News & Stats from Fiji & Samoa outreaches and from the Australia Ship tour…. [more...] . . . . .

Since the Next Wave is sailing in the Mediterranean, Sicily has bin one of the places where we have sticked around the longest. We just finished with the Festival of live tour around Sicily and it has bin very good. We had the festival in more than 7 cities and several people came to know [...]

The last refit for the Next Wave was a success, but because of the great amount of things to do we planned an other period of refit. The Refit period is a fun time with professionals and non professionals working on the ship to fix and maintain.We can use hands in engineering, carpeting, pluming, electric [...]

There is so much happened the last couple of weeks on board the Next Wave, we thank God he is in control in every little thing. The Captain got a big fever and didn’t recover at all and the fever stayed for 7 days. The captain went to the hospital and after 3 days he [...]

The Sicily tour has been going really well, we are now in Sciacca in the southern west coast of Sicily. Since we’ve been here we’ve seen Gods hand at work at least 9 people became Christians after Sunday’s event, with people giving their lives to the Lord in local churches too. Currently we have an [...]

New Zealand June Newsletter I am happy to report to you the outcome of our recent Samoa Ophthalmology Outreach at Savaii Hospital Our team of volunteers and medical professionals successfully operated on 92 patients over the 10 day outreach. With a real world cost of over NZ$ 420,000 these volunteered medical services have indeed made [...]

We are now a full vessel with a Canadian DTS from Quebec and Kings Kids England with us. We are anchored in Syracuse Harbour meanwhile we have been ferrying teams to shore for evangelism during the morning. In the evening crew and teams go ashore for evangelism with the local church. During the afternoon the [...]

Writing from the s/y Next Wave with one more week of the refit schedule commencing. It has been a super busy time, with Captain, crew and friends of the ministry all chipping in to maintain and refit the vessel. Some major work has been completed during this period including pressure washing the whole 350 sq. [...]

-> Making Waves Magazine -> new Newsletter -> new Newsletter       Issued by Mariner Reach New Zealand on the 17.05.2010

Earlier in the year we had arranged a maintenance period and drydock in a shipyard in Messina only to discover that the yard was badly damaged in a storm in March.  Since then we have worked hard to find other suitable drydocks at a reasonable price.  Finally we can announce that we have just arrived [...]