ICMA proudly announces the accreditation of its first training course, The Seafarers’ Environmental Education Workshop for Port Chaplains and Ship Visitors. Originally developed by ICMA member the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York and New Jersey, ICMA’s Standing Committee for Education and Training (SCET) have approved and endorsed the course for presentation to ICMA personnel. [...]
Registration for Seafarers’ Ministry Training, Cape Town, November 2011, closes on Friday September 30th. Seafarers’ Ministry Training (SMT) is the flagship education programme of the International Christian Maritime Association. The next session will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, 13-25 November 2011. After a recent meeting in London, ICMA’s Chairman and member of the [...]
Seafarers’ Ministry Training course held in Cape Town, South Africa, November 2010. Seafarers’ Ministry Training (SMT) is the flagship education programme of the International Christian Maritime Association. This year, new guidelines were implemented based on the new Terms of Reference and an updated curriculum proposed by the ICMA Standing Committee for Education and Training (SCET). There [...]
Port chaplains from East Asia join representatives of ICMA member organisations working together for seafarers Three important events took place last week: the ICMA Annual General Meeting, the Consultative Forum, and the East Asia Regional Conference. ICMA general secretary, Rev Hennie la Grange joined representatives of the 28 ICMA member organisations and more than 20 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
