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Constitution
THE AUSTRALIAN NAVIGATORS LIMITED ACN 001 294 677 ABN 26 001 294 677 A PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE AND NOT HAVING A SHARE CAPITAL CONSTITUTION Adopted 30 November 2016 with effect from 30 November 2016 PART 1 – Preliminary 1. The name of the ...
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Our Staff Job Studies
From Grant Dibden We had a wonderful time considering several of our staff Job studies during the year. It is such a packed book and we were challenged as we reflected back over the whole book, its themes and big lessons as part of our final study time. The book of Job explores why God ...
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Admin 2018 Staff Training
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Staff Portal
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Events
We would love to see you at our gatherings, and appreciate your prayers if you are unable to join us! National Mid-Year Staff Training 1-3 July - Elkanah Lodge, Victoria SAVE THE DATE NOW! National Conference 2025 3-6 October - Galston Gorge, NSW Brisbane 31 May, 2pm - ...
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Vulnerable People Policy
Purpose The Australian Navigators is committed to providing a safe and supportive environment to all vulnerable people by ensuring Australian Navigators’ staff, associates and volunteers are screened and suitable to be engaged in the provision of services in work involving children and other ...
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Get To Know - Ian and Helen McIntosh
After ten years of providing counselling and training, and being on the Leadership Team among other things, with the US Navigators, Ian and Helen McIntosh have decided to return to Australia. With open arms, we welcomed them back and took the opportunity to catch up on what they are doing now. They ...
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Employment Agreement Confirmation Form
Every employee of the Australian Navigators is asked to comply with our Core Values and agree with our Statement of Beliefs. The Board has approved a range of policies, which are reviewed every year, to provide a framework for the appropriate governance and operation of The Australian ...
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Registration
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Registration (cont.)
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Queensland Discipleship Summit:
"The Great Commission, Everyone’s Call to Action" and "A Practical Approach to Disciple-Making" With Guest Speaker, Grant Dibden, National Director of The Australian Navigators When: Saturday, 21 June – 1:00pm-4:30pm Where: Cooloola Christian College 1 College Rd, Southside in ...
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Labourers Evenings and Prayer Breakfasts
Labourers Evenings: Join us for fellowship with like-minded labourers, training in making disciples, and delicious food! These dinners will take place every second month on a Saturday afternoon, starting at 4:30 pm. Food provided, kids welcome: there will be an activity for them during the training ...
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Get to Know Dustyn and Hannah McLaren
Dustyn and Hannah are from our South East Queensland Labouring Community. Dustyn joined our Staff last year. We interviewed him for our Compass Newsletter Autumn 2023 issue. How did you come into relationship with Jesus? At the ripe age of five in October of 1987 I remember contemplating a ...
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Jesus
Jesus the Man Jesus is the central figure in Christianity. He was and is the most effective and compelling leader in all of recorded history. He was born into a lower class family to a teenage mum and worked as a carpenter until aged 30. But then He took 12 ordinary blokes – fishermen and tax ...
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Summer Mission Trip: 2018
A Trip to Nepal *a great part of this post is an extract and edited version of one of our mission teams' Ministry Update, first printed in Compass, Winter 2015. In late 2014, a small team led a short-term mission trip to ministries in Nepal. This was followed by a trek to Ama Dablam Base Camp ...
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Christlikeness, Day by Day
By Mike Johnson, Melbourne Labouring Community, first published in Compass Winter issue 2023 If the Spirit of God lives in a person, change is inevitable. How could it not be so? He is the Spirit of truth,1 God’s agent of transformation.2 God loves and wants the best for His children, so He ...
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National Leadership
The Navigators have a National Leadership Team and a National Council that leads the work. Each Member brings a perspective from their local ministry and their own gifting and heart to feed into discussions. National Leadership Team Robert Bolton leads the work to pioneer a Brisbane City ...
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Sydney Labouring Community Update Summer 2024
By Scott Brown "In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full." - John 16:23–24 - If you've kept up ...
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Get To Know Lynn Pak
Lynn Pak is our National Administrator and has been with Australian Navigators for 15 years. For our Winter 2024 issue of Compass, we asked her a few questions to help us get to know her better. While the printed newsletter gave us a snippet, we get a deeper insight into her heart for the ministry ...
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Church
Navigators throughout the world value relationships with other parts of the body of Christ in advancing the gospel. We are interdependent and God uses us all to bring about His purposes. Besides Navigator members being part of a local church, we provide churches with materials like bible studies ...
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Leading Others to Faith
God loves people. He wants everyone to repent, to come to a saving faith in Him. The Creator and Sustainer of the universe has made it possible for each of us to be His child and heir through Jesus’ death on the cross in our place. Isn’t that the best news ever! How could we not share this ...
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Help Others Grow
In the very intense moment where Jesus is giving His final instructions on earth, He is aware that the disciples could give their lives to many very, very good things – but miss this critical thing. So He sums up his priority for them in the most concise and direct way: “Make disciples”. But ...
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Leading Like Jesus
Jesus’ profound leadership and teachings continue to influence over 2 billion followers today. What was most unique about his leadership was its underlying nature. While having all power and authority he did not identify himself as a leader, but as a servant. His ways were always personal, ...
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The Word
The Word Hand The sovereign, majestic, all powerful, all knowing, all wise, all loving, present everywhere, creator, redeemer God speaks to us today through His word. It is, therefore, hard to overstate the importance of the Word of God! One of our proven resources is the “Word Hand”. It shows ...
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The Wheel
This simple but effective illustration has been used by Navigators for more than fifty years. It helps Christians understand what they are called to do as disciples of Christ. Each part of this illustration represents a crucially important component of a vital Christian life. Use this ...
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The Bridge
Step 1 – God’s Love and His plan God created us in His own image to be His friend and to experience a full life assured of his love, abundant and eternal. Jesus said, “…I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” (John 10:10b) “…we have peace with God through ...
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Prayer
Prayer Hand Many believers find that prayer, especially spending long amounts of time in prayer, can be one of the hardest parts of spiritual discipline. The Prayer Hand is an easy way to remember five essential aspects of prayer: confession, petition, intercession, thanksgiving and praise. Pray ...
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Topical Memory System
If you want to memorise Scripture, but aren't sure what to memorise or how, this system is exactly what you need to begin hiding God's word in your heart. The Topical Memory System is the clear, simple, proven way to meditate on key Bible verses. As a result, you can: Experience freedom ...
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How to Study the Bible
As we grow in Christ, it’s important that we learn to dig into the Word of God for ourselves and not depend solely on the instruction of others. Consider the challenge from the writer of Hebrews: Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about ...
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Spiritual Transformation
Spiritual Transformation Bible Study What is it God wants to see in a person’s life? How does true change occur? How much is the Holy Spirit responsible for transforming me, and how much am I responsible for transforming myself? I’m saved by grace – does that mean that I don’t have ...
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The Gospel
The Gospel Bible Study As Navigators, we are called to advance the Gospel. To fulfil this calling we need to be clear what the Gospel is. We must ensure that the gospel we are sharing with people is The Gospel of the Bible. This thorough Bible Study helps us to see the width and breadth of ...
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A Guide to Daily Devotions
Daily devotions are uninterrupted, unhurried time in the Word of God (Bible), prayer and scriptural meditation. “In our time alone with God we encounter God’s heart for us through His Word.” The Bible is penetrating (Hebrews 4:12) and as we read it, reflect on it and meditate on it, ...
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Missions
Mission is on the very heart of God. God is a sending God. For God so loved THE WORLD that He sent his only Son to die for it. God’s heart for the nations calls for a bi-focal vision, both into the nations and to our nation. To help get the world on our heart, browse through our resources and ...
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Money & Giving
Money is always a bit touchy. Yet Jesus talked about it a lot. Did you know: Sixteen of the thirty-eight parables were concerned with how to handle money and possessions. In the Gospels, an amazing one out of ten verses (288 in all) deal directly with the subject of money. The Bible ...
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Going Deeper in the Essentials
God must be the focus of all that we do. We want to deepen our relationship with Him by growing our understanding of the Scriptures and through prayer. We want to encounter God; to know Him, not only to know about Him. "Going Deeper in the Essentials" is a series of seven comprehensive Bible ...
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G'day from Melbourne - an update
By Mike Johnson, Melbourne Labouring Community Intercession for the people of our city has been a primary goal for us this year. Beginning with God, we then attempt to pray for the people and great needs of our city based on our meditation on the character and attributes of God. Using ...
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Q & A with Russ Skelton
Russ Skelton is a member of our Board of Directors. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have been married for 48 years. They have four children and nine grandchildren. He has lived on the Central Coast of NSW since 1964, graduated from the University of New South Wales as an Engineer in 1973, and ...
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Your Questions Answered - A Heart for Missions
Jonathan Greete is a member of our Sydney Labouring Community. We wanted to get to the heart of why he would go on a mission with Australian Navigators. Why do you have a heart for missions? Jesus’ parting words were to tell his disciples that they would be his witnesses from Jerusalem to ...
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Latest news ...
Worldwide Partnership Day of Prayer “Each year, we Navigators from every corner of the globe have the privilege of joining together during our Worldwide Day of Prayer to spend time with the Lord. We may be physically separated by thousands of miles, but we could never be closer than we are on ...
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Our Apprentices Settling In
By Levi Swartzentruber Normally January is a gradual ramp up toward the start of the ANU year in mid-February, but not this year. Four weeks ago, on January 5, we were waiting with eager expectation at the Canberra airport for our two US apprentices, Laine and JT, to arrive. Let me share briefly ...
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Your Questions Answered - Men's Workers Group
Robert Walterson is a member of the Navigators Men’s Workers Group in Canberra. We asked him to tell us a bit about the group and how it has helped shape his growth. How did you get involved in this group? I got involved with Australian Navigators in 2018 at ANU’s Orientation Week. I ...
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Who are the Navigators?
The Navigators is a global discipleship movement of people who want to move forward in their relationship with Jesus and impact the world for Him. We invest deeply in people to see their lives transformed. Our heart is to lead wherever God asks so that, together, we can see the Gospel spread and ...
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Essentials
AW Tozer says, “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” Tozer is right… it’s all about God. For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. (Romans 11:36) Would you like some personal help in these ...
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Donation and Purchase
Thank you so much for partnering with us to see workers for the kingdom next door everywhere. Your gift makes it possible for other partners in our Nav family to be in vocational ministry. Together we can make a difference. Also your book purchase will be processed and posted ASAP. Shipping ...
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Book Purchase
Thank you for your book purchase. We will process and posted it ASAP. Shipping cost is included in the price within Australia only. For the glory of God, The Nav family PS Any queries contact the Navigators office (02) 8814 5006
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Thank you!
Thank you so much for partnering with us to see workers for the Kingdom next door to everywhere. Thank you for investing with us in leading individual lives into deeper relationship with Jesus and whole generations of disciples into His Kingdom! Your gift makes it possible for this to happen, ...
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The Dynamic of Reproduction
By Ram Marrero, first published in The Discipler, Issue 21, Winter 2020, used with permission. The strategy is generations of disciples reproducing generations of reproducing disciple-makers. I can remember meeting [with] Jono early in the morning on Coolum Beach. He would bring his surfboard and ...
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Your Questions Answered - The Chain Illustration
This year, we look at some “discipling” tools and how we can use them for our own ministries. In the last issue, Robin Dennis discussed how we could apply The Word Hand illustration. In this issue, he looks at The Chain Illustration - How to claim a promise, with an example of how to use ...
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Growing in Godliness
By Thomas Bielenberg, first published in Compass Summer issue 2023 What would you say if asked, “What is godliness?” You might think that godliness is good conduct, or bearing the fruit of the Spirit – love, joy, peace, patience, etc. But godliness is more than that, as I thankfully ...
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2018 - January - Lifetime Labouring
Resources from 2018 National Training Lifetime Labouring Staff Training 2018_Document Lifetime Labouring Staff Training 2018_Zip Admin - National Training 2018
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2025 - July
Training is coming up and we are looking forward to seeing you there! Where: Elkanah Lodge and Conference Centre, 975 Buxton-Marysville Rd, Marysville VIC 3779 When: We will be starting with lunch at noon on Tuesday 1 July and concluding at 3:00pm on Thursday 3 ...
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Dustyn McLaren joins Navs
By Dustyn McLaren It is exciting to have joined the Navigators in response to the Lord’s call and leading to fulltime discipleship ministry, working one-to-one with faithful, available, teachable men who will be able to teach others also. Since meeting Ram [Marrero] and being introduced to ...
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Privacy Policy
The Australian Navigators is committed to complying with the National Privacy Principles. Collection and Use Names, contact details and other information provided by supporters and interested friends are collected on behalf of The Australian Navigators for the purpose of maintaining The ...
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For the Sake of the Nations
By Scott Brown If you closed your eyes and imagined what it means to embrace something or someone, I wonder what you might envision. Does the word embrace invoke ideas of a friendly smile and an arm over your shoulder? Or perhaps it stirs notions of a warm and hardy handshake. For me, ...
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Get To Know Jordie McMahon
Jordie is our National Office Associate and one of our Ministry Apprentices at Macquarie University in Sydney. We interviewed her for Compass, our newsletter, where an abridged version of her interview was first published in the Autumn 2025 issue. How did you come into relationship with ...
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Conference Confirmation
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Your Questions Answered - Navigator Discipleship
Fran Johnson from our Melbourne Labouring Community answers some of your questions about Navigator discipleship. Why have you enjoyed Navigator discipleship, in group and individual settings? Navigator one-to-one discipleship began my spiritual transformation. I was quite broken spiritually ...
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Called to Follow the Fruit
By Tim Mapperson, Melbourne Labouring Community It was mid-June. Stepping out into the cold winter night, we closed the door for the last time. We had been meeting at this Community Centre in Carlton for many years as a campus ministry. Tonight was to be our final night. This season was coming ...
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Intentional Disciplemaking
By Ron Bennett Cultivating Spiritual Maturity in the Local Church (Designed for Influence Series) This book lays out what a biblical disciple of Christ looks like and how the church can create an environment geared toward making disciples and helping its people grow in spiritual ...
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The Lordship of Jesus
By Mike Johnson, first published in Compass, Autumn 2021 edition (if you would like to receive the hard copy, please contact our office). Navigators are called to advance the Gospel of Jesus and His Kingdom. The message we have is one about a man who walked among us, shared in all things human, ...
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How is Navigators supported?
How is the Navigators funded? The Navigators is funded by gifts from individuals, churches and businesses. The impact of this ministry is significantly made possible by your financial generosity, prayers and sacrifice of time. Thank you! How can I support Navigators’ work? You can ...
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2025 - January - For the Sake of the Nations
Our January National Training: ‘For the Sake of the Nations’ is coming up and we are looking forward to seeing you at Leumeah Lodge. Please register ASAP, and no later than December 13th 2024 Download the program 2025 January Training Schedule - For the Sake of the Nations for your reference ...
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ISM - Doorstep to the Nations!
By Judy Leow, extract from Judy's newsletter, August 2018. Greetings in the Name of our Precious Lord Jesus Christ! During our last two Family Group gatherings, while the ladies had their Bible study and the children played by themselves, I had the pleasure of reading John’s Gospel with Aly's ...
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Chapel Services to Welcome New Cadets
By Thomas Bielenberg A large crowd of ADFA first year cadets attended the Chapel services on the last Sunday of January and the first Sunday of February. What an amazing turn out – praise God! The chaplains have been strongly encouraging all the cadets to come to the chapel services. ...
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Get To Know Clint and Leigh Ann Trebesh
Clint and Leigh Ann have served on staff with The Navigators since 2004. They have worked in camp and conference ministry, led disciple-making work among university students, and laboured with multiple city teams, before moving to Melbourne earlier this year. This is the unabridged version of their ...
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2024 - January - Authority of Scripture & Biblical Interpretation
It is important to build confidence in the authority and inspiration of the Bible, and to anchor our story within the Biblical meta-narrative. Developing good Biblical interpretation practices and enriching theology in the central aspects of the Gospel will enhance a correct view of God and ...
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2024 - June - The Bible Meta-Narrative
During our Mid-Year training, the Rev Dr Graham Cole led us through some sessions on the biblical meta-narrative, which helped equip us with biblical themes to “out-narrate” our cultures’ stories and show how our deepest aspiration and desires are fulfilled, and that the Bible makes the ...
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Thank You for Time Out!
Your partnership has enabled our staff to take some time away to retreat to the beautiful Blue Mountains, just outside of Sydney, in November 2018. While we had no formal meetings or teaching sessions, the Staff Retreat was a time to slow down and individually reflect on the glory of God, ...
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Leadership, Partnership and Discipleship!
Next Gen Leadership Forum and Staff Finance Seminar By Levi Swartzentruber We had the privilege of having Chee Hoe and Bit, Mike, and Glen from the Asia Pacific (AP) leadership team join us for a weekend of learning about “Leading Like Jesus”. We heard examples of other leaders in ...
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Your Questions Answered! - by Ian & Helen McIntosh
In this edition of Your Questions Answered!, Ian and Helen McIntosh tackle one of the big questions they've often been asked by other Navigator staff: How do we best care for ourselves while caring for others? This is particularly relevant given our Covid-19 lock-down situation, both for us ...
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Discovering Your Design
By Ian McIntosh, Staff Care. Know Yourself. Made in the image of God. Genesis 1:27 The need to answer the question: “Who am I, and why am I here?” has always been at the core of our very being. God made us this way for His Purposes. “Men go abroad to wonder at the height of ...
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A Sunny Update
By Dustyn McLaren UniSc O-Week 2025 is coming! Starts Feb 17! It’s exciting to be preparing to get back to Uni ministry for 2025. Who but God knows what lies ahead and whose path he will bring us across! Please be in prayer for us as we prepare those who are joining us for Orientation ...
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UniSC and SE QLD Happenings
By Dustyn McLaren The University of the Sunshine Coast O-Week 2025 happened! There’s always too much that happens during Orientation Week to share in a short space. O-Week is the best time to meet people because that’s what people are there for that week. During O-Week at UniSC, even ...
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Disciples in Prison
Matt’s life had been going pretty well. In his late 20s, he was a successful tradie and had a nice girlfriend and loving parents. Suddenly, one night, he found himself in jail charged with a serious violent crime, the result of a drunken fight he’d had. Soon convicted, life was no longer going ...
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Searchers not far from God at all
By Doug Utley, first printed in The Compass, Volume 13 No. 1, January 1990 Are Australians harder to reach now with the gospel than previously? Certainly it is taking longer to see people come to Christ, and the means of outreach effectively used in the past, such as crusades, missions, surveys ...
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Our Calling, Values and Beliefs
Calling The Calling of the Navigators is: To advance the Gospel of Jesus and His Kingdom into the nations through spiritual generations of labourers living and discipling among the lost. Values Our Calling is rooted in the soil of the core values of Navigators: 1. The passion to know, ...
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Kingdom Community
By Frank Tully, first published in Compass, Autumn 2019 In order to follow God’s calling in our lives – To advance the Gospel of Jesus and His Kingdom - we need to have a context. For Navigators, that context is authentic community deeply rooted in the Kingdom of God. We don’t consider ...
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Stories of "New" Life in 2020
The Lord continues to do great things in people's lives. Neither a pandemic, strict lockdowns, fires or other catastrophes have stopped our labourers from labouring in various circumstances despite the variables that were thrown at us this year. Precious young students in Melbourne and Sydney ...
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The Harvest is plenty; Pray for Labourers
By Paul Bailey, Melbourne Labouring Community As there are two sides of the same coin, I am often wrestling with the feeling of weak, lost, afraid, anxious, impatient and concerned, whilst on the other side a deep sense of peace, trust, comfort and belief in God, and His sovereignty and will to ...
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2:7 Series, Book 3 Bearing Fruit in God's Family
BEARING FRUIT IN GOD'S FAMILY - THE 2:7 SERIES Book 3 When a tree takes root, adds strength, and branches out, it’s not long before fruit appears. And so it is with you. As you choose to root your life in Christ, you’ll become not only stronger but also more fruitful. By walking you ...
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Ministry Apprenticeship Program
What is the Ministry Apprenticeship Program? The Ministry Apprenticeship Program is a two-year training opportunity, adaptable for full or part-time participants, which is designed to impart practical ministry skills, experience and direction to help prepare people for a life of serving ...
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A Curious Journey
By Cynthia Hagen, first published in Compass, Spring 2015 Cynthia Hagen works in The Navigators People Resources Team with Ian and Helen McIntosh, and is based in Colorado Springs, USA. I hoped it was true, but was guarded. People were talking about listening to God's voice. As a first year ...
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Resilience to Labour for a Lifetime
By Robert Bolton, Brisbane Labouring Community Resilience is the ability or capacity to recover quickly – to bounce back from difficulties and setbacks. Sometimes, everything in us wants to quit or at least slow down, it’s in these times that our need for a resilience outside ourselves is ...
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Get to Know Janice Pasoquen
Janice Pasoquen joined Australian Navigators in May this year, working in Sydney with the Head Office Team. We interviewed her for the Summer 2023 issue of Compass. What is your role with Navigators? I provide administrative support to the Australian Navigators Staff, Associates, donors and ...
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Thankful for God's Work
By Levi Swartzentruber, Canberra Labouring Community Looking back over the past year with thankfulness and looking forward in faith, I want to share a highlight over the year for me: seeing the work God is doing in and through Tim, who bears similarities to Paul’s Timothy in ...
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Knowing God
By Scott Brown In the Autumn issue of the Compass, Mike Johnson clearly laid out a few simple and crucial rules to follow when reading and studying the Bible in order to interpret it accurately. If you haven’t read that article on How to Read the Bible Better, I recommend you give it a read ...
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Get To Know Doug and Geneve Utley
Doug and Geneve Utley are lifelong labourers from our Melbourne community. Doug has served previously as National Director, and he and Geneve have worked with many students and graduates, couples and emerging leaders over the years. He has produced resources such as the Enriching Your Marriage ...
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2020 - June - Fundraising
Rob_Mahon PowerPoint presentation Tweakable Story Telling Tips Updates Mahon & Coffing SMS after an appointment Admin Staff Training June 2020 All Fund Raising Training and Question time videos are below. You can "enter full screen" video mode by clicking on icon to left of ...