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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.

Houston Maritime Chaplaincy Training application form

Training dates: February 8-20, 2009. Here is the application form and explanations for 2009 in Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF formats.

Yacht Race to Benefit NAMMA

May 2009. Click here to learn more about the inagural Fairplay Cup USA at the American Yacht Club, Rye, New York.

Our Waterlines newsletters in PDF format.

Our 2008 Membership Directory in PDF format (2.5MB)

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.