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From the Knit Before Christmas, August 2022 The heart of the Seamen’s Church Institute is its chaplaincy. In the Port of New York and New Jersey, the largest port on North America’s East Coast, chaplains and support personnel provide pastoral care via ship visits, transportation services, and extended hospitality at our International Seafarers’ Center. In […]

Published in The Knit Before Christmas, August 2022 Named in memory of Janet Lord Roper, SCI’s “House Mother” from 1915 to 1943, the Roper Legacy Society acknowledges the generosity and foresight of individuals who include the Seamen’s Church Institute in their estate plans as an important philanthropic commitment to furthering SCI’s mission. In 2018, to […]

For 27 years, SCI’s Center for Mariner Advocacy has welcomed students from Tulane University School of Law to work as interns during their 1L summer. This summer, CMA welcomed Ashleigh Higgs to the longstanding program, where she was able to engage with and learn from the meaningful work that CMA does. Here are a few […]

SCI’s Center for Maritime Education is adding two key features to their client service experience in September: registration automation and blended learning modules. – Registration automation will allow CME clients to sync up their HR databases with SCI, streamlining service/course re-enrollment. Providing clients the option of automation, reduces the labor and potential for error that […]

One of SCI’s priorities is to maintain an active presence within the maritime community, raising visibility within the industry of the personal support, education, and legal advocacy services we offer to river mariners and seafarers. To that end, conference attendance is important and this August, SCI has attended three conferences: • Senior Chaplain Thomas Rhoades, […]

We hope you’re inspired for another great Christmas at Sea season, and The Knit Before Christmas—our magazine for our fiber-artist community—is in the mail. But, you can check it out online here: http://seamenschurch.org/knit-summer-2022. Or download the PDF, click here.

A Dedicated Examiner (DE) is a specific type of assessor – a USCG licensed mariner, authorized to appraise a mariner’s ability to meet a set of standards outlined by the USCG for completion of the Towing Officer Assessment Record (TOAR). DE’s are often in-company assessors, reviewing and certifying apprentice mates seeking to be trained as […]

Recently, on June 28-30, SCI chaplains Tom Rhoades and David Shirk welcomed a group of SCI chaplain associates for Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) training in Texas City, TX. CISM is emotional first aid that reduces stressors which can adversely affect the brain following unexpected traumatic experiences. For mariners and seafarers, this could include workplace […]

The Lookout for Spring 2022 is now online. Click through below, or view online here.

One of the highlights of this year’s Silver Bell Awards Dinner was the announcement of a $1.2 Million gift by Richard du Moulin, SCI’s Board of Trustee Chair Emeritus and 2021 Silver Bell Award recipient. In his special video statement, du Moulin noted SCI’s outstanding work and innovation, and that his gift was “simple payback” […]