Crew Photo for the m/v Anastasis – December 2006 – following one of our fire drills – I have a bright yellow vest on as I am part of the Emergency Medical Team – I am near the foot of the gangway. We are about 300 adults and children serving on board plus another 80 local Ghanaians who are serving with us.
Gripes, Catapult Wire, Winch Gear, Man rope, twicing pendant, frapping lines, davit and painters – all words I know need to know about and their function in the launching of our lifeboats. I have been assigned to lifeboat #1 as the Standby Breakman and at the same time I need to learn some of the other roles of Breakman and Communicator – we have training on Mondays. Always something new and an adventure here. This is needed as we will be sailing the m/v Anastasis to Liberia in February.
View of the International Lounge on board the m/v Anastasis. We meet regularly on Thursday evenings and Tuesday mornings as an entire community. I am in there somewhere at this our International Thanksgiving Service.
Usually after dinner on Saturday nights, Jan Kronester and I go to the office so he can have an hour of playing car racing games on the internet. We have a good time together. His favorite site is:
freeaddictinggames.com
m/v Anastasis International Thanksgiving Celebration 26 November
“Give thanks to the Lord for He is good! His faithful love endures forever.” Ps. 136:1
Program
1. Opening Procession by African Female Crew.
2. Opening Hymn – We Gather Together
3. Opening Address – Judith Straub
4. Hymn – For the Beauty of the Earth
5. Scripture Reading – Psalm 146
6. Special Thanksgiving Song from Academy Children
7. Prayers of Thanksgiving: Productivity, Protection, Provision
8. Scripture Reading – Luke 17:11-19
9. Hymn – Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
10. Scripture Reading – I Thessalonians 1:1-10
11. Hymn – Praise To the Lord, The Almighty
12. Message
13. Closing Hymn – To God Be The Glory
14. Benediction/Closing Prayer
There were about 20 of us sharing and celebrating Yvonne’s birthday – to my right is Clementine from Togo/Ghana and Mathilda
from South Africa.
My friend Yvonne who I served with on the Caribbean Mercy is also here on the Anastasis and we went out on Wednesday night to celebrate her birthday. We were at a Chinese restaurant and when it came time for fruit/ice cream, the staff came in singing in English and also a verse in Chinese. It was a special night for her and we got to share it together.
Dr. Neil Murray is performing eye surgery on this patient – Adulai Shitu – he was our 1,000 patient for our time here in Ghana.
I was able to watch Dr. Neil do surgery on a woman named Mercy and she is 100 years old. He explained the procedure to me as I was viewing in the additional microscope. She was blinded by shingles in one eye and cataract in the other and so she was provided with sight once again with the cataract being removed.
Yes some people really get excited when they go to the ship’s crew bank – which is open on Monday mornings and Thursday evenings before our Community Meeting. Here is Ghana they use ‘cedis’ and it takes 9,160 of them to equal US $1 – so this is country where you can be a millionaire – only takes US $109.17 to obtain ONE MILLION CEDIS. The excited man is Dr. Keith who serves as our dentist.
