Around the Ministry
 Bob and June Ewell, on staff with The Navigators’ Church Discipleship Ministry, just spent three weeks in Haiti teaching discipleship concepts to future pastors at the Emmaus Biblical Seminary in Cap-Haitian. “I did there what I do here,” Bob says. “I helped pastors learn to make disciples not by preaching only but also by meeting with and training individuals.” Bob worked with 12 students, teaching in the classroom three hours a day. “We spent an hour sharing our daily times with God, reviewing memory verses, and praying for our ministries,” Bob says. Then he presented practical, discipleship related teaching. “On the macro level, I was modeling a small group for them,” he adds. “The main message was, ‘You can reach the world, starting from where you are, but you can’t do it by preaching. "I hope you preach to thousands on Sunday, but on Monday, you’d better be meeting with people individually.’ ” The director of the seminary wrote Bob about the importance of this training: “We need the kind of emphasis you brought, and I am deeply grateful. "If it fits in with what God has called you to do, we would be grateful to have you come and teach again and again. These next few years will decide the future of the Haitian church.”  |  One of the pillars of Navigators—and of any growing Christian—is having a daily devotional life, spending time alone with God no matter where they are. Even amid the noise and pressures of combat, soldiers in the Middle East are learning the value of such a quiet time. A few of them recently e-mailed their Navigator support team about this very thing. “My quiet time seems like the only time of day when I have peace,” wrote one soldier named Danny. “The day never starts nor ends if I don’t force it to. And the only time I can put it on hold is if I intentionally stop what I’m doing to go do my quiet time.” 
Another soldier, Jimmy, e-mailed about the encouragement of sharing his quiet time with some of the other believers in his company. “I am motivated to be with other guys who are so eager to grow in Christ. This morning there were four of us sharing our quiet times together. It is amazing how God is working in my life and in the lives of the people around me. I also started going through the Topical Memory System again, and I have two other guys doing it with me.” Another soldier named Jim wrote, “I’ve been commanding a company in combat for more than a year, and the most important thing for my spiritual growth is my quiet time. “It helps me stay on track, relieves stress, keeps me Kingdom-minded, and helps me in decision-making. If I miss a day, I don’t feel good and I’m not as good a commander. For me, staying focused on Jesus is the best way to win in combat.” Read more from our troops at the blog site www.armynavs.blogspot.com. You can order Bible studies and the Topical Memory System online at navpress.com. |
 “Fathers are stepping
forward to raise up the next generation of men who will know the Lord
and follow His ways,” says Navigator Roger Fleming. About 20 fathers from the Men’s Fraternity group Roger helps lead at his church in Montrose, Colorado, just completed a DVD series called Raising a Modern-Day Knight by Robert Lewis. “Lewis recommends the use of ceremonies at key stages of a boy’s development to guide him toward mature manhood,” Roger explains. So at the conclusion of the six-week series, the men brought their sons together for a special commitment ceremony. “A campfire was blazing when the boys arrived at the site,” Roger says, “and everyone joined in cooking hot dogs and s’mores.” One of the men gave the boys an overview of what their fathers had covered in the series.  “A father’s first commitment is to model authentic manhood for his son,” Roger says. “Psalm 78:7 says that fathers should make God known to their children, so that the children ‘would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.’ This experience was Psalm 78:7 in living color.” |
 by Alan Andrews, U.S. Navigator President Since our earliest days, God has used Navigators to touch countless lives for eternity’s sake. I often hear their stories when I’m on the road. Sometimes the “Navigator” God used most in their lives wasn’t officially on staff, but a volunteer.  As I consider our NavFusion volunteer-led campus ministry, I know that
there are literally tens of thousands of campuses with millions of
students throughout the United States.We would love to have so many staff that there is a team on each campus. But as we have prayed, we believe that the Lord has a different plan for reaching America’s college-age students. It is not going to be only an official Navigator staff person who will minister to these millions. It’s going to be people whose vocational calling is to be a school teacher, an engineer, a homemaker and the like whom God calls to minister on the college and university campuses of the world. This is not God’s “second choice.” Indeed, this is His intention for both these laborers and those to whom they minister. We often say Navigators are next door to everyone. In today’s post-modern and post-Christian culture, that is the primary way the Gospel advances. Thanks to people like John and Kathy Hoover (see “Inside Story”), we’re next door to students at colleges and universities all over the country. NavFusion is an important part of our calling. Would you go before the Lord Jesus and thank Him for such Navigators and ask Him to send more laborers for this vital harvest field? Find out more about NavFusion. |
 The
Navigators’ collegiate ministries don’t take the summer off. One
significant opportunity is Summer Training Programs (STPs), open to
students who have been involved in campus ministries during the school
year. 
With the goal of maturing in their relationships with Christ this
summer, 400 students participated in locations across the country.Jacksonville, Florida, hosted one STP. As part of the activities, students went to the beach to talk with people about spiritual things. Mark Day, one of the staff members involved, says, “Approximately 500 people heard The Bridge illustration, and at least 20 prayed to trust Christ. “Student debriefing times following the beach excursions have been tremendously animated and exciting as students give their reports,” Mark adds. “There have been many victories and growth steps among these students.” |
