Here we are in the Faroe island, this i s an amazing place, not only this is a gorgeous country, but the people are so hospitable. They are very mission minded and kind.
Only 48 thousand people live here. There is no or very little crime, there has not been a murder in over 20 years.

In our arrival not only the mayor was present, but even the prime minister came to greet us. So many people have already come to the ship. Go is so Faithful, even the weather has been good, and they almost never have good weather here.

Aqui estamos, nas ilhas Faore. |esse lugar não apenas é um lugar incrívelmente lindo mas a hospitalidade desse povo é sem igual. Eles tem o coração em missões e são super bondosos.
Apenas 48 mil pessoas vivem aqui. Eles praticamente não tem criminalidade aqui, e a mais de 20 que não acontece um assassinato.

Na nossa chegada não apenas o prefeito estava presente mas também o primeiro ministro veio nos receber. Deus é fiel, ate mesmo o clima esta ótimo, e olha que eles nunca tem um bom clima aqui.

We have met so many friends in Holland. It was such a gift to see them all. God has been so gracious to us. So many years have passed by, but our friendship continues. We love you all.

Encontramos com tantos amigos na Holanda. Foi um grande presente poder reencontra-los. Deus tem tido muita graça conosco, muitos anos se passaram, mas nossa amizade continua. Amamos vocês todos.

Here are some of my leaders, Juhanni Ahola, pr. Joel and Leo Stevanatto, they are in our Brazilian church in Mandaqui Sao Paulo. Juhanni is our Finnish leader, we are working together since 2001. He and is family were missionaries in Israel for 5 years. I never imagine that these leaders one day would meet. God is awesome !!!

Aqui estão alguns dos meus lideres, Juhanni Ahola, Pr. Joel e Léo Stevanatto, em nossa igreja no Mandaqui, SP. Juhanni é o nosso líder da Finlândia, Trabalhamos juntos dês de 2001. Ele com sua família foram missionários em Israel por 5 anos. Eu nunca imaginei que esses meus lideres um dia se encontrariam. Deus é tremendo!!!

We had many receptions in Holland. We are so happy that we could welcome partners that have and still are blessing our ministry.

We have completed our third port in our second country. At closing last night we had welcomed 17138 visitors in Scheveningen. That is the total of over 23325 visitors in the Netherland. There were 6536 tours given in this port alone.

Tivemos varias recepções aqui na Holanda. Estamos muito felizes em recepcionar nossos mantenedores holandeses, eles abençoaram e continuam abençoando muito nosso ministério.
Completamos nosso terceiro porto em nosso segundo pais. Ontem tivemos 17138 visitantes aqui em Scheveningen. No total tivemos 23325 visitantes na Holanda. Tivemos 6536 pessoas em nossos turs.

A few stories from the weekend:

We welcomed 3,330 visitors for the weekend!

SALVATION ON THE GANGWAY - Pastor Jimmy from Suriname, a man coming to visit the ship and second man (name unknown) met halfway up/down the gangway at 11:30 this morning. Neither knew we did not open until 14:00. Both came too early. Conversation began between the two and to make a long story short, Jimmy leads this man to faith in Jesus Christ. They decide to go to breakfast and have a coffee that they thought they were going to have on board. At 14:00 they were both back to the ship as Jimmy the Pastor offered to buy this man a Bible which he did. Now that’s true evangelism and proves God’s divine will and purpose over our lives. Be prepared in season and out!!

THE PUDDLE OF TEARS: Chris, a local, is expectantly walking through the I-Café trusting the Lord that he would find at least 7 people to pray with. Why seven I don’t know but that was his goal. I was there orientating 11 people from Tyndale House on a vision team from Chicago. We had just prayed and discussed our “God Story” program; that of living expectantly for divine appointments. Up walks Chris and asks “do you all believe in miracles?” Absolutely, YES I responded! He then went on to share how he was an abused child, lived in an all boy convent, turned gay but accepted the Jesus as Lord of his life four years ago. Now he was desperate for us to pray for his friend who was still gay and was ready to end his life. We had an amazing time of prayer. And then Chris closed in prayer in deep emotion. It was one of those precious prayers never to be forgotten. By the time he finished, there was a small puddle of tears on the floor. Oh that we would pray with more emotion and conviction believing the God does answer prayer!

We have a great opportunity to start thinking of summer holiday and how we can get involved in missions.

Já podemos começar a pensar em como podemos nos envolver em campanhas missionárias de verão.

So many years have passed by since we last met Esther, she was part of the group of people that serve with us in the early 90ths. Esther is dutch, she has visited us in Finland, she still very passionated about the ship ministry. It was great to meet with her and many other friends. Esther helped us with tours and she is praying about rejoining the OM Ships. Lets pray for her and for many more dutches to have such a powerful encounter with our Lord that they too will want to come and serve with us. We are prayer for 10 dutches to join us, please pray with us.

Muitos anos se passaram des da ultima vez que encontramos Esther, ela foi parte do grupo de pessoas que serviram conosco no principio dos anos 90. Esther nos visitou na Finlândia, ela continua apaixonada pelo ministério dos navios. Foi muito obom poder encontrar com a Esther e com carios outors amigos. Esther nos ajudou dando turs, ela esta orando sobre reunirse aos ministerios dos navios. Oremos por ela e por muito outros Holandeses, que muito sejam inpactados e queiram participar conosco deste ministerio. Estamps orando por 10 Holandeses, para queles se unam a nos, por favor, orem conosco.

As soon as we arrived in Harlingen, Holland, we went out in groups to pray for the city, we went with the local believers, it was great. We all met afterwards in a very small congregation. They offered us coffee and some snacks, we prayed together and we also sang some songs. What a great blessing it was and it is , that we can share the same faith all over the world. Jesus is in every port we come to.

Ao chegarmos em Harlingen, Holanda, fomos convidados para uma caminhada de oração com os cristãos locais. Ao final nos encontramos em uma pequena congregação. Eles nos ofereceram café com alguns petiscos, oramos e louvamos juntos. Que grande benção saber que compartilhamos da mesma fé em todo o mundo. Jesus esta em cada porto que visitamos.

We have had such an amazing time so far in Holland. Yesterday we had more then 900 people on board. it is so refreshing to see people coming up the gangways. God is good.

Ate agora temos timdo um tempo maravisolho na Holanda. Ontem tivemos mais de 900 pessoas visitando o navio, e tremendo ver pessoas subindo as rampas do navio. Deus e um Deus maravilhoso.

This is the kind of weather we had during our visit to Sweden. The ship had to break ice as she sailed into the port. It was a new experience for many. The day we arrived it as -15 Celsius. We had one weekend, it was great to see the meeting rooms used for conferences. Over 1500 people visited us even though we did not advertised the visit. Lets pray for the people in Sweden and for the good contacts we have left behind.

Esse foi o timpo de tempo que tivemos durante nossa visita a Suecia. O navio teve que quebrar gelo para chegar ao porto onde estivemos. isso foi uma nova esperiencia pra uitos. No dia em que chegamos estava fazendo 15 negativos. Tivemos um fim de semana na Suecia, como foi bom poder ver a sala de conferencia replata de gente. No total tivemos mais de 1500 visitatnes mesmo sem termos feito publicidade. Oremos pelas pessoas que deixamos nesse porto, pelos contatos que tivemos na Suecia.

We are so happy, we finally got moving. We left yesterday from Koge, Denmark and arrive today in Gothemburg, Sweden. This is our very first port in full ministry. PTL!!!

Estamos tao felizes, finalmente comecamos a navegar. Deixamos ontem a tarde Koge na Dinamarca e chegamos hoje pela manha a Gothemburg. Esse e o nosso primeiro porto.

Here is our Schedule, Praise the Lord!!!!

Aqui esta o nosso itinerário, Gloria a Deus!!!!!

Gothenburg Sweden		Feb 20th, 2009		Feb 23rd, 2009
Harlingen Netherlands		Feb 25th, 2009		Mar 10th, 2009
Scheveningen Netherlands		Mar 11th, 2009		Mar 30th, 2009
Edinburgh Scotland - UK		Apr 1st, 2009		Apr 14th, 2009
unconfirmed port Faroe Islands		Apr 16th, 2009		Apr 27th, 2009
Belfast Northern Ireland - UK		Apr 29th, 2009		May 12th, 2009
Dublin Ireland		May 13th, 2009		May 26th, 2009
Cardiff Wales - UK		May 27th, 2009		Jun 9th, 2009
London England - UK		Jun 11th, 2009		Jun 29th, 2009
Cork Ireland		Jul 1st, 2009		Jul 14th, 2009
Kingstown Saint Vincent and the Grenadines		Jul 30th, 2009		Aug 18th, 2009

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Yesterday the surveys of the physical part of the ship was completed, and after more than 5 years we passed it. On Monday there will be a surveys of our systems, if we pass it, and we believe we will, we will have the certificate to sail this ship. So on Tuesday I will be able to put here the Logos Hope schedule. Please pray with us, we are so close to the end of the project phase.

Ontem os inspetores completaram a inspeção do navio na parte física, e de pois de mais de 5 anos de espera, nos passamos nessa inspeção. Ainda temos que passar a inspeção dos nossos sistemas. Mas se tudo der certo na segunda a noite teremos o tão sonhado certificado para que possamos navegar. Orem conosco pois estamos muito perto da nossa partida. Espero poder escrever pra vocês com o itinerário, onde ira o Logos Hope nos próximos meses?

This is another videos of the different departments on board. I will be placing one at the time so that you can see some more of what we do on board.

Esse é outro vídeos dos nossos departamentos. Estarei postando um vídeo de cada vez para que voce possa ver o que fazemos abordo.

This is one of the videos of the different departments on board. I will be placing one at the time so that you can see some more of what we do on board.

Esse é um dos vídeos dos nossos departamentos. Estarei postando um vídeo de cada vez para que voce possa ver o que fazemos abordo.

Nossas ultimas semanas aqui na Dinamarca serão repletas de treinamentos e preparação para navegação. Temos mais ou menos 320 tripulantes e mais de 70% deles nunca esteve em auto-mar e não conhecem exatamente os procedimentos de um navio em funcionamento normal, por isso é muito importante os nossos treinamentos.

Our last weeks here in Denmark will be full of training and preparation for sailing. We have about 320 crew and over 70% of them have never been at sea and have no idea of the nprocedures of a normal ship. That is why we need so much training.