The Annual General Meeting and Consultative Forum of the International Christian Maritime Association are set to meet in Penang, Malaysia.
These events are opportunities for all 28 members of ICMA to come together. At these meetings the members participate in discussions and workshops on pressing issues relevant to seafarers’ ministry. The membership advise the Executive [...]
The ICMA education and training brochure has recently been updated.
The brochure is now available to download from the ‘ICMA education and training’ page on this website. Follow the link to the left of the page.
Click here for more information about the forthcoming Seafarers Ministry Training, Cape Town, Oct-Nov 2010
Reverend Martina Platte, chair of ICMA’s [...]
ICMA is pleased to announce that Seafarers Ministry Training (SMT) will take place this year in Cape Town, South Africa, 31 October to 12 November.
The course is especially aimed at those who have recently begun working in seafarers ministry. Participants must be nominated, or have their applications endorsed, by their employing organisations.
Please note that the [...]
ICMA General Secretary Rev Hennie La Grange calls on all staff of seafarers’ centres to participate in our project. Share your ideas and your resources. Help us to make more seafarers’ centres successful.
Do you have wonderful ideas that make your seafarers’ centre successful? Then send them to us so that we can share with [...]
In February, members of ICMA participated in presenting a training course in Panama, a joint venture of ICMA, ICSW and the ITF. The delegates were mostly chaplains and welfare workers from ICMA member societies. They came from Honduras, Colombia, Panama, Venezuela and Ecuador. The course, which was delivered in Spanish, covered:
pastoral care
ecumenism and ICMA
seafarers rights
trauma [...]
