North American Maritime Ministry Association

The North American Maritime Ministry Association (NAMMA) is an association of members who perform Christian ministry in ports and ships in North America.[1]

NAMMA's partner organizations in North America include The Mission to Seafarers, Lutheran Advocates for Maritime Ministry, Apostleship of the Sea, and Port Ministries International.

Activities

NAMMA's key activities consist in professional development, networking and consultation on capacity building. Among other activities the Association is involved in:

Member Organizations

This is a select list of current or previous member organizations.

St. Lawrence/Great Lakes

East Coast

Gulf Coast

West Coast

Further reading

Roald Kverndal, Seamen's Missions: Their Origin and Early Growth, 1986.

Roald Kverndal, The Way of the Sea: The Changing Shape of Mission in the Seafaring World, 2007.

Paul G. Mooney, Maritime Mission: History, Developments, A New Perspective (Zoetermeer: Uitgeverij Boekencentrum, 2005).

Paul G. Mooney, “Serving Seafarers Under Sail and Steam: A Missiological Reflection on the Development of Maritime Missions from 1779 to 1945,” Occasional Papers of the International Association for the Study of Maritime Mission (June 2000).

Vincent A. Yzermans, American Catholic Seafarers’ Church: A narrative history of the Apostleship of Sea and the National Catholic Conference for Seafarers in the United States (Washington: The National Catholic Conference for Seafarers in the United States, 1995).

References

  1. ↑ On the history of maritime ministry see especially Roald Kverndal, Seamen's Missions: Their Origin and Early Growth, 1986 and Kverndal, The Way of the Sea, 2007.

External links

Website of International Christian Maritime Association (ICMA)

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