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Yacht Race to Benefit NAMMA
Friday, May 16, 2008. Click here to learn more about the inagural Fairplay Cup USA at the American Yacht Club, Rye, New York.
Seminar on the Environmental Imperative: Accelerating Solutions
National Maritime Day, Wednesday, May 21, 2008, Rayburn House, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC. Call 203 255-4686. Click here for a flyer you can print and post.
NAMMA Annual Conference
Boston, August 18-21, 2008, This year's theme is "Chaplain Inside - Chaplain Outside: Filling Your Vessel with Grace." Click here to see the Spring 2008 issue of Waterlines, which has a tenative conference schedule and a registration form you can print and mail in.
Our Waterlines newsletters in PDF format.
Our 2007 Membership Directory in PDF format (1.7MB)
Houston Maritime Chaplaincy Training Program, February 10-22, 2008, at the Houston Seafarer's Center. For details, visit their website or call 713 397-8258. Click here to download an application / information sheet in Microsoft Word format.
International Sailing Chaplains Training, April 14-17, 2008. For experienced maritime welfare workers. Free. For details, click here
2007 World Maritime Day Observance: The day in photos, PowerPoint presentations and other documents.
NAMMA Conference Keynote Address 2007: God lives and loves on ships. I know this. I have learnt from faith and experience to expect this. I am neither shocked nor frightened by it. But I am ceaselessly in awe.
Dirty Secrets That End In Jail. Seafarers good and bad are being sent to prison as the US pursues creative legal investigations into the dumping of oily wastes at sea, writes Rajesh Joshi.
Criminalization on the High Seas: Seafarers Caught in the Middle - Great Risks and Indignities: A talk given at The International Maritime Organization’s World Maritime Day Forum at the United Nations, November 15, 2006, by the Rev. James D. Von Dreele
National Maritime Day 2006 - on-line video clips
Mission to Seafarers celebrates 150 Years of Ministry in 2006
The Association of the Seamen's Ministry in Japan
Seamen's Center dedicated in Mississippi in 2006
NAMMA seeks to promote and expand maritime ministry locally and nationally by increasing awareness among the stakeholders of the services available to seafarers by NAMMA members. This includes maintaining a database of mariner services, the development of a consultant corps to assist local centers, and creating materials and opportunities.