Embarking on a sea of faith as well as the Atlantic, the MV Amazon Hope is no ordinary ship, with no ordinary crew. As she voyages across the ocean this week, en route for the Peruvian port of Iquitos, some 2,200 miles up the Amazon, two Church of Scotland congregations are minus their ministers and a Berwickshire farm has been bringing the harvest in without its farmer.

All three are on board the Amazon Hope - formerly the Royal Navy fleet tender Milford - and now well into their 7,300-mile odyssey from Glasgow to Iquitos, to deliver hope to the otherwise hopeless, the thousands of children living in scarcely imaginable squalor on the streets of Iquitos and Lima.

The journey of Amazon Hope is being filmed for a BBC Scotland documentary and Netribution will keep you posted as to how they get on.