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Celebrating Christmas at Sea

Image: Chaplain James Kollin of the Seamen’s Church Institute with a seafarer wearing a new watch cap and scarf. While crinkled tinsel hangs in the mess room and a slightly battered artificial tree is pulled from storage, Christmas on ships is a mouse’s crumb compared to the holiday most of us know. But things are […]

Bien-être des marins en Afrique francophone

L’ICMA tenait en octobre dernier sa 11e conférence mondiale sous le thème de « 50 years of Working Together for Seafarers, Fishers and their Families ». À cette occasion, 264 délégués des 27 organisations regroupées au sein de l’ICMA se sont réunis pendant près d’une semaine à Kaoshiung, Taïwan. Nous avons profité de cette occasion pour discuter avec […]

What we achieved at the ICMA World Conference 2019 and the fun we had along the way

by Kevin Walker, NAMMA ICMA’s 11th World Conference was held over the week of 21-25 October in the Taiwanese port city of Kaohsiung, hosted by the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan’s Seafarers’ and Fishers’ Service Center (PCT SFSC).  By all accounts a great success, the conference gave us an opportunity to celebrate ICMA’s 50th anniversary; strengthen […]

Giving in Secret

By Rev. Stefan Francke, SWPO Homily ICMA World Conference Kaohsiung 2019 – Tuesday October 22 Matthew 6.1-4 “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. “So when you give to the needy, do not […]

Promises

Photo: Ship Portrait: Challenge Phoenix. Louis Vest. Flickr. By Rev. Mark Lawson-Jones, Port Chaplain – South Wales, Mission to Seafarers ’That’s Life’ Eventually we discover that people will let us down, they will promise things they won’t deliver. You might be thinking this is a rather pessimistic way to start an article, you might be […]

Stevedores, Longshoremen and Dockers

(Image: Longshoremen on a New York dock loading barrels of corn syrup onto a barge on the Hudson. Photograph by Lewis Hine. c. 1912 [Public Domain]) by Rev. David Reid MA AFNI Rose George the British author of Ninety Per Cent of Everything (Henry Holt, 2013) describes the business of shipping as the system that delivers food on your […]

Sister Mary Leahy and Deacon Ricardo Rodriguez-Martos on Working with the Port Community

ICMA World Conference 2019 By Kevin Walker   One highlight of October 22, the second day of the ICMA 2019 World Conference in Kaohsiung, was a lively panel entitled “A Unified Voice for our Work Together.”  Deacon Ricardo Rodriguez-Martos’ presentation on the port community, Douglas Stevenson’s on ICMA’s involvement in the MLC 2006, and Andy […]

ICMA Conference Opening Day

By Kevin Walker, NAMMA The first day of the ICMA World Conference 2019 has been full of entertainment, culture, ceremony, and fellowship among Christian maritime welfare workers.  Attendees have already seen in today’s activities the importance of our unity in service to seafarers, fishers, and their families; the diversity of people that God has called […]

A Letter to St. Francis

by  Fr. Arnaud de Boisseau, Chaplain, Port of Casablanca, Morocco,  May 2016.   (Translated by Jason Zuidema. Original French text in: François d’Assise et Marseille, ed. Mgr Jean-Marc Aveline, Auxiliary bishop of Marseille, Institut Catholique de la Mediteranée, 2016. Used with permission.)   St. Francis, I do not dare. I dare not write to you. I don’t […]

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