Lifeline To Seamen Ministry: 08/26/12

Dear seafarer's friends, 08/26/12 - 09/01/12
Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven
spirits before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the
dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. (Rev. 1:4,5)

ships visited this week,

7 ships on Monday (08/27):

Vessel Name	Nationalities	Activities
JO KIRI	All Filipino	We were on this ship last Jun. Prayed and blessed the ship.
STOLT CONCEPT	Filipino, Liberian, and South African	Prayed and blessed the crew.
PARAMOUNT HALIFAX	Russian, and Ukrainian	Left Scripture, and Jesus DVD on the ship.
VALBRENTA	Italian, and Indian	We visited this ship last Jun. There were eight Christians there, chief cook, general steward, chief engineer, bosun, fitter, two oilers, and one able seaman. (See pic. 1 for part of the crew.)
MAERSK MEDITERRANEAN	All Turkish	Left Gospel materials, and Jesus DVDs on board. Took one pump man to HISC.
TAI SHUN HAI	All Chinese	We went on this ship last Jun. (See pic. 2 for some of the crew.) Left current Christian materials to the crew.
CHIPOLBROK SUN	All Chinese	We were on board a year before last Jun. Initial visit this time.

Ying Dau Lu from Houston Chinese Church and Steve Yeboah from Christ First Healing

Ministry came and helped the ship visiting today.

This is the once a week ship visiting agreement which Lifeline to Seamen Inc. has been doing for

the HISC since last May.

2 ships on Tuesday (08/28):

CHIPOLBROK SUN	All Chinese	None has visa except the captain. We visited this ship a year before last Jun. Left Scriptures, Gospel materials, and Jesus DVDs on board. (See pic. 3 for part of the crew.)
OCEAN EXPORTER	All Chinese	All of them have visa. We were on board a year before last Apr. Steve Chao preached to the second mate. The captain accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior. Prayed and blessed the ship. Steve Yeboah took nine people to his church.

Hsiao Ping Chao from West Houston Chinese Church came and helped the ministry today.

1 ship on Wednesday (08/29):

OCEAN EXPORTER

All Chinese

A revisit on the ship. Took three seamen, captain, third mate, and fourth engineer to Galleriea, and Walmart. (See pic. 4.) Prayed and blessed the ship at the dinner they invited us to eat.

Ying Dau Lu from Houston Chinese Church came and helped the visiting today.

4 ships on Thursday (08/30):

PAC ATHENA	Filipino, and Chinese	We visited the ship last Nov. Left Scriptures, Gospel materials, and Jesus DVDs on board. Prayed and blessed the crew. (See pic.5 for part of the crew, taken inside of HISC)
JIN QUAN	All Chinese	(See pic. 6 for some of the crew.) Left Scriptures, Christian literature, and Jesus DVDs on the ship. Prayed and blessed their families.
OCEAN EXPORTER	All Chinese	A revisit on the ship. Steve Yeboah took six of them to his church.
HARVEST RISING	Filipino, Romanian, Indian, and Ukrainian	We ;were on board last Jan. Prayed and blessed the vessel.
TARGALE	All Russian	We were on this ship a year before last Mar. Left Jesus DVDs on board.

1 ship on Friday (08/31):

HEILAN BROTHER

All Chinese

Left Scriptures, Gospel materials, and Jesus DVDs on board. (See pic. 7 & 8 for some of the crew.) Shared the Gospel with the captain and one of the cadets. Prayed and blessed the ship.

Someone from Fort Band Community Church came and helped the ministry today.

3 ships on Saturday (09/01):

QU SHAN HAI	All Chinese	We were on board last Nov. Prayed with them and blessed the ship. (See pic. 9 for the captain second one from the left, and part of the crew on pic. 10.) Left Scriptures, Gospel materials, and Jesus DVDs for the crew. 25 crew on board. None of them has shore pass.
SICHEM EDINBURGH	All Indian	We visited the ship two years before last Mar. A short visit this time. They all have shore pass.
HENRIETTA KOSAN	All Filipino	We visited this ship last Dec. Prayed and blessed their families. They all have shore pass.