M.V Doulos...the worlds largest floating book exhibition and oldest passenger liner, only 2 years younger than the Titanic with 500 ports of call, 320 people from over 50 countries. GBA good..books..for all.
Every function of the ship was hands on by the crew and if we lived in it then we worked it from book exhibition to engine room, teams were sent out into the visited towns to serve the community in whatever need they may have or we would just minister threw dramas..mimes..preaching..teaching etc.
March 2010 Doulos was bought by the C.E.O of the Biznaz resource centres and is now decommissioned and deemed a Historic ship- sad but glad that we were part of History in the making :)

I had volunteered  to work on board the ship while docked in Durban so I was well aware of what I was getting myself into little did I know that South Africa has the roughest waters in the world due to the two Oceans meeting, once the ship cut loose from the dock sea sickness hit me like something from a horror movie and no amount of pills was going to help me- Fasten your life jacket its going to be bombs away- lol.

The first time I volunteered I worked the laundry room (can you imagine a team of 7 washing..drying..folding and sorting out the clothes of 320 people daily ? I did this for 3 weeks Yikes! Every time I felt like I needed to be in a position less hot than the dryer room I felt for the people working in the engine room, it must have been at temps close to passing out yet they laboured with Love and I pressed on :) we all took turns for being in the ministry team and oh how I waited for those days...lol. I made some friends who are still in my life and together we set out on an adventure, we jointed the ship on its second time around and at this time I would work in the book exhibition.

More to follow :)

Lets start from the begining 1995 # 1

I have been involved in outreach projects in my home town Pheonix (Kwazulu, Natal) from the time I was a teenager, going into the surrounding villages taking care of the orphan kids and providing them care ( giving them baths, food and playing with them) there were times when the smells was so outrageous and the flies so intolerable however in humility I bowed down and served cause of my love for them. I felt a need not to stop just there but to expand my help out to the surrounding provinces and got to travel all over South Africa helping in soup kitchens, providing care for the homeless in the shelters and on the streets of Johannesburg...Cape town and East London. There seemed to be a hunger in me for  helping people who so much appreciated a slice of bread and a cup of soup, some just wanted a smile and they would lighten up like Christmas lights. The more I spent time with the down trodden the more I felt like what Jesus would have felt when he looked at the millions with compassion and I understood then what drew him to the cross...Love for the lost and hope for the future, no matter what those people looked like at the time when I met them I saw what they could be when Jesus was done with them :) I was very hard to see people who just rolled up in a card board box in the freeze of winter the keep warm and see women drink themselves to sleep cause the pain of life was to much (if they could just escape for awhile they and have tasted a taste of haven in their dreams IT WOULD BE WELL WITH THEIR SOULS ) the crys of some just brought you to tears and I asked God to give me the strenghth to go on cause it was to emotional seeing these people in such pain, at times I wish I had all the money in the world to help fix these living conditions for the Orphans and homeless.

After many years of serving in my surrounding villages and towns I was giving the opportunity of a lifetime..working on board the Doulos. I've worked on board as a volunteer before so I knew that I could not let this pass me by, I had no clue as to how the money would come to support this kind of a Missions project however I trusted the Lord that he would meet the need. Told my family what I wanted to do and packed my bags and I was of to travel the country helping people with physical and spiritual needs...Little did I know it then but this trip would change my life forever.