For our Christmas Eve dinner on board the Africa Mercy, I joined with the Royston family – Tony (who is our biomedical technician for the hospital), Patricia (school teacher), their son Elliott (also known by a Ghanaian name of Kwesi) and our senior chaplain PJ Hopkins. The galley team did a great job and prepared both ham and turkey and the fixings and various deserts like pecan pie.
Advent 4 with Biney Family
This past Sunday was the fourth Sunday of Advent and the Biney Family who I have known for years from the Caribbean Mercy initially – they lite the four candles and read the scriptures from the Old Testament and New Testament. The theme of this service was ‘Peace’.
OR Door for Christmas
Please see the photo for what the Operating Room crew did for their decoration of their administration office door. The sign above says “The Operating Room is putting Santa Claus to sleep & celebrating the true meaning of Christmas!” They were the winner of the office door decorating contest.
Door with photos of the crew
During our door decoration contest, one cabin on deck 3 decorated with small photos of each and every crew member that was on board during the sail. They won one of the categories in the contest.
Canary Island Map – Off Africa
We have safely arrived in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands after 12 days of journey from Benin. This will be a technical work phase for the ship. Many crew will be on holiday. I will continue my work on all the final reports and individual final project reports from Benin ’09.
Rainbow – to welcome us to Tenerife
A beautiful rainbow welcomed us to Santa Cruz de Tenerife after eleven days at sea traveling from Benin where we completed ten months of field service.
Academy Christmas Play
The children and teens from the on board Academy presented their play entitled ‘The Bethlehem Express’ – this photo is from the scene at Bethlehem. Even though the ship was moving side to side a lot, they were still able to do the entire play. Great job!!!
Rocky Waves – Galley
Wednesday evening, all day Thursday, last night and all today we are having large swells and thus the ship is moving greatly from side to side – in addition to a strong wind from the west. Most of the adults have gotten little sleep. In this photo you see the affect in our galley. The staff there continue to provide meals for the 300 people on board the ship (of those still eating). We are due in Santa Cruz on Saturday.
Door Decoration Contest
Tracy – our Ship Security Officer – had the pirate snowman on her door – on the right and I had on the Programs door the security man snowman and tonight we won the award ‘The Most Humorous Decorated Office Door’ – all thanks to Cathy W who is the one who created these decorations.
More Dolphins On The Bow
As many of stood on the bow last night at 5pm, we saw the dolphins coming and swimming with us and jumping – it was great. Murray was to my right and he caught some of them with his camera.