The Houston School’s 2020 Session A weeklong course on maritime ministry has once again been hosted by the Houston International Seafarers’ Center (HISC) and NAMMA with the endorsement of AOS United States and ICMA. Instructors taught on a range of topics, some focused more on connecting with seafarers, others on the organizational aspects of seafarers’ […]
The theme of 2019’s NAMMA conference in Charleston, SC was studying connections and disconnections in our modern world. After leaving the conference, I continued to reflect on that theme, especially to do with what ship visitors do on a daily basis. Connecting and disconnecting with others is so normal an experience that we often do […]
Photo: Fidel Labrador with Susanne Hergoss, Felix Tolle, and Dr. Wolfgang Baumeier. Deutsches Seemannsheim Hamburg – Krayenkamp. by Susan Huppert, NAMMA Dotted around the globe are people drawn by compassion to care for those who work at sea. An interlocking of hands and hearts provides hope and encouragement to families of seafarers, spiritual nourishment to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]
After three days of enjoying our Taiwanese colleagues’ hospitality, on Wednesday evening the attendees of the ICMA 2019 World Conference finally got to visit our hosts at their center in the Kaohsiung fishing port and see the work that they do. In the late afternoon, all 250+ of us boarded tour buses and, accompanied by […]
