Stavern Boats Starlight

Elida V 

This 131 foot, 95 ton sailing vessel is a performance yacht and a passenger boat built in composite and completed in 2007 after five years of construction. It is sponsored by a Swedish Christian organization whose crew is made up almost entirely of Christian youth. Over 1,000 teenagers rotate during the sailing season to crew on the boat. The yacht sails along the southern coasts of Sweden, Norway in the spring and summer months for the sole purpose of spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ through music and personal testimonies of its crew. During the winter months the boat sails the southern European coastlines. The yacht's motto, painted in large letters on the sails is "Sailing for Jesus" and proclaims no afffiliation to any one denomination nor organization. It is also affectionately known as the "sailing singing church". 

This photo was taken in Stavern, Norway along the sunny southern coast in July of 2013. My wife Elizabeth and I stood on the pier where the boat was docked one balmy summer's evening and listened to the singing by the teenage crew.