Quick Summary:

Our lives are and always have been linked with the life and health of the world’s oceans. The ocean is the lifeblood of Earth, covering more than 70 percent of the planet's surface and ultimately supporting all living organisms. Yet 95% of this realm remains unexplored and unseen by human eyes.

Like the salmon in Northwest rivers whose life rhythms alternate between river and sea, we trace our lives as Christians to baptismal headwaters.

Today Jesus is inviting us once again to put out our nets in deeper waters. We know what it means when Jesus calls us to serve the blind, the lame, the leper, the homeless. The same crisis is upon us, to respond with a ministry to the ocean, but what does compassion and conscience would look like for a ministry to the realm of sea? How do I hear the ocean’s message and tend to its tears? How can I grow in a sense of ministry/awareness, in response to the One who called me to put down my nets in a strange and new place?