Thank you to everyone who supported our Winter Appeal 2024 including our online raffle, ensuring we could continue to offer a warm welcome to seafarers this Winter. Thank you also to the volunteers who helped fill the gift bags.
Congratulations to our online raffle winner S Henderson of Sydney, whose generous $100 contribution probably improved his chances with SupporterHub’s randomised tech draw! Thank you once again to the Port Authority of New South Wales for donating the exciting prize of a trip for four on Sydney Harbour on The Burra, purpose-built to respond to major on-water incidents, and for all their generous, ongoing support. Their gift raised an extra $1149 for our Appeal. Thank you also to NSW Ports for their generous, ongoing support.
All funds raised will go towards helping us to meet of our goal of giving compassionate care to even more seafarers. Last year our Chaplains made over 370 visits to seafarers in need on ships, in hospitals and hotels but with over 400,000 seafarers visiting Sydney each year, the need is still great. Your support is a great blessing and encouragement to our small team.
Can you help? If you or your maritime company have any exciting vessel that could potentially provide a trip for a raffle prize, it’s a terrific way to enable us to help seafarers plus to showcase one of your impressive vessels!
Please contact Nadja to discuss or suggest who she could talk to.
Image – Chaplain Retchie (pictured above) and Rev Tay were warmly welcomed to this ship, especially after Rev Tay surprised the Chinese Captain with a greeting and an explanation of our services in Mandarin. The crew were delighted with their Winter gift bags. (below)