Financing Foreigners
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
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Church Planting
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
The Navigator Home
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
Movement
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
The Six Critical Factors of a Multiplying Ministry
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
International Associates
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
Global Planning 1976
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
Our Enabling Global Society
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
Apostolic Pioneering
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
The Kingdom of God
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
Fundamentals of Navigator Missions
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
Collegiate Ministries
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
Contextualizing
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
Nationalizing
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
The Approach to The Core
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
Clarifying Our Calling: 1960s
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
Global Planning: 1966-1975
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
Fundamentals of the Navigator Ministry
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
The Scriptural Roots of Our Ministry
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
How the Bible Mobilized Cross-Cultural Navigator Ministry
Over a long process in the 1980s and 1990s, The Navigators conducted a study of the Scriptures that involved Navigators from around the world. It… Read More »How the Bible Mobilized Cross-Cultural Navigator Ministry