About Navigators Kenya — 70th Anniversary

Who We Are

Life-to-Life® Discipleship

We are The Navigators — a Christian ministry that shares the Gospel of Jesus and helps people grow in Christ through Life-to-Life® discipleship, creating spiritual generations of believers. Since our founding in 1933 (and 70 years of ministry in Kenya since 1956), we’ve remained committed to our calling: “To know Christ, make Him known, and help others do the same®.”

We believe discipleship happens person-by-person and by encouraging spiritual growth across all life stages. A disciple is someone who believes in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, intentionally seeks to learn from Him, and desires to live more like Him. For us, discipleship accomplishes this by walking alongside others: praying together, studying God’s Word, sharing life, and equipping them to do the same with others. As spiritual generations multiply, we’ve seen God transform lives in powerful ways.

To reach and disciple all people in all places, The Navigators includes a wide variety of ministries and a broad family of missionaries, supporters, and volunteers. We engage people where they live, work, worship, and play — on college campuses, in workplaces, in churches, neighborhoods, and across communities.

Through Life-to-Life relationships, we live out the vision of 2 Timothy 2:2: “And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses, entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others” (NIV).

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Our Mission

"To Know Christ, make Him known, and help others do the same."

Our Calling

"To advance the Gospel of Jesus and His Kingdom into the nations through spiritual generations of laborers living and discipling among the lost."

Foundational Commitments

Our Core Values

The passion to know, love, and become like Jesus Christ.
The truth and sufficiency of the Scriptures for the whole of life.
The transforming power of the Gospel.
The leading and empowering of the Holy Spirit.
Expectant faith and persevering prayer rooted in the promises of God.
The dignity and value of every person.
Love and grace expressed among us in community.
Families and relational networks in discipling the nations.
Interdependent relationships in the Body of Christ in advancing the Gospel.

Future & Movement

Our Vision

"We see a vital movement of the Gospel, fueled by prevailing prayer, flowing freely through relational networks and out into the nations. Workers for the Kingdom are next door to everywhere!"

What characterizes this movement?

• A Heart for the Whole Person: Climates of grace, compassion for the vulnerable and broken, sacrificial unity embracing diversity, cultural relevance and sensitivity, interdependence with others in the wider family of God, transformed men and women, fragrant with humility and the aroma of Christ.

• Scriptural Obedience: Marked by a deep engagement with and obedience to the Scriptures as the Word of God. They believe the promises of God. Both personally and in committed communities, they seek to know and pursue the purposes of God.

• Emerging Laborers: Laborers and leaders are emerging, with an increasing passion for Jesus Christ. They demonstrate faith and courage as they live and move among their friends and families. As spiritual parents, they model authenticity and relevance.

• Fruitful Insiders: Ordinary people, in many walks of life, are joyfully leading integrated lives. They live as fruitful insiders among the lost. There is perseverance in the face of hardship and suffering. Around the world, many are coming to faith. As they become established in discipleship, some grow to be foundational for further generations. The Gospel spreads naturally and powerfully, life upon life, family to family.

• Mobile Pioneers: Crossing cultures into new cities and nations, teams of mobile pioneers intentionally proclaim and embody the Good News of Jesus Christ, in such a way that transformed communities multiply. These communities are bringing joy and hope to their surrounding environments as relationships are healed and justice increases.

• Empowered Leadership: The leaders of this movement, developed and empowered for God’s service, live out a growing commitment to Christlikeness. They are dependent upon the Holy Spirit. New generations of leaders are emerging, rooted incarnationally in their local and national contexts.

Core Foundation

Statement of Faith

Our statement of faith is the core foundation for our ministry.

That the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.
In one God, the Creator; eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
That Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, and that He was and remains true God and true man.
That God created Adam and Eve in the divine image; that they sinned, and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is separation from God; and that, as a result of Adam’s sin, all human beings are now born with a sinful nature and stand guilty before God.
That the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice; and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood.
In the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into Heaven, and in His present life there for us, as High Priest and Advocate.
In the blessed hope of the personal and imminent return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
That all who by faith receive the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.
That the Holy Spirit indwells and gives spiritual life to all believers, enables them to understand biblical truth, empowers them for godly living, and equips them for service and witness.
In the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting punishment of the lost.

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