VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY! Mission to Seafarers is looking for Cruise Ship volunteer drivers for the summer 2014 season. We need drivers on Tuesdays (one ship from Carnival), Fridays (two ships--Celebrity and Royal Caribbean), and Saturday and Sunday (two ships each day from Princess and Holland America Lines). Some drivers do it once a month, others more often than that, and some are fill in for emergencies. It is a terrific opportunity to interact with (mostly) younger folks from 70 or more countries and provide a valuable shuttle service--we hosted more than 10,000 seafarers last summer. We ask them for a $5 donation, so this is our biggest fund raiser as well. On Saturday April 12 we will be having our annual BBQ and a short training session--beginning at 11 and finishing up around 1:30 or 2 pm. Wont you join us? Feel free to bring a friend or three (we have Father and son teams of drivers, and husband and wife teams, and sometimes the family members ride shotgun and just shoot the breeze and bring a little love and joy to these hard working folks!). Peace, Ken Hawkins Executive Director Your Mission to Seafarers A reflection on Mark IV. v 1-20 Our work at the Mission is an attempt to scatter the seeds of God’s word to folks from all over the world—many from other Faiths or from no church or religious experience at all. We generally do this by example, though we have some opportunity to discuss the specifics of our Christian lives as we respond to questions like “Why do you do this work?” or “Are you a Christian?” Our work often takes root ‘in kind’—each year Seafarers ask us to help connect their parents or siblings to Mission to Seafarer locations around the World. We sometimes visit a ship that has crew from seven or eight different nations and as many or even more Faiths. We also inspire God’s work through our volunteers. In the final verse we find the real opportunity in this lesson: “Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.” This parable urges us to continue to do the Work and spread the Gospel, I think vigorously and unselfishly, with the expectation that the seed will find more good soil.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:52:58 +0000
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