So did I mention that I went to the Oscars this year?!
Unfortunately they were on board Logos Hope, so I didn’t get to meet any celebrities. Last week we had our annual “LogOscars” competition, where crewmembers can submit videos they have made and they are judged, and everybody dresses up and walks down a red [...]
Archive for July, 2008
My summer vacation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alison mcfarland, beach, fun, holiday, logos hope, logoscars, om ships, park, praise, sabbath, sabbath week, summer, sunshine, vacation, worship on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My paint bandits
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alison mcfarland, logos hope, om ships, paint, painting, wet paint on July 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Having spent recent weeks painting the back of each stair from decks 1 to 5 a bright shade of blue, I am experimenting to see just how many people on board Logos Hope can actually read. We put up barrier tape; we put up Wet Paint signs; I even made a special notice instructing people [...]
My “illegal” ministry
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alison mcfarland, drama, everything, logos hope, ministry, om ships, project phase, project work, youth camp on July 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Logos Hope is not doing ministry at the moment. And by ministry, we mean organised programmes, organised outreach teams, organised presentation teams, organised anything teams. No matter how worthy, noble, compassionate or any other fine-sounded verb the cause may be, we are not doing it.
We are in project phase. Project phase = hard work. I [...]
My institutionalisation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alison mcfarland, cabin mate, hope floating, institution, institutionalisation, logos hope, om ships, prison, shawshank redemption on July 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
They say that when convicts are released at the end of their sentence, they often have trouble readjusting to the freedom of “normal” life. They have become institutionalised. Without inadvertently comparing Logos Hope to a prison, or myself to the dude who hanged himself in the Shawshank Redemption, I can definitely empathise.
They say that 28 [...]