What do OM ships do?
OM Ships - Bringing Knowledge, Help and Hope.
So what do the ships do when they go into port? What are the main activities?
A key part of the work of the ships is to bring the world's largest floating bookshops into ports where there is a great need and hunger for literature.
Logos Hope will carry over 500,000 books on board with a wide range of educational books, children's books and study books as well as Christian books and the world's best seller - The Bible. In many ports, thousands of people will queue up to come on board and buy the books. Due to many contacts with different book charities, the ship is able to give away high quality text books for just the shipping cost.
In some ports, visitors buy as many books
as they can carry
People will wait in the sun for hours to
visit the ship and buy books
As well as bringing knowledge
through the book shop, the ships bring help in the form of aid and practical
help. This includes doing practical work at orphanages, schools and hospitals in
needy countries and giving aid and supplies to those who need it most.
Delivering a gift to an Aids clinic in
Kenya
Giving a gift of books to a school in Sri
Lanka
Members of the ships crew helping to
rebuild an orphanage on the island of Reunion
The OM Ships also bring Hope to people
around the world through the good news of the gospel. Teams from the ship visit
schools, hospitals, prisons, orphanages and churches. At the same time many
people visit the ship for conferences aimed on subjects as diverse as Aids,
Relationships, Marriage and youth events.
Another key part of the ship's role is to
provide an opportunity for a community of young people from across the world to
demonstrate how different cultures can live and work together. The ships have
been described as a floating united nations.
A cultural program in Tr1poli
The Korean's performing a fan
dance
School programmes sharing about the work
of the ship and the good news message that we bring using drama, dance and
clowns.
The Crew of Logos II on the bow during an
atlantic crossing