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Remarks delivered at the NAMMA Conference 2022 by the Rev’d Canon Andrew Wright, Secretary-General, The Mission to Seafarers.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a great pleasure\nto be back at NAMMA again. It is always a wonderful occasion. I am here both as\nthe Chairman of ICMA, and once again I thank all of you at NAMMA for the\nstrength of our relationship and for allowing our shared partnership in\nleadership (the great Jason) . I finish that role in September after four years\nand this will be my last visit here in that capacity.  I am also here as Secretary General of The\nMission to Seafarers. As such there are a number represented here with whom we\nhave a particular and supportive relationship. We look forward to continuing to\nwork closely with you all in our shared mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every year at Sea Sunday time I focus on a\ndifferent sea passage from the Scriptures. This year, however, I took what\nmight be called a \u201cno sea\u201d passage. \u201cAnd I saw a new heaven and a new earth;\nfor the first heaven and the first earth were passed away, and there was no\nmore sea.\u201d You will be familiar with these words from Revelation 21. Beloved as\na staple of funerals, they are the prelude to a wonderful vision of the future,\nwhen \u201cGod shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and death shall be no more.\u201d\nBut as a child, the last of those words from verse 1 used to bother me \u2013 \u201cand\nthere will be no more sea\u201d. I loved the sea then, as I do now. I loved\nswimming, I loved sailing, I loved ships, I loved the sound of the waves coming\nashore and I loved watching the sun rise or fall over the ocean. So, a world\nwithout sea \u2013 unthinkable! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the sea, in both Testaments, represents the\nforces of chaos. After all, the sea was a place of terrifying storm, it caused\ndestructive and unpredictable flooding which could devastate life and\nlivelihood, it even harboured dreadful sea monsters, the biblical Leviathans.\nNo surprise then that in the symbolism of the Book of Revelation the vision of\n\u201cno more sea\u201d represented part of a vision of peace, an end to the storms which\ninflict us all in so many different ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are living through a time of acute storm. Pandemic,\nwar, climate emergency, economic fragility, political instability, the real\nthreat of hunger for many millions. When I cycled 20 miles round London one\nTuesday last month, smoke rising around me from the many destructive fires\nwhich erupted on that day of record temperatures, a full two degrees above\nanything we had experienced before, I could almost feel the horsemen of the\napocalypse breathing down my neck. And many of these things, particularly most\nrecently pandemic and Ukraine, have had a huge impact on us and on those we\nserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The waves have certainly threatened to overcome\nseafarers.  You have all made an amazing\nresponse in the defence and support of crew over these last years with your\ngangway visitation, your shopping, your vaccinations, your free communication\nfor Ukrainians and Russians and your pastoral support. It has been incredible,\nand it will not be forgotten.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it is not only those we serve whom the\nwaters of chaos have threatened. It is also us. I very often reflect on the\nfragility of life. How easily life can be turned upside down in an instant.  We all know such fragilities, and seafarers\nministry is not immune. Already before the pandemic, and I speak globally here,\nmany models of maritime ministry were under pressure. Smaller crews, quicker\nturnaround times, increasing WiFi on board and, in many cases, easy access to\nthe facilities of local communities were all playing their part. Globally\nenhanced security restrictions have often hampered maritime ministry. All that\nmeant smaller footfall in many centres, and reduced income. The pandemic was a\nreminder of our own need for flexibility, for creativity and for new\nperspectives. At the Mission to Seafarers, centre usage was 93% down in 2021\nfrom 2019 levels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In some places we are now seeing some\nbeginnings of a return to what we have referred to as \u201cnormality\u201d. Although in\nmany parts of the world that is far from the case, in Latin America and many\nparts of Asia for example. But here in the US, in Canada and in Europe many\ncentres are seeing visitation again, albeit usually in very much reduced\nnumbers. But what of the future? How quickly will shore leave restrictions,\nimposed or self-imposed, change? Seafarers themselves have got used to new\npatterns of working and living. Will their behaviour, even when allowed, revert\nto what they were before? \u2013 particularly with stronger and cheaper WiFi on\nboard, much enhanced during the pandemic and now due to be undergirded in large\nmeasure by ILO requirement. In many places we are still restricted in our access\nto ships as well, although that too is beginning to change. Shopping has been a\nmainstay of our work, a wonderful and practical expression of the love and\ncompassion that drives all our work. At MtS we delivered just under US$ 3\nmillion worth of shopping in 2021, the result of almost 20,000 shopping trips. Throughout\nNorth America you have done fantastically on this front, and you led the world\non vaccinations. Shopping and vaccination may continue in some form, and these\nare worth exploring, but they will inevitably reduce as a driving percentage of\nour ministry. Many of us have been badly impacted by the loss of our\nvolunteers, sometimes dramatically so. Our volunteer workforce was often\nelderly and vulnerable \u2013 three years on many will choose not to return, or\nindeed be physically unable to do so. This is another factor impacting on us. It\nhas been tough, and remains so for many. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many churches use the phrase \u201climinal space\u201d.\nThese are spaces where you have moved beyond one way of being and are uncertain\nabout the new ways of being ahead. Maritime ministry has been and to some\nextent remains in a liminal space. We can no longer guarantee the old realities\nbut what sort of future can we expect?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly it is clear \u2013 seafarer need\nremains as great as ever!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a heavily disrupted environment, crews and their families are often at the front line of impact. In a deteriorating security environment, I fervently hope and pray for peace, as do we all, but fear conditions are in place for further conflict, hitting who knows when and where and how? While the pandemic may appear to have faded in many places it is continuing to impact, sometimes harshly on seafarers as we are all acutely aware \u2013 with limitations on shore leave at the forefront. We are seeing new patterns of crewing in terms of nationality. Chinese crews present challenges because of ongoing severe travel restriction. Russian and Ukrainian crews present risk because of uncertainty. These are changing vulnerabilities for seafarers, quite apart from the potential impacts of growing automation. And seafarers will not be immune from the growing stresses of the economic environment, including levels of inflation which are rampant and destabilizing in some countries. All this on top of the normal challenges facing seafarers, of which I have no need to recount with any of you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the need of your ministry \u2013 pastoral,\npractical and spiritual there is absolutely no doubt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as we have learnt there is going to need to\nbe a great deal of thinking \u2013 and enhanced partnership between us as we work\ntogether to address issues, share the care and pool the resources in fast\nchanging circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So a few brief thoughts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. I\nbelieve there will remain an important place for Centres. They will need to be\nin the right place and of the right model for each context. They will normally need,\nin my view, to be in or very close to the port. They need to ensure a very warm\nwelcome, be fresh and attractive buildings and offer the services which\nseafarers actually want. The buildings themselves should raise the spirits. There\nare lots of ideas out there and in here as to possibilities. And d\u00e9cor? Too\nmany centres around the world remain depressing in my view, particularly in\ninteriors. Many have lacked investment to effectively transform them for a\nchanged era. They should be \u201chomes fit for heroes\u201d, in my view prioritising\ngreen over blue – and flowers and plants over models of ships and lighthouses,\nor the ubiquitous life rings which seem to breed like rabbits in many centres. They\nneed to be fresh and vibrant, themes perhaps in line with local context. (eg\nTilbury, London \u2013 QVSR). In our MtS network we have some very big centres, and\nindeed some excellent partnership models where centres are shared with, for\nexample, duty free shops. However, we suspect the future in many places is likely\nto be smaller centres, closer to the action, perhaps more than one per port,\nminimally but hospitably staffed, open all hours, flexibly modular (able to be\nmoved if necessary) and potentially mobile. The pandemic has highlighted the\npossibilities and advantages of mobile shops or even welfare offices. Recently\nwe have launched a trial to place and evaluate some modular and some mobile\ncentres. Of course, many of you will wonder where the resource comes for new\ncentres or even for improvement. We may not be able always to be able to think\ntoo big but we can look closely at ways of incremental change and surprising\npossibilities and partnerships can suddenly come from nowhere. <\/li>
  2. Ship\nvisitation as we all know must be at the core. Expanding ship visitation will\nbe vital. We have just launched a major \u00a3750,000 programme to expand ship\nvisitation over a three-year period across all our regions \u2013 and some of that\nresource is being deployed here in North America. Ship visiting should be\nplanned and strategic, not just focusing on friendly or known ships. It should\nprovide out of hours service (night shifts even? \u2013 Singapore example) wherever\npossible. Team building and collaboration is vital. As we all know and as so\nmany of you are doing, more effort will need to go in proactively reaching\nseafarers, not just waiting for them to arrive.<\/li>
  3. Digital\nwork must increase in importance. Early in COVID we launched our Chat-to-a-Chaplain\nservice. Some of you participated in that programme. At the peak of the\npandemic it proved very important. The use has fallen away now but we have\nlearnt many lessons from that and will be including a simpler version of it in\nour new Happy at Sea App. However, at a local level many chaplaincies from the\nfull breadth of organisations are highly active, not only in the vital work of\nensuring access to WiFi, through Centres, ports or MiFi units, but in\nsustaining relationships with seafarers through social media. While such\ndigital work can never replace the value of face-to-face as some have\nsuggested, it does provide a vital connection with seafarers \u2013 and indeed helps\nwith that provision of continuity of care. This is something which is central\nto the working of our local MtS Chaplains. It is also built into our wider\nprogramme work. We have brought our suite of WeCare educational programmes\nfully on-line and, of course, our Seafarer Happiness Index, now increasingly\nused as a benchmark within shipping for assessing crew well-being, relies\nentirely on the digital input of seafarers. Our Happy at Sea App to be launched\nthis Autumn will provide a range of services to seafarers. We are also\ncommitted users of the Sailors Society Ship Welfare Visitors App, as our core\nreporting tool. <\/li>
  4. Youth!\nWe need to further build younger team members. It has been a pleasure meeting\nsome of your NAMMA interns here \u2013 one way of bringing younger players into our\nteams. We need them. Fresh faces. Tech savvy. Energetic. Seeing things with new\neyes. Closer in age to seafarers. Internship is just one way of seeking such\nrecruitment. Broadening the age and diversity profiles of our teams is\nessential if we are to survive and thrive into the future \u2013 and provide for\nsuccession planning.  <\/li>
  5. Financial\nsustainability. This is a big issue for all of us. Volunteering will remain\nvital but professional ministry, proper coverage, state of the art centres and\neffective transport fleets demand money \u2013 a lot of money in North America.\nThere are no easy answers. Some exciting funding things are happening in\ncertain places \u2013 and we will hear from New Zealand tomorrow. But of vital\nnecessity as we all know, is industry funding. We offer Christian ministry but\nwe are also a service deliverer within the shipping industry \u2013 in the seafarer\nhappiness and well-being business, as important as delivering fuel or shifting\ncontainers. The shipping industry needs to fund us. Now raising such funding ,\nespecially at local level, is not easy but shipping is making a great deal of\nmoney and has to be a primary target for partnership, including funding. <\/li>
  6. Finally,\npartnership. In all this working together is vital. Learning from each other.\nOffering mutual support and ideas. Such partnership ensures a wise use of\nresources, is demanded by those who fund us and provides the best joined-up\ncare for seafarers. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    My old headmaster used to say \u201cany organisation\nthat stands still goes backwards\u201d. That has never been truer than now. Your\nwork is desperately needed but times \u201care a changing\u201d and we have to be\nentrepreneurial and creative as we rebalance our work in the light of fast\nchanging circumstance if we are to continue providing relevant, vibrant and\nfinancially sustainable ministry to seafarers. Rooted in our core historic\nChristian purposes but open to a changing future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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