Stella Maris Seafarers Centre Mackay

14/10/2026

It is with utter sadness with the news of the passing of one of our founding members Mr Ian Podosky. Our love goes out to his beautiful wife Carmel and Family. Please note his service will be live streamed

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03/07/2026

03/07/2026

Seafarers Sunday is on 12 July. This is the perfect opportunity to remember these brave men and women who are away from their families for long periods of time to carry goods into or out of Australia. Stella Maris provides spiritual, physical and emotional support to seafarers while they are in port. Please click on the link below to view the message from Bishop Tim and help us to continue this important work by donating to Stella Maris on Seafarers Sunday

Welcome to Stella Maris, Australia Known to seafarers around the world as Stella Maris, the Apostleship of the Sea ministry is now called Stella Maris globally. The organisation cares for the spiritual, social and material welfare of all seafarers regardless of colour, race or creed. Stella Maris is...

30/06/2026

A big thank you to North Mackay Rotary Club for their generous donation. It was gifted to Stella Maris at the Rotary Club Handover dinner. Pictured is our Stella Maris board member Frank accepting the donation on behalf of Stella Maris. This donation will greatly assist the centre to maintain the tradition of providing gifts to seafarers at Christmas.

15/12/2025

👋 LET US INTRODUCE PETER 👋
Some of you may already have met our "new" Centre Manager Peter Gooch. With us since September, Peter has certainly hit the ground running.
Our apologies for the belated post Peter, but welcome to the Stella Maris team, we appreciate all your hard work behind the scenes, as we're sure our seafarers do too!