Monthly Archives: December 2008

It has been a long time since I have posted anything. Sorry for my silence. My silence was not due to lack of blogging material but a time of personal reflection. This year has been so many things to me and I want to soak them all in. I want to be a better  woman because this year. I have learned lessons from the Lord, lessons from crew members, lessons from girls at the orphanage and lessons from my patients. The Lord has drawn me closer to him by teaching me that I am not alone, He is all I… READ MORE!

Evelyne is pictured to the left in this picture.

Oretha (look at picture in previous Liberian Friends post) found and trained this replacement so she (Oretha) could leave to attend a discipleship training school in order to come back to the ship as a permanent staff/crew person instead of a day worker. [more about Oretha in another post]

Evelyne was a good worker, quiet, and was only with us for the last 2 months.  I think she was really starting to get… READ MORE!

Being here on the ship I can’t say that I miss the big ‘hub-bub’ and commercialism of the ‘Happy Holidays’ in the United States.
Its Merry Christmas!  Remember that, M-e-r-r-y C-h-r-i-s-t-m-a-s (spell it out, I know you can do it!).
But what I do miss is friends, family, and eating ‘Happy Birthday Jesus Cake!’ with my niece and nephews.

My niece and nephews are full aware that friends and family are the gift givers of Christmas day and unless I am mistaken it was my niece who years ago asked ‘If its Jesus birthday why doesn’t he get a… READ MORE!

In Food Service we had a total of eight day workers, but really only 6 working at a time.  Look at the picture, see their names.  Oretha left before the end of the outreach to go to the Liberian Discipleship Training School with YWAM which would certify her to work full-time as crew on board the ship.  She was replaced by Evelyne.  Korpo was added to the Dining Room staff about the same time because of shortages in our department.

Some of these day… READ MORE!

On Friday afternoon the Africa Mercy pulled away from her home for the past consecutive 10 months and the better part of the last 4 years. Many of the crew were on deck 7 or deck 8 waving to the 20-30 faithful supporters. I was sleeping, yup I slept through the whole thing… READ MORE!

I noticed after a nice email from my friend Beth back home that the author of the post was not showing up in our updates…so I corrected that!

Stephanie was/is the one that is sick right now (a lot of sleep and antibiotics seem to be the cure…).

Even though the outreach is over, we still have to pack up and prepare to sail.  Then the sail will last another week before we arrive in Tenerife.

Stephanie and I will continue to work on board (because as you can imagine no one ever stops eating!) and we… READ MORE!