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The Seamen's Church Institute (SCI) of New York & New Jersey, founded in 1834〔Rousmaniere, Leah Robinson (1995). Anchored Within The Vail, A Pictorial History of the Seamen’s Church Institute. Seamen's Church Institute. ISBN 0-9643657-0-7〕 and affiliated with the Episcopal Church, serves mariners through education, pastoral care, and legal advocacy. With a budget of over $6 million, SCI is the largest, most comprehensive mariners’ agency in North America. Headquartered in New York City, the Institute operates seafarers’ centers in Port Newark and the Port of Oakland and maritime education facilities in Paducah, KY〔Joe Walker, In times of economic struggles, focus stays on training program, Paducah Sun, Front Page, Business Section, Sunday, July 7, 2002〕 and Houston, TX.〔JENALIA MORENO, Waterway pilots try out new simulator, Houston Chronicle, May 11, 2001〕 Annually, its chaplains visit more than 2,400 vessels in the Port of New York and New Jersey, the Port of Oakland and along American inland waterways.〔 SCI provides free legal advice for merchant mariners worldwide and advocates for their rights to the United States Government, including the United States Congress, the Department of Homeland Security and the US Coast Guard, as well as the United Nations, the International Maritime Organization, the International Labor Organization and maritime trade associations. SCI instructors provide professional development and educational programs for inland, coastal, and deep-sea mariners using simulator training facilities at SCI-Paducah and SCI-Houston. SCI's Christmas at Sea program provides more than 20,000 hand-knit gifts to mariners at the holidays.〔 ==Historical Highlights of SCI (1834-2011)== 1834: SCI is founded at a meeting of the Young Men’s Auxiliary Education and Missionary Society 1844: SCI builds the Floating Church of Our Savior to provide a place of worship where seafarers could feel comfortable and welcome 1868: SCI builds its first mission house at 34 Pike Street in the bustling New York Harbor 1898: The Christmas at Sea program begins 1899: The beginnings of Maritime Education at SCI 1908: Franklin D. Roosevelt joins SCI ’s Board, on which he remained until his death in 1945 1913: SCI opens the doors of its 13-story building at 25 South Street in downtown Manhattan 1917: The Institute begins training merchant marines for World War I 1920: Janet Lord Roper begins running the Missing Seamen’s Bureau 1924: SCI opens an emergency homeless shelter for seafarers affected by the shipping industry’s economic downturn 1961: SCI dedicates its International Seafarers’ Center in Port Newark, NJ 1982: The Center for Seafarers’ Rights is established 1991: SCI moves to new headquarters at 241 Water Street in New York City 1997: The Institute opens CME–Paducah in Kentucky, the first training facility of its kind for America’s inland river mariners 1998: Ministry on the River begins, the only full-time pastoral care service available to mariners working on America’s inland river systems 2001: SCI dedicates CME–Houston, a facility for maritime training in the Port of Houston 2009: SCI assumes management of the International Maritime Center in the San Francisco Bay Area 2009: SCI launches groundbreaking study on the psychological effects of piracy 2011: SCI changes Ministry on the River to Ministry on the Rivers+Gulf to reflect the expanding scope of this ministry 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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