OM Ships (http://www.omships.org) is a ministry focused on a ship that travels around the world and uses its floating bookstore as an attraction to allow it into sometimes very hostile-to-Christians countries. I traveled to Florence, SC a couple weeks ago to spend time with some family friends and meet with the people who help run the headquarters there. To quote Myles, whose official position I don't know but who is high in rank, "The ships are the best way I know of to get a grasp of what missions is."
That's quite a claim! But I find it believable, since the ship (currently the Logos Hope) is populated by hundreds of believers from around the world, and makes port in dozens of countries around the world in a two-year time frame. Crew-members regularly have the opportunity to go on land and minister to believers and non-believers there, as well as ministering on the ship.
My main interest lay in learning about what it is like to teach on board. There are about 50 children of crew-members right now, and those children are broken into groups by age, etc. I would mostly likely be teaching a multi-age group, which would be new for me.
As I consider this opportunity, I am impressed with how much I like my comfortable, familiar surroundings, especially being surrounded by people who are relatively like me. That's not a very useful preference if I'm planning to serve in another country.
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