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 with our updates you know we’ve repeatedly asked you to pray for more labourers – especially younger ones who will help us reach the upcoming generations for years to come. It fills us with joy to share a few ways the Lord has answered “yes” to your prayers recently.

Macquarie University

In our last update we asked you to pray for two students who were thinking of joining us in campus ministry. Gratefully, the Lord has given each of them a clear sense of calling and they have moved forward in faith!

Now, after discipling them for the last 3 years, Haven Barr and Jordan McMahon will be joining us as ministry apprentices at Macquarie University! They are both eager to labour life-on-life and to help the generation following them at Macquarie to grow in their love for God and their love for others as they fill their lives with His glorious purposes. By God’s grace, this will result in a growing community of young adults who launch new spiritual generations of labourers “rooted and built up” in the Lord (Colossians 2:7).

Please keep praying!!!!

Ask the Lord to strengthen, encourage and embolden Jordan and Haven as they respond to His call and step out in faith.
As they begin the process of raising support, ask the Lord to provide all they need to labour at Macquarie.
Ask the Lord to bring fruit through our apprentices – that generations would be built up in Him as a result of their lives and service.

Around Sydney

God has not only provided two young labourers for the campus, but He has added some younger labourers to our roster throughout the Sydney area.

Jonathan was also discipled at Macquarie during our early years in Australia. He works full-time as a business systems analyst, but is joining our Sydney team of labourers as an associate who is focusing on discipleship through the local church. In particular, he is largely discipling “tradie” men – a predominantly untargeted demographic of people who work in a trade job.

Our daughter Leah (Pieri),has taken up a position in the National Office and will be serving the Navigator community in a variety of ways. The faithful frontline office team enables us in the work of building generational labourers and is critical to everything we do. We are excited to have Leah working with us!

Mike & Sian Stucken have been a part of the Navigators for many years but have also joined our Sydney team as associates. Mike will be helping with our ministry among business professionals in the heart of the city, and together, they are discipling others in their local area on the Central Coast.

Another local, who grew up in a Navigator staff family and now works for the New South Wales Police, has recently felt the Lord leading him toward discipleship within the first responders community. Now serving as an Associate on our Sydney team, we are working together to pioneer new discipleship opportunities within the police force.

Your prayers at work

All of these people represent God’s gracious provision and your prayers at work! We are so grateful for all the Lord is doing and ask that you would continue to intercede for us, and for each of these precious labourers.

Other Prayer Requests:

Pray that each of them would bear fruit in season and that the Lord would multiply each of their lives for the glory of His name.
Pray that the gospel advances among non-believers as we work diligently side-by-side, sharing the gospel and our lives as well.
Pray the Lord will continue to raise up others to labour in the harvest field of Sydney, within Australia and throughout the Asia-Pacific region!

Scott Brown and his wife, Tami, lead the Sydney Labouring Community. To find out more or get involved with the Sydney team, contact us at navigators.org.au or visit https://navigators.org.au/staff/brownst/

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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 graduated or moved away. Questions of inadequacy and God’s plans plagued me. Among 40,000 students on campus, the vast majority need Jesus, and yet it seemed there were few women interested. Our prayer letters repeatedly asked for God to bring women into contact with us who I could invest in.

Our vision was, and continues to be, to see Christian students develop a heart to introduce the lost to Jesus and to be equipped to invest deeply in the lives of others. Our prayer is, with God’s help, to raise a generation of Christian students discipling the next generation of labourers. (more…)

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 are in the 10/40 Window.

Australian Overseas Missionaries are serving in South East Asia, the Frontiers of Asia and the USA. Some of these missionaries are bi-vocational in that they contribute to the countries in which they serve in social, medical or other developmental areas in addition to traditional Navigator ministry. We welcome inquires to be involved …

Military

Navigators have been involved with the Australian Defence Force (ADF) since 1971. We have networks comprised of people whose love for God overflows in a passion to take the Gospel to the lost and lead disciples who make other disciples. Our communities are composed of people from all ranks, and an atmosphere of grace and love characterises our interaction with each other. We focus on the Bible as the foundation for all we do and are strong on prayer following the persistent urging and quiet nudging of the Holy Spirit. Life-on-life discipleship is our hallmark.

We have a strong community at the Australian Defence Force Academy and the Royal Military College. This community is integrated into the broader Christian community in Canberra including our work at ANU and with families in Canberra, many of whom are military families.

You can download the ADFA RMC Navigators – Flyer for more information and contact details:

Our sister organisation, Solid Rock, also ministers to Defence wives/partners and female serving members. Visit their website here: Solid Rock Website