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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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Events
We would love to have you join us at our gatherings. If you are unable to make it, we would appreciate your prayers! National 5-7 June Mid-Year National Training, Castlereagh, NSW. 29 September - 2 October National Conference 2023. Location: Stromlo, ACT. Guest speaker: Navs ...
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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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A. Associates and Staff Application Form
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Staff Portal
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Staff Portal
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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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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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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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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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Monash ISM Conference 2023
THE POWER OF THE CROSS Scroll down to register, or jump to the form now. with Keynote Speakers: Andrew and Sharon Yong The cross has long been the symbol of Christianity. To the world the Cross represents suffering and shame, but to Christians the Cross is a symbol of sacrifice and ...
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Register for Navs Student Camp 2022
The adventure camp has been cancelled due to weather considerations. For more information, contact Thomas Bielenberg: Secure 128bit encryption Protected by an industry-standard high grade 128bit encryption, using SSL technology.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Grow
As God’s fellow workers we long to lead people to Jesus and to experience the growth that he provides (1 Corinthians 3:6,7). As disciples it is our goal to become rooted and established in him and be continually transformed by the grace of God. Jesus’ disciples grew in this manner through ...
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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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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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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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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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Conference Confirmation
Hi Thanks for completing your Conference/Event registration. If you did not receive an email confirmation within minutes please do the following: 1. Check your Spam folder just in case. 2. Email or call the office stating you have not received your Confirmation email after registering. ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 Spring, 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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2020 - June Fund Raising Training
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 ...
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Keep the Labourers Labouring
Dear Friends God wants to see His kingdom grow and this happens when, through His Spirit, he uses the changed life of an ordinary person, just like you and me, to change another. We see it in the example of Jesus who chose a few disciples and invested deeply in them, so that the helpless ...
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Thank you for helping us!
Thank you for helping to keep our labourers labouring! As Navigators we are passionate about making disciples, and we know that as our partners you are too. We want to be and make disciples who will labour for a lifetime, not just for a season. But we can’t do this by ourselves. So we thank ...
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The Power of Example
By Grant Dibden Ever been challenged by Example? Landing at the airport in Tonga for a conference, I was met by a softly-spoken man—Tevita Palu (CEO and Owner of Palu Aviation, which owns several companies including Real Tonga Airlines). I was later informed that Tevita has invited ...
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Connecting People to Christ Through Stories
By Phil McMaster With most States and Territories locked down in some way due to the pandemic, we have been thinking and praying about meaningful ways to keep connecting people with Christ. Thankfully, God recently provided an opportunity to do this - through stories. “My Story, My God” is ...
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Homegoing - Ruth and John Ridgway
Ruth and John Ridgway were lifelong labourers for the Kingdom. In December 2021 and February 2022, respectively, they both went to be with their heavenly King. The Navigators (International) have posted tributes/articles about Ruth and John and their decades-long service for the sake of Christ. ...
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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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Expressive Individualism: Western Culture 6
For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. Rom 12:4,5 I was recently learning to play the song “You are Beautiful” by James ...
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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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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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Military
Navigators have been involved with the Australian Defence Force (ADF) since 1971. We have networks comprised of people whose love for God overflows in a passion to take the Gospel to the lost and lead disciples who make other disciples. Our communities are composed of people from all ranks and an ...
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Advancing the Kingdom in Indonesia
When our brothers and sisters recognised the enormous impact poverty was having on their younger generation, God gave them an overwhelming desire to help. So, they began some whole-of-life discipleship ministries centred around education with children from local families, high school students and ...
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Setup
1. How to create your MPDX Account Go to MPDX.org like the video states but you might need to create your account rather than sign in. You will be asked to connect your account to our Navigators system . When asked, use the credentials below : - Organization: The Navigators-Australia - ...
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Julie Leads Generations
Dave and Julie McIntosh lead our Navigator work at Macquarie University. This is one story of what God has been doing through Navigators to grow generations of disciples. Julie shares: During my first two years serving at Macquarie University, it felt as though almost all of our female students ...
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Why Celebrate ANZAC Day?
By Grant Dibden A little over 100,000 Australians have died in wars. Several hundred thousand more were wounded and countless others suffered psychological damage. Of these casualties the vast majority were between 18 and 25 years old. Just think that if you had been born 100 years earlier it ...
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Q & A with Gary Allan
GET TO KNOW GARY ALLAN, Senior Executive Ministry Gary Allan joined the Nav ministry while at RMC Duntroon in 1972. Since completing 27 years military service, he has worked in senior business roles. He has served as Chairman of the Australian Navigators Board and is currently the Board Chair ...
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New Beginning ... New Opportunities
By Tim Mapperson, Melbourne Labouring Community, Student Ministry. First published in Compass, Autumn 2022. What do you do when your ministry is pulled out from under your feet? When you watch the community that you have strived to build over the years slowly diminish until it vanishes, nothing ...
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What encourages you to be resilient?
In our Autumn 2022 edition of Compass, we asked YOU to answer some questions in our short survey. We asked: What sort of things help you be resilient and “bounce back” after challenges? - Community support - Specific Bible passages/verses - Encouraging/challenging books - Close friends ...
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How Do You Begin a Grassroots Ministry?
Grassroots ministry is the starting point of advancing the gospel and building the next generation, beginning with people around you who haven’t heard the good news of Jesus. As a labourer living and discipling among the lost, how do you begin a grassroots ministry? 1. Pray for: • ...
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Living with Christ as Lord
By Scott Brown, Sydney City Leader (first published in Compass Autumn 2023) From the earliest days of the Navigators, Dawson Trotman’s Wheel Illustration highlighted the importance of living with Christ as Lord, or as he termed it, with Christ the Centre. Galatians 2:20 and 2 Corinthians 5:17 ...
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Worldwide Partnership Day of Prayer
Every year, the Navigators set aside one day for prayer as a worldwide partnership. This is a tremendous opportunity for us to work together and fellowship with colleagues across our international partnership. This year, our Worldwide Partnership Day of Prayer will be on Saturday, March 18. ...
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Give
Christian giving has its foundation in the nature of God God pours out blessing upon blessing – health, housing, food, sunshine, rain and most graciously and sacrificially eternal life for all who believe through Jesus’ death on the cross in our place. God is a wonderfully generous ...
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History
Just an Ordinary Guy The Navigators ministry began in the 1930s, when a young California lumberyard worker caught a vision. After seeing the benefits of basic discipleship principles in his own life, Dawson Trotman wanted to teach them to others, echoing the call of 2 Timothy 2:2: "And the things ...
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International Navigators
The Navigators is an international inter-denominational Christian Mission Organisation. We are a global movement. Stats for Navigators don't really capture what we do, but they may give you an idea of the breadth of the ministry. We have over 5000 staff in 110 Countries. Click here to go to our ...
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Karen's Retirement Gift
Karen Woolley has just transitioned to semi-retirement and will only be working two days a month. She has been working in our Nav Office for 35 years and has moved with the Office from inner Sydney to Blaxland to Melbourne to Canberra and back to Sydney – now that is ...
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Vulnerable People and Privacy Policy
Vulnerable People One of the Navigators core values is the dignity and value of every person. According to Scripture every one of us is made in the image of God. Indeed, God knitted us together in our mother’s womb and we were fearfully and wonderfully made the Bible says. More even than ...
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Mid-Year National Training 2023
Save the Date: Registration will open soon! We will give more practical consideration to what was covered in the January Training about the Gospel and discipleship. We’ll develop your discipleship model and consider how the gospel elements are included in it. The Mahons will also be back to ...
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Theresa Leads a New Generation Closer to Jesus
Theresa works full time as a nurse for Red Cross and is also leading groups of disciples in the Navigators’ International Student Ministry. This is her story. I grew up as a Buddhist. My family worshipped many gods, each god representing a different aspect of life. To me, religion was just a ...
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Navigators’ Solid Rock Retreat 2017
On 5-7 May, 15 ladies from our Women’s Military Ministry got together for the Annual Solid Rock Retreat. It was a beautiful Autumn weekend and God richly blessed us. We spent extended time in God’s word, took a real cruise around Lake Burley Griffin and had lots of time deepening ...
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A Purpose Greater Than Myself
By John Ridgway, first printed in "Compass" Autumn 2003 God's purposes and plans are brilliant, extensive, unique, lavish and exceedingly glorious beyond our comprehension. As a young teenager growing up in Sydney, my parents brought me up in the ways of God and we attended church every ...
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Thank you for partnering with us to advance the gospel!
As Navigators we are passionate about making disciples, and we know that as our partners you are too. We want to be and make disciples who will labour for a lifetime, not just for a season. But we can’t do this by ourselves. So we thank you. Thank you for partnering with us both prayerfully ...
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The Power of Investing in One
Imagine running the relay race for the Olympic team. As you pass the baton successfully to the final runner, you cheer on as they cross the finish line. This is what it felt like for Mike Treneer (former International President of the Navigators) to pass the baton of International President ...
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Cries of the Soul
By Bruce Clarke, first printed in Compass, Spring 2015 All of us will experience suffering or adversity at some point in our lives. Some fall away when God does not deal with them in a way that they desire. But it is also true that many come to faith when adversity strikes. Adversity can ...
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A Double Miracle
The story of Jack and May Griffin as told to Margaret Mulholland Cooper, first printed in Decision Magazine, January, 1979 and reprinted in The Compass, Volume 2 No. 2, March, 1979. ... we share a common birthday—April 12, 1959—when on a fine Sunday afternoon, we walked ...
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Toss Your Do-List
By David Lyons Now, I begin each month with a day set aside for fellowship with God during which I pray for the month ahead. As I pray, the Lord shows me that He never intended for me to do some things on my list. True confession: I used to write things on my do-list that I had already done ...
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Christians smell ... one way or the other!
What do you think of this statement from Brisbane Navigator staff, Ram Marrero? Before answering that, here’s a story shared by Ram about one of the men he disciples: 2 Corinthians 2:14-15 (NKJV) says: "Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the ...