Lifeline To Seamen Ministry: 09/30/12

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Dear seafarer's friends, 09/30/12 -10/06/12
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lore Jesus Christ. (Gal. 1:4)

Ships visited this week

1 ship on Sunday(09/30):

Vessel Name	Nationalities	Activities
FORTUNE BIRD	All Chinese	An oiler’s high blood pressure medication went out. We brought for him. He said to me he didn’t believe in Jesus before but now he does. Some other seamen were there, and we gave glory to the Lord.

4 ships on Monday (10/01):

GAS CRYSTAL	All Filipino	16 crew, they don’t have shore passes. Left Gospel materials and Jesus DVD on board. (See pic. 1 for some of the crew.)
MAPLE 3	Filipino, and Ukrainian	19 crew, they all have shore passes. Left Gospel materials and Jesus DVD on the ship.
GLENDA MEREDITH	Indian, and Bengalese	22 crew, they all have shore passes. Prayed and blessed the ship. (See pic. 2 for part of the crew.)
STX ACE 5	Korean, and Chinese	A revisit on the vessel.

Ying Dau Lu from Houston Chinese Church came and volunteer for the ministry today.

4 ships on Tuesday (10/02):

RICKMERS SINGAPORE	Filipino, Polish, Romanian, Sri Lanka, and Chinese	We were on board last Nov. Left Gospel materials, Christian literature, and Jesus DVD on board.
STX ACE 5	Korean, and Chinese	A revisit. Left Christian Newspaper on the ship.
STARGOLD TRADER	All Chinese	A revisit. Left Christian literature on board. (See pic. 3 for part of the crew.)
FORTUNE BIRD	All Chinese	A revisit. Left Christian Newspaper on the vessel. (See pic. 4 for one of the crew.)

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

3 ships on Wednesday (10/03):

FPMC 24	All Chinese	We were on board last May. Shared the Gospel with them. Left Scriptures, Christian literature, and Jesus DVDs to the crew.
FPMC 20	Indian, and Filipino	We were here in Jul. Left Gospel materials, and Jesus DVD on board. (See pic. 5 for part of the crew.) Prayed and blessed the crew.
RICKMERS SINGAPORE	Filipino, Polish, Romanian, Chinese, and Ukrainian	We visited this ship a year before last Jul. Left Jesus DVDs, and Gospel materials on the ship. (See pic. 6 for one Chinese able seaman on the right.)

Someone from Fortbend Community Church came and helped the visiting today.

2 ships on Friday (10/05):

BW HUDSON	Filipino, and Indian	We visited this vessel last Dec. (See pic. 7 for the only one Filipino, third engineer on the left.) Prayed and blessed the crew. Left Gospel materials, and Jesus DVDs on board.
PBBC MOIN	Filipino, Russian, Ukrainian, and Croatian	Left Scriptures, Gospel materials, and Jesus DVDs on board. Prayed and blessed their families.

Eddie Wang from West Houston Chinese Church came and volunteered for the ministry today.

2 ships on Saturday (10/06):

FEDERAL MARGAREE	All Indian, one Sri Lanka	Left Gospel materials, and Jesus DVDs to the ship. 20 crew on board. All of them have shore passes. There were five Christians on board, chief cook, bosun, third mate, and two able seamen. (See pic. 8 for some of the crew. Second one from the right is the captain from Sri Lanka.)
BERNORA	All Indian	We were on board last Jun. 19 crew. Ship is sailing tonight. Prayed with two Hindus and blessed their vessel.