The Seamen’s Church Institute (SCI) of New York and New Jersey has appointed Paige Sato as the new Program Manager for its 112-year-old volunteer knitting program, Christmas at Sea.
And so preparations for Christmas 2010 begin in earnest. Many ICMA members visit ships bearing gifts at Christmas. And many of those gifts will be beanies [...]
On 24 July 2010 the BBC reported on the Mission to Seafarers’ launch, the Flying Angel.
Click here to see the report.
Inchcape Shipping Services writes on its website
http://www.iss-shipping.com/port_transit_flying.asp
The duty of the “Flying Angel” is to bring rest and recreation to seafarers at Fujairah anchorage
Some unique specifics
o The world’s first seafarers’ support boat.
o 27 meters long, offering [...]
In our series of articles celebrating International Year of the Seafarer, Pastor Toon van der Sande describes how chaplains and ship owners can work together for seafarers.
Every ship has an owner, responsible for the seafarers who work on his ship.
Inside the companies, people have to care for seafarers, as seafarers have to take care of [...]
Fr Paulo Prigol and his team offer pastoral care to seafarers between contracts
Last month we reported on the Party in the Park, a great celebration of seafarers in Manila, capital of the Philippines. The park in question was Luneta Park where many seafarers gather when they come to the capital in order to secure their [...]
At Pentecost we celebrate that the Holy Spirit came to live in us.
What has often disturbed me about that is that we continue to fail dismally at living right. Surely the Spirit should equip us to know better than to sin and to be better at living?
But then, we should not divorce the Holy Spirit [...]
