For more information on the history of The Navigators and Glen Eyrie, we recommend the following books: The Navigators Amazing Grace, Amazing Hope: The Navigators… Read More »Navigator and Glen Eyrie History Reading List
Summary: This article picks up the story of our materials and communications in the early 1970s, when US NavPress was launched. It largely follows the… Read More »Materials and Communications, Pt. 2
Summary: In large measure, the 1960s laid down the tracks on which our ministries would run for many years. It was a very fruitful period:… Read More »US Field Ministries 1960s
Summary: This article explores our use of materials from the 1950s until the birth of US NavPress in 1975. It reviews our efforts to help… Read More »Materials and Communications: Pt. 1
Summary: This brief article charts the progress of our Catholic ministries from 1985 until such ministries in the US were separately established in 2012. Other… Read More »Navigators among Roman Catholics
Summary: The issue of authority is always with us because sin is always with us. Nonetheless, we live in an ordered universe where there is… Read More »Authority and Submission
Summary: This article chronicles the extent of the exploratory discussions among our leaders, as the need to help those who were not Americans moved from… Read More »Financing Foreigners
Summary: We have always been committed to planting the seed of the Gospel among the nations so that it advances through spiritual generations of laborers… Read More »Church Planting
Summary: The Navigator Home was an early approach to ministry that was especially suited to life-to-life evangelism and discipleship, which was our characteristic emphasis. The… Read More »The Navigator Home
Summary: This article traces the history of our parent board, with particular attention to Lorne Sanny’s principled resistance to but gradual acceptance of the degree… Read More »Boards of Directors
Summary: We began as a spreading movement upon which God’s blessing rested. Later, after World War II, our impetus to serve the family of God… Read More »Movement
Summary: The “six critical factors” were developed during the early 1990s by several international leaders who compared and distilled their observations on what would best… Read More »The Six Critical Factors of a Multiplying Ministry
Summary: Navigators first called Missionary Associates and later became known as International Associates flourished throughout the 1980s. This designation served primarily to open a path… Read More »International Associates
Summary: The Navigators ministered among the members of the US military in the late 1930s alongside our extensive work among teenagers. At the end of… Read More »Military Ministries
Summary: This article looks at how our identity has been visibly expressed, across the years. It does not examine our brand positioning, because there is… Read More »Corporate Identity
Summary: This conference marked a pivotal point in our history. Having recognized that global planning from the center was no longer appropriate, we moved to… Read More »International Leadership Conference 1980
Summary: This article picks up where “Global Planning 1966-1975” left off. It takes us through the adjustment phase of the mid-1970s after which we began… Read More »Global Planning 1976 –
Summary: The Navigator way of relating internationally, which we called the enabling Global Society, flowed from what we learned during the 1980s about how to… Read More »Our Enabling Global Society
Summary: This article examines the years from the birth of our international headquarters at the end of 1974 until the appointment of Terry Taylor as… Read More »IHQ and USHQ Relationships
Summary: From 1992 through 1996, the US Navigators were powerful actors in a complex drama set against the extraordinary organizational and spiritual evolution of what… Read More »The CoMission
Summary: Given our commitment to the nations, it is important to follow the thread of how we worked at prioritizing and placing our limited supply… Read More »The Allocation of Cross-Cultural Missionaries
Summary: In 1965, American and European Navigators teamed together in an innovative and successful summer program in Europe and the Middle East, during which more… Read More »Overseas Training Corps 1965
Summary: This article traces why and when we began to invest in the numerous international students who come to the US. It also summarizes such… Read More »International Students
Summary: In recent years, the extent and centrality of an apostolic function has been much debated within The Navigators. This has been a debate about… Read More »Apostolic Pioneering
Summary: Our history is complex, sometimes emotional. To generalize is to invite criticism. It was natural that our military flavor carried forward into the years… Read More »Men and Women Partnering
Summary: From the beginning, Navigators have had the world on our hearts. Where should we focus and why? This article follows the increasing depth of… Read More »Cross-Cultural Missions
Summary: As this century began, we were privileged to minister among those not yet of college age in some twenty countries. This extensive segment of… Read More »Youth Ministries
Summary: Our largest travelling ministry by far was among the Soviet satellites of Eastern Europe from the early 1970s until they opened to the West… Read More »Travel-Training Ministries
Summary: This article contrasts the simple process by which Lorne Sanny was appointed in 1956, upon the death of Dawson Trotman, with the much more… Read More »Transitioning Our Navigator Presidents
Summary: The 1970s were a transitional period. We emerged with remarkable speed from the American sending program of the 1960s into an urgent challenge to… Read More »Surge and Stress: Missions in the 1970s
Summary: This article reviews the 1974 separation between our International HQ (IHQ) and our USHQ, though it is more concerned with our field structure, it… Read More »Structures in the 1970s
Summary: There were two remarkably fruitful eras of our ministry among single women. First, the work among nurses in the US in the 1940s and… Read More »Ministry Among Nurses II
Summary: This article opens a window into how Lorne saw his responsibilities and offers insight into his temperament and gifts. It is not an assessment,… Read More »Lorne Sanny’s Role as President
Summary: This brief article consists of excerpts from the earliest directors’ conference, held on February 22-24, 1951 in San Francisco. It reveals how we were… Read More »Directors’ Conference: 1951
Summary: We see how we were broadly in line with the resurgent attention given to the kingdom among evangelicals, during the 1970s. This helped us… Read More »The Kingdom of God
Summary: This article traces our cross-cultural experience in developing our missions program from the aftermath of our 1972 Global Strategy until the introduction of our Fundamentals… Read More »Fundamentals of Navigator Missions
Summary: This article traces Dawson Trotman’s strong commitment from 1948 to helping other works, stimulated by his close friendships; our turn to “demonstrating” in 1961;… Read More »Navigators among the People of God
Summary: The story of our work among students starts in the 1930s, but it became quiescent until ministry spread out from Northwestern College into other colleges… Read More »Collegiate Ministries
Summary: This article is the second in a triad of articles: Nationalizing, Internationalizing, and Contextualizing. Having raised up staff to serve as nationals in their… Read More »Internationalizing
Summary: This article is the third in a triad: Nationalizing, Internationalizing, and Contextualizing. After recognizing the uniform approach of our early years, as we projected… Read More »Contextualizing
Summary: This article is the first in a triad of articles: Nationalizing, Internationalizing, and Contextualizing. It moves from the 1960s through the 1980s, giving particular… Read More »Nationalizing
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Summary: This article is a companion to the article titled “A History of Our Calling.” Taken together, they tell the story of how we have… Read More »The Approach to The Core
Summary: This article discusses how we gradually developed an understanding of the scriptural terms describing the nations, and how this was then used internationally to… Read More »The Nations
Summary: This article spans the evolution of our Calling from the beginning until the Scriptural Roots of Our Ministry in the early 1990s. Attachments sample… Read More »A History of Our Calling
Summary: In 1961, our leaders committed to demonstrating that our vision “worked” through the multiplying of disciple-makers, “producing reproducers.” This led naturally to assessing our… Read More »Management by Objectives, 1968-1974
Summary: This article examines the work that Lorne Sanny led in the 1960s to strengthen our foundational understanding of what Navigators are called to do,… Read More »Clarifying Our Calling: 1960s
Summary: This conference was historic because it was the first occasion on which Lorne Sanny called together the directors of our young ministries outside the… Read More »Overseas Policy Conference 1961
Summary: This is the first of two articles that explore our progress in global planning, carrying the story forward into the 1980s. Two overall trends… Read More »Global Planning: 1966-1975
Summary: After noting our early ventures in the US in the 1940s, this article touches lightly on the evangelical history of missional enterprises and then… Read More »Navigator Enterprises
Summary: This article considers the sources that shape our shared experience as Navigators and the relational journeys that contribute to our Values. This article has… Read More »Ethos and Values
Summary: The Fundamentals of Ministry (FOM) served as the basic guide to the scope and direction of our ministry for a decade, starting in 1978,… Read More »Fundamentals of the Navigator Ministry
Summary: This article describes the early phases of short-term Navigator missions, beginning in 1962. Young short-term missionaries, usually single men and women, were first called… Read More »International Trainees
Summary: The development of the Scriptural Roots of Ministry (SRM) in the late 1980s came ten years after the development of the Fundamentals of our… Read More »The Scriptural Roots of Our Ministry