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| Smooth sailing for the Africa Mercy as she navigates her way to open seas as she departs Durban, South Africa. |
Jim Paterson, Senior Vice President of Operations, reports that the Africa Mercy departed Durban on February 10th bound for Freetown, Sierra Leone via Cape Town.
Although the project encountered some delays the end result was everything we hoped for. After some initial settling in adjustments during the first 12 hour period the vessel performed very well indeed during the three day trip from Durban to Cape Town.
Mercy Ships is very grateful to all who participated on this large project – Southern African Shipyards and Controlmatic Gmbh as the major contractors as well as many sub contractors and suppliers many of whom gave special pricing for this project.
We are very proud of our four new MAN 5L21/31 generator sets and expect them to give many years of reliable service as well as a significant savings on fuel costs.
Once again, thank you to the many volunteers who contributed to the project over the last five and a half months, without each one of them the project would have been that more difficult and expensive.
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| The Africa Mercy leaves the sanctuary of Cape Town's Victoria and Albert Waterfront continuing on her voyage to Freetown, Sierra Leone. |
Praise the Lord- Mercy is on it's way again! May the impact of the Love of Christ demonstrated stimulate new conversion and revitalize, renew the soul vigor of many even as physical healing is granted. In a nation that has been so tormented by spiritual and physical warfare, what a blessing to be taking part in proclaiming the miracle of hope and healing in Jesus's Name!! The memory of "Massy Ship" is still strong there, 7 years since we last served Sierra Leone, and the country awaits you with open hearts and arms; may their needs be ministered to, body and soul is my prayer!
ReplyDeleteawesome! glad i could be a part of it. by the way, it's Cape Town's Victoria and ALFRED Waterfront, not Albert...
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