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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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Inside Out
LARRY CRAB If you want a more vital union with God, a richer relationship with others, and a deeper sense of personal wholeness, learn how to look inside yourself and discover how God works real, liberating change when you live from the inside out. Packed with new and compelling insights, this ...
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Living Out Of Brokenness
Living out of Brokenness from The Australian Navigators on Vimeo.
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Calling Drawn Out
Calling Drawn Out from The Australian Navigators on Vimeo.
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"Together Among" - Drawn Out
Related Videos Our Vision for Together Among
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International Navigators
The Navigators is an international inter-denominational Christian Mission Organisation. We are a global movement. Statistics for the Navigators do not really capture what we do, but they may give you an idea of the breadth of the ministry. We have over 5000 staff in more than 100 ...
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A Place Called ... Navigators
A pictorial update by Grant Dibden Jeanette and I recently had a week in Victoria, part holiday and part work. Most of our time was in Melbourne, but we were coming home via Ballarat when we discovered that there was a place nearby called Navigators. Of course, we had to visit! First of ...
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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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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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Navigators Passion - Transforming Lives Through The Word of God
Navigators Passion from The Australian Navigators on Vimeo.
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Navigators Passion - Loving Communities
Navigators Passion from The Australian Navigators on Vimeo.
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Navigators Passion - The Truth and Power of God's Word
Navigators Passion from The Australian Navigators on Vimeo.
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Congo Ministry of the Navigators
Congo Ministry of the Navigators from The Australian Navigators on Vimeo.
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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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The Great Commission: The Mission of The Navigators
by Lorne Sanny (former President of The Navigators), reprinted from "The Compass", September 1981 Just before Jesus left earth and ascended into heaven He gave some last instructions. These were in the form of a commission, which we call the "Great Commission" . . . words to be obeyed by all ...
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"You Teach Him!" — The Beginning of The Navigators
First published in The Compass, Volume 3 No. 4, July, 1980 Some years ago, there was a sailor on the U.S.S. West Virginia who had joined the navy with the idea of saving up enough money in order to enter Bible seminary after his period of service was ended. In the navy he lost track of his ...
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Navigators Vision Interview
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An Intimate Relationship
By Frank Tully Workplace Ministry - Sydney An intimate relationship with another person often begins with a conversation, a sharing of heartfelt words in honest dialogue. Developing intimacy with the Lord is no different, as we seek to hear and be heard by our Loving Father. Yet we may often ...
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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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How to break the binding cable of habit
By Robert Boardman, first published in The Compass, Volume 2 No. 2, March, 1979 The cold in Japan anywhere in December penetrates your bones, but this was northern Japan and I could feel it even through my long underwear. The Japaneses with the ancient wisdom of Northeast Asia build with a ...
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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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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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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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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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How to Read the Bible Better
By Mike Johnson, Melbourne Labouring Community (First published in Compass Autumn 2024) Have you ever thought you understood what someone was saying but, without the full picture, made a complete muddle of their meaning? I have, and it’s embarrassing. God speaks through His Scriptures and, ...
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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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God is Enough for Me
By Kendrea Dibden, Sydney Labouring Community As a teacher, I know the importance of intentional reflection and analysis to be aware of strengths and shortcomings. Reflexive practice in order to be constantly improving. As a believer this has been a vital part of my walk with the Lord as well. ...
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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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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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Christmas in the MER
A Christmas message from our National Director, Grant Dibden, from the Middle East Region (MER). 10 000 Afghanistan Army soldiers are killed each year that we know of. There’s probably more, and about half that number of civilians. And this doesn’t include the enemy. That was what ...
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Update Winter 2017
Dear Friend, North India is a tough place … hot, humid, polluted, dirty, diseased, poor, and crowded. There are huge needs and so Navigators have sent a small team there to reach Muslims. I have a leadership role for this team, so I recently visited. North India is one of the most unreached ...
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Grant Dibden - Remembering the Sacrifice
In commemorating ANZAC Day this year—25 April—Grant Dibden, as Anglican Bishop to the Defence Force, shares about the sacrifice and spirit of the ANZACs and how ANZAC Day points to Jesus in a special short ...
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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 Sacrifice
This is the transcript of the ANZAC talk given by Grant Dibden on 24 April, 2019, at Anglicare Residential Care, Lemon Grove Gardens, Penrith. ANZAC Day commemorates a great defeat which seems very strange to other nations. Australia’s most hallowed day of military remembering doesn’t ...
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God Who Smokes, The
TIMOTHY STONER Scandalous Meditations on Faith Emergent theology is raising some of the most provocative and divisive questions in the church today. For some, these ideas embody the true spirit of the gospel, trading tired religion for authenticity and relevance. Others dismiss it as a heresy ...
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Feeling "small"
By Scott Brown, Sydney Labouring Community When was the last time you felt small? Was it among the foothills of the Rockies or standing on the coastline with nothing but water in view? Perhaps it was staring up at the brilliance of the night sky overflowing with stars. For me, it was in the ...
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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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A Focus On Scripture Memory
By Sharon Yong, Melbourne Labouring Community (International Student Ministry, Monash), first published in Compass Winter 2023 As Navigators, we have a focus on the basics. In our Monash Uni ISM, we use the acronym POWER (ie. Prayer-Outreach-Word-Equipping-Relationships) to help keep our focus. ...
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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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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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Your Questions Answered! - by Theresa
The abridged version of this interview was first published in Compass, Spring 2019. Being on mission looks different for each of us. Some are compelled to go to far-flung nations while others are called to stay right where they are. What does being a local missionary look like? Theresa Suan ...
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The Foundation of Many Generations
By Doug Utley, Melbourne Labouring Community We escaped to Hamilton Island in August for a week. Glorious sun and warm water, beaches and coral reef. One night, I got up for a drink and was stopped in my tracks by the night sky entering through the balcony doors. It was a moonless night and with ...
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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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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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Meditation: Western Culture 10
Some of my strongest childhood memories come from the times I spent on my uncle’s dairy farm. The heat of summer, the cooling of the milk refrigeration room, the sound and smell of the cows. I would seeing them constantly chewing and later learnt they had 4 stomachs and were often “chewing ...
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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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Spurred on to Love Others
By Daryl Goh, International Student Ministry, first published in Compass, Winter 2019. I’ve been a part of the Navigators International Student Ministry (ISM) with “Aunty” Sharon and “Uncle” Andrew for the past year, along with other first-year international medical students at Monash ...
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John Ridgway - The Influence of One Man
A Tribute by Robin Dennis “The least one shall become a thousand and the smallest one a mighty nation” ~ Isaiah 60:22 I was working in Canberra at Parliament House and living in one of the many public servant hostels, Lawley House, which had two sections – the old and the new. Newcomers ...
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An Easter Reflection
By Grant Dibden "To me it makes as much sense as bunny rabbits handing out chocolate eggs ..." Easter in Australian society is thought of as a holiday time. And many – most? – people don’t understand the significance of Easter, and often they don’t want to. A local Eastern Sydney ...
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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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Easter in a Covid-19 Environment
Dear Nav Family, A little over 2000 years ago tonight, the disciples ate the Last Supper, and the next day Jesus was crucified. Jesus had told his disciples that he would be killed, that he could even be crucified, but the disciples didn’t really understand. They didn’t really get it. We know ...
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Relational Resilience
By Ian McIntosh We can see relational conflict all around the world and throughout history. These conflicts have resulted in wars. We see this in the news today. These wars take place on a much larger scale, but I think I can say all of us have experienced relational conflict on a smaller scale. ...
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Insights from the Global Church
By Luke Midena The past few months have been unusually full of travel. While it’s been exciting, I’m looking forward to being home with family for the next while. I wanted to share some highlights from one of these recent trips. I had the privilege of attending the Lausanne Gathering in ...
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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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Meditation: The Missing Link
By R. B. Ewers, first published in "The Compass", November 1984 A Christian said to me recently, "I read my Bible each day, but it doesn't seem to make much difference to my life." This honest statement could be true for many Christians. When we consider all that the Word of God claims to do ...
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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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Community-based Evangelism
By Fran Johnson, Melbourne Labouring Community, first published in Compass, Summer 2021 What if we prayed for 21 days for our city? What if twenty or so Navigators focused prayer for 21 days on their city? Do you think it would have an impact for theadvance of the Gospel? Wanting to seek the ...
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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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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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National Conference 2025
We are excited to announce our upcoming Navigators National Conference 3-6 October 2025 at Galston Gorge, NSW! "...I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of ...
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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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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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What is ISM (International Student Ministry)?
Among our Communities is a strong International Students Ministry (ISM) within our universities. But what is ISM and how did it start? Compass interviewed Tim Mapperson for an insight. Tim, what is ISM and what is your involvement in this ministry? ISM is a door to the nations. Exciting ...
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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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Born to Reproduce - A Story by Tony McLennan
First published in Compass, Autumn 2014. Dawson Trotman gave a signature message called "Born to Reproduce" which sets out the normal expectation that mature believers are to reproduce the spiritual life they have by bringing the Gospel to new people. The passion to be involved with the Holy ...
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The Harvest is Plenty
By Paul Bailey, Ministry Apprentice, Monash University, Melbourne. “Paul!” my new friend "C" called to me. “I can't believe it! For three days, this kid has just been hanging around us. He has played some basketball and table tennis, but he is very cheeky. He won’t give his name or age, ...
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Resilience in the Gospel
By Ian McIntosh, first published in Compass Winter issue 2022 What do you think about when you hear the word resilience? TV interviews with disaster victims or soldiers fighting a David and Goliath battle? Relational conflict? People battling their personal demons relating to themselves, others ...
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The Start of Generations
By Grant Dibden A number of years ago I met a young man at Macquarie University. Dan was a keen guy studying to become a primary school teacher. We met for a number of years one-to-one looking at how Jesus discipled His followers. We saw that Jesus worked deeply with a few, despite being able ...
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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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Remembering Harvey Soderholm
Compiled by June Sparks, first published in Compass, Winter 2020 edition. Remembering Harvey Soderholm: A link in the Chain Harvey Soderholm was a lifelong labourer who served the Lord with The Navigators from the 1950s. He passed away on 11 June 2019, after suffering a cardiac arrest the ...
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Caring Like Christ
By Grant Dibden “People are our most important asset.” I often hear that from organisations, but it’s a lot less common to see it actually being lived out. Of course, there has to be a balance with getting the task done, but the task and caring for the people can be symbiotic. Christian ...
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Community in Focus
By Grant Dibden, first published in Compass, Winter 2019 I used to play a lot of sport before I got injured and old. As a young man I did athletics training five days a week and competed on weekends with three colleagues and our coach. Later, I practiced squash four days a week and played in ...
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People of Passion
The early followers of Jesus were called ‘people of the way’. This was long before the term ‘Christian’ was coined. Perhaps it came from Jesus’ words ‘I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life' (John 14:6). People of Passion* is here to help you on your way, following Jesus, The Way. It ...
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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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Compass Feature: David Turner
Interview by June Sparks David Turner Reflects on Compass David Turner has been behind the scenes or at the helm of Compass for over 30 years. He’s seen its transition from no colour to two colour to four colour to full colour. Compass has always been about connecting with the Australian ...
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Enriching Your Marriage
A course developed by Doug and Geneve Utley This is a five-part plan to help you and your partner enrich your marriage. Remaining married is hard enough; statistics show about 50% of marriages end in divorce. When there are additional stressors, such as COVID-19 restrictions, vulnerabilities ...
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What Do You Do In Daily Devotions?
Our daily devotions should always begin with the Gospel. We must remember that the Gospel speaks to the entire Christian life. It is not solely for the non-believer, but has much to say to the mature believer. We should remind ourselves of the Gospel as we confess that although we have been ...
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Lifetime Kingdom Labourers
By Frank Tully It was my first week living back in Australia when at the end of a Navigators conference I needed a ride back to my temporary home in Sydney. Mike & Siân said they lived near my friend’s house and would be glad to drop me along the way. Little did we know, that was ...
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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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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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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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God's Word Impacting Young Hearts
By Rob Allen (with Angie Allen), Queensland Labouring Community, first published in Compass Winter 2024 issue. Angie and I thank God for having the opportunity to share God’s message of love and hope through His Word with young people over the decades. Many are under enormous social, ...
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Developing a Taste for God's Word
By Lindsey Swartzentruber, Canberra Labouring Community I have been trying to think of an analogy to explain the newest development with our students and I realised that, really, the closest thing is liver and brussels sprouts. Let me explain… Seven or eight years ago, my research led me ...
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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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Spiritual Generations
As we read our Bibles we see a loving God searching for and reaching out to people who have rebelled and lost their way. He reaches out to all peoples of all nations of all generations with the wonderful Gospel. The Gospel is a trust that is to be passed from one generation to the next. What is ...
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Go And Make Disciples
By Grant Dibden Looking at the spiritual condition of our nation it’s easy to see a picture similar to that described in Matthew 9: When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The ...
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An Everyday Labourer For God's Kingdom
Kristin Coulson, from Compass, Spring 2018 When you think of a labourer, do the words “manual work, dirty, and hard” come to mind? What is Jesus talking about when he calls us “labourers for the harvest fields” in Matthew 9? Belinda Krause and her husband, Nathan, live in Canberra and ...
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A Link in the Chain
There are many gospel tracts and websites you may stumble upon today that ask that age-old question: "If you died today, where would you go: heaven or hell?" Perhaps you've asked yourself that question, too. Have you ever asked someone else? And if you did, what was their response? There ...
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Conformity and Challenge: Western Culture 2
I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; ...
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Ordinary People, Lifelong Labourers
By Bruce Clarke, first published in Compass, Summer 2020 There are only two examples in the New Testament when Jesus specifically told his disciples what to pray. The best known of these is often called the Lord’s Prayer, which includes God’s holiness, His kingdom, daily needs, forgiveness, ...
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What or who is a Disciple?
By Robin Dennis Discipleship is nothing new. We find the concept of a disciple – that is, a person following a master – among Plato, Socrates and Herodotus; in ancient Hebrew culture, Elisha (2 Kings 4:38), Isaiah (8:16), Samuel (1 Sam 10:5), then we know that John the Baptist had ...
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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 Daniel Goh
Daniel Goh is a fulltime engineer who started engaging with a Navigators university group after graduating. In 2022, he was invited to join the 2-year Melbourne Navigator Leader Development Training Program. We interviewed Daniel to get to know him better as well as asked for insight into the ...
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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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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 Fund-Matching Opportunity
God's Heart - And Ours - For Every Nation: Bangladesh This year, one of our partners in the mission of reaching the world for Jesus has generously offered to match your giving for this campaign - dollar for dollar! How fantastic is that! And we are on the way! Donations are ...
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Connected and Valued
by Rod Jolly, Melbourne Labouring Community, first published in Compass Winter 2021 edition. God made us to live in community. Hebrews 10:25 says it so clearly, “And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return ...
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From Grant to You
Dear Friend, A man was travelling down a road with a friend who was an architect when the friend pointed out a house and said, “That’s my house there. I designed that one and am very proud of it.” The man admired its symmetry and style and drove on. A short while later he was again driving ...
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From Grant to You - God's Word and the Holy Spirit
First published in Compass Winter 2024 issue. Dear Friend, In [the most recent issue] of Compass, we continue to consider God’s word. Sometimes one group can so emphasise the Bible and another the Holy Spirit, but there is an intimate connection between the Holy Spirit and the word of ...
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Workshop Notes 2017
Forgiveness, Repentence, Reconciliation, Restitution in Disciplemaking This paper by Grant Dibden explores what the Scriptures say on the issues of forgiveness, seeking justice, loving your enemy, dealing with conflict, and more. Workshop with Grant Dibden Getting Started, ...