Floating CE

Floating Christian Endeavour is part of Christian Endeavour but separate for administration purposes. It is one of the arms of Christian Endeavour through which a desire for missionary zeal, caring for others, and the work of your hands can be channelled.

Dr FE Clark started it in 1890 as a Christian Endeavour Society for seafarers in response to a request from some Endeavourers who had gone to sea and found a lack of Christian fellowship. Endeavourers ashore were asked to share a part of their meeting by writing letters so giving the seafarer food for spiritual thought as he went about his duties or in his own quiet time. Although anonymous, there was a sense of kinship as the letter was read and the thought that somebody cared enough to write.

This is still carried on today and there is always the need for more letters. They are sent out at Christmas time to the men and women of the sea and have been the means of keeping many on the straight course and saved from 'drifting'; very easy when you are the only Christian aboard and have no contact with fellow minded people for as long as three or four months at a time. Many tributes have been paid to the value that these letters have been to those who received them.