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原文传递 SCI Celebrates 125 Years Of Christinas At Sea Program

题名：	SCI Celebrates 125 Years Of Christinas At Sea Program
正文语种：	eng
作者：	FRANK MCCORMACK
摘要：	On a chilly December evening in Baton Rouge, La., around 20 people gathered in the fellowship hall of Ingleside United Methodist Church to pack hundreds of boxes with knitted hats, scarves and gators, along with notes of encouragement, and share a pot of homemade gumbo. Leading the packing event-and the gumbo chef-was the Rev. Tom Rhoades, senior chaplain with the Ministry on the River program of the Seamen's Church Institute (SCI). The event was part of SCI's Christmas at Sea campaign, now in its 125th year, which gives knitted items to seafarers and inland mariners who work through the holiday season. Launched in 1898, Christmas at Sea is considered the oldest and longest continuously running charter knitting program in the United States. For international seafarers, the primary distribution point is SCI's International Seafarers' Center at Port Newark, N.J. For SCI's ministry to mariners who work on the nation's inland and coastal waterways, chaplains coordinate packing and distribution efforts anywhere from Pittsburgh, Pa., and Paducah, Ky., south to New Orleans and Houston, and many places in between.
出版年：	2023
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	137
期：	39
页码：	3,6