Founded in 1834 and affiliated with the Episcopal Church, though nondenominational in terms of its trustees, staff and service to mariners, the Seamen’s Church Institute (SCI) is the largest, most comprehensive mariners’ agency in North America.

Annually, SCI chaplains visit thousands of vessels in the Port of New York and New Jersey, and along 2,200 miles of America’s inland waterways extending into the Gulf of Mexico. SCI’s Centers for Maritime Education provide navigational training to nearly 1,600 mariners each year through simulator-based facilities located in Houston, TX and Paducah, KY.

The Institute and its maritime attorneys are recognized as leading advocates for merchant mariners by the United States Government, including the US Congress, the US Coast Guard, and the Department of Homeland Security, as well as the United Nations, the International Maritime Organization, the International Labour Organization and maritime trade associations.

Visit SCI on the web at seamenschurch.org.