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Conformity and Challenge: Western Culture 2

I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; ...

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 ...

An Alien View of God: Western Culture 1

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now ...

Spiritual Decline: Western Culture 3

As the deer pants for streams of water,     so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.     When can I go and meet with God? Ps 42:1,2 The prophet Isaiah had a vision of heavenly creatures declaring: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the ...

The Good Life: Western Culture 8

Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s ...

The Road to Freedom: Western Culture 9

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery… You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. For the entire ...

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 ...

Viewing Human Achievement: Western Culture 4

   “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” Isaiah 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 need, ...

Born to Reproduce - A Story by Tony McLennan

First published in Compass, Autumn 2014. Dawson Trotman gave a signature message called "Born to Reproduce" which sets out the normal expectation that mature believers are to reproduce the spiritual life they have by bringing the Gospel to new people. The passion to be involved with the Holy ...

Living with Christ as Lord

By Scott Brown, Sydney City Leader (first published in Compass Autumn 2023) From the earliest days of the Navigators, Dawson Trotman’s Wheel Illustration highlighted the importance of living with Christ as Lord, or as he termed it, with Christ the Centre. Galatians 2:20 and 2 Corinthians 5:17 ...

Living the Mission

By Owen Dibden, Sydney Labouring Community On an ordinary workday, I was sent to do final touches on a bathroom renovation. My friend Faran*, the glazier who installs our shower screens, rocks up. Fortunately, we were able to do our work in side-by-side rooms so we could chat. I hadn’t seen ...

Third Culture Kids

By Leah Pieri, first published in Compass Winter 2025 “A ‘Third Culture Kid’ (TCK) is a child who spent a significant portion of their formative years outside their parents’ home culture, often in a different country or environment. This experience leads them to create their own unique ...

"As the Father has sent me..."

By Bruce Clarke, first published in Compass, Spring 2019 The word “mission” has its origin from the Latin “mittere” used to translate the Greek “apostele”, giving us the word “apostle”. It has the meaning of God sending and people being sent for the purpose of salvation and ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Link in the Chain

There are many gospel tracts and websites you may stumble upon today that ask that age-old question: "If you died today, where would you go: heaven or hell?" Perhaps you've asked yourself that question, too. Have you ever asked someone else? And if you did, what was their response? There ...

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 ...

Lest We Forget - Anzac Day 2022

By Grant Dibden You can learn a lot about a country from the people or events they celebrate in their monuments. In the USA there’s a great bronzed statue of Abraham Lincoln sitting in his mighty marble temple in Washington. Down the street is a thirty foot statue of Thomas Jefferson. In ...

Ordinary People, Lifelong Labourers

By Bruce Clarke, first published in Compass, Summer 2020 There are only two examples in the New Testament when Jesus specifically told his disciples what to pray. The best known of these is often called the Lord’s Prayer, which includes God’s holiness, His kingdom, daily needs, forgiveness, ...

Cultural Shifts

By Kristin Coulson, first published in Compass Winter 2020 edition. In January, our staff gathered for the annual training in Canberra. One of the key topics discussed was about living and discipling in today’s western culture. The culture we live in influences us in ways we often don’t ...

Joy to the World!

A Christmas message from National Director, Grant Dibden It is a wonderful blessing to be grounded by the rhythm of each year, so as we approach the celebration of the birth of our Lord it is important to reflect and remember the most important things. Recently I saw a piece on Jonah being a ...

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, ...

Summer Mission Trip: 2018

A Trip to Nepal *a great part of this post is an extract and edited version of one of our mission teams' Ministry Update, first printed in Compass, Winter 2015. In late 2014, a small team led a short-term mission trip to ministries in Nepal. This was followed by a trek to Ama Dablam Base Camp ...

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 ...

Connecting People to Christ Through Stories

By Phil McMaster  With most States and Territories locked down in some way due to the pandemic, we have been thinking and praying about meaningful ways to keep connecting people with Christ. Thankfully, God recently provided an opportunity to do this - through stories. “My Story, My God” is ...

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, ...

Labouring in Hard Soil

By Mike Treneer “Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy.” Psalm 126:5 Jesus often used agricultural metaphors to describe the growth of the Kingdom of God. • The Kingdom is like “a man sowing seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed ...

The Lordship of Jesus

By Mike Johnson, first published in Compass, Autumn 2021 edition (if you would like to receive the hard copy, please contact our office). Navigators are called to advance the Gospel of Jesus and His Kingdom. The message we have is one about a man who walked among us, shared in all things human, ...

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 ...

Foundations of Resilience

By Bruce Clarke. First published in Compass, Autumn 2022. The global pandemic has significantly changed our lives through lockdowns and restrictions affecting employment, relationships, travel, gatherings, sport, etc. We are cut off from so much of what is important to us as creative, 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 ...

On Mission

A three-part piece by June Sparks The God of Mission It is hard to separate God from His mission. God’s mission in the world and history is to reveal Himself. He has entered the world through Christ, bringing reconciliation between humankind and Himself. When we look at it, we see the focus on ...

Belonging Before Believing

By Luke Midena, Canberra Community Leader, first published in Compass Winter 2021 edition You may have heard the phrase, ‘belong before believe’. It was the catchcry of some within the Emerging Church Movement of the last few decades. Driven by a desire to share Christ with the world, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Words of Eternal Life

By Phil McMaster (Military Community Leader) on behalf of the team, Thomas and Raylee Bielenberg (ADFA and RMC) and Julianne McMaster (Solid Rock) I don’t know about you but I love reading the Bible with children. It is a special moment as the words bring excitement, joy and amazement from ...

Easter in a Covid-19 Environment

Dear Nav Family, A little over 2000 years ago tonight, the disciples ate the Last Supper, and the next day Jesus was crucified. Jesus had told his disciples that he would be killed, that he could even be crucified, but the disciples didn’t really understand. They didn’t really get it. We know ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Child of God

By June Sparks, Sydney Labouring Community “In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” Luke 15:10 There is rejoicing in heaven and in our house! We have spent time over the past several weeks meeting with K and N to read ...

Reinforcing our Relationship with God

By Ray Ewers, first published in The Compass, Volume 4 No. 5, September, 1981   One of the things that gripped me when I was first exposed to The Navigators was the motto: "To know Christ and to make Him known." I prayed over it. I preached on it and I shared it as the real purpose for ...

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 ...

Growing in Godliness

By Thomas Bielenberg, first published in Compass Summer issue 2023 What would you say if asked, “What is godliness?” You might think that godliness is good conduct, or bearing the fruit of the Spirit – love, joy, peace, patience, etc. But godliness is more than that, as I thankfully ...

From Grant and Scott to You

Dear Friend, Transitions happen continually. Some are distinct and profound, like the transition from living at home with your parents to moving out. Or from being an unmarried couple to being husband and wife. And most dramatically and profoundly, transitioning from unbelief to becoming a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Authority of the Word of God: A Pillar of Faith

By Grant Dibden, first published in Compass, Summer 2024. In Australia we live in a time characterised by shifting moral values and diverse worldviews. Popular culture tells us to look within to find out who we really are, to ‘be true to ourselves’, which is the key to living full and happy ...

Nurturing Those In Our Community

A story from one of our Melbourne Communities, first published in Compass, Autumn 2019 Cheny* (not her real name) first joined our group two and a half years ago. Reading Scripture was a first for her. She said, “If God exists, I’m afraid of Him and so I’ll ignore Him.” But Cheny loved ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cries of the Soul

By Bruce Clarke, first printed in Compass, Spring 2015 All of us will experience suffering or adversity at some point in our lives. Some fall away when God does not deal with them in a way that they desire. But it is also true that many come to faith when adversity strikes. Adversity can ...

Pointing People to the "Christ" in Christmas

By Paul Bailey, Melbourne Labouring Community. I met Jay on campus in first semester whilst playing basketball, before the lockdown. Since then, I have been meeting one-to-one with Jay, getting our weekly exercise by walking and talking about all aspects of life. In one of our earlier chats ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Your Questions Answered: What Feeds Your Joy?

Christine Norrie is a friend of the Australian Navigators. She is a wife and a mother of two, who delights in coordinating the kids ministry at her church, teaching SRE at a local school, and homeschooling her 11-year-old son. She put her faith in Jesus as a little person and continues to be ...

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 ...

Labouring for a Lifetime

By Grant Dibden I’ve been to several funerals lately. All were sad. Some were vacuous. Others were great tributes to the Lord. But one really stood out to me. It was Dave Crowe’s. I’d met Dave when I was a young man and Dave was on Navigators staff, and then heard about him and his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Your Questions Answered - The Heart for Short-Term Mission

David and Julie McIntosh have been labouring with the Australian Navigators for over a decade, leading our Short Term Missions ministry for some years during that time. We asked them: What are some characteristics of a helpful posture as we consider serving and not hindering the long-term ...

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, ...

How do disciples stay connected when they leave uni?

People who study in Australia end up moving all over world. Just from Judy Leow’s years of International Student Ministry in Melbourne, you can see how many countries have been impacted by these students who graduate from uni and scatter the globe with the Gospel. How do disciples stay ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Jars of Clay

"... to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us." 2 Corinthians 4:7 Dear Friend, As an Army guy for 39 years, I find the story of Simpson and his donkey particularly moving. Simpson was a stretcher-bearer at Gallipoli. After landing on 25 April, he began using one of ...

Hope in the Midst of Despair

By Grant Dibden, first printed in "Compass", Winter 1999. Edited for this version. On 23 March 1991 our son Ian died the day before his first birthday. He had contracted bacterial meningitis and died within 24 hours of exhibiting his first symptoms. I think it was the hardest thing Jeanette and ...

Christians smell ... one way or the other!

What do you think of this statement from Brisbane Navigator staff, Ram Marrero? Before answering that, here’s a story shared by Ram about one of the men he disciples: 2 Corinthians 2:14-15 (NKJV) says: "Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the ...

Making Disciples

In this issue [of Compass, Winter 2018 Edition] you will read about making disciples. You will see some encouraging stories of people coming to faith in Jesus, and be challenged with us by our founder Dawson Trotman's view that all Christians should be spiritual parents and be looking for spiritual ...

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 ...

Small Initiatives

By June Sparks, first published in Compass Winter edition 2020 At the Neighbours to Nations Conference, I was reminded once again and encouraged to continue taking small step-by-step initiatives in the lives of those around me in the process of pointing them to Jesus. Jesus said the greatest ...

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 ...

God Behind the Scenes

By Luke Midena, Canberra Labouring Community Connecting with people during COVID-19 restrictions can be a challenge, but I wanted to share with you a story about Ethan, who I meet with online. Ethan and I started meeting a few years ago, about the time he finished high school. Although he ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Put Your Head Down and Labour

By Tami Brown and June Sparks, first published in Compass Winter issue 2022 Theresa Suan has had an incredibly fruitful ministry at Macquarie University ISM. She shared with us recently how it has changed over time, giving us a glimpse into the journey the Lord has taken her on. There were ...

From Grant to You - Resilience of Joseph

A message from our National Director, Grant Dibden. This message also published in Compass Winter 2022 issue. Perhaps one of the greatest stories of resilience in the Scriptures is that of Joseph. As we think of Joseph’s life, we see that he experienced great extremes – he was his father’s ...

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 ...

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, ...

Get To Know Lynn Pak

Lynn Pak is our National Administrator and has been with Australian Navigators for 15 years. For our Winter 2024 issue of Compass, we asked her a few questions to help us get to know her better. While the printed newsletter gave us a snippet, we get a deeper insight into her heart for the ministry ...

The Power of Example

By Grant Dibden Ever been challenged by Example? Landing at the airport in Tonga for a conference, I was met by a softly-spoken man—Tevita Palu (CEO and Owner of Palu Aviation, which owns several companies including Real Tonga Airlines). I was later informed that Tevita has invited ...

Making God Your Home

by Dr Ian John ‘Whom do I have in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.’ (Psalm 73:25-26) The psalmist was wrestling with his own versions of status anxiety, self-pity and ...

Disciples in Prison

Matt’s life had been going pretty well. In his late 20s, he was a successful tradie and had a nice girlfriend and loving parents. Suddenly, one night, he found himself in jail charged with a serious violent crime, the result of a drunken fight he’d had. Soon convicted, life was no longer going ...

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 ...

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 ...

Caring Like Christ

By Grant Dibden “People are our most important asset.” I often hear that from organisations, but it’s a lot less common to see it actually being lived out. Of course, there has to be a balance with getting the task done, but the task and caring for the people can be symbiotic. Christian ...

Lifetime Kingdom Labourers

By Frank Tully It was my first week living back in Australia when at the end of a Navigators conference I needed a ride back to my temporary home in Sydney. Mike & Siân said they lived near my friend’s house and would be glad to drop me along the way. Little did we know, that was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meditation: The Missing Link

By R. B. Ewers, first published in "The Compass", November 1984 A Christian said to me recently, "I read my Bible each day, but it doesn't seem to make much difference to my life." This honest statement could be true for many Christians. When we consider all that the Word of God claims to do ...

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 ...

From Grant To You

from Compass, Spring 2018 Dear Friend, As Navigators we are passionate about seeing lives, generations and — ultimately — nations transformed for the glory of God. We are committed and relentless in our drive to see the world won to Jesus! We want to play our part in seeing that "great ...