This year Sea Sunday is marked on 11 July 2021, but can be celebrated on any Sunday in the year, and is an opportunity to think and pray about the lives of seafarers, their families and those who support them.
Mission to Seafarers
Mission to Seafarers says Sea Sunday is an opportunity to thank seafarers for the hardships they have faced and the sacrifices they have been forced to endure due to the Covid lockdowns.
It has Sea Sunday packs available to order.
Each pack contains 3 posters with the date of Sea Sunday and 3 without the date, sermon notes, 40 pew leaflets, 20 children’s leaflets, 50 Gift Aid envelopes and a Freepost envelope to return any money raised.
Please see the Mission to Seafarers website.
Sailor’s Society
The Sailor’s Society also says that seafarers are in great need of your prayers this year as during the coronavirus pandemic they’ve felt more isolated and have been called upon to make more painful sacrifices than ever before. In fact, the UN has called their situation a ‘humanitarian crisis’.
To help your church remember and pray for them this year, the Sailor’s Society has a video presentation available to download. It also has a mental health support appeal.
For more information, see the Sailor’s Society website.
Stella Maris
Stella Maris, formerly known as The Apostleship of the Sea, has a range of resources to download to help parishes celebrate Sea Sunday this year, including a parish pack, a poster, video, children’s’ activities and an appeal talk. You can also download and listen to an audio version of the appeal talk by Bishop Paul Mason, Stella Maris’s Bishop Promoter for England and Wales.
For more details see the Stella Maris website.
