Review by Jason Zuidema (NAMMA/ICMA) Wonjong Choi opens his autobiography fittingly with the words, “All my life, I have only thought of the sea, ships and seafarers.” (6). Choi founded the Korean Seonwon (pn. ‘sun-on’) Mission in the mid-1970s, and became an inspiration for other Koreans to take seafarers’ ministry into ports around the world…
Seaman’s Rest Tacoma: An Old Town Haven
Written by James Bentley (Originally published in the Eureka Times, 2009 Fall issue) Tacoma’s First Port In its infancy, Tacoma, and especially Old Town along the mile-long docks, earned a reputation that was common to waterfront cities of the era: rough and tumble and unsafe to wander alone in. As the end of the nineteenth century drew near,…