offshore workers in the Gulf of Mexico throughout the holiday season. Handcrafted items such as hats, scarves, slippers, or cowls are placed into “ditty bags” with various toiletries, candy or treats, and holiday cards made by schoolchildren are added into the care package for the mariners. Archives SCI has an extensive physical archive collection located at Queens College, City University of New York. The Institute has also digitized a portion of its archives. Notes Other references PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, January 7, 2011 Seamen's Church Institute Charts New Course for 21st-Century Ministry, Episcopal Life Online, October 15, 2010 Seamen's Knit 4 Lent initiative to serve mariners working in Gulf Coast, Episcopal Life Online, February 7, 2008 David M. Rider named president, executive director of Seamen's Church Institute, Episcopal Life Online, October 2, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20080217041310/http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_90629_ENG_HTM.htm COREY KILGANNON, Men of the Sea, Marooned at the Ramada, The New York Times, New York and Region, January 22, 2005 DANIEL J. WAKIN, Marooned, Just Feet From Shore; Tighter Security Keeps Foreign Crews on Ships , The New York Times, New York and Region, July 24, 2003 JEAN SMITH (Rev.), A Seaman's Plight, The New York Times, Opinion, December 5, 2001 George Harding, On Admiralty Service, Harpers Magazine, December 1917 Norman Duncan, Youngsters of the seven seas, Harpers Magazine, December 1910 External links Christmas at Sea project SCITV Vimeo channel United States Merchant Marine Social welfare charities based in the United States Episcopal Church (United States) Christianity in New York City Organizations based in New York (state) Anglican organizations Port of New York and New Jersey 1834 establishments in New York (state) Organizations based in Newark, New Jersey