Where is the Christmas tree?

26 December 2009 Posted by Martin

[Caracas Baai, Curaçao]
This is a unique Christmas for me. The first one aboard Logos Hope. For the first time I swam on Christmas day and we had a BBQ for dinner! I have tried to find a Christmas tree to decorate, but it hard to find here. After all, do we celebrate Christmas for the tree? If Christmas is for the folklore and the French Bûche, there would be many reasons to be disappointed.

Yet even if the weather is far from being Christmassy, the joy of the good news that  God reaches out to the world through her son remains a reality that I want to have in my life. And I wish you can have that joy to. This joy is eternal, not my family and friends. This is also why it was special to celebrate Christmas on board, as many of my friends are leaving the Logos Hope next month.

A week ashore

19 December 2009 Posted by Martin

[Georgetown, Guyana]The Logos Hope moves from port to port every two or three weeks. It's a pretty intense pace. But during a visit to Georgetown, I went with a team to work with a local church for a week. It was a real privilege to be away from the ship’s business and live among locals. As all team members are part of the drama club on board, we've taught some dramas to the youth group of church for a Christmas concert where we performed as well. We also visited schools and an orphanage.

Above: one of the school visit

A drama we performed at the Christmas concert, which shares the message of the Gospel.
Despite the heat and the mosquitoes, it was a refreshing experience to live one week in a house ...

In my team (from left to right)
Marsha (Netherlands), Lilian (Chile), Liz (Trinidad and Tobago), Jérémie (France), Brad (South Africa), Alison (Northern Ireland) and me.