NAMMA Resources

• Click here to see the membership form for 2010 in PDF format. Use it to renew your membership now! Simply print it out and mail it in with your check.
• July 2009 NAMMA Directory.
• August 2, 2010 corrections to the July 2009 Directory.
• Chaplains and Ship Visitors need TWIC training. Click here to see a sample escort training program and learn why one is needed in your port.
• Update your Directory listing. Click here for our database and directory information sheet. Please fill it out and mail it in to update your directory info, even if you are not a member.
• Order Form for latest ICMA Directory
• To update your contact information for any of these directories, use the contact information found at the bottom of this page.

Recommended: Two Presentations by NAMMA 2009 Conference Keynote Speaker: R. Robert Creech, Ph.D.

Transformed by Relationships:
With Christ and His Community

Transformed by Relationships:
With Christ and His Mission

Recommended: The Way of the Sea

Here is a book that is readable and informative. It's subtitle is “The Changing Shape of Mission in the Seafaring World.” Click here to learn more about The Way of the Sea.

OTHER RESOURCES

• Houston Maritime Chaplaincy Training. Application 2009 in Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF formats.
• International Sailing Chaplains Training. For experienced maritime welfare workers. Free.
• 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. December, 2006.
• Criminalization on the High Seas: Seafarers Caught in the Middle - Great Risks and Indignities, November, 2006.
• Security of Maritime Facilities - The rules and regulations. U.S. Coast Guard document 33 CFR Part 105 in PDF format.
• The International Labour Organization adopts a comprehensive new labor standard. Learn more. (February, 2006)
• Materials from the Montreal NAMMA Conference, October, 2005. (These are Adobe Acrobat PDF documents.)
  • Text from the keynote address by Jason Zuidema, "Holistic Thinking for Maritime Ministry."
  • "The Ship and Her People: Giving the Industry a Human Face," by Guy E.C. Maitland.
  • "Marketing Your Ministry," notes by Carleen Lyden-Kluss.
  • Notes from a forum of NAMMA Advisory Board members.
• "Caring for Crew: A Survey of of U.S. Port Support for Seafarers' Missions" can be ordered from www.seafarershouse.org or by calling Nancy Gastaldi at 800 732-6367. This is a comprehensive study of ways port governments support their respective seafarers’ missions. Data was collected over 18 months from 56 maritime missions operating in 86 ports throughout the US. The publication is of value as a tool to develop support for port missions by their respective port authorities.
• "Christian Living Aboard Ship," is an instruction manual for port chaplains and ship visitors, in English and Spanish, by Lloyd Burghart. It is available here as a Microsoft Word document (168K) and as an Adobe Acrobat document (76K). Please contact Lloyd with your comments.
• An article on Port Security in The Philadelphia Inquirer published August, 15, 2005. Click here to see it.
• NAMMA newsletters in PDF format.

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North American Maritime Ministries Association
Chaplain Lloyd Burghart
Executive Secretary - NAMMA
US: Box 2434, Niagara Falls, NY 14302
CAN: 13-159 Canboro Rd., Fonthill, ON L0S 1E5
NAMMA Phone: 905-892-7525
Mobile: 905-327-0448
Click here to send e-mail to Chaplain. Lloyd Burghart

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