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
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
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
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,
ICMA Meets the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan Seafarers’ and Fishers’ Service Center (PCT SFSC)
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
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
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
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