Mission Aboard the Logos Ship

San Fernando Church Partners with Visiting Ship The “Logos Hope” a humanitarian ship, carrying the world’s largest floating book fair has over 400 crew members from 60 different countries. The ship docked in the port of San Fernando for several weeks. Our church was able to partner with them and use their ship’s attractions to reach many people with the gospel. Well over 100,000 people visited the ship, with as many as 22,000 reportedly reached in just one day. Each day there were high-impact evangelistic events, both on board as well as in our church center and various mission outreach sites. Rotary Club Hears About Christ Tim and one of the directors of the ship emceed a special Rotary Club meeting, bringing in all Rotary Clubs in the province to hear the ships’ evangelist present the gospel. It was a rare opportunity to freely share the Lord with a captive audience of so many business and civic leaders.

Receptive Hearts  Church leaders volunteered daily for personal evangelism among ship visitors, as they exited book fair. Many lives were touched and new friends introduced to Jesus. We even had a number of these contacts already visit our church services. Open Doors On-Board Tim was also the featured speaker for a Men’s Conference held on board, bringing a very challenging message for men to start taking responsibility. The church music team lead worship during a conference for youth There was great receptivity and openness to the gospel. We continue reaching out to the many contacts from the ministries that took place on the ship. Though the ship has moved on to other ports around the world, many follow-up opportunities are still before us.

Ships' Caterer Hears & Believes in Jesus Tim brought the ship’s logistics team to a Rotary meeting, to promote the ship and introduce them to the civic leaders. That day they met Peter, a new Rotarian, who owns the restaurant that became the official caterer of all on-board events.  While serving meals on the ship, Peter was exposed to the gospel; and opened his heart to accept Christ. Despite opposition from his immediate family, he finally attended our Sunday worship service. At first, he came alone; but Peter is praying that his wife and 2 year old son will start joining him.