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Creative Hospitality in the Port of Vancouver
By PortalBot • February 07, 2022

At the start of each ship visit, Port Chaplains never know how God will use us to share His love and extend ‘creative hospitality’ to the seafarers that we meet. This is even more reason why we pra...

Port Chaplains Adapt to COVID-19 Pandemic
By PortalBot • October 22, 2020

The Chaplain Ministry for seafarers has had to change & adapt due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Bill shares some of the challenges, and some of the joys of ministering to the seafarers during this ...

Coming Full Circle
By PortalBot • August 31, 2020

Once an engineer at the marine terminals in Vancouver, life came full circle for Bill Wong when he returned to the same marine terminals, but this time as a Chaplain.

Dawn of New Life
By PortalBot • February 10, 2020

After an experience with a brain aneurism, Terry experiences two different voices speaking into his experience.

 

A Port Chaplain's Reflections
By PortalBot • February 04, 2020

Every day, port chaplains are reaching out to seafarers that arrive on ships to the Port of Vancouver, sharing the love of God and the Good News with them.

Transformational Gratitude.
By PortalBot • November 15, 2019

A story years in the making. A Chaplains Story.

Looking a little like Jesus strolling down the path calling out to Zacchaeus, the Chaplain shouted up to Big Ron on his forklift. "Hey there ...

The Story of a Skeptical Manager & A Corporate Chaplain
By PortalBot • September 09, 2019

This is the story of a Skeptical Manager & A Corporate Chaplain...

Ronnie looked stern and grumpy seated in his big manager’s chair staring at me over the rim of his reading glasse...

A Three Act Play: "We are Wellness Chaplains"
By PortalBot • August 19, 2019

God is a playwright who is deeply interested in character development; and he uses all sorts of plot twists and genres and devices, things we can see, in order to bring about the changes we ca...

Conversations with a Chaplain
By PortalBot • July 11, 2019

“I don’t know where my anger is coming from.”

Randy looked down intently at his French Vanilla Whipped Cream Extravaganza supersize coffee supreme as we sat at a Tim Hortons, not too far ...