BE. Stories from the Sea of Cortez

The Hardest Part Is the Waiting

A special, recorded on the dock in Mazatlán while Hurricane Simon sits off the coast.

Zeus took the jib down this morning. He doubled the lines. The supplies we drove from the United States are already on board. Simon peaked as a Category 4. It is slower now, and slow storms bring rain, surf, and mudslides. We are watching to see where it turns.

This is a letter from the dock, written while the wind is still rising. The first storm put six inches of water over the shipyard pier, and the electrical box that fed Amazing Grace was sitting in it. Hurricane Pamela put Charlotte at the throttle with a bucket in the other hand while Zeus worked the fenders on deck. Not every storm in this ministry has come with wind. Some were a border, a bill, a son, a season of doubt.

Twenty-five dollars fills one home health kit. Two hundred fifty equips a Red Cross station. The only ask today is the Wave.

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If you are new, start with Episode 2, Get Into the Ship. The cloud, the four-year-old, and the house that sold in four hours. Next is Episode 3, Sixteen Bags of Sand.

Be hopeful. Be loved. Be encouraged.

A cloud in a backyard. A four-year-old who named the face before her parents would. A man who said he would never live on a boat, and then found an office on one.

Charlotte and Zeus Ebio on the summer of 2000, when God said serve him with ships. A magazine on a couch. A line in Oswald Chambers: get into the ship and go to the other side. A house that sold in four hours. A hundred-foot steel hull they did not know how to run. Twenty thousand hours. A night on the back deck at Bethel Island when they almost sold her. A door in Kona. A table in 2014. A crossing in 2017 with other people’s children aboard, and a girl at the helm who saw the dolphins first.

The first yes was get into the ship. They are still in it.

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Next: Episode 3, Sixteen Kilos of Sugar.

Be hopeful. Be loved. Be encouraged.

Stories from Amazing Grace Maritime Missions. Start with episode one, The Boy They Did Not Drive Past. Join the Wave at agmaritimemissions.org/wave.

Before he had a name people knew, Abraham was wandering Cerritos Del Ocho, a neighborhood people drive past. Two people did not. A home health kit is twenty-five dollars. Join the Wave at https://AGMaritimeMissions.org/wave/