‘Two horses and a tea bag’, by Elisabeth Grant *** During my first few years with MV Logos+++ I was based most of the time on board the vessel. However occasionally some of us would leave the confines of the ship and harbour. We would venture inland with one of the ship’s vehicles for a …
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What A Life!
‘West Watch’, London, April 1994 (George is in middle of 2nd row) It is now 4 months since George Verwer went to be with Jesus. He was the co-founder of Operation Mobilisation (OM). I spent most of my 20s and 30s with this international Christian organisation. A vocational and spiritual home that has profoundly shaped …
Hidden Connections
MV Logos at night in Sydney, Australia Aug 24 - Sep 10, 1979 In a number of posts I relate stories from years worked in ‘line up’ for the ship MV Logos. The job involved various assignments around the world - see line up if you wish to know more about what representing the ship and preparing …
Elastic Band Training
Port visitors to the MV Logos For 6 months when I first joined the MV Logos my work was in the deck department as an AB ('able-bodied') seaman. Then for almost a year I was a member of two consecutive training programmes each lasting 5-6 months. Long before the widespread use of computers the programme was …
Strangers and Pilgrims – Coming Home
For some weeks in 1979 I visited what was then Western Samoa in the South Pacific. An independent state it became known in 1997 simply as Samoa. Not to be confused with the American territory of American Samoa which lay to the south east! W. Samoa consists mainly of two inhabited islands in the midst …