A THEOLOGY student is preparing set sail to spend a year caring for seamen around the world.
David Arnold, 22, of The Crescent, Chorley, is planning to work as a chaplain's assistant under the Mission to Seafarers, an Anglican scheme based in the Netherlands.
David, a member of St Peter's Parish Church in Harpers Lane, will visit ships and welcome seafarers, driving them to and from his Rotterdam base.
The Mission to Seafarers is a missionary society which cares for seamen based in some 300 ports around the globe.
Each year, it makes 78,000 ship visits, goes to 2,000 hospital and assists in more than 1,000 welfare and justice cases.
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