Closing Down

Today was a day of closure. The last day that our wards would be open in Liberia and the last day for our 120+ Liberian day workers. Whilst on a field service Mercy Ships employs local people to help with almost every aspect of the ministry from cooking and cleaning to working with our deck department, engineering, hospital and field operations. To honour them we had an African meal at lunchtime and then a short program in our meeting room where we had a time of (lively) african worship and then Ken Berry (Managing Director) and Tim Tretheway (Captain) thanked them all for their work. The ship will seem very empty next week without them around, but as we prepare to sail there will be many more goodbyes to be said.