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Laser Group Visit to Cork

Over the May Bank holiday weekend we were In particular I remember the time we spent with
blessed to have a visit from Gordon and Wendy a Montenegrin captain Slobodan, British cadets
Montgomery’s Laser group. They visited us 5 on a tanker and the Dutch captain of another
years ago, and helped with a big job in our tanker. It’s a wonderful work being able to come
literature storeroom. There was a lot of hard alongside the people of the sea and share Jesus
work and elbow grease needed! This time we with them. We had a fantastic weekend with the
wanted them to visit a lot more ships to get a real team from High Kirk. They made a special
feel for our work. We ended up visiting 6 ships, effort to come down and encourage us. We are so
which is often the number I visit in a day. Some thankful to all our friends in High Kirk for their
ships have only 6 people on board, so turning up ongoing prayerful, practical and pastoral support.
to each ship with 9 or 10 visitors isn’t an option. Thanks for helping us as we reach out with the
We split the team up into 2 groups of 4 and took Gospel to seafarers from every tribe and tongue.
turns to go to ships. Five is still a large group for God bless you and have a wonderful summer.
visiting, but much more manageable. Each Lots of love from C, S, A & J
couple in the group were able to visit at least 2
ships. And they will tell you it was a unique
experience and very memorable. We met
Ukrainian, Latvian, Russian, Dutch, Filipino,
Polish, Ghanaian, Romanian and Montenegrin
seafarers. They were working on crude oil, LPG
and product tankers as well as general cargo and
container ships.