1/15/17

Costa Pacifica Cruise Ship Chapel

Additional Chapels and Meditation Rooms

Chapels

Ships, Planes, and Trains

While travelling, no need to miss worshiping.  Look for a chapel or meditation room in the cruise ship, airport, or railway station you are travelling through.

Cruise Ships

Costa Pacifica Cruise Ship to Western Mediterranean, Malta Harbor, (Blog Post 1/8/17).

Norweigan Sun Princess Cruise Ship to Alaska, Chapel,  
Vancouver B.C. Harbor, (Blog Post 10/11/15).

Celebrity Millennium Cruise Ship to Panama Canal, San Diego, California, Harbor, (Blog Post 10/27/13).

Airports


Sea-Tac Airport, Seattle, Washington Chapel,  
(Blog Post 2/10/13).


Vancouver International Airport Chapel, Vancouver, B.C.,  (Blog Post 4/14/13).

                  George Bush Intercontinental Airport

                  Interfaith Chapel, Houston, Texas,                                                   (Blog Post 10/20/13).

Railway Stations

       Bahnhof Kirche/Station Church/Chapelle de 
      Gare, Zurich Main Station,- Zurich, Switzerland,                             (Blog Post January 31, 2016).

Photos: Taken in 2013-2015 by SW and RW while travelling.

Norwegian Sun Cruise Ship

Booklet
Churches of Norwegian Sun Cruise 
Alaska Inside Passage 

This booklet is a compilation of blog posts from "Churches On Sundays" at http://www.churchesonsundays.blogspot.com of the chapel on the Norwegian Sun Cruise Ship and the churches in ports it visited on the Alaska Inside Passage.

Title Page

Table of Contents

The Booklet "Churches of Norwegian Sun Cruise, Alaska Inside Passage Churches" has been donated to the Norwegian Sun for placement in either the chapel or library.

Prayer

God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)

Norwegian Sun 

at 

Cruise Ship Terminal, Vancouver B.C.

Cruise Ship Norwegian Sun-Chapel
Cruise-Vancouver, Alaska Inside Passage, Vancouver

The Norwegian Sun is one of the smaller ships that comes into the Cruise Ship Terminal in Vancouver B.C.  It welcomes 1,936 guests and is only 848 feet long.
The ship cruises to the Panama Canal, South America, the Mexican Riviera, the Pacific Coast and Alaska's Inside Passage.

 

Alaska's Inside Passage

(pan handle area in the south east)

(Link 4:)

It was built in 2001 and refurbished in 2011.  The guests have access to amenities on 12 decks.  One of the rooms on that 12th, top deck/bow, is a small room labeled "Chapel".

Chapel Altar Area

A small plain door off the 12th deck hallway opens to the small lovely chapel bathed in soft light and pale colors.  The oval altar is a gentle oval of pale blond wood with a  large diamond grain.  The front altar cabinet features a white marble top and supports a white urn of flowers.  Urns of flowers flank both sides of the cabinet. A modern painting of the soft colors highlighted in black is centered on the front wall.

Chapel Seating and Interior Window Wall

Window of panels of squares of back lit colored glass framed in blond wood are on both the interior window wall and the two rear French doors leading to the outside deck.  The dozen (approximate) upholstered armed chairs are also of the matching blond wood.

Sunday Missal

The front altar cabinet is a storage area for worship service materials.  Several sets of books are available, in several languages.  They include the Sunday Missal published by The Vatican, Gates of Prayer, and What the Bible Really Teaches.  

The Chapel is open at all times to guests for private meditation.  On request it can be reserved for special services: weddings  and vow renewal services (Link 3.), Friday self led Sabbath Services, and Sunday worship services.

Photos: Taken  by SW in September 2015 during a cruise celebrating Alan 

                 Wilson's 75th birthday.

Link 1: http://www.ncl.com/freestyle-cruise/wedding-and-romance

Link 2: http://www.ncl.com/cruise-ship/sun?cid=PS_TSI_USA_BRA_GOO_N-A_N-_SHIPFLEET_XXXXXXXXX_norwegian+sun+cruise
Link 3: http://www.ncl.com/freestyle-cruise/wedding-and-romance
Link 4: St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church (Juneau, Alaska) is located in Alaska

Prayer

God, be with the persecuted Christians through out the world. Amen (SW.)

Celebrity Millennium Cruise Ship
San Diego Harbor

Celebrity Millennium Cruise Ship, Sunday Worship
September 22 to October 7, 2013
Panama Canal
San Diego, California to Fort Lauderdale Florida

The Policy of the September 22, 2013 Panama Cruise sailing of the Celebrity Millennium Cruise Ship was not to have a designated Chapel/Meditation Room. The Policy was not to hold any type of worship service at all.  However, when the Reverend Pastor Rankin from Nova Scotia persisted and offered to lead the service, a room was made available for 1/2 hour on Sunday morning for an interdenominational service.  That room was the Cosmos Lounge.

Cosmos Lounge of Celebrity Millennium

Sunday Worship Service Conducted by

Pastor Rankin

The Cosmos Lounge was on deck 11 at the rear of the ship.  At night it featured, a dance band, large dance floor, and lots of revilers.  But on the two Sunday mornings with the Reverend Pastor Rankin in charge and about 70 passengers who came to worship it became a reverent  space. And for those Sunday mornings  even the room echoed the reverence. 

At the entrance to Cosmos Lounge a large colorful 1979 LOVE statue welcomed the worshipers.  To them it announced "God's love".  The multi blue toned wave patterned carpet of the lounge reminded them of the Sea of Galilee.  And looking out the back widows of the lounge the mast on the ship's stern looked like the Cross.

1979 LOVE Sculpture

Carpet of Cosmos Lounge

Mast on Stern of  Cruise Ship

On the first Sunday of the cruise the theme of the sermon by Pastor Rankin was "The Gift of God is Eternal Life".  And if you look closely at the left hand pillar in the photo of Pastor Rankin preaching in the Cosmos Lounge, you can see a reflection that looks like a candle, a symbol of eternal life.

On the second Sunday of the cruise the theme was the "23rd Psalm" and Pastor Rankin made referenced to the sheep in New Zealand, where there are 4 of them for every person.  Pastor Rankin was ordained as a Baptist minster in 1958.  He has served as a Presbyterian minister for 55 years.

Thank you: To Pastor Rankin for arranging for leading us in worship the two Sundays of the Celebrity Millennium Panama Canal Cruise.
Photos: Taken September and October, 2013 by SW.
Link 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_(sculpture)

Prayer

God, be with the persecuted Christians through out the world. Amen
(SW)