As we welcome 2025, the Seamen's Church Institute sends best wishes to all #mariners and #seafarers for a safe and prosperous new year. We sincerely appreciate your service and sacrifice—you remain in our prayers and close to our hearts. · · · (📸: thank you, David Rider – https://lnkd.in/e9FHhNwy
The Seamen's Church Institute
Maritime Transportation
New York, NY 2,933 followers
In Service to Mariners — Chaplaincy, Crisis Support, Training, Feasibility Studies, Advocacy.
About us
SCI is North America’s largest and most comprehensive agency for mariners and seafarer services. Learn more about how we make a difference in the maritime community: SEAMENSCHURCH.ORG.
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Founded in 1834 and affiliated with the Episcopal Church—but interfaith and inclusive in terms of its trustees, staff, and service to mariners—the Seamen’s Church Institute (SCI) is the most comprehensive mariners’ service agency in North America. Annually, its chaplains visit thousands of vessels in the Port of New York and New Jersey and along 2,200 miles of America’s inland waterways extending into the Gulf of Mexico. SCI’s maritime education facilities provide navigational training to over 1,600 mariners each year through online learning and simulator-based facilities (located in Houston, TX and Paducah, KY). The Institute and its maritime attorneys are recognized as leading advocates for merchant mariners by the United States Government, including the US Congress, the US Coast Guard, and the Department of Homeland Security, as well as the United Nations, the International Maritime Organization, the International Labour Organization and maritime trade associations.
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- Industry
- Maritime Transportation
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1834
- Specialties
- Mariners' Welfare, Legal Advocacy, and Maritime Education
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50 Broadway
26th Floor
New York, NY 10004, US
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118 Export Street
Port Newark, NJ 07114, US
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129 South Water St
Paducah, KY 42001, US
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9650 High Level Road
Houston, TX 77029, US
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⏰Today is the FINAL DAY to give for #mariners and #seafarers before the year ends! Your support of SCI is critical and enables all the important work we do year-round to support mariners. In ways big and small, in times of crisis and in defense of their rights, SCI works on behalf of those mariners who work dangerous jobs with such dedication. Mariners know they can depend on SCI—and we depend on YOU! Please, give generously before midnight tonight: https://lnkd.in/g7DxNYVb
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We were delighted to have Valdemar (Val) Tamez Jr., a high school senior, join us for an extended internship at our Center for Maritime Education in Houston. Director Capt. Stephen Polk shared more about Val’s experience in our latest Masthead newsletter: https://lnkd.in/e5WU_js3 #MaritimeTraining #StartThemYoung
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No #mariner should feel alone or forgotten on #Christmas! Through our Christmas at Sea program, SCI works with incredible volunteers to deliver handmade knitted and crocheted gifts to mariners who have to spend the holidays away from home and family. These gifts warm the heart, body, and spirit. On Christmas, please don’t forget about the hardworking men and women of the maritime industry who make our modern lives possible. Make a generous Christmas gift today and bring holiday warmth to mariners near and far: https://lnkd.in/e7g_5RCd ⭐ 🎄 #ChristmasAtSea #SeamensChurch
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SCI's Director of the Center for Mariner Advocacy, Phil Schifflin,, Esq. recently represented the International Christian Maritime Association at the Joint ILO-IMO Tripartite Working Group addressing the criminalization of seafarers. Read his recap of the meeting: https://lnkd.in/e_tmJeVK
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We will be livestreaming our first International Seafarers' Center #Christmas Service and Celebration from Port Newark this afternoon. Head over to our Facebook page (https://lnkd.in/eXtPcXxJ) for 1200h (Eastern). #SeamensChurch
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Thank you to the WISTA USA—NY/NJ representatives who joined Chaplain Bill Allport today to deliver Santa Sacks and Ditty Bags to ships and seafarers in Port Newark! SCI’s #ChristmasAtSea deliveries are well underway. We’re so grateful to the many volunteers who have dedicated their time to crafting handmade items, packing, and delivering this holiday season! Read more here: https://lnkd.in/e-u5kvbJ
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One of the wonderful aspects of these #ChristmasAtSea gifts, especially along the U.S. river system and Gulf Coast, is hearing from experienced mariners who still have the hats or scarves they received when they first started their careers on the water.
I'll never forget spending holidays away from my family while working offshore. One year, a crew member decorated the boat for Christmas and put gifts under the tree for everyone. The gifts were small but meaningful. Today, I have the honor of delivering gifts to mariners. I will pray over them asking God to bless the mariners who receive them with joy and peace. The Seamen's Church Institute annually distributes handmade gifts through the Christmas at Sea ministry to both international and US mariners. My role as a Ministry on the River Chaplain is to deliver the gifts to boats on the Lower Mississippi River and Gulf Region. Today 31 of my 38 boxes arrived. I look forward to getting on the road with the full load this week and making the stops. I have 526 boats worth of gifts to distribute this weekend. To put this in scale, I am just one of many chaplains in various parts of the country distributing gifts. The Christmas at Sea program is an impressive logistical operation. Joanne Kaplan Bartosik of Seamen’s Church manages the process and it's quite amazing how precise and organized the end result is. Many thanks to her leadership in making my role more relationally focused. If you would like to learn more about the program or how to get involved, send me a message.
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SCI's 24th Annual River Bell Awards Luncheon is officially underway here in #Paducah! A warm welcome to our almost 600 guests, a heartfelt thanks to our sponsors and supporters, and congratulations to this year's honorees. #RiverBell #SeamansChurch #ForMariners
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A shout-out to these Ingram Barge Company mariners in Paducah, KY, who took a little time out to model some of our Christmas at Sea knits, lovingly made by our incredible volunteers. The Christmas at Sea–On the River deliveries are in full swing! #ChristmasAtSea #KnitsForMariners
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