{"id":2104,"date":"2017-02-27T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/porthouston.com\/portweb-big-year-ahead-for-the-houston-international-seafarers-center\/"},"modified":"2023-11-17T14:11:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T20:11:50","slug":"big-year-ahead-for-the-houston-international-seafarers-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porthouston.com\/big-year-ahead-for-the-houston-international-seafarers-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Year Ahead for the Houston International Seafarers&#8217; Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 640px;\" src=\"https:\/\/porthouston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/HSIC-story-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"HSIC story.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The year 2017 will be a big year for the Houston International Seafarers' Center (HISC). As center officials prepare for their move to a new location by the port\u2019s executive building, they have adapted to new challenges and changes to improve their operations.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Some of the milestones for the organization this decade have included a possible new Center location at Barbour\u2019s Cut, a base for operations for Chaplains and staff and a public restaurant. The HSIC board created a new strategic plan and revisited the center\u2019s mission and role in the port community with the focus being a \u201chome away from home\u201d for mariners.<\/p>\n<p>Plans call for the new center building at the Port of Houston Turning Basin to be a gathering center and transportation hub, which is scheduled to open in July of this year. \u201cOur most important service is personal face-to-face contact with the seafarers. We are their family,\u201d said Patrick Cooney, HISC board member and Senior Counsel at Royston Rayzor.<\/p>\n<p>The HSIC is a nonprofit organization that support the board and ministry. The HSIC will honor Port Houston Executive Director Roger Guenther as its Bronze Anchor Award recipient at its annual Maritime Gala event in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Year Ahead for the Houston International Seafarers&#8217; Center [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/porthouston.com\/big-year-ahead-for-the-houston-international-seafarers-center\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-port-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Big Year Ahead for the Houston International Seafarers&#039; 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