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Give
Christian giving has its foundation in the nature of God God pours out blessing upon blessing – health, housing, food, sunshine, rain and most graciously and sacrificially eternal life for all who believe through Jesus’ death on the cross in our place. God is a wonderfully generous ...
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Reaching and Equipping Cadets
We are so thankful for your partnership with Navigators. Every gift you give – whether for an individual labourer, a special project or where needed most – helps our work in advancing the Kingdom. Andrew Oldfield is part of our Canberra Navigator community, working with Trainee Cadets and ...
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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 ...
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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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Your Questions Answered: What Does it Take to Reach the Nations?
What does it take to reach the nations? Ordinary people in relationship with Christ, with a heart for the nations. Many live next door to everywhere, sharing the hope they have; others are willing to go everywhere, live next door and advance the gospel to the lost. What does it take to be ...
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ISM - Doorstep to the Nations!
By Judy Leow, extract from Judy's newsletter, August 2018. Greetings in the Name of our Precious Lord Jesus Christ! During our last two Family Group gatherings, while the ladies had their Bible study and the children played by themselves, I had the pleasure of reading John’s Gospel with Aly's ...
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Advancing Into the Nations – on Campus!
By Haven Barr, Ministry Apprentice at Macquarie University, Sydney A quick thank you to you. Your partnership with the Navigators goes a long way! Your financial decision to support us advances the gospel of Jesus and His Kingdom into the nations. For those of you I personally know, I am ...
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2025 - January - For the Sake of the Nations
Our January National Training: ‘For the Sake of the Nations’ is coming up and we are looking forward to seeing you at Leumeah Lodge. Please register ASAP, and no later than December 13th 2024 Download the program 2025 January Training Schedule - For the Sake of the Nations for your reference ...
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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 ...
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Labouring Together in the Nations
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His Pursuit of the Nations Through Us
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Partnering for the Nations
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Jonah 1: God's Heart for the Nations
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Jonah 2: God's Messenger for the Nations
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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 ...
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The Power of God's Word From Neighbours to Nations
By an Australian Navigators Labourer Our neighbourhoods are a wonderful place to advance the gospel. My friend, on numerous occasions, has met neighbours from differing cultures with different exposure to Jesus and the Scriptures. With great regularity, I hear how she shares the Scriptures with ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Constitution
THE AUSTRALIAN NAVIGATORS LIMITED ACN 001 294 677 ABN 26 001 294 677 A PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE AND NOT HAVING A SHARE CAPITAL CONSTITUTION Adopted 30 November 2016 with effect from 30 November 2016 PART 1 – Preliminary 1. The name of the ...
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Our Staff Job Studies
From Grant Dibden We had a wonderful time considering several of our staff Job studies during the year. It is such a packed book and we were challenged as we reflected back over the whole book, its themes and big lessons as part of our final study time. The book of Job explores why God ...
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Your Kingdom Come Vol 1
Your Kingdom Come: Equipping Laborers to Bless the Unreached People Groups of the World Today John Ridgway We are living in a very exciting time in human history today. God is doing something that is truly amazing. Millions of people from major non-Christian religious groups are choosing to ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Missions
Mission is on the very heart of God. God is a sending God. For God so loved THE WORLD that He sent his only Son to die for it. God’s heart for the nations calls for a bi-focal vision, both into the nations and to our nation. To help get the world on our heart, browse through our resources and ...
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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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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 ...
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Generational, Relational, Intentional, Personal
By Dustyn McLaren, South-East Queensland Labouring Community It is such a privilege to serve the Lord in the Great Commission and, even more so, to enjoy His friendship. John 15:15 says, “No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have ...
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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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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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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 ...
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A Glimpse of the Gospel Through Abraham
By Luke Midena, Canberra Labouring Community. Two recent themes we have explored as Australian Navigators are: sharing the gospel through story and understanding the grand story of history as outlined in Scripture. Let’s bring these two themes together and incorporate our national ...
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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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National Conference 2019
Neighbours to Nations Embracing God’s Vision for His Kingdom "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 everything I have ...
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A Glass Half ...
By Paul Bailey, Melbourne University Ministry, (first published in Compass Winter 2023) The Great Commission – a command given to all yet not fully understood by all. Dawson Trotman poses a challenge in “The Need of the Hour” to all believers on their perspectives on this command. He ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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Sharing Hope in Community
By Julie McIntosh, first printed in Compass, Summer 2021 Cancelled. Postponed. Online. In contrast to the event-oriented lifestyle many of us were previously accustomed to, these words seem to characterise our current schedules. Today, perhaps more than ever, we are faced with the truth that we ...
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Your Questions Answered - A Heart for Missions
We, as Australian Navigators, have a deep desire to go on mission; our heart is for the nations. We asked one of our Associates why he has a heart for missions, not just locally but overseas as well. Why do you have a heart for missions? Jesus’ parting words were to tell his disciples that ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Latest news ...
Worldwide Partnership Day of Prayer “Each year, we Navigators from every corner of the globe have the privilege of joining together during our Worldwide Day of Prayer to spend time with the Lord. We may be physically separated by thousands of miles, but we could never be closer than we are on ...
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From Grant To You - Beautiful Feet
Dear Friend, There are all sorts of feet. There are large feet, small feet, long feet, short feet, lean feet, and pudgy feet. Did you know that there are foot models? They get paid to have their feet photographed! Look at your feet. Do you like them? On a scale of one to ten – one being ...
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Your Kingdom Come Vol 2
Your Kingdom Come: Equipping Laborers to Bless the Unreached People Groups of the World Today John Ridgway The kingdom of God is a spiritual domain unlike the physical frameworks that demarcate the various religions of the world, including Christianity. It is the eternal domain of the living ...
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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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2026 Queensland Discipleship Summit:
Witnessing and Follow Up Saturday, 20 June 2026 1:00 - 4:30pm Guest Speaker: Luke Midena Canberra City Leader & Missions Director Cooloola Christian College SBH Topics we will cover: The Joy of Witnessing and Following Up the Saved With continual opportunities around us ...
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Q & A with Gary Allan
GET TO KNOW GARY ALLAN, Senior Executive Ministry Gary Allan joined the Nav ministry while at RMC Duntroon in 1972. Since completing 27 years military service, he has worked in senior business roles. He has served as Chairman of the Australian Navigators Board and is currently the Board Chair ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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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Another Student Receives Christ
By Luke Midena, Canberra Labouring Community Your prayer has been answered! Yesterday the Burmese student I asked you to pray for in August received Christ. I love how God brought this about. As I sat down with this student yesterday, the pressing question on his mind wasn’t, ‘How can I be ...
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Kingdom Community
By Frank Tully, first published in Compass, Autumn 2019 In order to follow God’s calling in our lives – To advance the Gospel of Jesus and His Kingdom - we need to have a context. For Navigators, that context is authentic community deeply rooted in the Kingdom of God. We don’t consider ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Thankful for God's Work
By Levi Swartzentruber, Canberra Labouring Community Looking back over the past year with thankfulness and looking forward in faith, I want to share a highlight over the year for me: seeing the work God is doing in and through Tim, who bears similarities to Paul’s Timothy in ...
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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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The Wheel
This simple but effective illustration has been used by Navigators for more than fifty years. It helps Christians understand what they are called to do as disciples of Christ. Each part of this illustration represents a crucially important component of a vital Christian life. Use this ...
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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 ...
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Theresa Leads a New Generation Closer to Jesus
Theresa works full time as a nurse for Red Cross and is also leading groups of disciples in the Navigators’ International Student Ministry. This is her story. I grew up as a Buddhist. My family worshipped many gods, each god representing a different aspect of life. To me, religion was just a ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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, ...
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Down to Earth Discipling
Scott Morton "AT LAST, A DISCIPLING GUIDE ANYBODY CAN USE..." When somebody uses the “d” word, do you mentally shudder and draw back? Talking about discipling others can do that to Christians. We’re happily involved in church and Bible studies, but it’s unnerving to share Christ ...
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Our Calling, Values and Beliefs
Calling The Calling of the Navigators is: To advance the Gospel of Jesus and His Kingdom into the nations through spiritual generations of labourers living and discipling among the lost. Values Our Calling is rooted in the soil of the core values of Navigators: 1. The passion to know, ...
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Going to the Lost - Bible Studies
Our Navigator calling is to see the Gospel advancing through filling the nations with generations of lifetime labourers who together multiply among the lost. Our calling is also in harmony with God’s desire that His people live in the world for the sake of those who don’t know Him among all ...
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Update June 2016
Last year, as the National Leadership Team and the Board prayed and planned, God reaffirmed for us the calling He has given to us. Indeed, current events make clear that now more than ever this world needs Jesus. God wants to see the gospel advance; to see His kingdom spread into all ...
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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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A Purpose Greater Than Myself
By John Ridgway, first printed in "Compass" Autumn 2003 God's purposes and plans are brilliant, extensive, unique, lavish and exceedingly glorious beyond our comprehension. As a young teenager growing up in Sydney, my parents brought me up in the ways of God and we attended church every ...
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Partners! Together!
Labouring Together! The partnership of believers all over the world is a testament to God’s grace at work. Through our worldwide partnerships, we are able to help our Navigator brothers and sisters to advance the gospel in various contexts amongst the nations. At the National Conference ...
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From Grant to You – All about Mission
God is a missionary God. He is a sending God. The Father sent the Son to earth to bring His people into a right relationship with Him. And the Son went. As the Father sent Jesus, so Jesus sends His disciples into the world to share the good news of the gospel with every nation (John 17:18). God ...
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Get to Know Lashan
Lashan Wijesingha has been a part of our Melbourne Labouring Community for a number of years, journeying alongside our student ministry team as well as training in leadership. We asked him about his relationship with Jesus and his source of joy. How did you come into relationship with ...
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Easter Reflection - The Coming of the King
By Grant Dibden What Christ's triumphal entry means for us Easter is the most important time of year for Christians as we reflect even more deeply on Jesus' death and resurrection. As I have reflected on Christ, I hope to share some thoughts from scripture to encourage you. As Jesus approached ...
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God or Genie?
By Lindsey Swatzentruber, Canberra Labouring Community How do you respond to unanswered prayer? What do you do with disappointment, waiting, uncertainty, the inability to control a situation, with seeing the grief that it causes those you love? How do you respond after asking God daily, ...
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The Source of All Joy
From Scott To You Dear Friend, French mathematician and follower of Christ, Blaise Pascal, wrote: “All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end … The will never takes the least step but to this object.” Deep within all ...
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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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Help Others Grow
In the very intense moment where Jesus is giving His final instructions on earth, He is aware that the disciples could give their lives to many very, very good things – but miss this critical thing. So He sums up his priority for them in the most concise and direct way: “Make disciples”. But ...
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Tips For Having Consistent Daily Devotions
We need to acknowledge that this is going to be difficult. We are in a spiritual battle and our flesh, the world and the devil conspire to stop us deepening our relationship with God. Our flesh, our human nature, means that we often want to do other things rather than meet with our Lord. The world ...
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Advancing the Kingdom in Indonesia
When our brothers and sisters recognised the enormous impact poverty was having on their younger generation, God gave them an overwhelming desire to help. So, they began some whole-of-life discipleship ministries centred around education with children from local families, high school students and ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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She said "Amen"
Phillip met Christ many years ago, and through his journey also met and became firm friends with some of our Navigator staff such as Rob Bolton and Ram Marrero. This week, he shared a heart-warming story of how the Lord can change hearts! Phillip’s aunt is 93 years old and lives in a nursing ...
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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 - 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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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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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 ...
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Knowing God
By Scott Brown In the Autumn issue of the Compass, Mike Johnson clearly laid out a few simple and crucial rules to follow when reading and studying the Bible in order to interpret it accurately. If you haven’t read that article on How to Read the Bible Better, I recommend you give it a read ...
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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 ...
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River Within, The
JEFF IMBACH Loving God, Living Passionately IS THIS ALL THERE IS? Have you ever wondered why your experience doesn't measure up to the radical life of joy and adventure described time and again in the Bible? Are you so busy "doing" that life has become a soul-wearying blur of activity? Do you ...
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Missions
Our heart is to advance the Gospel among the nations for the glory of God. World mission has been a hallmark of the Navigator ministry since inception. We are part of a worldwide movement having full and part-time missionaries and key laypeople working in over 100 countries: 30 or more of these ...
