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Harvest Discipleship Series

The Australian Navigators are grateful to The Navigators (international) for allowing us the use of this valuable resource: https://www.navigators.org/resource/harvest-film-series/ Harvest is a five-part series of short films on discipleship. These videos focus on casting the vision, reaching ...

2023 - January - The Gospel & Discipleship

What is the Gospel? (Grant Dibden) Audio (53 mins): What is the Gospel? (mp3) PowerPoint: What is the Gospel? (pptx) Discipleship Framework (Grant Dibden) Audio (27 mins): Disciple Definition and Discipleship Framework (mp3) PowerPoint: Disciple Definition and Discipleship Framework ...

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 ...

DFD6: Growing in Discipleship

DESIGN FOR DISCIPLESHIP BOOK 6 The Most Trusted Discipleship Bible Study Series. For over 25 years, the Navigators’ best-selling Design for Discipleship Bible study series has offered millions of new and experienced believers a chance to learn firsthand what it means to be a modern ...

Lifestyle Discipleship

ENCOURAGING OTHERS TO SPIRITUAL MATURITY – A Redefinition for Today’s Culture Jim Petersen WE THOUGHT WE HAD DISCIPLESHIP FIGURED OUT – SO WHY CAN’T WE SEE RESULTS? Walk into any book store and you’ll see entire sections devoted to the concept of discipleship. Churches offer ...

Run the Race: The Intentional Process of Discipleship

Discipleship isn't something that happens overnight. There is a process. It takes time. Time and intention. This video, part of the Harvest Series that explores Discipleship, is by Dave Wirgau, and is useful as a tool in discipling and fanning the flame for disciple-making.  

The shocking call to discipleship

by Colin Duthie, first published in Compass, Spring 1997 Among the most threatening words in the Bible for me are those of Jesus in John 20:21, "As the Father has sent me, I am sending you." The fact of the commission is clear. The scary bit comes from reflecting on the underlying question, ...

Personal Discipleship

Dear Friend, We live in a time when it is easier than ever to access good content. You can download podcasts or listen to great preachers from our era and previous eras. You can subscribe to great courses and walk through various subjects. YouTube may be a wasteland of cat videos and movie ...

What is the cost of discipleship?

Robin Dennis has been a Christian for 46 years and a Navigator for just as long! In his own words, discipleship is the most exciting journey as well as the saddest. Compass caught up with Robin to ask why living life alongside people is a labour of love that’s truly worth it. What has ...

Harvest Ep. 1 - Casting the Vision of Discipleship

Casting the Vision of Discipleship - Harvest Episode 01 from The Australian Navigators on Vimeo. Courtesy of: https://www.navigators.org/resource/harvest-film-series/

Harvest Ep. 3 - The Role of Community in Discipleship

 The Role of Community in Discipleship - Harvest Episode 03 from The Australian Navigators on Vimeo. Courtesy of: https://www.navigators.org/resource/harvest-film-series/

2023 Conf. Message 2 - Community in Discipleship

Mutua Mahiaini

2023 Conf. Message 3 - Among the Lost in Discipleship

Mutua Mahiaini

Community in Discipleship - 2023 Conf Message 2

Being Among the Lost in Discipleship - 2023 Conf Message 3

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 ...

National Conference 2027 - DRAFT

We can't wait to see you at our National Conference on x-x October 2027 at XXXXX, 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 their enemies, and through ...

Into the Nations – Workshops

Saturday Morning The Bible Isn’t Flat: Reading God’s Word with Wisdom (Part 1) – Mike Johnson God is the Great Communicator – He speaks to be understood so His people may know His nature, will, and ways, and respond with faithful obedience. Yet His Word comes through diverse human ...

National Conference 2025

We can't wait to see you at our National Conference on 3-6 October 2025 at Galston, 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 their enemies, and through ...

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 ...

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 ...

Conference Confirmation

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Into the Nations – Registration Cost

National Conference 2025 Cost   Cost ADULT $ 440 COUPLE $ 880 Student $ 370 FAMILY with children under 5yo $ 880 FAMILY with 1 child 5-12yo $ 1135 FAMILY with 1 child 13yo and over $ 1170 FAMILY with 1 child 13yo and over and 1 child in ...

So Grateful For Your Generosity Towards Our Nepal Appeal!

Nepal Appeal Update Thank you for your generous and encouraging giving towards our Appeal for Nepal. Your gift enabled us to reach and exceed our goal of $5,000 for Lalita (you gave $6,300) and to reach our goal of $20,000 for the Endowment Fund of the Nepali ministry.          We ...

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 ...

Beyond the Age of Reason: Western Culture 5

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,  Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts". Isaiah 55:8-9 Western culture has made a sharp distinction between ...

Q & A with Katherine Halliday

Let's get to know Katherine Halliday, Ministry Apprentice at Macquarie University, Sydney. What is your role with the Navigators? I’m serving as a Ministry Apprentice with the Navigators at Macquarie University. I have committed at least 2022 and 2023 as an apprentice, and I am excited ...

From Grant to You

Dear Friend, Discipleship means many things to many people, and you can’t go to one verse and get the Bible’s definition of discipleship. Its root meaning is follower or pupil, a learner. Today we think of a learner as someone who wants to know what the teacher knows, but a biblical ...

An Appealing Message?

By Luke Midena, Canberra Labouring Community Is this an appealing message? This was a question asked by a young man in our discipleship training group over dinner recently. In an era where people crave authenticity and evidence of God’s power, Simon*— who has been battling significant ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mark Bible Study

By Luke Midena, with Scott Brown, for the National Council In our Staff Bible studies this year, we continued to explore how Jesus made disciples in Mark’s gospel. Here are a few insights. Jesus was not simply teaching his disciples but training them, and a core focus of their training was ...

Come - Be an Overcomer

A reflection on the 2025 Monash International Student Ministry Conference by Arnetta Wijaya, Melbourne Labouring Community Over the mid-semester break, the Monash Navigators International Student Ministry (ISM) held our annual conference, a time filled with laughter, reflection, growth and, ...

Gentle Art of Discipling Women, The

Dana Yeakley The Gentle Art of Discipling Women: Nurturing Authentic Faith in Ourselves and Others Discipleship is a responsibility of every believer, yet many of us avoid doing it because we don’t know where to start. The Gentle Art of Discipling Women provides a framework for ...

Devoted

ARRON CHAMBERS Being a disciple of Jesus is an issue of devotion rather than duty. Before Peter began the most important act of his life—discipleship—Jesus didn’t ask him, “How many chapters of the Torah did you read today?” or “Are you attending services at the synagogue each ...

Student

Navigators have campus communities on several universities around Australia. While each group is slightly different, they all strive to follow Jesus. Indeed, we welcome people of any spiritual background and religious experience who are interested in considering who Jesus is, what the Bible ...

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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 ...

Your Questions Answered about Mutua

Mutua Mahiaini is our current International President and was scheduled to be our keynote speaker at the upcoming National Conference in October. (While the conference itself has been cancelled, Mutua is still preparing to send us his messages.) But ... Who is Mutua Mahiaini? Prior to joining ...

Our Navigator Family in the UK

By Jeanette Dibden Grant and I lived in England in 1989 and on the way there we travelled to Kenya. We were going to go on a safari camping trip but found ourselves in Nairobi and unable to hire a sleeping bag. Grant’s solution was to ring the Navigators (listed in the phone book – remember ...

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. ...

Expecting God to Work!

By Levi and Lindsey Swartzentruber, Canberra Labouring Community Our new team members, JT and Laine, have only been in the country with us for two months now but already their contribution to God’s work at the ANU is showing… For years we have struggled to gain interest from the students in ...

Uncompromised Faith

S MICHAEL CRAVEN In today's culture of modernism, Christianity is an afterthought. Explore how the majesty and radical reality of God’s amazing grace has been rendered impotent in America. Then begin to tear down the cultural barriers to both the acceptance of the gospel and the mission of the ...

Crescent Through the Eyes of the Cross, The

NABEEL JABBOUR Go beyond mere tolerance to a passion for Muslims. This book explains how that can be done in ways that are sensitive to Islamic culture and provides suggestions on how to build vital relationships with Muslims. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dr. Nabeel Jabbour was born in Syria and grew ...

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 ...

National Conference 2023

Being a Disciple and Making Disciples Who Make Disciples MESSAGES & TESTIMONIES "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey ...

Advancing the Kingdom in Indonesia

Indonesia has 259 million people, 86% of them are Muslim and many are poor. Poverty doesn’t just affect the present for these families and children in Indonesia … it affects their entire futures. Many children drop out of school because their families cannot afford for them to go.  The ...

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 ...

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 ...

DFD1: Your Life in Christ

DESIGN FOR DISCIPLESHIP BOOK 1 The Most Trusted Discipleship Bible Study Series. For over 25 years, the Navigators’ best-selling Design for Discipleship Bible study series has offered millions of new and experienced believers a chance to learn first-hand what it means to be a modern ...

DFD2: The Spirit-Filled Follower of Jesus

DESIGN FOR DISCIPLESHIP BOOK 2 The Spirit-Filled Follower of Jesus The Most Trusted Discipleship Bible Study Series. For over 25 years, the Navigators’ best-selling Design for Discipleship Bible study series has offered millions of new and experienced believers a chance to learn ...

DFD3: Walking With Christ

DESIGN FOR DISCIPLESHIP BOOK 3 The Most Trusted Discipleship Bible Study Series. For over 25 years, the Navigators’ best-selling Design for Discipleship Bible study series has offered millions of new and experienced believers a chance to learn firsthand what it means to be a modern disciple ...

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 ...

DFD4: The Character of a Follower of Jesus

DESIGN FOR DISCIPLESHIP BOOK 4 The Most Trusted Discipleship Bible Study Series. For over 25 years, the Navigators’ best-selling Design for Discipleship Bible study series has offered millions of new and experienced believers a chance to learn first-hand what it means to be a modern ...

DFD5: Foundations for Faith

DESIGN FOR DISCIPLESHIP BOOK 5 The Most Trusted Discipleship Bible Study Series. For over 25 years, the Navigators’ best-selling Design for Discipleship Bible study series has offered millions of new and experienced believers a chance to learn first-hand what it means to be a modern ...

DFD7: Our Hope in Christ

DESIGN FOR DISCIPLESHIP BOOK 7 The Most Trusted Discipleship Bible Study Series. For over 25 years, the Navigators’ best-selling Design for Discipleship Bible study series has offered millions of new and experienced believers a chance to learn first-hand what it means to be a modern ...

About

"Harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd." This is how Jesus described the crowds flocking to Him. Throughout the world, this description holds true today. People across all levels of society are struggling under the burdens of unrest, fear, isolation and anxiety – desperate for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Best Bible Study Methods

Discipleship Journal's Best Bible Study Methods This unique handbook of 32 ways to study Scripture is drawn from the pages of Discipleship Journal. From word studies to role-playing to personal reflection, both clergy and laypeople explain how to infuse study with fresh insight.

Discipling Our Generation

Navigators are passionate about discipleship. Discipling Our Generation is a series of five in-depth Bible Studies that helps us understand what the Bible says discipleship is, and provides some practical suggestions for how to disciple others. Discipling Our Generation - Bible Studies STUDY 1 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Your Questions Answered! – by Julianne McMaster

By Julianne McMaster, first published in Compass, Summer 2020 Julianne McMaster and her husband, Phil, are involved in the Military Ministry of the Australian Navigators. In particular, Julianne oversees the Solid Rock Ministry. We wanted her thoughts on Teaching and Leadership. “See One, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mark's Gospel

By Luke Midena and Frank Mapperson, for the National Council The National Council takes seriously the need to keep God’s Word central. Together, we studied the first eight chapters of Mark’s gospel. Mark draws on the first-hand experience of Peter, and his Gospel is a fast-paced account of ...

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. ...

Discipling Men

By Thomas Bielenberg, Canberra Labouring Community Here's what's been happening in the ADFA/RMC Community recently: Caleb is discipling Eddy and leading a Bible study Caleb* will be discipling Eddy* this week while I’m away. We have been meeting Eddy together most weeks as I hand him over ...

You are Needed for the Journey

By Paul Bailey, Melbourne Labouring Community It’s full speed ahead, and I’m not sure if we’ve filled up the tank with enough fuel! The train tracks: Monash University, and open for service; the Train: Monash Navs, and it has begun its journey. “ALL ABOARD!” was called at our first ...

Get To Know Sarah Vernon

Sarah has been part of our Australian Navigators family for several years and recently joined one of our Short-Term Mission Trips. We interviewed her for the Winter 2025 Issue of Compass, our newsletter, where an abridged version of her interview was first published. How did you come into ...

Halfway There

By Paul Bailey, Melbourne Labouring Community Here we are, midway through 2025, reflecting on all the good the Lord has done, but also looking ahead in faith for what is to come. It has been a number of months since I was able to give a comprehensive update on all that's been happening! So ...

Kingdom Life, The

Edited by Alan Andrews A Practical Theology of Discipleship and Spiritual Formation For six years, spiritual formation leaders such as Dallas Willard, Bruce Demarest, and Bill Hull came together with other colleagues to create a collection of wisdom and honest personal revelation in the areas of ...

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 ...

Dawson Trotman: In His Own Words

DAWSON TROTMAN, KEN ALBERT, SUSAN FLETCHER, DOUG HANKINS, NAVIGATORS STAFF As Dawson Trotman came to understand what role he was to play in God's kingdom, he got down to business doing what he was gifted in: developing effective processes for teaching people how to read, study, and memorise ...

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 ...

Local Community

The goal of Community ministries is to form spiritual generations through our expanding relational networks. Graduates, singles, couples, families and grandparents, from all different ethnic backgrounds are involved in our local community ministries and most of our members are active in their local ...

Lead Me

God has the world in His heart and yet He cares for, and takes interest in, each and every person individually. He calls you to be a blessing in whatever you do, wherever you are – to walk humbly with Him and to follow His lead … He calls us to become his disciples. There are some essential ...

Apprenticeships

The Navigators’ Ministry Apprenticeship Program is a two-year training opportunity*, adaptable for full or part-time participants, which is designed to impart practical ministry skills, active ministry experience and direction to help prepare you for a life of serving God. It is a hands-on ...

International Students

Our International Student communities aim to see international students led to know and follow Jesus, bringing Him into their everyday world. Life-on-life discipleship is Navigators’ hallmark. We focus on the Bible as the foundation for all we do and are strong on prayer – following the ...

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 ...

Many Aspire Few Attain (Booklet)

Walter A. Henrichsen We are all engaged in a Spiritual war. Many people aspire to be a witness for God and discipleship, but many people do not attain. The enemy is wanting to keep us far from God. This is a must-read Nav classic booklet, no longer in print.

Modern Girl's Guide to Bible Study, A

JEN HATMAKER A Refreshingly Unique Look at God's Word Written specifically for today’s busy women, this book offers user-friendly advice on how to get the most from personal Bible study time. Transform the academic nature of Bible study into a fresh, simple format that will radically change the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mission to the Philippines

Together with you, we’re committed to going wherever God leads … and doing whatever He asks to move people closer to Jesus and impact the world.  Now, God is leading us to break new spiritual ground in the Philippines – through a mission trip to train new leaders how to grow students into ...

Six Critical Factors of a Multiplying Ministry

You may have already come across or even completed some of the studies in The Six Critical Factors of a Multiplying Ministry series while browsing through our site. The Six Critical Factors ... is a series of comprehensive studies, prepared by Grant Dibden, and includes the following topics: CF1 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mission to the Philippines

Together with you, we’re committed to going wherever God leads … and doing whatever He asks to move people closer to Jesus and impact the world.  Now, God is leading us to break new spiritual ground in the Philippines – through a mission trip to train new leaders how to grow students into ...

Q&A with Scott Brown - Navigator Leader for Sydney

How did you come into relationship with Jesus? My maternal grandmother played a significant role in me developing a relationship with Christ. Not only did she model a deep and abiding love for Jesus which flowed over to others, but she also prayed for me (and all her grandkids) ...

Lessons on Renewal

By James Broad, first printed in "The Compass", May 1987 Renewal is something God does at conversion (Titus 3:5). Renewal is something that is also to happen on a daily basis; something we are to participate in (Ephesians 4:22-24). Renewal is something which Jesus Christ is working at ...

Connected for Life

By Bruce Clarke The New Testament gives us a few tantalizing details of a married couple named Priscilla and Aquila. They were living in Rome working with leather, making tents (Acts 18:1-4). Then Caesar Claudius decided that the Jews were undesirable and forced them to flee Rome. They arrive at ...

Shaping Our Faith Directions

By Grant Dibden "It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept.  I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth." Isaiah 49:6 Jeanette and I, along with 85 ...

Thank you for investing in generations!

Thanks for investing in generations of labourers! Jesus’ ministry was primarily focused on intentional personal discipleship. He spent the vast majority of His time and ministry intentionally investing in 12 men; far more time than He spent with the rest of the world put together! Jesus walked ...