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Christmas Gift Bags

Thank you to those in 2025 who donated for the Christmas Gift Bags , knitted toques and mitts, and to the team that put them together. In December, we delivered 468 gift bags, including 3 gift bags for female seafarers, to 26 ships, which was a record for our...

Skirting Project updated

The Seafarers’ Centre is a house trailer. The blocking supporting it needed to be renewed, as the north end of the trailer had dropped a couple of inches. The skirting was replaced in 1994 and it has since deteriorated and needed to be replaced. The scope of the...

2024 Year in Review

We ministered to the seafarers from ocean-going ships, which in 2024 included working with 148 ships and transporting 1,938 seafarers. The Seafarers’ Centre at Keefer Terminal was staffed on 201 evenings with 223 sailors visiting. 2024 tied with 2000 for the busiest...

Magazines and usable, warm, small-large men’s clothing needed

Do you have current news magazines or National Geographics that you would like to give to a good organization? The Mission to Seafarers is in need of magazines and clean, used or new, but usable, warm, small-large men’s clothing to distribute to seafarers. Pop...