• Categories

  • Alumni
  • Asia and Beyond
  • Church Discipleship Ministries
  • Communications
  • Discipleship
  • Evangelism
  • Ministries
  • NavMedia News
  • News
  • People
  • Testimonies
  • Training
  • Uncategorized

• Links

  • Contact us
  • NavSG Alumni
  • Subscribe
  • WP Login

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.

Read more

GDOP 2009

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

 

Global Day of Prayer (GDOP) 2009 - Singapore.

Into the nations

Posted on May 29, 2009 | Filed Under Asia and Beyond, News

A Navigator team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) left for the Philippines for their annual Community Involvement Project (CIP) and missions, 18 May-14 June 2009.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This trip would be an opportunity for the team to cultivate a heart of compassion for the needy, foster friendships among participants and hosts, experience a different culture, and step out of our comfort zone to serve.

Another team from Nanyang Technological University also left for their CIP trip to Northern Thailand, 18-30 May 2009.

“This is an opportunity for us to develop world vision and mission-mindedness through serving the people there. We hope to be able to see and experience the heart of God and the hand of God,” said Chong Ching Ching, one of the staff members leading the NUS team in the Philippines.

They will work with a slum community, support community projects by the Philippines Navigators, and continue their ongoing outreach to the Agta, a previously unreached people group. Given opportunities to partner with pastors and leaders with the Christian Missions for the Unreached who have planted churches among the Agta people and in neighbouring lowlands, the team will give sermons, workshops and English lessons and also pray for the sick.

Cebu Navigators Alumni - Campus and Beyond

Posted on February 8, 2009 | Filed Under Alumni, Asia and Beyond, News

Here’s a seven-minute video report of what God is doing in Asia and Beyond.

« go back