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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 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 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.

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 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.

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 awesome team here from the South Pacific Islands of New Caledonia and Vanuatu. these guys bring so much freedom and life to Europe and are a huge blessing to the Next Wave. During our sail to Sciacca from Portopalo ( where we had many difficulties) our Captain developed a high fever and has been hospitalized here in Sciacca. Please join us as we continue to pray for his healing and restoration. We believe God is doing something amazing in our midst and the fruit shows this, hence the battles we are facing. Please also join us in prayer for our dinghy, which was stolen from the boat. The coast guard have recovered the rubber tube, but not the motor, which is the expensive part.

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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