by Dr. Jason Zuidema, NAMMA Remarks delivered at the opening session of the NAMMA Conference 2022 in Baltimore, MD, August 9, 2022. In the last generation, port-based seafarers’ welfare providers have sought to adapt their services to the needs of seafarers. Smaller, more diverse crews, quicker turnaround times in port, the slow adoption of Internet […]
by Jason Zuidema – ICMA/NAMMA Introduction At the invitation of Dr. Viola Heutger, Rector of the University of Aruba, we came to Aruba for a short series of meetings to better understand the resources that could be available to offer to seafarers visiting the country. The meetings took place from June 25-29, 2022 and included […]
by Kevin Walker, NAMMA Maritime ministry has all too many open questions at the moment. Many of our most experienced chaplains and volunteers have retired, and we have new ones who have never served in normal times. Even what ‘normal’ should mean going forward is uncertain: for the better, the ILO has renegotiated the MLC, […]
Review by Jason Zuidema, NAMMA Helmut Weiss, Karl H. Federschmidt, Daniël Louw, and Linda Sauer Bredvik, ed. Care, Healing, and Human Well-Being Within Interreligious Discourses. SIPCC, 2021. Care, Healing, and Human Well-Being within Interreligious Discourses is a collection of essays from a diverse group of cultural and religious authors. The contributors tackle the challenges met […]
by Dr. Jason Zuidema, ICMA From 1-5 May 2022, the Deutsche Seemannsmission eV (DSM) gathered together its members in Germany and abroad for a World Conference under the theme “Begegnungen” (“Encounters”). The theme stressed the importance of learning about each other and being together. The conference was an opportunity for DSM team members to meet […]
by Dr. Jason Zuidema, ICMA General Secretary As part of the World Conference of the Deutsche Seemannsmission (May 1-5 in Bad Badekesa, Germany), 40 delegates took part in a story-telling workshop. The day-long workshop on May 3 was led by Dr. Anja Timmerman, historian and business coach. Timmerman’s goal was not to teach a cheap […]
by Jörn Hille, Philipp M. Manthey and Sören Wichmann (Deutsche Seemannsmission Hamburg-Harburg eV / Duckdalben International Seamen’s Club) This study was distributed by the authors as a final report on April 19, 2022. (Image: Facebook – International Seamensclub Duckdalben) Introduction The following survey was conducted by the Deutsche Seemannsmission in March 2022 (11-25 Mar. 2022) […]
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. by Leïla Choukroune and Elisabeth Mavropoulou While the world’s eyes have been on civilian casualties, forced displacement and potential war crimes on Ukrainian land, the plight of hundreds of seafarers trapped in commercial ships for the past several months […]
From April 20-22, 2022, NAMMA met in Boston for its first in-person regional meeting since the before the pandemic. The event was hosted by New England Seafarers’ Mission and guests stayed at the historic Mariner’s House in Boston’s North End. Boston serves as a wonderful place for a NAMMA meeting, as it has been home […]
by Deacon Paul Rosenblum, President, NAMMA “So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” I’m sure you recognize this as the last line from the 13th Chapter of St. Paul’s 1st Letter to the Corinthians, the culmination of his message on the overarching role of love in everything we […]
