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Melbourne Fund Raising Dinner Registration
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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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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)
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Sydney Dessert Night
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Q&A with Scott Brown - Navigator Leader for Sydney
How did you come into relationship with Jesus? My maternal grandmother played a significant role in me developing a relationship with Christ. Not only did she model a deep and abiding love for Jesus which flowed over to others, but she also prayed for me (and all her grandkids) ...
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Registration
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Registration (cont.)
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Vulnerable People Policy
Purpose The Australian Navigators is committed to providing a safe and supportive environment to all vulnerable people by ensuring Australian Navigators’ staff, associates and volunteers are screened and suitable to be engaged in the provision of services in work involving children and other ...
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John Ridgway - The Influence of One Man
A Tribute by Robin Dennis “The least one shall become a thousand and the smallest one a mighty nation” ~ Isaiah 60:22 I was working in Canberra at Parliament House and living in one of the many public servant hostels, Lawley House, which had two sections – the old and the new. Newcomers ...
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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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Funding Your Ministry
Scott Morton Whether you are experienced at fundraising or just starting out, Funding Your Ministry will help answer your questions and put you on the biblical path for recruiting and maintaining donor support. A Biblical Strategy to Finance Your Ministry How many potential missionaries ...
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2020 - June - Fundraising
Rob_Mahon PowerPoint presentation Tweakable Story Telling Tips Updates Mahon & Coffing SMS after an appointment Admin Staff Training June 2020 All Fund Raising Training and Question time videos are below. You can "enter full screen" video mode by clicking on icon to left of ...
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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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An Easter Reflection
By Grant Dibden "To me it makes as much sense as bunny rabbits handing out chocolate eggs ..." Easter in Australian society is thought of as a holiday time. And many – most? – people don’t understand the significance of Easter, and often they don’t want to. A local Eastern Sydney ...
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Born to Reproduce - A Story by Tony McLennan
First published in Compass, Autumn 2014. Dawson Trotman gave a signature message called "Born to Reproduce" which sets out the normal expectation that mature believers are to reproduce the spiritual life they have by bringing the Gospel to new people. The passion to be involved with the Holy ...
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Staff Retreat 2024
Registration Now Open! Location: Elkanah Lodge and Conference Centre, 975 Buxton-Marysville Rd, Marysville VIC 3779 Timings: Arrive by 2pm on Monday 25 Nov (no lunch on Monday), depart from Elkanah Lodge after lunch on Friday 29 Nov. Costs: National Funds will cover all costs for staff ...
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An Appealing Message?
By Luke Midena, Canberra Labouring Community Is this an appealing message? This was a question asked by a young man in our discipleship training group over dinner recently. In an era where people crave authenticity and evidence of God’s power, Simon*— who has been battling significant ...
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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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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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Discovering Your Design
By Ian McIntosh, Staff Care. Know Yourself. Made in the image of God. Genesis 1:27 The need to answer the question: “Who am I, and why am I here?” has always been at the core of our very being. God made us this way for His Purposes. “Men go abroad to wonder at the height of ...
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National Leadership
The Navigators have a National Leadership Team and a National Council that leads the work. Each Member brings a perspective from their local ministry and their own gifting and heart to feed into discussions. National Leadership Team Robert Bolton leads the work to pioneer a Brisbane City ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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Connected and Valued
by Rod Jolly, Melbourne Labouring Community, first published in Compass Winter 2021 edition. God made us to live in community. Hebrews 10:25 says it so clearly, “And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return ...
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The Harvest is plenty; Pray for Labourers
By Paul Bailey, Melbourne Labouring Community As there are two sides of the same coin, I am often wrestling with the feeling of weak, lost, afraid, anxious, impatient and concerned, whilst on the other side a deep sense of peace, trust, comfort and belief in God, and His sovereignty and will to ...
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Developing a Taste for God's Word
By Lindsey Swartzentruber, Canberra Labouring Community I have been trying to think of an analogy to explain the newest development with our students and I realised that, really, the closest thing is liver and brussels sprouts. Let me explain… Seven or eight years ago, my research led ...
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Get to Know Janice Pasoquen
Janice Pasoquen joined Australian Navigators in May this year, working in Sydney with the Head Office Team. We interviewed her for the Summer 2023 issue of Compass. What is your role with Navigators? I provide administrative support to the Australian Navigators Staff, Associates, donors and ...
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Events
We would love to have you join us at our gatherings. If you are unable to make it, we would appreciate your prayers! National Annual Retreat 25-29 November - Elkanah Conference Centre, Marysville, VIC. AGM 27 November Staff Training 17-19 January 2025 - Canberra Missions Trip 2025 29 ...
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Lifetime Kingdom Labourers
By Frank Tully It was my first week living back in Australia when at the end of a Navigators conference I needed a ride back to my temporary home in Sydney. Mike & Siân said they lived near my friend’s house and would be glad to drop me along the way. Little did we know, that was ...
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A Double Miracle
The story of Jack and May Griffin as told to Margaret Mulholland Cooper, first printed in Decision Magazine, January, 1979 and reprinted in The Compass, Volume 2 No. 2, March, 1979. ... we share a common birthday—April 12, 1959—when on a fine Sunday afternoon, we walked ...
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Get to Know Michael and Siân Stucken
Michael and Siân Stucken have been our co-labourers for many years, but have taken a greater role in leading within our Sydney Labouring Community since the return of the Tulleys to the USA. We interviewed them for our Compass Newsletter Winter 2023 issue. How did you come into relationship ...
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Feeling "small"
By Scott Brown, Sydney Labouring Community When was the last time you felt small? Was it among the foothills of the Rockies or standing on the coastline with nothing but water in view? Perhaps it was staring up at the brilliance of the night sky overflowing with stars. For me, it was in the ...
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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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Complaint and Whistle Blowing
Is this a complaint or whistle blowing? There is a real difference. A "complaint" is when someone says that they have been poorly treated for some reason. They will have a personal interest in the outcome. When someone “blows the whistle”, they are raising a concern with their employer, ...
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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 ...
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Easter in a Covid-19 Environment
Dear Nav Family, A little over 2000 years ago tonight, the disciples ate the Last Supper, and the next day Jesus was crucified. Jesus had told his disciples that he would be killed, that he could even be crucified, but the disciples didn’t really understand. They didn’t really get it. We know ...
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The Harvest Continues - Paul Bailey's Apprenticeship
By Mike Johnson, Melbourne Labouring Community City Leader Jesus was a developer of kingdom workers. On one occasion (Luke 10:1-16) he appointed and sent out 72 disciples, two by two, to announce that the kingdom of God was near and to bring healing to the people they were sent to. These ...
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God Who Smokes, The
TIMOTHY STONER Scandalous Meditations on Faith Emergent theology is raising some of the most provocative and divisive questions in the church today. For some, these ideas embody the true spirit of the gospel, trading tired religion for authenticity and relevance. Others dismiss it as a heresy ...
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A Link in the Chain
There are many gospel tracts and websites you may stumble upon today that ask that age-old question: "If you died today, where would you go: heaven or hell?" Perhaps you've asked yourself that question, too. Have you ever asked someone else? And if you did, what was their response? There ...
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Employment Agreement Confirmation Form
Every employee of the Australian Navigators is asked to comply with our Core Values and agree with our Statement of Beliefs. The Board has approved a range of policies, which are reviewed every year, to provide a framework for the appropriate governance and operation of The Australian ...
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Dustyn McLaren joins Navs
By Dustyn McLaren It is exciting to have joined the Navigators in response to the Lord’s call and leading to fulltime discipleship ministry, working one-to-one with faithful, available, teachable men who will be able to teach others also. Since meeting Ram [Marrero] and being introduced to ...
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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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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 ...
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From Grant to You
Dear Friend, Jerry Bridges was a friend of mine from whom I learnt a lot. He wrote and spoke a great deal about godliness, which this issue (Compass Summer 2023) is focused on. In his book ‘Respectable Sins’ (content warning – don’t read it if you don’t want to be convicted) he defines ...
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From Grant to You - God's Word and the Holy Spirit
First published in Compass Winter 2024 issue. Dear Friend, In [the most recent issue] of Compass, we continue to consider God’s word. Sometimes one group can so emphasise the Bible and another the Holy Spirit, but there is an intimate connection between the Holy Spirit and the word of ...
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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 ...
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Karen's Retirement Gift
Karen Woolley has just transitioned to semi-retirement and will only be working two days a month. She has been working in our Nav Office for 35 years and has moved with the Office from inner Sydney to Blaxland to Melbourne to Canberra and back to Sydney – now that is ...
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Special Feature: God Bless You, Karen!
Our Time With Karen ... “Good morning, The Australian Navigators. Karen speaking!” For the last 35 years, Karen Woolley has been the face and the voice of The Australian Navigators. Like the Queen of England who has seen her nation through many Prime Ministers, Karen has worked with ...
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Stories of "New" Life in 2020
The Lord continues to do great things in people's lives. Neither a pandemic, strict lockdowns, fires or other catastrophes have stopped our labourers from labouring in various circumstances despite the variables that were thrown at us this year. Precious young students in Melbourne and Sydney ...
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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 ...
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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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Q & A with Katherine Halliday
Let's get to know Katherine Halliday, Ministry Apprentice at Macquarie University, Sydney. What is your role with the Navigators? I’m serving as a Ministry Apprentice with the Navigators at Macquarie University. I have committed at least 2022 and 2023 as an apprentice, and I am excited ...
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God is Enough for Me
By Kendrea Dibden, Sydney Labouring Community As a teacher, I know the importance of intentional reflection and analysis to be aware of strengths and shortcomings. Reflexive practice in order to be constantly improving. As a believer this has been a vital part of my walk with the Lord as well. ...
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Get To Know Doug and Geneve Utley
Doug and Geneve Utley are lifelong labourers from our Melbourne community. Doug has served previously as National Director, and he and Geneve have worked with many students and graduates, couples and emerging leaders over the years. He has produced resources such as the Enriching Your Marriage ...
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Get To Know Lynn Pak
Lynn Pak is our National Administrator and has been with Australian Navigators for 15 years. For our Winter 2024 issue of Compass, we asked her a few questions to help us get to know her better. While the printed newsletter gave us a snippet, we get a deeper insight into her heart for the ministry ...
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Serving Faithfully No Matter the Response
By Dave and June Sparks This term our church has been studying the book of Jeremiah. He was given a message from God that he was told the people wouldn’t want to hear. He was told he would suffer while bearing that message, but the Lord also promised to strengthen and embolden him for the ...
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Labourers Evenings and Prayer Breakfasts
Labourers Evenings: Join us for fellowship with like-minded labourers, training in making disciples, and delicious food! These dinners will take place every second month on a Saturday afternoon, starting at 4:30 pm. Food provided, kids welcome: there will be an activity for them during the training ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 – ...
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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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A Focus On Scripture Memory
By Sharon Yong, Melbourne Labouring Community (International Student Ministry, Monash), first published in Compass Winter 2023 As Navigators, we have a focus on the basics. In our Monash Uni ISM, we use the acronym POWER (ie. Prayer-Outreach-Word-Equipping-Relationships) to help keep our focus. ...
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The God Who Saves
By Luke Midena, Canberra Labouring Community I wonder, have you shared about Jesus with someone who seemed to recognise the good news for what it is, but never embraced the message? I’ve often wondered where the process has broken down. Was it me – did I overlook a vital element of the ...
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Discipling Men
By Thomas Bielenberg, Canberra Labouring Community Here's what's been happening in the ADFA/RMC Community recently: Caleb is discipling Eddy and leading a Bible study Caleb* will be discipling Eddy* this week while I’m away. We have been meeting Eddy together most weeks as I hand him over ...
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Come to the Family Table
AMY & TED CUNNINGHAM In our busy world, family time around the dinner table is easily displaced by other things. Ted and Amy Cunningham call parents to a slower way of living that allows them to intentionally build into their family's relational and spiritual fabric and into the community ...
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Juggling Chainsaws on a Tightrope
THE NAVIGATORS Men have to juggle dozens of responsibilities all while walking a tightrope demanding spiritual and physical balance. Through this Bible study, learn to master the art of life and enjoy doing it. Cue the circus music "Hey, Jim, I'm going to need that TPS report by noon." [one ...
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Conference Confirmation
Hi Thanks for completing your Conference/Event registration. If you did not receive an email confirmation within minutes please do the following: 1. Check your Spam folder just in case. 2. Email or call the office stating you have not received your Confirmation email after registering. ...
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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 ...
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Navigators have campus communities on several universities around Australia. While each group is slightly different, they all strive to follow Jesus. Indeed, we welcome people of any spiritual background and religious experience who are interested in considering who Jesus is, what the Bible ...
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History
Just an Ordinary Guy The Navigators ministry began in the 1930s, when a young California lumberyard worker caught a vision. After seeing the benefits of basic discipleship principles in his own life, Dawson Trotman wanted to teach them to others, echoing the call of 2 Timothy 2:2: "And the things ...
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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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An Intimate Relationship
By Frank Tully Workplace Ministry - Sydney An intimate relationship with another person often begins with a conversation, a sharing of heartfelt words in honest dialogue. Developing intimacy with the Lord is no different, as we seek to hear and be heard by our Loving Father. Yet we may often ...
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Mission to the Philippines - Update
In January 2017 Dave & Julie McIntosh - Campus leaders at Macquarie Uni, Sydney - had the opportunity to lead a team of 8 on a missions trip to the Philippines. It was a time of great community building and collaboration with Filipino Navigators. As Dave shares: “We want the group ...
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A Life Transformed by the Gospel
By Phil McMaster I first met 'Derek', a trainee Army cadet, in January at a voluntary church service during Year One Familiarisation Training (YOFT) at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA). He came from a small regional town in Victoria. It wasn't clear whether he had any sort of faith ...
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Can you be a Christian in the Military?
Can you be a Christian in the Military? Yes, absolutely! In Acts 10 we see the example of the Centurion Cornelius who spread the Good News of peace through Jesus Christ to many people. Within Navigators there are many people who are serving, or have served, with distinction in ...
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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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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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Navigators’ Solid Rock Retreat 2017
On 5-7 May, 15 ladies from our Women’s Military Ministry got together for the Annual Solid Rock Retreat. It was a beautiful Autumn weekend and God richly blessed us. We spent extended time in God’s word, took a real cruise around Lake Burley Griffin and had lots of time deepening ...
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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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Solid Rock Ministry ... on radio!
As we have just taken time to reflect on our past during Anzac Day and what it means to us now and for our future as Australians and New Zealanders, may we also be reminded that we still have men and women in areas of conflict around the world. Supporting those brave officers are their families, ...
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Jerry White Visits
American author, scientist and retired Major General Jerry White visited Australia in June this year. He was the third International President of The Navigators, serving for 18 years, and succeeded in 2005 by Mike Treneer. A respected and well-known Christian author, conference speaker and a ...
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Thank You for Time Out!
Your partnership has enabled our staff to take some time away to retreat to the beautiful Blue Mountains, just outside of Sydney, in November 2018. While we had no formal meetings or teaching sessions, the Staff Retreat was a time to slow down and individually reflect on the glory of God, ...
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Your Questions Answered! - by Ian & Helen McIntosh
In this edition of Your Questions Answered!, Ian and Helen McIntosh tackle one of the big questions they've often been asked by other Navigator staff: How do we best care for ourselves while caring for others? This is particularly relevant given our Covid-19 lock-down situation, both for us ...
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Get to Know – David and June Sparks
Dave and June Sparks serve on staff with the Navigators in Sydney where they are involved in many different aspects of discipleship in their community including discipling businessmen and others from their church, doing neighbourhood outreach, and looking after the national website and software ...
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Enriching Your Marriage
A course developed by Doug and Geneve Utley This is a five-part plan to help you and your partner enrich your marriage. Remaining married is hard enough; statistics show about 50% of marriages end in divorce. When there are additional stressors, such as COVID-19 restrictions, vulnerabilities ...
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What 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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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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Homegoing - Ruth and John Ridgway
Ruth and John Ridgway were lifelong labourers for the Kingdom. In December 2021 and February 2022, respectively, they both went to be with their heavenly King. The Navigators (International) have posted tributes/articles about Ruth and John and their decades-long service for the sake of Christ. ...
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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 ...
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The Lord Establishes
By Leah Brown, Sydney Labouring Community (first published in Compass Autumn 2023) Over the last three years, the Lord has been bringing my attention to the truth of Proverbs 16:9, “In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps.” He’s done this in two ...
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Easter Thought
By Grant Dibden The year has been a bit of a blur. I got started in earnest after Australia Day, had trips to Brisbane, Sydney and Tasmania, and an early Easter. But what really makes it a blur is my father-in-law’s death twelve days after diagnosis. Arthur’s death puts things into ...
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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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Your Questions Answered - Navigator Discipleship
Fran Johnson from our Melbourne Labouring Community answers some of your questions about Navigator discipleship. Why have you enjoyed Navigator discipleship, in group and individual settings? Navigator one-to-one discipleship began my spiritual transformation. I was quite broken spiritually ...