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WELCOME TO THE SEATTLE SEAFARERS’ CENTER
The Seattle Seafarers’ Center, operated by the Mission to Seafarers, is located at 3568 W. Marginal Way SW, along the West Duwamish Waterway. We offer internet and telephone service, a comfortable lounge with a pool table, a full kitchen facility and a chapel. We look forward to welcoming you at our Center on your next visit to the Port of Seattle.
At this time we are open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 09:30 to 15:30 hours, as well as Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Please call us at 206-935-3439 to confirm that we are open. If there is no answer at our Center, please call the Catholic Seamen’s Club at 206-441-4773 for assistance.
The Board of Directors of the Mission to Seafarers meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 17:15 hours.
Visitors are welcome to attend! Please contact our office at (206) 395-3439 to let us know you will be attending, and to make sure the meeting night has not been changed.
Sea Sunday 2012
Imagine the life of the Seafarer: At sea for up to ten months at a time as part of a crew of twenty to thirty sailors from as many as half a dozen nationalities and religions. All too often they miss important family events—birthdays, graduations, weddings, births and funerals. Frequently alone and isolated, and gaining shore leave occasionally, they may have but a few short hours to handle personal business, shop for daily necessities, and perhaps call home. And the job is a dangerous one—the third most dangerous in the world by some accounts.
They are fortunate when in Seattle to be greeted by the Mission to Seafarers, part of a global network that offers practical, emotional and spiritual support. Our Seafarers’ Center near Harbor Island can provide a ‘home away from home’ where they can enjoy time away from their ship, relax, make phone calls or communicate via Internet.
Sea Sunday, June 3, is a day set aside in the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia to remember the brave and dedicated men and women who keep our global economy afloat. This is day to celebrate the vital contribution seafarers make to all our lives, and pray for them, their families and those that support them.