About Doulos Phos
Mission & Ministry
Doulos Phos The Ship Hotel was birthed out of a “sending-out” that was in response to a calling to set up a true-blue profit-oriented company and donating its entire profits to what the Bible calls “good-works”, which essentially is towards charities.
The term “Externalization of the Internalization” was coined in an attempt to succinctly explain our mission and ministry, but to many, it sounded as “Greek” as the name Doulos Phos itself (which means servant-light). Hence, in order to shed light to that somewhat ambiguous phrase, “The Doulos Phos Story” was birthed. In a nutshell, the Externalization of the Internalization is: Using what has been placed in our hands, to achieve what has been placed in our hearts.
From 1914 History Overview
She started out as SS Medina, a freighter, carrying onions. (We found a large cache of onions in her holds when we bought the ship in 2010 and we have been serving century- old onion soup in our hotel ever since. Try some when you’re here. Guests who apparently do not know the age of the onions have professed our onion soup to be “good-old-fashioned-stuff”.)
It was in 2010 when the Grand Old Lady received her latest makeover to become Doulos Phos The Ship Hotel. With her sailing days behind her, she is poised to be a unique icon in Bintan Resorts as a dry-berthed ship hotel, fully visible from the bottom of her hull to the tip of her mast.
