We visited the ship last May. Prayed and blessed the crew.
NORGAS INNOVATION
Filipino, Chinese, and Russian
Not allowed to go into the mess room. So we gave them the Scriptures and materials at the gangway
OVERSEAS LUXMAR
All American
They are all American citizens, but mostly immigrants from other countries.
VINCA
All Indonesia
(See pic. 10 for one of the seaman on board). Prayed and blessed the ship.
FEDERAL SCHELDE
All Indian
There were four Christians on board, chief officer, second officer, two able seamen. (See pic. 11 for part of the crew).
MARITEC
All Chinese
A revisit from yesterday. (See pic. 12 for some of the crew). They don’t have shore pass, so, I helped the chief cook to buy a computer form Best Buy.
Someone from Fort Bend Community Church came and helped the ministry today.

2 Ships on Saturday (08/06):
MARITEC
All Chinese
Helped the chief mate to buy an iphone. Dennis shared the Scripture with them on board
FORTUNE BIRD
All Chinese
Prayed and blessed the ship. (See pic. 13 from left to right, chief mate, captain, and chief engineer). We took chief cook and bosun to Wal Mart.
Dennis Jen from Lakewood Church came and helped the ministry.

An email from Bro Ireneo Pavia on MT MAEMI II:
We have had bible study for the last two Sundays since we left Houston on 15th July. And God is always good.
He has so many million ways touching the lives of every living soul. Two Indians (a Catholic & Hindi) and
7 Filipinos attended the bible study. Please include them in your prayer list.

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