Excitement descended on Front Street this week when the MV Logos II returned to Bermuda's shores for the second time in two years.

A part of the Operation Mobilisation International's fleet of ships, the Logos II was set to be decommissioned last fall, however, this past December, the ship was brought back into use for another six months for a tour of the Caribbean.

The ship set sail on February 6 under the leadership of Captain Arni Jensen, a native of the Faroe Islands, who has worked with OM Ships periodically over the last seven years.

As Captain Jensen finished navigation school in 1980, "My wife and I started talking about joining an OM ship. It took 20 years of praying."

The captain's familiarity with OM began in his youth, when George Verwer, founder of OM, began ministering in Europe in the early 1960s. He joined the crew of the Doulos, along with his wife and daughter, at Manila, in the Philippines in 2000. A year later, he joined the crew of the Logos II, and he has served aboard the ships on and off since then.

Like most crew members, Captain Jensen loves to share his personal 'story' – his story of how he became a Christian.

"I was aware if Jesus came back, I was not prepared," the Captain shared. "I knew when he came, he would come like a thief in the night."

The nine-year-old Arni would run home after school, hoping to still find his mother there, fearful that his mother, a believer, would be gone in the rapture, leaving him behind.

Then, one day, his fears seem to come true when he arrived home to find his mother gone. He then ran to his grandmother's, and learned that the rapture had not happened. That evening, he sat down with his mother.

"She told me the story I'd heard many times, but that day, I asked Jesus into my heart."

The next day, when school let out, he realised he was no longer afraid to go home.

When not serving aboard one of the OM ships, Captain Jensen serves as First Mate aboard a fishing ship owned by his brother-in-law sailing on the North Sea, which is well noted for its rough seas.

As a result, he is no stranger to danger, having faced a life-or-death situation of his own.

"It was February 16, nine o'clock in the evening, in 1986," he explained. "We were fishing off the Shetland Islands, about 110 miles from shore. We had had problems – a net sank and we couldn't get it up."

He went down to speak with one of the crew members about making a hook to help pull in the net, and then returned to the deck.

"I went up and looked out, and I don't remember any more."

A steel wire had snapped and cut his head open, across his face, from the left ear, across the eyes, and to the right ear.

"They came and saw me, saw my head was in pieces, and they thought I was dead."

When he did recover consciousness, he could see a little with his right eye, and saw blood everywhere.

He was sure he was ready to die, but managed to crawl in search of some of the crew. He did finally manage to stand.

"One of the biggest men on deck came around the corner," but within moments, he had disappeared again.

"He came in [to the crew quarters] and cried like a baby. He thought he saw a ghost," the Captain shared. Three hours later, he was aboard a helicopter heading to the mainland of Scotland for emergency medical treatment.

"It took me a year to recover. The doctors say I should have been dead, so I see the rest of my life as a loan."

"Sometimes I wondered why God didn't take me, but He must have had a purpose for me."

The Captain is delighted to be back aboard the MV Logos II.

"We are bringing help, hope and knowledge," he shared. However, on this trip, the 61-year-old has left behind his wife and daughter and two sons.

It is challenging to be on his own, so far from his family, however, his wife will be joining him aboard ship next month.

Captain Jensen's favourite Bible passage is found in Isaiah 53:5, the passage that led his grandfather to the becoming a Christian. It reads: "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."

The MV Logos II is in Bermuda until March 3, when it sets sail for Freeport, Bahamas.