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Give at the Melbourne Fundraising Dinner

Thank you for coming to the Melbourne Fundraising dinner. We invite you to prayerfully consider giving to:   Jane Sheppard Paul Bailey Melbourne City Projects(Please select 'Melbourne City'from the 'Special Projects' list)  

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 ...

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 ...

Next Door to Everywhere ... in Brisbane!

By Luke Midena, National Leadership Team The National Leadership Team met with the National Council on the first weekend of April to hear from God's Word, pray, study Job, and plan and discuss this year's priorities. Luke gives us a glimpse into what's happening in one of our communities – ...

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 ...

A Kingdom Worker Next Door in New Zealand

A Kingdom Worker Next Door in New Zealand from The Australian Navigators on Vimeo.

I Am A Generation

I Am A Generation from The Australian Navigators on Vimeo.

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 ...

Discipling Our Generation Bible Studies

Five studies covering the process of becoming a disciple, spiritual transformation and making disciples.

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 ...

2024 - January - Authority of Scripture & Biblical Interpretation

It is important to build confidence in the authority and inspiration of the Bible, and to anchor our story within the Biblical meta-narrative. Developing good Biblical interpretation practices and enriching theology in the central aspects of the Gospel will enhance a correct view of God and ...

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 ...

2024 - June - The Bible Meta-Narrative

During our Mid-Year training, the Rev Dr Graham Cole led us through some sessions on the biblical meta-narrative, which helped equip us with biblical themes to “out-narrate” our cultures’ stories and show how our deepest aspiration and desires are fulfilled, and that the Bible makes the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mentoring Millenials

DANIEL EGELER Leave a legacy with a generation longing for connection and meaning. The Millennial generation is unlike any other. Born after 1980, they don't know the world before computers, video games, or MTV. They are optimistic, desire rules and boundaries, and support tradition and values. ...

Identifying as a Labourer

By Robin Dennis, from Compass, Spring 2018 The Navigators define a labourer as: “Ordinary people who are growing in their intimacy with Jesus and who are working in the harvest (living and discipling among the lost) with a generational mindset.” To work in the harvest (living and ...

Giving To Grow

Our God is a generous God who loves giving good gifts.  We have the joy as His disciples to share in this attribute and give generously. Giving to God, and those He has called, is a beautiful concrete expression of our relationship with God through our faith in Jesus. As we see in James 2:22, ...

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 ...

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 ...

They Gave Their Lives

By Scott Brown “They gave their lives”... That simple inscription sits above the door to the Australian War Memorial. These four words etched in stone reflect the legacy of countless soldiers whose names line the poppy-covered walls leading toward the entrance. Their sacrifices are ...

Thanks for growing with us!

Thank you to all our partners that have contributed over the past 2 years to our Growing Capacity appeal! We started this project with a goal of reaching $500,000 in order for our fund to reach perpetuity.  At the beginning of our 2017 appeal we needed $230,000 to reach this goal. Last year we ...

Thank you for your impact on generations!

God is raising generations of labourers through Navigators, and this work is made possible by partners like you! As Navigators, we focus on multiplying disciples; training those we disciple to do the same with others. Because of this, generations of disciples are formed, and God has been using your ...

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 ...

National Conference 2025

We are excited to announce our upcoming Navigators National Conference to be held 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 ...

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 ...

Thankful for God's Work

By Levi Swartzentruber, Canberra Labouring Community Looking back over the past year with thankfulness and looking forward in faith, I want to share a highlight over the year for me: seeing the work God is doing in and through Tim, who bears similarities to Paul’s Timothy in ...

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 ...

Another "New" Life in 2020 - Addy

Another Story of New Life in 2020 A Personal Testimony by Adelaide Donohue Most people know me as Addy or Adelaide. Here's a little background: I was born and raised in Canberra. I have been in a Christian environment my whole life. I grew up going to church most Sundays like a lot of other ...

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 ...

Canberra Fundraising Afternoon Tea

You are invited to a fundraising afternoon tea for the Canberra Navigators. You will hear what's happening within the Canberra Navigator ministries. Our keynote speaker is Stowe Campbell (Navigator Campus Director, University of Canterbury, Christchurch NZ) who will talk on the topic "The Impact of ...

Thank you for helping make this ministry impact possible!

What a privilege it is to be God’s co-workers together with you in advancing His kingdom! It’s truly amazing that the Lord of the universe chooses to use ordinary people like us to lead forward generation after generation of disciples. Here’s a snapshot of the ministry impact you are helping ...

Update Autumn 2017

Dear Friend, Every nation, tribe, people and language bowing before God in worship... That’s our future as promised by God. This promise’s fulfilment began to take shape through twelve ordinary men and continues today as we carry on the command of making disciples. Investing life on life, ...

Thank you for leading others through your gifts and prayers!

What a privilege it is to be God’s co-workers together with you in advancing His kingdom! It’s truly amazing that the Lord of the universe chooses to use ordinary people like us to lead forward generation after generation of disciples. Here’s a snapshot of the ministry impact you are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Viewing Human Achievement: Western Culture 4

   “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty;     the whole earth is full of his glory.” Is 6:3 Each day we are surrounded by people’s incredible achievements. We can purchase almost any food at any time of the year, we have social welfare systems that assist in times of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Community Evangelism

By Grant Dibden, first published in Compass, Autumn 2020 In our last Compass we talked about being a sent people (John 17:18; 20:21). And the question is, how do we live out that identity? We need to see that sharing the Gospel is not a task, but an identity. It’s not what Christians do, ...

No Greater Love

By Grant Dibden The Navigators ministry started in the 1930s, when Dawson Trotman began to work with sailors in the US Navy. Daws spent many hours praying, studying the Bible, and memorising Scripture with a sailor, Les Spencer. Les in turn discipled one of the shipmates, and soon the two men ...

Would You Win an Arm Wrestle?

By Philip McMaster, from their ministry newsletter, McMaster News, October 2018 Did you arm wrestle when you were growing up? I used to love arm wrestling with my brother and my dad when I was younger (and stronger!) It was great fun trying to win and you never quite knew what would happen ...

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 ...

Giving to the One who has everything

Our God is completely sovereign, completely sufficient and completely good.  Out of His abundance he provides every one of our needs, and many of our desires.  God has called us to be good stewards of what He has given us and to give generously to the work of His Kingdom, as He has given ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: • ...

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 ...

Remembering Dr John Ridgway

By Mike Swan I met John for the first time on 19 June 1972. In a few months, that will be fifty years ago. I know the date as well as I know my birthday, because it became my ‘new birth’ day. In the space of 48 momentous hours, I travelled ‘the road less travelled’ from unbelief to faith ...

Your Questions Answered - The Word Hand

Robin Dennis, one of our lifelong labourers and disciple-makers, is doing a series this year on how to use some of the 'discipleship tools' we have available. This article first appeared in the Compass newsletter, Autumn 2023 issue. The Word Hand Illustration I don’t think one can go past ...

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 ...

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 ...

Navigator, Dawson Trotman, The

Into a complacent generation God placed Dawson Trotman. Full of contagious zeal, drive, and creativity, Trotman helped awaken those around him and exhorted Christians to single-mindedly obey God. Thousands responded to his challenge of fruitful discipleship. Now his challenge goes to you. The ...

A Sunny Update

By Dustyn McLaren UniSc O-Week 2025 is coming! Starts Feb 17! It’s exciting to be preparing to get back to Uni ministry for 2025. Who but God knows what lies ahead and whose path he will bring us across! Please be in prayer for us as we prepare those who are joining us for Orientation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Fragrant Offering

We are so thankful for the partnership in the Gospel we have with each of you who give to Navigators. Our hearts echo the thankfulness and love that Paul exudes to his partners in Philippians 4. We know that our partners care for us and desire to share our burdens. This is reflected in the ...

One-to-one: Matters of love and encouragement

By James Broad, first printed in Compass January 1986, Vol 9 No 1 The first seminar I ever attended on the subject of one-to-one ministry was in a car, in Derbyshire, on a rainy March day in 1967. There was only two of us in the car and the subjects covered were the importance of the individual ...

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 ...

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, ...

Knowing God

By Scott Brown In the Autumn issue of the Compass, Mike Johnson clearly laid out a few simple and crucial rules to follow when reading and studying the Bible in order to interpret it accurately. If you haven’t read that article on How to Read the Bible Better, I recommend you give it a read ...

How Can God Love Me So?

By Lindsey Swartzentruber I want to try to tell you some of who God has revealed Himself to be this year. There have been three significant stressors in my life this year which have all led me to various ends of my strength. I have been mentally exhausted with no other ideas, no backup plans and ...

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 ...

From Grant To You - Sweeter Than Honey

Dear Friend, When I was a kid I got a bad dose of bronchitis. I used to get chest infections a bit, but this was really bad. So my mum took me to the doctor and he prescribed some strong medicine. It was black, quite thick and absolutely horrible to drink! I would swallow it down and immediately ...

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 ...

Christlikeness (Booklet)

Jim White Transform your character through love, meekness and transparency to become more like Christ. Navigator Jim White helps you develop and integrate three characteristics of Jesus' life -- transparency, meekness, and love -- and avoid common errors in the pursuit of becoming like ...

Practicing God's Presence

ROBERT ELMER For centuries, the sayings of Brother Lawrence, a seventeenth-century monk, have shown believers how to follow and live like Christ. Now a new generation can discover the joy of practicing the presence of God with this updated version.

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 ...

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 ...

Growing Kingdom Character

Intentional character development for leadership that lasts.  Tom Yeakley - Currently Out of Stock Most leaders fail at the pinnacle of their influence, not because of a lack of leadership skills but rather due to character flaws. It is character-not years of experience-that counts for lasting ...

Born to Reproduce (Booklet)

Currently out of stock. Please check with the office for re-orders. Born to Reproduce was originally a 47-minute message given to the staff of Back to the Bible in 1955. A message that burned deeply in Dawson Trotman’s soul, it was later transcribed and published as a booklet that has been ...

Onyekachi: Hope for the Hopeless

Okorie Kalu As a boy, Okorie Kalu faced destitution, civil war, and cultural practices that scarred his family emotionally and physically. His future appeared grim, but God had other plans. Through God’s grace, the intervention of caring people, and personal determination, Okorie rose ...

101 Ways to Reinvest Your Life

By Steve and Janie Sjogren You don't have to spend your second half of life twiddling your thumbs. And you aren't fated for an RV and faded bumper sticker announcing: "Retired, and spending my children's inheritance." Despite the notion that retirement means only fun and frivolity, members of ...

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 ...

Calm My Anxious Heart

LINDA DILLOW As women-whether single women, married women, moms, grandmothers-we worry a lot. We worry about our children, our friends, our careers, our families, our spouses-and the list goes on. We want to be content and trust God with our worries, but it's a struggle to let go and free ...

A Heart for the Nations

By Julie, Short-Term Missions Team, first published in Compass, Spring 2019 My husband and I have always had a deep burden for the nations and a longing to see labourers for the Kingdom next door to everywhere. One thing this burden has prompted us to do is to lead a number of short-term ...

Jordan got baptised!

By Andrew Oldfield, Canberra Labouring Community. One of the highlights of this year's ministry at ADFA was seeing one of the cadets, Jordan, get baptised. I’d met Jordan for the first time at the start of the year as I started with Navigators at ADFA. Before this he had met with Thomas, ...

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. ...

Coming to Know Christ Through Conversation

By Cynthia Mitchell Rod and Rita Jolly are labourers from our Melbourne Navigator Community. They have been ministering faithfully for many years with International Students. The festive cheer was alive and active as Rod and Rita opened their home for 18 English Conversation Class ...

Life's Unpredictability

By Luke Midena, Canberra Labouring Community There have been many ups and downs to start the year, but God is clearly working in the midst of it all. Let me share about two events impacting the student ministry at the ANU. In February, Levi, who runs the ANU ministry, was involved in a ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

Go!

By Mary Merrill, friend and faithful supporter of Australian Navigators. We’re a family that loves an adventure – “Go” is an inviting word. So, when we had the opportunity to move to Spain with work, we were thrilled. More than an adventure, we love the Lord and want to be obedient to ...