We are now safely ensconced on the MV Doulos moored in the port of Cebu – Philippines, this is after having sailed for 2 days across the Philippine sea.
We arrived in the dead of night on Sunday /Monday after a mammoth 30 hour journey from Frankfurt – London – Hong Kong – Manila. Only one real moment of panic when Virgin wouldn’t allow all our hand luggage!
Needless to say we have been struggling to overcome our jet lag – Keith is up most of the night but the girls a re doing well. We were met by our dear old friends Heather and Edward – we were at University with Heather – they have been part of the ministry for many years and are currently the Acting Directors of the ship. We are occupying the Director’s cabin whilst they are on furlough.
The accommodation is actually great – Tessa and Izzy have their own room and Ruth has a separate cabin, our room packs up to allow hospitality through the day.
Keith has been detailed to work in the book exhibition to gain some comprehension of how the ministry works. On Sunday he is due to preach in a local church.
To find out more about OM’s ship ministry check out http://www.omships.org/ we are on the Doulos. Basically it is a huge floating book exhibition which comes to ports with a sense of a state visit. When the ship arrived in Cebu today we had a school band, local dance troupe and all sorts of quayside welcome. We are here for 3 weeks and will be involved in a wide range of ministry.
The book exhibition welcome 93000 visitors in 3 weeks in Manila – this gives a sense of how huge the contact with the local populus can be!
We are not connected to the internet very well on board so are trying to get info out we are temporarily using emails for the ship on board keith.mallon@mvdoulos.org dawn.mallon@mvdoulos.org same pattern for ruth, tessa & Isabel (spelt like that)
Hopefully you can get through to us, we tried sending out an email today and have had a few bounce back with wrong email addresses – if you didn’t get one and want one let us know! We will try to keep you informed with fresh info!
Pray we will settle in well – kids all need friends, also everything is different 30 different nationalities so we are getting a bit of culture shock – all the familiar things are just not there. The house sale seems to be going through OK……
1 comment:
Hi Dorkeef!
Found your sea legs yet?!
Sounds like you are afloat in a microcosm of the world with your 30 nationalities! Sounds like it will be good training for heaven so get ahead while you have the opportunity. You never know, you might be able to market yourselves as intercultural consultants when they let you off again!
Not much going on in Blighty..Home Office is in a pickle, we've lost the cricket to the Aussies, tax returns are due in 3 days, BA staff are about to go on strike and the good news is that the snowdrops are putting in an appearance... so only 2 months till Spring!
Have fun,
lisa (in Bath)
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