The Baltimore International Seafarers' Center

What We Do

The vision of the Baltimore International Seafarers’ Center:
Seafarers in port will experience welcome and respect.

Our mission:

·           Welcome seafarers to the Port of Baltimore.
·           Support seafarers’ spiritual and practical well-being.
·           Speak out about seafarers’ contributions and rights.

The Baltimore International Seafarers Center is initiating the WiseHealth Seafarer Outreach Program:  a 24/7 multimedia, multilingual program of support to seafarers and their families to improve shipboard wellbeing and family cohesion.  Together we can make a difference globally.

Stories and viewpoints from people who have been touched by or involved with the ministry of the Center.

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The Right Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Baltimore, and Allene Taylor, Vice President of the Baltimore International Seafarers’ Center Board and an active and long time volunteer, discuss the importance of the ministry of visiting with, and listening to, the seafarers who arrive in the Port of Baltimore.

Hear a seafarer express what the Baltimore International Seafarers’ Center means to him.

Bishop Wolfgang Herz-Lane (right), the past bishop of the Delaware-Maryland Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and the Rev. Gerry Rickel, an ELCA pastor,
discuss the ministry that Pastor Rickel serves as one ofthe chaplains in the Port of Baltimore.

 

Ed Munro, the founder of the Center, and Randi Donselar, the first Treasurer, reflect on the Center’s beginnings almost 20 years ago.

Bud Nixon and the late Don Carroll, president and member, respectively, of the Center, converse about its role in the lives of seafarers visiting the Port of Baltimore.

Mike Derby, of Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, and Mike Flanagan, Chesapeake Bay Pilot, discuss how Center volunteers help visiting crew feel welcomed and appreciated.