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The 99 in Chennai

Posted on December 27, 2009 | Filed Under Asia and Beyond, Church Discipleship Ministries, News

Only about 2.7% of India’s 1.3 billion population are believers of Christ. Even though Christianity has been in India for a long time, churches are not really growing. Church leaders are seeing the urgency to establish disciple-making churches.

Bishop Devasahayam of Church of South India (CSI) Madras, the largest denomination in South India, called 99 full-time ministers, principals and teachers of schools, evangelists, catechists, Bible women, lay preachers, youth and hostel wardens for a four-day Discipleship Training Conference last 15-18 October 2009.

Sensing the need for greater depth and leadership development, the Bishop sought help from the Navigators for the equipping of his pastors, evangelists and Bible teachers.

This conference has been twenty years in the making after a long history of relating and networking. Devasahayam, then a young seminary lecturer together with a handful of other young men sat under the tutelage of Job Jeyaraj ploughing faithfully through the Navigator discipleship training course. Later Devasahayam became the highly esteemed and loved Bishop of CSI.

Job Jeyaraj, the conference convener wrote: “God has done wonderful things… the Disciplemaking Conference was a mountain-top experience. God used Dr Jebaraj Samuel mightily. Royston Koh and his wife Jade (Singapore), Frank Tully (Boston) and Denny Repko (California) were the resource persons. The three books of the 2:7 series were the tools used. Frank Tully did an excellent job and Denny Repko was a great inspiration. Royston Koh was also equally contributing. The spirit of the Lord was moving and he was mightily at work.”

“This conference is one of the most effective conferences ever held. The Bishop extended invitation to the resource persons to come again to help. The participants have returned to their respective places full of enthusiasm to disciple men and women. The seeds have been sown and it is our prayer that they will sprout, get routed and grow and bear fruits. People have assured to water and keep the plant alive. It is our hope that God will bless the church with a very rich harvest.” - by Royston Koh, Church Discipleship Ministry, The Navigators, Singapore

Digital Storytelling

Posted on October 30, 2009 | Filed Under Asia and Beyond, Communications, News

Our Communications Ministry team went to Manila, Philippines to conduct a digital storytelling workshop last 16-18 October 2009. Almost 25 Philippine Navigator staff, family, and friends attended the workshop.

“We didn’t have a computer lab, some came without computers, some with very old ones, internet connection was intermittent. They overcame many of their initial fears of writing, handling the computer, doing their voice overs, but most of all, their fears of being vulnerable to each other as they shared their personal stories,” said Angeline Koh, communications director.

Bobot Migraso, one of the Philippine Navigator country leaders, said: “The Digital Storytelling Workshop went and finished well with a BANG! It left a great impact among us who joined the workshop. It just ministered to us deeply…we saw how God has molded and remolded our lives…The workshop brought healing to a wounded soul…I highly recommend it for everyone!”

Some samples of their stories will be posted later.

Postcards from the Philippines

Posted on September 12, 2009 | Filed Under Asia and Beyond, News

Community and Missions Trip to the Philippines [18 May-14 June 2009]

Organised by the Navigators of National University of Singapore (NUS) since 2003, students and recent graduates of the NUS Navigators go for a mission trip to the Philippines - an opportunity for them to develop world vision and mission-mindedness through serving the people there and to be able to see and experience the heart of God and the hand of God.

Twenty National University of Singapore Navigator staff, labourers, and friends coming from different backgrounds and culture (five different nationalities represented) made up the team; there were five prebelieving friends – of which two are exchange students from Shanghai. 

 

We flew to a place called Palanan, where there is ongoing outreach to the Agta, a previously unreached people group; partnered with pastors and leaders with the Christian Missions for the Unreached (CMU), who have planted churches among the Agta people and in neighbouring lowlands. Gave sermons, workshops, English lessons, and prayed for the sick.

We visited children in the slum area to feed them, hold film screenings for the slum community and embark on gardening and farming projects with the hope that these projects would be able to provide the community there with a source of income to support their livelihood with the University of the Philippines Los Baños Navigators.

In Antipolo, we served a community by developing a 1-ha plot of land for them to use for farming, and improve their standard of living. We also did a tuition class for children. - By Chong Ching Ching, staff member, NUS Navigators

What’s worth giving my life to?

Posted on August 19, 2009 | Filed Under Asia and Beyond, Ministries, News, People

I have been reading Luke for my quiet time and one of the things that comes afresh to me is what Jesus desires, his passion to see people come to know him, and to see labourers. He called the disciples, prayed overnight and he appointed the Twelve to be apostles. Raising labourers is very much on God’s heart.

I am 61 and I have been wrestling more and more with what is worth giving my life for at this age because I want to end well. I have been reflecting on Psalm 61 and Isaiah 61 which depict what are on God’s heart. So, what more can you and I give our lives to and for except what are on God’s heart – the kingdom of God, people, and nations.

Thank you for partnering with us in the harvest field. We trust that the Lord will lead many of you not only to partner with us in Singapore but also to the nations. - Thomas Chua, National Director

Community - a relationships phenomenon

Posted on July 2, 2009 | Filed Under Asia and Beyond, Ministries, News

Over the last dozen years my wife, Judy and I have been privileged to encourage a loving community of people to walk with God and reach out to others as light and salt.

It began with one student, then two or three. Then they would bring their contacts together weekly in our home to discover what the Bible says about just about everything. Some had to believe in Jesus, first, and they did. We met every Tuesday, so we called ourselves the Tuesday Group.

As time passed the core became a community centred on Christ, the Bible and the adventure of the Great Commission. Then something happened and they became close, like “family.” So we called ourselves the Tuesday Community.

Judy and I didn’t set out to create a community. It just happened. Being a community is a good thing. We are made that way. It is one of the ways that God keeps us healthy and productive. See Genesis 10:32, Psalm 8:6 and Ephesians 2:19.

Later, the family dispersed physically, as God led them and life took them. They married, had children, bought homes and looked to their careers. Judy and I let them go, but stayed in touch. Weekly studies and prayer ended, but today we meet every few months, with a similar but looser format, this time with babies and toddlers! We also pull together to help one another out—fixing houses, moving, painting and so on.

Recently, one of the men thoughtfully observed what attracted him to the Tuesday Group in the first place. Nigel needed a Bible study group that encouraged discussion without being restrictive, something that gave him freedom. He liked being around people who were serious about the Great Commission, and not, like some, just filling in time, or using the group to meet people.

Why are we still together? Our community meets a need not met elsewhere, Nigel says. Our common purpose is and always was the Navigator vision and mission.

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