Membership

• Membership form for 2011 in PDF format. Use it to renew your membership now! Simply print it out and mail it in with your check. All memberships end as of December 31 of each year (except for Lifetime members). Dues can be paid at any time during the year, but please pay as soon as possible.
• NAMMA Membership Directory
• 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.

NAMMA Resources

Maritime Executive Magazine - a good news source

Lloyd's List Daily News Bulletin - another good source

Where the rubber hits the road in port ministry: Before retiring from his service as NAMMA's executive director, Lloyd Burghart encourages those in port ministry to pursue righteousness, a word with many meanings.

"Seafarer Shore Leave Access Implementation Issue under TWIC" by Jim Von Dreele and Mary Davisson, written in March 2011.

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.

Order Form for latest ICMA Directory

Newsletter of the ICSW. The International Committee for Seafarers Welfare has a monthly newsletter you may find helpful.

To update your contact information for any of these directories, use the contact information found at the bottom of this page.

Recommended: Speech for Professional Mariners and Quality Seafarers

Attracting and Retaining Quality Seafarers In the Year of the Seafarer – 2010 -- “Calling for Seafarers to become Professional Mariners, Not Members of a Monastic Community” -- a speech given by the Rev. Canon James Von Dreele at World Maritime Day events in Vancouver, BC, held on November 18, 2010.

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.

OLDER BUT RELEVANT RESOURCES

• 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.

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North American Maritime Ministries Association
The Rev. J. Loring Carpenter
Interim Executive Secretary - NAMMA
58 Country Hill Lane
Haverhill, MA 01832
Phone: 978 869-1181
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