This is accomplished by:

1) establishing evangelical port ministries where none exist,

2) training local Christians to serve the spiritual, emotional, and physical needs of seafarers, and

3) developing strategies and methods of evangelism and discipleship for ministering to seafarers.

These activities will be conducted to the highest of ethical and professional standards.


The Statement of Faith of Port of Hope Ministries and port ministries established Port of Hope.

1. We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writing, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.

2. We believe in One God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

3. We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary and is true God and true man.

4. We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual death, which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, thus being sinners in thought, word and deed.

5. We believe in the personality of Satan.

6. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice; and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood.

7. We believe in two Christian ordinances, those being baptism to walk in newness of life in Christ, and the Lord's Supper as a memorial feast instituted by the Lord Himself exclusively for His own.

8. We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His bodily ascension into Heaven, and in His present life there for us as High Priest and Advocate.

9. We believe in the "Blessed Hope" -- the personal, premillennial and imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

10. We believe that all who accept by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit and so become children of God.

11. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life and bear fruit which will remain.

12. We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the just and the unjust -- the just to everlasting bliss and the unjust to everlasting punishment.