What We're All About



We are bound together by our loyalty to Christ, our confidence in Scripture, and our calling to disciple military men and women.
   
Reaching Military Men & Women for Christ



Military men and women encounter challenges everyday:
  • Making life or death decisions in dangerous situations
  • Fighting temptation in the midst of loneliness and boredom
  • Making life-changing choices while combating fatigue, emotional strain, and uncertainty
  • Dealing with being far away from home and loved ones
Who listens? Who cares? Who brings God's perspective to the difficult task of balancing the needs of their country with the needs of family, friends, and self?

Navigators listen. Navigators care. Navigators bring God's perspective. Working alongside military chaplains and counselors. Navigators help to met spiritual needs of military personnel and their families.

   
Discipling To Trust & Obey Jesus



Across the world, on all types of military facilities, Navigators partner with military leaders, chaplains, and counselors who face overwhelming demands on their time and resources. In the upheaval of war and in peacetime, they join forces to help military men and women meet life's challenges.

That's what Navigators have been doing since 1933 when Dawson Trotman helped spiritually hungry sailors. During WWII, those sailors were grounded in spiritual truths and shared these truths with their friends.

Today, Navigators still do what those first sailors did: share Christ with others, show how God's Word is relevant to their lives, and encourage new followers to do the same with their friends and acquaintances.

At every ministry location, Navigators bring Christ's light to military people by helping them see how the Scriptures apply to the urgent challenges and everyday situations of life: job pressures, loneliness, materialism, fatigue, immorality, relationships, boredom, separation, insecurity, danger even death.

   
Sending Lifetime laborers into the World



Our purpose
To know Christ and make Him known

Our mission
To reach, disciple, and equip military men and women as lifetime laborers to know Christ and to make Him known through successive generations in our nation and around the world.

Our guiding principles
  • The Gospel: a passion for those who don't know Christ (John 3:16)
  • Depth of discipleship: our commitment to the third generation (2 Timothy 2:2)
  • Spiritual multiplication: helping "the little one become a thousand" (Isaiah 60:22)
  • The nations: building disciples in every culture (Matthew 28:18-20)
Our staff
  • 359 in the United States                                                                            
  • 8 in Europe 
  • 3 in the Pacific Rim
  • 6 in additional foreign locations                                                                                                                                                                                                                 CFC  #11087