Category Archives: Updates

Safely ‘home’ and all together What a whirlwind few weeks. Some of you may know already, but for those of you who don’t Cori and John are safely back ‘home’ in South Africa too. With the new COVID variant sparking travel restrictions and new concerns about increased cases we decided that the wisest thing wasContinue reading “Travel Update”

What? Why? How? In addition to our Stories that we share with you, we want to start sending (semi)regular video updates that will most likely cover more of the practical and behind-the-scenes aspects of our journey. In this first Video Update we focus on some of the What, How and Why of the remaining timeContinue reading “VIDEO UPDATE – October 2021”

Open for Busyness 10 212. That is the number of visitors that came up the gangway during our 3 weeks in Castries, St Lucia. This was by far the busiest we have been as a Bookfair Team since the pandemic started, and it was wonderful. Although we were still all learning how to work togetherContinue reading “Stories from Logos Hope”

Purpose and Passion When we left for the ship almost 18 months ago we thought we knew what our purpose for going was. We knew that God had placed in our hearts a desire to see disciple-makers thriving. We expected to be leading the Bookfair through the changes related to opening and ministering in EuropeContinue reading “Stories from the Bookfair”

Even More Unexpected Blessings Although we had higher expectations of opening the Bookfair when setting sail from Curacao to St Vincent, we have learnt that nothing is certain until it is happening (or already happened is some circumstances). We are now in St Vincent and after a number of meetings and discussions regarding protocols weContinue reading “Stories from Kingstown, St Vincent”

A Time of Rest and Reflection Dry Docknoun: drydock – a dock which can be drained of water to allow the inspection and repair of a ship’s hull. While the definition above is correct, onboard Logos Hope the term drydock means so much more. It refers more generally to the annual season of maintenance thatContinue reading “Stories from Drydock 2021”

We are excited to let you know that we have a new place to store all the stories we live through, gather and learn from as we continue with this amazing adventure that God is leading us on. Stories are important. They are one of the best ways that we can share what God isContinue reading “A New Place for Our Stories”

Family as God intended Living in this intense, multi-cultural community is a vibrant place to be, but also comes with its unique challenges.  Its like living in the church social gatherings endlessly. One of our biggest blessings on board is our ship family.  We are 16 people from 11 different countries and if you stoppedContinue reading “Stories from Logos Hope”