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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 Jesus for the first time.
The program was very diverse with drama, dance, testimony’s and music.
In Messina we hosted city officials for there city celebration, we were part of a parade where man in costume sailed with us to the commercial port and in front of TV camera’s played music.
Once they entered the dock the did a theater play. After that they came back on board to sail under the sound of canon shots and fireworks back to the harbor.

Salvatore Loria the President of Marine reach Italy has bin organizing all the events. We are very thankful for all his work.
We are now at anchor in Syracuse and we are preparing for the upcoming DTS which is starting on September the 6^th. We are looking forward to the new things the Lord will bring to this new season on board the Next Wave!

Salvatore,Estela and Lehman

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 engineering and any other kind of help is very welcome. You can come alone or take a group from your church or work! Anyone is more than welcome to join!
The refit period will be in the months of January and February. The location isn’t confirmed yet but it will be in the Catania(Sicily) Area. For more information e-mail to Nextwave@marinereach.com also if you know some one who might be interested.

The captain went to the hospital and after 3 days he recovered little by little. The fever was gone and his happiness was back!During writing this the captain is back on board and he is packing his bags to go to a hotel to fully recover.He is feeling better but needs allot of rest. He will stay for two days in the hotel and than when everything is good we leave to the next port. Thank you very much for all your prayers and compassion, it brought Lehman much support.

In the main time God is blessing us with many other things too, a old local captain came to move the ship and we have a good secured birth until Lehman is back. The festival of live has bin great and people are giving there lives to Jesus by hearing the testimony’s and the positive energy that the festival breaths out!
And next to that all we got a restaurant bringing us sandwiches and pizza (with fish) for breakfast every day! The Lord is taking good care of us.

Thank you.
Next Wave.

Click on the link below to read our latest Newsletter, put together by one of our ministry friends and volunteer from Sweden Karin

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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 a significant impact on many lives. … more

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. metres high hull and repainting it. As we were in dry dock it seemed best to do a thorough job of the underwater work and hopefully this will enable the vessel to run more smoothly and reduce fuel costs.

Dry docking the boat is an expensive process and also means the crew are without sanitation systems on board. From the picture you can see the beginning of the long decent to onshore toilets and showers.

The crew have also been working hard cleaning and painting the anchor and chains, they opened up the chain locker and cleaned it out. We will also fit an ‘educator’ to pump out this space in future.

All mandatory and safety equipment were recertified (Flares, EPIRBs, required medical stores, fire equipment and the new ship’s whistle/horn was fitted. During these inspections the VHF handsets developed a fault and will need replacing ASAP.

One of our more time consuming jobs was the galley extractor piping had to be rerouted to create more separation from E.R. ventilation and the filters were removed and cleaned.

Many areas of the ship have been deep cleaned, including the galley and cabins, two of which had the middle lower bunks converted so we can dismantle them and create double beds. New carpet has been ordered for the saloon which we are expecting to arrive in the next few week or so. Bulk storage space below the Sconsin has been emptied, cleaned, descaled and painted, quite a dirty smelly job!

Many routine checks have been established and carried out, we got to look at the main water tanks, the propelleor and rudder, whilst the main engine room was over hauled completed and a complete set of spares held on board ready for next overhaul. The starboard and port generators were both examined and the overboard discharge valve and sea chest for washing machine and crew shower room was removed in dry-dock to free up and re-install. Fortunately, this was the only overboard valve that was ceased.

All in all considering the small crew and volunteer team we have accomplished a lot.  However it is essential that within a year a further extensive refit period is programmed to finish postponed items from the refit and cancelled upgrades.  thank for all your support and prayers during this time.