Following the Sunday morning services, the boat crew would hurry to the little Gospel cruiser with anticipation of their missionary voyage. Well aware that success is born of prayer, the workers would go on their knees after boarding the boat and ask God's guidance and blessing on the day's venture. 

After deciding to visit a certain ship, they would pull in as close as possible, and extend a ladder, especially built for this work, up the side of the large ship, or on the dock. Usually it was hooked over the timbers of the dock; and then two of the members would gingerly climb up while the others stayed below. 

A few times when they went aboard ship - before this type of missionary work was very well known – it appeared that they might be thrown overboard. But when the officer in charge was convinced that they had nothing to sell, no "catch," no commercialism, no vicious reading material, he would permit them to go on deck to invite the seamen to church and let them leave church papers for the men to read. 

When the missionaries had not taken time out, before they left, to eat their noon dinner, what a treat it was, after a visitation, to descend the ladder to their boat and find hot coffee and lunch awaiting them – prepared by their shipmates.