Lifeline To Seamen Ministry: 12/29/13

Dear seafarer's friends, 12/29/13 - 01/04/14

Grace and peace to you. (1Th. 1:1)

8 ships on Monday (12/30):

Agent	Vessel Name	Dock	Nationalities	Activities
GEM	EAGLE SERVICE/ENERGY	JP 4	All American	Blessed the ship.
TPH	JIA MAO SHAN	KMD	All Chinese	23 crew, none has shore pass. We were here last Aug. Left Scriptures, Gospel materials, Jesus DVDs to the ship and blessed the vessel. Shared Gospel with the captain and the chief cook. (See pic. 1.)
BIE	SKODSBORG	TEX S	Thai, and Polish	24 crew, all have shore pass. Left Jesus DVDs, Christmas gifts on board.
ISS	STOLT TOPAZ	OIL 3	Filipino, Indian, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Norwegian, Chinese, Polish, and Venezuelan	38 crew, all have shore pass. We came here last Aug. Left Christmas gifts, and blessed the vessel.
INC	BW AUTRIA	OIL 1	Filipino, Indian, Russian, and British	21 crew, all have shore pass. Left Jesus DVDs, Christmas gifts on the ship, and blessed the crew.
PRO	BW OAK	OIL 4	Filipino, Indian, and Norwegian	26 crew, all have shore pass. Left Jesus DVDs, Christmas gifts on the vessel and blessed the ship.
KCS	SOMBEKE	HAM	All Filipino	25 crew, all have shore pass. Left Gospel materials, Jesus DVD, Christmas gifts on the ship. Prayed and blessed the sailors.
NOV	THEOMITOR	CAR	All Filipino	Left Scripture, Gospel materials, and Jesus DVDs to the seafarers and blessed the ship. (See pic. 2 for some of the crew.)

Ying Dau Lu from HCC came and helped the ministry today.

1 ship on Tuesday (12/31):

BLW

JIA HUI SHAN

GP W

All Chinese

22 crew, no shore pass. We were here a year before last Jan. Left Scriptures, Gospel materials, Jesus DVDs, and Christmas gifts on board. Prayed with the captain, (see pic. 3, the one in the middle,) and blessed the sailors.

1 ship on Wednesday (01/01):

BLW

TAI HONESTY

CD 29

All Chinese

22 crew, none has shore pass. Left Christian’s testimonies DVDs, Christmas gifts on board, and blessed the vessel. (See pic. 4 for part of the crew.)

3 ships on Thursday (01/02):

HAP	AKRITAS	BC 4	All Chinese	25 crew. We were on board last Nov. Left Christmas gifts on the ship and blessed the sailors.
BLW	TAI HONESTY	CD 29	All Chinese	A revisit. Left Scriptures, Gospel materials, and Jesus DVDs on the vessel, and blessed the crew.
CNA	COSCO AQABA	BC 2	All Chinese	24 crew, only two have shore pass. We visited this ship last Oct. Left Gospel material, Christmas gifts on board and blessed the ship. (See pic. 5 for some of the crew.)

2 ships on Friday (01/03):

BLW	TAI HONESTY	CD 29	All Chinese	A revisit. Prayed the salvation prayer with the crew and blessed the ship. (See pic. 6)
BLW	JIA HUI SHAN	GP W	All Chinese	A revisit. Shared the Gospel with the captain and the crew and blessed the vessel. (See pic. 7)

Eddie Wang, Jilang Pan, and Zecheng Yang from WHCC came and helped the ministry today.

2 ships on Saturday (01/04):

BIE	HUI AN	BLK	All Chinese	24 crew, none has shore pass. There were three Christians on board, second mate, third engineer, and fourth engineer. Brought Christmas gifts, Scriptures, Christian literature and Jesus DVDs to the ship, shared Gospel with the crew and blessed the sailors. (See pic. 8 for part of the crew.)
BIE	KANG SHUN	KMD	All Chinese	A short visit. Left Gospel materials, and Christian witness DVDs, on board, and blessed the ship.

Dannis Jen from Lakewood church came and helped the ministry today.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. (1Th. 5:28)

In the year of 2,013 we visited 1,170 ships. Among them:

Sole American crew - 21 ships.

Sole Bangladesh crew – 3 ships. Mixed Bengalese crew – 14 ships.
Sole Chinese crew - 269 ships; Mixed Chinese crew - 82 ships.
Sole Croatian crew - 2 ships; Mixed Croatian crew - 14 ships.

Sole Filipino crew - 181 ships; Mixed Filipino crew - 450 ships.
Sole Indian crew - 42 ships; Mixed Indian crew - 125 ships.
Sole Indonesian crew – 1 ship; Mixed Indonesian crew – 9 ships.

Sole Latvian crew – 1 ship; Mixed Latvian crew – 20 ships.

Sole Lithuanian crew – 2 ships. Mixed Lithuanian crew - 7 ships.

Sole Myanmar crew – 10 ships; Mixed Myanmar crew – 30 ships.

Sole Peruvian crew = 6 ships; Mixed Peruvian crew – 3 ships.

Sole Polish crew - 7 ships; Mixed Polish crew - 68 ships.

Sole Romanian crew - 4 ships; Mixed Romanian crew - 86 ships.

Sole Russian crew - 34 ships; Mixed Russian crew – 194 ships.
Sole Thai crew - 3 ships; Mixed Thai crew - 7 ships.

Sole Turkish crew - 8 ships; Mixed Turkish crew - 4 ships.
Sole Ukrainian crew – 11 ships; Mixed Ukrainian crew – 218 ships.
Sole Vietnamese crew – 1 ship; Mixed Vietnamese crew – 12 ships.

Mixed African crew – 2 ships. Mixed Aruba crew – 2 ships.

Mixed Bahamian crew – 1ship. Mixed British crew – 7 ships.

Mixed Bulgarian crew - 20 ships. Mixed Chilean crew – 1 ship.

Mixed Danish crew – 5 ships. Mixed Dutch crew – 9 ships.

Mixed Egyptian crew – 1 ship. Mixed Estonian crew – 3 ships.

Mixed European crew – 1 ship. Mixed Georgian crew – 8 ships.

Mixed German crew – 16 ships. Mixed Ghanaian crew – 11 ships.

Mixed Greek crew - 31 ships. Mixed Guiana crew - 1 ship.

Mixed Honduras crew – 1ship. Mixed Hungarian – 1 ship.

Mixed Italian crew – 10 ships. Mixed Jamaican – 1 ship.

Mixed Japanese crew – 3 ships. Mixed Kiribati crew – 1 ship.

Mixed Korean crew – 26 ships. Mixed Luxemburg crew - 1ship.
Mixed Malaysian crew – 11 ships. Mixed Maldivian crew – 1 ship.
Mixed Mexican crew – 2 ships. Mixed Montenegrin – 2 ships.

Mixed Norwegian crew – 11 ships. Mixed Pakistan crew – 3 ships.

Mixed Portuguese crew – 1 ship. Mixed Scottish crew – 1 ship.

Mixed Singaporean crew – 9 ships. Mixed South African crew – 2 ships.

Mixed South American – 1 ship. Mixed Spanish crew - 1 ship.

Mixed Sri Lanka crew - 16 ships. Mixed Swedish crew – 3 ships.

Mixed Switzerland crew – 1 ship. Mixed Tuvalu crew – 1 ship.

Mixed Venezuelan crew – 3 ships. Mixed Yugoslavian crew – 1 ship.

Seafarers Receiving Ministry:

American – 24; Bangladesh – 20;British – 5; Bulgarian - 20;

Chilean – 2; Chinese - 3,200; Croatian – 15; Danish – 5; Dutch – 10; Egyptian – 4;

Filipino – 2,200; German – 20; Ghanaian – 12; Hungarian – 1;

Indian - 700; Japanese – 3; Kiribati – 2; Korean - 20; Luxemburg – 2;