Dear seafarer's friends,                                                                                 04/15/12 - 04/21/12 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. (Rom. 1:7) ships visited this week, 7 ships on Monday (04/16): Vessel Name Nationalities Activities     PORTOROZ All Filipino Prayed and blessed their crew. LADY GLORIA All Filipino Prayed and blessed the vessel. CLIPPER TOBAGO Filipino, and Polish  Left Scriptures, and Jesus DVDs on this ship. SEVEN SEAS HIGHWAY Filipino, Bulgarian, and Ukrainian (See pic. 1 for some of the crew.) Prayed and blessed their families. LADYTRAMP Indonesian, and Croatian Left Scripture and Jesus DVD on board. CHANG HANG CANG HAI All Chinese Left Scriptures, Gospel materials, and Jesus DVDs on board. (See pic. 2 for part of the crew.) ARISTO RIVER All Chinese We were on board last Oct. It’s an initial visit this time. Ying Dau Lu from Houston Chinese Church came for the ship visiting and also visited the two injured Chinese seamen at Hermann Hospital. 9 ships on Tuesday (04/10): ARISTO RIVER All Chinese Prayed and blessed the ship. (See pic. 3 for Hsiao Ping and the chief cook.) Hsial Ping Chao from West Houston Chinese Church came to visit the two injured Chinese seamen and helped the ship visitation today. No ship visiting on Wednesday (04/18): Ying Dau Lu, Jung Eng from Houston Chinese Church, Nancy Tao and I visited the two injured Chinese seamen at Hermann Hospital this afternoon. The carpenter asked for baptism, The OS wanted it too. So we baptized them in their rooms in the Hospital. (See picture 4 & 5.) The OS will go back to China soon. The hospital there can take over the case after he gets back. But the carpenter probably will stay here longer. Please pray for their recovery.  No ship visiting on Thursday (04/19): Steve Yeboah and I went to the weekly Chaplains gathering at Houston International Seafarers Centers.They have already listed our names as their Chaplains, so we'll be able to go through the security guards of all the docks. In order to fulfill our obligation we need to visit the ships with HISC under the name Lifeline to Seamen, Inc. once a week and serve the day duty or night duty at HISC as a group under LTS once 6 hours a week. 4 ships on Friday (04/20): TANJA KOSAN All Filipino Prayed and blessed their ship. UBC SYDNEY Filipino, and Australian Left Scripture, Gospel material, and Jesus DVDs on board. ORIENTAL HARMONY Filipino, and Korean Prayed and blessed the crew. FEDERAL FRANKLIN Chinese, and Myanmar Left Scriptures, Gospel materials, Jesus DVDs,  Christians literature on board. Someone from Fort Bend Community Church, Payton Huang form West Houston Chinese Church, and Steve Yeboah from Christ First Healing Church came to visited the two injured Chinese seamen at Hermann Hospital. Actually we were there to see them off. Because the insurance company had already determined to send them back to China today. Please keep on praying for their recovery. 7 ships on Saturday (04/21): FORTUNE EPOCH  All Filipino We were on this ship last Dec. Prayed and blessed their boat. PLEASANT SKY All Filipino Prayed and blessed their families. LUCY SNUG Filipino, Italian, and Romanian We visited the ship last Jul. Blessed the ship. HANS BOYE Russian, Danish, and Tuvalu We were on board last May. Left Scriptures, Gospel materials and Jesus DVDs for the crew. THEKLA All Russian Left Scripture and Jesus DVD on board. YUNGA All Chinese We visited this ship last Jan. Prayed and blessed their crew. We left Scriptures, Christian literatures, and Jesus DVDs on board. ARISTO RIVER All Chinese Short visit. (See pic. 6 for the second mate on the left.) Ying Dau Lu from Houston Chinese Church came and helped the ministry today. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you. (Rom. 16:20) God bless all LTS staff www.lifelinetoseamen.org 832-775-5074