MTSC Newsletter

On August 16 we will hold a training day in Halifax. We have people from Saint John, St. John’s and Halifax planning to come. The course “Safe Talk” will be presented by Josh Messick from Baltimore. This is a key course that will be required by anyone who has contact with seafarers in any of…

Here is the Monthly Report from Halifax. A very well done report. We continue to be very busy.Joseph is embracing the ship welfare visitors hours he is flexing to enable visitation of crew on Sundays and in the later evenings when there are many short turnarounds. Having checked in again with the crew of the…

I am currently in Vancouver at a regional NAMMA Conference.    Jason Z, true to his calling, did an amazing deep dive into the history of the shared work here in Vancouver.   It was excellent scholarly work as he took us through the “story” of tensions, visions, realities and resolution. Every port community has its…

I have created a WhatsApp group for all Station Managers and Chaplains. Most of us use this forum for connecting with seafarers anyway so why reinvent something. Look at the lower bottom right of any page on this site and you should see it. This is a chat facility to keep in touch with one…

This is from Peter in Vancouver

This site is intend for the 25 or so of us in Canada/US that identify with Mission to Seafarers (Canada Region) as front line staff or volunteers. In this site I regularly post to this blog items that are of interest from myself, IHQ and many other sites, YouTube and podcasts as well as something…

A few weeks ago IHQ (International Headquarters for The Mission to Seafarers), sent out a survey to all of us on the front lines. This will help us build out the next strategic plan. Please take a few minutes and fill this in if you have not yet done it. Click here to do survey