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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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
Military Ministries
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
International Leadership Conference 1980
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
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
The CoMission
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
The Allocation of Cross-Cultural Missionaries
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
Cross-Cultural Missions
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
Surge and Stress: Missions in the 1970s
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
Directors’ Conference: 1951
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
Internationalizing
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
The Nations
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
Management by Objectives, 1968-1974
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
Overseas Policy Conference 1961
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
International Trainees
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