“EVERY offshore visit is different but I usually find it is best to meet with the workforce outside, at the actual workplace. People tend to be less inhibited outside and that is the place where they will tell me of their issues – or perhaps have a go at the church and religion!”
The Rev Gordon Craig is a minister but his parish is a bit different from the norm – sometimes travelling to his work by helicopter and to be found over 100 miles offshore, tending to his ‘flock’ – the men and women who work on the oil and gas rigs that serve the UK.
“‘Tea shack’ gatherings are usually boisterous and the banter and humour is very similar to that which I encountered during my years as a military chaplain.