On May 15th, the Second Secretary travelled to the Antwerp Harbour Hotel to meet with Revd. June Mark Yañez, who works as a chaplain for St. Boniface Anglican church and the Mission to Seafarers, and Steve Morgan, Regional Director for Europe for the Mission to Seafarers. The Harbour Hotel is where the Mission to Seafarers share offices with similar organisations and offer services to seafarers who have docked in the port of Antwerp.

It was a wonderful opportunity to learn from Revd. Yañez about the help and support that the Mission to Seafarers offers to the people of many nationalities who come on ships of all sizes to the port of Antwerp. In turn, the Second Secretary was able to explain in detail how this fits into the Anglican Church’s ministry in Belgium and together we discussed what future ministry opportunities might look like.

We give thanks for all the work the Mission to Seafarers does in accompanying seafarers who are far from home and family, working in very difficult conditions and we are thankful for many years of partnership between the Anglican Church and this organisation.