Welcome to Bohuslans Seamen's Church
The Seamen's Church in Uddevalla was founded 1983 and was situated in a house about 10 minutes promenade from the port.
1998 in May it was necessarily to close the church according to a lack of
money and the way that shipping have changing true the years.
Decision was made that the church will keep one man as a "ship
visitor" in the area of
Bohuslan, which contains the following harbours:
Wallhamn,
Stenungsund,
Uddevalla,
Lysekil and
Brofjorden.
The "Ships
visitor" have with him in the
car, several newspaper on different language, like English, Russian, Polish and
Swedish. He also have bookcases from the Swedish Welfare for exchange and international
phone cards for
sale.
In the office, which is situated in the "visitors" home, there is a fax,
mobil phone and internet
(E-mail) to his help, in contact with the ships crew.
The first year of this "new" Seamen's Church there was made 404 visits on ships. 1999 there was made 1.307 visits and year 2000 1.406 visits.
Year 2000 there was a change in the visits about the ports, visiting in Wallhamn and Stenungsund was only made after direct call from the ships, but Uddevalla, Lysekil and Brofjorden is visited 5 days a week

My new working place for the Seamen's Church
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