2024 Worldwide Partnership Annual Prayer Guide

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Introduction

March 16, 2024, has been designated as this year’s Navigators Worldwide Day of Prayer. For over a decade, Navigators have been taking the third Saturday in March as an opportunity to jointly come before the Lord in prayer. It is a unique time to unite in global prayer—transcending geographical boundaries to collectively seek the presence and guidance of the Lord.

International President Mutua Mahiaini says, "As the annual Navigators Worldwide Day of Prayer approaches once again, we are excited about the opportunity as a Navigator family to come together before God’s throne. Although we are very familiar with Hebrews 4:16, which urges us to draw near to the throne of God with confidence, I hope it will inspire you to reflect on the fact that this is the ultimate throne, and that God is seated on it. He is the One who is inviting us to this experience on 16 March 2024. I pray we all take His invitation as seriously as He does.”

This prayer guide is a resource that allows us to join together in praying for key requests from each of our seven regions as well as some requests that are relevant to us all. We encourage you to use it not only on the Worldwide Day of Prayer, but throughout the year.

You have the option to use the prayer guide sequentially, beginning with our Navigator Calling, Values, and Vision (The Core), then proceeding to our international mission requests, followed by requests from each region (in alphabetical order). Alternatively, you may opt to navigate freely from section to section. However you decide to utilize it, may you experience profound fellowship with the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Rest assured that you are joining others from all corners of the world before God’s throne.

Calling, Values, Vision

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.

Our Values

1) The passion to know, love, and become like Jesus Christ.

2) The truth and sufficiency of the Scriptures for the whole of life.

3) The transforming power of the Gospel.

4) The leading and empowering of the Holy Spirit.

5) Expectant faith and persevering prayer rooted in the promises of God.

6) The dignity and value of every person.

7) Love and grace expressed among us in community.

8) Families and relational networks in discipling the nations.

9) Interdependent relationships in the body of Christ in advancing the Gospel.

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. They are 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.

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.

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, as believers share Christ . . . life upon life . . . family to family.

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. Indeed, the lost and unreached burn in their hearts, as they move the Gospel into the nations.

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. An international leadership community brings focus, alignment, and energy to their movement. These leaders are committed to long-term impact in generational ministry.

Worldwide Missionary Sending

We rejoice in God's abundant answer to our prayers, initiated back in 2019, for the sending of 40 new missionaries to unreached or underreached people groups. Our latest count reveals that 38 missionary units (comprising couples or singles) have been sent out since then, with an additional 23 units in active preparation. These figures exclusively represent missionaries destined for unreached and underreached groups. Praise God for the sending of at least 12 other long-term missionary units, alongside an undisclosed number of short-term and mid-term missionaries.

The tangible results of these prayers have ignited faith within our community. Presently, we are earnestly praying for the sending of 20 more units annually over the next three years, aiming for a total of 60.

In your prayers, you can refer to the 2024 Missionary Sending Priorities (MSP) list, accessible online at https://navigatorsworldwide.org/worldwide-missions. This list is carefully curated each year by the International Executive Team (IET) and Regional Directors (RDs), who conscientiously narrow down cross-cultural opportunities to approximately 20 crucial priorities.


Africa

Deep Walks with God

Please pray we would:

• Be workers for the Kingdom who abide in Him daily. (John 15:1-5)

• Be men and women characterized by a heart posture of absolute surrender, daily surrendering our agenda for His and being attentive to His voice, that the very nature of God may possess us.

• Grow to treasure God above all things. (Psalm 73:23-26)

• Be intentional to cultivate roots that reach deep into the heart of God and that the choices we make every day would strengthen and not erode our union with God.

• Stay fresh and be the kind of people from whom rivers of living water flow. (John 7:38)

Courageous Faith

• That we would be men and women of courageous faith who learn to trust God in fresh ways as we take the Gospel to the unreached and underreached nations and people groups on the continent (e.g., the poor, urban majority in cities, people of other faiths, the rural, oral learners, and outcasts).

• That we would not waiver when God gives us fresh opportunities to trust Him, especially when it requires us to step out of our comfort zone. (Romans 4:21)

• Ask God to strengthen us in our inner being and that our roots of hope and confidence in Him would go deeper. Rather than play it safe and comfortable, we would like to step to the water’s edge when God asks. (Ephesians 5:16-19)

Gospel Advance

Please pray:

• For an outpouring of God’s Spirit on the unreached Africa nations, to breathe life into the dry bones (Ezekiel 37:4-6) and give us a spiritual inheritance in these countries (Psalm 2:8).

• For people in Africa to have a deep encounter with Jesus that results in transformation in every area of their lives; and that we would see the transforming power of the Gospel not only impacting individuals but families and entire communities. (2 Corinthians 5:17)

• That as hearts and minds are transformed in these communities, family dysfunction, poverty, corruption, and injustice, would give way to biblical truth. (Romans 12:2)

• For wisdom, boldness, courage, and creativity to develop new strategies and ways to take the truth of the Gospel into our African realities—strategies and ways that are biblically sound and culturally relevant for resourcing the ministry in Africa.

• For God’s wisdom and favor as we develop the platform for people across the continent to be able to contribute in any currency via their phone to our mission sending fund called Operation $2. It is our $2 -a-month challenge to every laborer to support mission efforts in Africa. Pray that more countries and more laborers will make it a priority in their personal and national budgets to contribute to this initiative. (2 Corinthians 9:7-15)

• That the Holy Spirit will breathe new life into our ministries (student, women, men, church, families, community, cities, marketplace, poor and vulnerable, Discipling for Development, Business as a Mission, Ministry Partner Development, Africa Partners, Nav Care, and Navigator schools), that would result in workers being raised to reach out with the Gospel into the nations. (Matthew 9:36-38)

• That God will give us fresh ideas on how to come alongside our conventional income labourers and leaders to increase their effectiveness in advancing the Gospel. Pray for the Lord to multiply their efforts by His mighty power (Ephesians 3:16-17) and keep His promises to them (Isaiah 43:4).

• For encouragement, perseverance, strength, wisdom, and vision to work on critical things for laying foundations of the Gospel and raising foundational generations in all our 21 pioneering countries. Pray for the Lord of the harvest to raise laborers and send missionaries to these countries. (Isaiah 61:4)

Asia Pacific

“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland” (Isaiah 43:19, NIV).

“For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants. They will spring up like grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams. Some will say, ‘I belong to the Lord’; others will call themselves by the name of Jacob; still others will write on their hand, ‘The Lord’s,’ and will take the name Israel” (Isaiah 44:3-5, NIV).

Fruitful Local Laboring Communities

We continue to trust God to have fruitful LLCs in all the current 20 countries in which we have presence:

  • Intentionally and actively engaging with the lost as they live and disciple among them.

  • Raising of local and national leaders through the LLCs through intentionally identifying and developing them.

  • Developing a missions culture, which will see believers having a heart for the lost within and outside the country.

Pray for national directors and country representatives of each country as they pray and plan national strategies. Pray for them to have continued reliance upon the Holy Spirit for guidance, and that they would be willing to follow God even down unfamiliar paths. (Isaiah 42:16)

The Next Generation Owning The Core

Please pray for APEL24 (Asia Pacific Emerging Leaders 2024). Between March and September, we will be working with emerging leaders around Asia Pacific. Our theme is ‘Navigating Our Times.’ We will explore how our Navigator Calling, Values, and Vision can guide us in our contexts. How can these emerging leaders live well in their setting? How can they help others move in the right direction? How should they lead in today’s complex world?

Overall, we are trusting that the Lord will use this leader development to provide immediate benefits to these emerging leaders. We also see this as a 20-year project, with benefits flowing to the countries and the region for the long-term.

Please ask the Lord to guide the leader development team as they plan the details of APEL24. Pray for the participants, that the Lord would meet with them, and they would hear His call through this time. Pray especially for those for whom English is not their primary language, that the Lord would give them special grace to understand what He wants.

Missions

South Asia:

• Country #1: We praise God for one family who have relocated to a city in 2023. Pray that they will settle in well. Continue to pray for other members to join them with strengths in pioneering to complement the team.

• Country #2: We praise God that an experienced couple has successfully re-entered the country in 2023. Pray for recruitment of other members to work with them to assist with the business and pioneering efforts.

Southeast Asia: Pray for a team leader in one of the countries to strengthen the grassroots ministry that has already taken place in a major city and work together with local leaders to establish Navigator ministry on selected university campuses.

Campus Work: Pray for student ministry leaders at the University of South Pacific in Fiji to grow the work already taking place and ignite laboring movements throughout the South Pacific as graduates return to their home nations.

Laborers: Please pray for more laborers to be sent to join the current teams in the mentioned regions in Asia Pacific.

CIPs (Conventional Income People)

Serving & Supporting CIPs: As more CIPs take on national responsibilities and various roles in ministry, there is a need to re-evaluate how things are done; i.e., length of regional meetings, the capacities, and capabilities of CIPs in their effectiveness and efficiencies. Pray for wisdom in bringing change to some of the current structures we have to support and serve our CIPs.

Integrated Lives: Pray for integrated lives as they live out Kingdom values among the lost amidst challenges in their careers, raising their families, and taking on ministry responsibilities.

Finances & Resources

We are thankful for God’s faithfulness in providing us with the necessary resources. Continue to pray that we will be good stewards of what God has faithfully given to us and trust that He will provide the needs of each laborer and country.

Asia Pacific Teams

The regional team is supported by other teams with specific functional roles: point persons team, development team, missions team, and the missional enterprise team. Pray that all of us will be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit, work diligently and have wisdom in coming along side and serving the countries.

Eurasia

Peace and Gospel Opportunity

As the war between Russia and Ukraine drags on, along with other tensions and conflicts in the region, pray that God would intervene and bring peace in a way that will bring glory to Him. Pray for creative ways to support and minister to our laborers isolated in Russia, under duress in Ukraine, and scattered across the region and the world. Pray that in the midst of violence and instability, the lost will seek eternal truths and respond to the Gospel.

Evangelism

Pray for our national laborers to experience breakthroughs in their efforts to evangelize a new, younger generation. And pray that the Gospel will then continue to spread among family and relational networks. We praise God for the fruit we did see this last year. Pray that God would anchor the new believers in Jesus with a genuine hunger for the Word of God and that God would bring freedom and transformation.

Local Communities of Laborers

Pray for communities of generational laborers in each city where we work—that God would strengthen existing communities and establish new communities where disciples are isolated. Pray that they would share life together with the purpose of living out the Navigator Core, choosing forms that are relevant for their culture, and intentionally engaging the lost. Pray for God to raise up local leaders in these communities.

Staff Teams and a Mix of Generations

We praise God for new, younger staff joining our veteran staff. Pray for the challenges and opportunities presented by this mix of generations. Pray that God would bless the efforts to apply training and implement helpful tools in building strong ministry teams. Pray for spiritual, emotional, and physical protection, and endurance for our long-term local and cross-cultural staff.

Opening a New Country

Pray for the opening of a new ministry in a country in Eurasia. Pray for the couple, experienced leaders, who are considering this country opener assignment along with their team. Ask God to confirm their calling and bless their planning for the initiation stage and moving in. Pray for good connections with existing disciples of Jesus and that God would prepare the hearts of those who will respond to the Gospel and become a foundational generation.

Europe

NavPresence

It is often easy to focus our eyes on “dry bones” in Europe because there are so many challenges and so many souls who are far away from our Lord. We might, therefore, miss some of the encouraging lights He has been enlightening here and there in all Europe. For example, for decades Spain was almost invisible on our radar; but recently, God made visible what has been growing through the faithful and unshaken ministry of individual Navs who never gave up, even in the face of frustrations and long-term disappointments.

God has been adding to their numbers, and even bringing other Navs from other parts of the world to help wake up some South Europeans from their numbing spiritual sleep. He has been strategically connecting our efforts in Spain, Portugal, and Italy. And as Jesus emphasized in John 6:44 "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him.” We do our best in building bridges for people to come closer to Him, while trusting Him to draw souls to Jesus. We long to discover more, and we almost feel more fruits arriving. From the south of Europe, over the East, up to the Northeast, we are expecting to see similar things happening.

Network Leaders

Praise God for the maturity, dedication, passion, courage, faith, and wisdom our network leaders bring to the advance of the Gospel into the nations around Europe. A number of these networks are looking at significant leadership transitions over the coming year. Please pray for the Lord’s guidance and good hand as new people sense God’s leading and grow into a new contribution; and for those retiring or handing over to sense God’s leading for their best contribution in this next phase for them.

“News of this reached the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. 23 When he arrived and saw what the grace of God had done, he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts” (Acts 11:22-23).

Regional Togetherness (John 17:21)

 We praise God with great joy for a tangibly new phase of connectedness and desire to collaborate on deeper levels among our Nav ministries in Europe. The student ministries set the pace with a renewed effort in pooling resources to provide fellowship, mutual learning, and sharpened focus on our Navigator Core. We long to see more of this kind of trust and creativity to build strong, intergenerational communities on all levels of our work and in our Regional Team.

We praise God for the harmony within our newly consolidated Regional Team. Please pray with us for the posture of our hearts to be marked by love as we seek to reflect the Body of Christ together within the secular, fragmented societies in Europe. Pray especially for fruitful collaboration to overcome all reservations and language barriers as we address practical issues around our faith directions in working groups over a two-year period, starting in April.

Regional Director

Thank the Lord for answered prayer as Bernard Dishman has taken up the role of Regional Director. Much practical blessing with new office facilities, successful recruitment, new members for the Regional Team, and a good start to his first year in this role. Please continue to pray for Bernard, his wife Debs, and all those involved in the leadership of the European work as they face the challenge of a secular region and “hard ground.”

Missions Europe ERT

Praise God for the many young people who have been involved in crossing borders these past few years and leaving their comfort zones on short-term missions, European conferences, network meetings, or otherwise. Pray that God will raise up a generation of mission-minded disciples in Europe. Please pray for the leaders in Europe to think about new and creative ways of sending, as we try to mobilize for missions.

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland"  (Isaiah 43: 18-19).

 Pioneering and Maturing Countries

We praise God for several who have trusted Jesus in our pioneering countries. Please pray for laborers in these countries to continue believing in God’s power to transform lives and raise up foundational generations. Pray that these laborers, through feelings of spiritual barrenness, would shout for joy and persevere in anticipation for all the miracle children that God will bring. Pray for emerging foundational generations as they are growing into local laboring communities.

Pray for wisdom in building a regional strategy with Nav Europe for the inclusion of more southern and eastern European countries, fostering collaboration to expand God's kingdom together.

Latin

America

Praises Regarding Last Year’s Requests

  • Many of the next-generation leaders in the “Your Calling” program are growing in their understanding of God’s Kingdom through the Scriptures and seeking the Holy Spirit’s guidance to take practical steps of obedience in response. (3 John 1:3-4)

  • The GENERA missional enterprise network is helping business owners and entrepreneurs capture a clearer vision for expanding His Kingdom relationally through business initiatives. Manuel Ortiz is stepping up with others as they lead this initiative in Latin America. (1 Thessalonians 1:8)

Final Stage of “Your Calling”

We are in the last stage of the program where participants from Tu Llamamiento (“Your Calling”) are forming groups to start initiatives that will make a practical contribution in the expansion of the Kingdom. (Philippians 4:9) Specific groups have been formed related to an upcoming Young People’s Gathering in July, but others are still discerning what initiatives to take. Please pray that God will give clear ideas for other initiatives and wisdom to the LAN region team as they guide the formation of these work groups. (Psalm 90:16-17)

Latin American Young People’s Gathering in Panama, July 18-22, 2024

Our regional gathering in 2024 will be focused on young people between the ages of 18 and 30. The main theme will center on our HOPE in Jesus as an anchor for the soul. (Hebrews 6:19-20) Please join us in praying for this generation to have a secure identity in who they are based on who God is and His unshakable promises. Please also pray for God to work in all our hearts as many participants are still seeking God’s provision for their airline tickets.

Renewed Vision and Joy for Local Leaders

Many of our local leaders in Latin America are facing fatigue and discouragement. We need a renewed vision and joy that can only come from true fellowship with Jesus. We need to enjoy knowing Him, deep in our souls. Our friendship with God brings joy to obeying Him and reminds us that we didn’t choose Him, but that He chose us to bring life-giving fruit to others. Join us in praying that the misconception of producing for God in our own strength would be replaced by the reality of fruitful living in Him. (John 15: 12-17)

Recruiting Laborers from Other Regions

New recruiting initiatives are underway to invite staff to our region to help us with pioneering works and initiatives on university campuses. Please join us in praying for laborers to these places. Between summer teams, vision trips, and other initiatives, we are trusting God for mid- to long-term laborers to go to: Hermosillo, Mexico; La Plata, Argentina; Riberão Preto, Brazil; and Santiago, Chile.

MENA

Middle East and North Africa

International Missions Expansion

We are in an exciting season of intentional focus on missions within the MENA region. We are exploring ways to establish presence in at least four countries where we do not currently have ministries. Praise God as we have also commissioned our first missionary from within our region, who is prepared to move to one of the four countries. Pray with us that the Lord would direct our steps and make clear the paths before us as we seek to spread the Gospel to new locations.

Internal Expansion

A continued focus among several of the teams in our region is ministry expansion within our existing MENA region countries. Much prayer and consideration has gone into identifying the most strategic places to reach first. Pray that the Lord would raise up the necessary laborers and continue to guide us as we seek to establish new teams.

Leader Preparation

We are trusting the Lord to continue to come alongside us in the process of preparing a new generation of leadership. Some of these leaders are at the country level, while others are overseeing new teams. We are eager to see the Lord raise up several Christians—with a majority-religion background—as key, future leaders who are transformed and fragrant with humility and the aroma of Christ. Pray with us that God would prepare and equip those He has called to step into leadership roles and that they would remain perceptive to the leading of the Spirit in their lives.

Local Laboring Communities

In MENA, we recognize the importance of Local Laboring Communities to help facilitate the spread of the Gospel. We desire to see these communities grow and flourish across our region ultimately bearing fruit through producing spiritual generations. Pray that God would bond our teams together as true expressions of local laboring communities, and that He would use them for the glory of His name.

Focus-to-Focus Ministry

A key strategic component of our ministry in MENA is establishing movements of the Gospel through Focus-to-Focus ministry. The most natural and effective way to see the Gospel advance throughout MENA is from Focus to Focus. Pray that God would mightily use the existing majority-religion background believers to bring the Gospel to their families, friends, and relational networks.

North America

Canada, Caribbean, United States

Canada

  • Pray Isaiah 54:1-3 over our whole work.

  • Praise God that people are coming to faith in Christ and new leaders are joining us. We thank God for the encouragement and hope this gives us. May God continue this in 2024.

  • Pray that God would give those in campus ministry and those involved in leading our campus works clear pathways forward through the challenging realities of ministering on campuses in this country.

  • That everything we do as ministers of the Gospel would flow from a deep joy in the Lord, genuine love for people, and sacrificial lives.

  • That God would continue to help us recruit more staff by creating favorable conditions, effective strategies, and clear invitations.

  • That God would continue to help us empower laborers by identifying, serving, and equipping them.

  • Just as justice is the foundation of God’s throne, may it be the foundation of all our work; and may this resonate deeply with all of our staff and volunteers.

  • Pray for our upcoming National Conference in late June/early July of this year. Our last national gathering was in 2018.

 Caribbean

Please pray Isaiah 42:10 and Habakkuk 3:2 for the Caribbean region. In this pioneering work, ask God to strengthen and establish the foundational generations of national laborers in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Trinidad, Tobago, and another country.

Pray that our ministries would grow toward local sustainability in finances, leaders, and laborers. Pray that we will give appropriate focus to mainstream society, such as among Roman Catholics and the economically disadvantaged. Ask God for nationals who have resources and connections to help sustain the work long-term.

Pray for a fruitful outcome from our first National Directors Training and first Discipleship Forum since COVID—the first in 6 years! Pray God uses this time of development to affirm current national country leaders and raise future national emerging leaders. Please pray:     

We have our identity based on the Navigator Core. Strengthened unity, sense of belonging, momentum, and partnership as Navigators within our Caribbean Region. We have increased clarity, alignment, and energy to the movements of the Gospel INTO the nations within the Caribbean and beyond. We remain faithful in prevailing prayer as supportive, integral, and foundational to our Work in the Caribbean.

Please continue to pray for the situation in Haiti. The socio-political chaos in this country continues to place our staff and laborers in challenging, risky, and even dangerous situations. Pray for wisdom for our country leader in Haiti and his family—to discern if and when to relocate within Haiti. In terms of missions sending, pray for wisdom in receiving a couple and a single missionary from the Francophone Africa Navigators to minister in Haiti. This couple and single missionary continue to raise funds and be convicted to pursue this move, despite the socio-political situation in Haiti. Pray for wisdom to discern the right timing and strategy to make this move a reality—we hope this move happens in 2024.

Lastly, pray that the Caribbean could, one day, become a sender of missionaries to hard-to-reach parts of the world. Pray that God would help us successfully launch missional enterprises in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and another country.

United States

Praise for the Lord’s Faithfulness: We rejoice that our God and Father is ministering so powerfully to bring stability, love, and grace to our leadership culture and staff across the US. Many have made good adjustments and humble compromises to align with the U.S. leadership policies.

“Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You” (Jeremiah 32:17, NKJV).

We are expectantly asking for God’s favor in each of these contexts:

Broaden our reach: We want to connect with more people! Some are alums who have passed through our ministries; some are connected to us through our digital discipleship ministry; and some have found us through someone who discipled them. Reaching them in relevant ways to continue their growth and encouragement is critical to fulfilling our Calling.

Increase our depth: We want to invest deeply in those already around us and connected to us in cities, churches, on military bases, and university and college campuses. We want disciples established in their faith and confident to share their faith with others. We want them equipped to navigate the hardships of this world while remaining focused on the Great Commission and the Greatest Commandment.

Gospel expansion: We want to see God’s glory advanced in new places! We want to see disciples and disciplemakers growing in courage, grace, and faith as they thrive in every neighborhood, workplace, family setting, and friendship setting.

Hunger for more of God: As David expresses in Psalm 63:1 (NLT), “O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. My soul thirsts for you; my whole body longs for you in this parched and weary land where there is no water. " May our people have ever-increasing hunger and thirst for greater intimacy with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Staff health: We want to identify and embrace effective strategies to improve staff health. We need increased wisdom in how to best meet the spiritual needs of our staff, such that their relationship with our gracious heavenly Father overflows through them and into their ministries. “Lord, please break the strongholds that harm our Mission and each other.” God profoundly cares for each individual's heart, soul, and mind. Pray that we might join Him in caring for our staff well. “O, Lord, Let Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

Staff healing: God has brought us through deep and troubled waters in the last year, relationally and spiritually, and we have a ways to go. The ministry of the Holy Spirit encourages us to bring wholeness and healing to individuals and relationships. Please continue praying for thoroughness in the work of God in our lives and compassion to walk closely with staff where they are.

Please also pray for our Navigators’ community and the hearts and resilience of our staff. Our Calling compels us to bring Jesus to people in complex, challenging, and confusing places from which we are not immune.

We want to see our staff run to the Lord as their strong tower (Proverbs 18:10) for assurance, stability, and encouragement. And we long to see our staff rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith, and overflowing with thankfulness (Colossians 2:7) as they guide others into the safety, acceptance, justice, and affirmation with the Lord, made possible through the Gospel.

2023 Worldwide Partnership Annual Prayer Guide

If you prefer to download the PDF of this prayer guide, click on the link below.

Introduction

Every year, Navigators set aside the third Saturday in March for prayer as a Worldwide Partnership. This is a tremendous opportunity for us to work together and fellowship with colleagues across our international partnership. 

Mutua Mahiaini, International President of The Navigators, said, “Each year, we Navigators from every corner of the globe have the privilege of joining together during our Worldwide Day of Prayer to spend time with the Lord. We may be physically separated by thousands of miles, but we could never be closer than we are on this day when all our attention and focus is on God. We could not have more focus, alignment, and energy than we get through coming to the throne of God. We could never have more fire burning in our hearts, or miraculous faith for what lies ahead, than what the Holy Spirit generates among us as we pray around the world. Thank you for making this a priority.”

This prayer guide offers a tool that allows everyone to join together in praying for some key requests from our seven regions, as well as some requests that are relevant to us all. We encourage you to use this list not only during the Worldwide Partnership Day of Prayer on March 18, 2023, but throughout the year.

Some people like to use this prayer guide as a sequential structure for how to use the day. It starts by encouraging us to pray through our Navigator Calling, Values, and Vision (The Core). We then move into the prayer requests presented by the International Executive Team (IET), and then into the requests from each region (in alphabetical order). However you choose to use it, may you enjoy a time of sweet fellowship with the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Calling, Values, Vision

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.

Our Values

1) The passion to know, love, and become like Jesus Christ.

2) The truth and sufficiency of the Scriptures for the whole of life.

3) The transforming power of the Gospel.

4) The leading and empowering of the Holy Spirit.

5) Expectant faith and persevering prayer rooted in the promises of God.

6) The dignity and value of every person.

7) Love and grace expressed among us in community.

8) Families and relational networks in discipling the nations.

9) Interdependent relationships in the body of Christ in advancing the Gospel.

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. They are 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.

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.

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, as believers share Christ . . . life upon life . . . family to family.

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. Indeed, the lost and unreached burn in their hearts, as they move the Gospel into the nations.

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. An international leadership community brings focus, alignment, and energy to their movement. These leaders are committed to long-term impact in generational ministry.

Worldwide Missionary Sending

In 2019, many of us started praying for 40 Navigator missionary units (couples or singles) to be sent out to unreached and underreached people groups. So far, 28 units have gone out, and 12 more are in the process of preparing to go. Praise the Lord for raising up these 40 units! 

Each year, the IET and Regional Directors (RDs) identify approximately 20 cross-cultural priority missions opportunities. Pray that God would raise up men and women to fill these needs. The list can be found online at www.navigatorsworldwide.org/worldwide-missions or below.


Africa

Please:

Pray that the Africa workers for the Kingdom of Jesus Christ would be men and women who abide daily in Him. (John 15:1-5) Men and women who have a habit of drawing near to God and hold unwaveringly to the hope we have in Him. (Hebrews 10: 22-23

Pray we would grow in our personal experience of God through daily submission to His will, obedience to the Word, faithful fellowship with Him in prayer, listening, and committing to being transformed day by day into the image of Christ, abiding in the presence and the work of the Holy Spirit. That all labourers and leaders will continually deepen their search for God and be constantly visited and renewed by Him through the fullness of His Spirit. “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?” (Psalm 42:1-2)

Pray that God will help The Navigators in Africa to take the Gospel to the unreached and under-reached nations and people groups (e.g. the poor, urban majority in cities, people from a major religion, the rural, oral learners, and outcasts) on the continent. 

Pray that God who makes a way in the desert and who sets rivers in arid places will increase our thirst for Him and His purposes. (Psalm 63) Ask God to pour out His Spirit on the unreached Africa nations, to breathe life into the dry bones (Ezekiel 37:4-6) and give us a spiritual inheritance in these countries. (Psalm 2:8)

Pray that people in Africa will have a deep encounter with Jesus resulting in transformation that makes a tangible difference in areas such as family life, poverty, corruption, and injustice. That there will be clarity on critical issues in character and life that hinder the Gospel and transformation in the diverse contexts and cultures in Africa. “Who will not fear you, O Lord, and bring glory to your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous acts have been revealed." (Revelation 15: 4)

Pray for wisdom, boldness, and courage to embrace new strategies and ways that are biblically, creatively, and culturally relevant for resourcing the ministry in Africa, cognizant of 1 Chronicles 29:14 “But who am I, and who are my people that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand.”

Thank God for The Navigators in Africa who have embraced the Operation $2 per month to support missions efforts in Africa. Pray that more countries and more labourers will make it a priority in their personal and national budgets to contribute to this initiative. (2 Corinthians 9:7-15)

Pray that God’s Spirit will breathe new life into our ministries like students, women, men, church, families, community, cities, people from a major religion, market place, poor and vulnerable, Discipling for Development, Business as a Mission, Ministry Partner Development, Africa Partners, Nav Care, and Navigator schools that would result in workers being raised to reach out with the Gospel into the Nations. (Matthew 9:36-38)

Pray that all the National Leadership Teams will aspire to wholeheartedly create the necessary environment for young labourers and leaders to emerge, be equipped and trained.

Pray for the successful meeting of National Directors in March 2023 so that each of the leaders will have a renewed passion for the purposes of God.

Pray that God will give us direction about the different things that we need to do with Conventional Income labourers and leaders to increase their efficiency and effectiveness in the advance of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That the Lord would multiply the lives of these new labourers by His power and keep His promises to them according to Isaiah 43:4 and Isaiah 60:22. That the Lord will fill their hearts to overflowing and protect them from the enemy, that in God alone will they seek life. (John 10:10)

Pray for encouragement, strength, wisdom, and vision to work on critical things for laying foundations of the Gospel and raising foundational generations in all our 21 pioneering countries. Pray for the Lord of the harvest to raise labourers and send missionaries to these countries. (Isaiah 61:4)

Asia Pacific

Focus of Leaders

Working Together in Different Teams

We thank God for bringing people from different backgrounds with strengths and contributions to serve on various teams in the Asia Pacific region.

We realise the greater need in collaborating and working together as a team and with various teams within the region with the posture to love and serve. We need to be more inclusive and humbler to see the realisation of the Asia Pacific Faith Directions with The Core as a guideline. (Ephesians 4:2-6)

The Next Generation

We are also aware of the challenge in ensuring the next generation is being embedded with the DNA of The Core based on Scriptures as well as experiencing this life-on-life and imitating the faith of elders. (Psalm 78:4-7)

Holy Spirit

We want to be sensitive and alert as God leads us in new ways and along unfamiliar paths. We will need to listen more to one another regarding what God is saying to us individually and as a group. (Isaiah 42:16

New Works

"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field." (Matthew 9:37)

Formation of the Asia Pacific Missions Team

We thank God for the new Asia Pacific Missions Team to help in new works, grow missions culture, encourage better collaboration among countries, and facilitate sending across the region. Continue to pray that God will lead and use this team as they serve Him. 

Country #1 – God has led a couple to return to start a business in this country. We are recruiting people to join the team there. Pray Ephesians 4:1-3 for the people who will be joining that there may be oneness in heart and mind.

Country #2 – We are thankful that God has answered our prayers through another couple willing to go there as professionals. Pray for open doors and open hearts to the Message of Jesus and for God to raise up a foundational generation in these places for the advance of the Gospel.

Country #3 – Pray for strategic equipping for one team and preparation for another team who plan to be there by the middle of the year.

Country #4 – One of our partnering countries has adopted another country. Pray for labourers willing to be there on a long-term basis.

Country #5 – Thank God for exciting missions opportunities in other countries in Asia. Ask God to protect the people involved, to provide for all their needs (including more team members), and to give wisdom to the Asia Pacific Leadership Team and Point Persons involved. Pray for the advance of the Gospel of Jesus and His Kingdom in these places.

Melbourne – Ask God to raise up new leaders to pioneer a grassroots student ministry on the campus of Melbourne University and be part of the Melbourne city team. Pray for a couple to take the primary leadership role who would bring a younger couple or single(s) to work on the campus with them.

National Directors Orientation

A National Directors Orientation will be held in August for this region. Pray for wisdom as we plan to spend time with new National Directors from 5-6 different countries. As travelling out of the country may be challenging for some, let’s pray God will provide a way to meet. The time spent together in seeking God and enjoying one another will be a significant one as they start their journey to serve as leaders. (Mark 10:45)

Eurasia

Peace and Stability

We are in a season filled with tremendous economic, cultural, spiritual, and political challenges. Pray for peace both within the countries of Eurasia and between the governments of Eurasia. Pray for God to intervene in the war between Russia and Ukraine. Pray that God would prevent further loss of life and that He will use these challenges to open hearts to Jesus.

New and Young Believers

Pray that God would anchor the women and men new to faith in Jesus with a genuine hunger for the Word of God. Pray for them to walk in the Spirit under the Lordship of Christ. Ask God to break down sinful strongholds in their lives to yield freedom and transformation.

Protection and Unity

Pray for spiritual, emotional, and physical protection, and endurance for our long-term local and cross-cultural staff. Pray that they would unite their local teams and share responsibility as they pursue fruitfulness in personal ministry. Pray that our local laborers, leaders, and staff would have a shared identity rooted in Christ.

Generational Laborers and New Laborers

Pray that God would establish local communities of generational laborers and leaders in each city where we work, using our national laborers to impact a new generation of believers and raise new workers for the Kingdom. Praise God for the new missionary couples and singles joining existing teams and for God to give more who are willing to serve cross-culturally. Pray for a couple who have just been approved to relaunch a work in Central Asia.

Evangelism

Pray for our national laborers to experience breakthroughs in fruitful evangelistic efforts within family and relational networks. Pray for the efforts to reach displaced Ukrainians with the Gospel.

Europe

Gospel’s Advance in Europe

Pray that all European Navigators will grow deeper in their understanding of the transforming power of the Gospel for all cultures in Europe. An example of a subculture is the secularized Europeans who have no religious background and have never been exposed to the Bible. Pray for new missionary teams to help pioneer new works in Europe.

Regional Director Selection Council

On March 10th-12th we held the Selection Council for appointing a new Regional Director for the NavEurope region. The timing of the Council with the ‘publishing’ of this prayer guide means the outcome of the Selection Council isn’t known at the time of writing this. Pray for Bill and Cathy Sparks as they start to transition out of the role and begin the hand-over to the new RD. Pray for the new Regional Director as they take on this new responsibility, that they will know God’s grace, wisdom and strength for all that the role requires.

Next Generation

Pray for the Next Generation Leaders Group who finished their two-year leader development program with some days away in early March. The purpose of the two-year programme was to cultivate a community of younger European leaders, providing them with practical leadership training, and exploring biblical and organizational leadership skills together. Although the NextGen programme has ended, pray for those who took part that they will continue to grow in their leadership of others. Give thanks for the community that has been created, pray that this will continue and that they will continue to support each other as they experience the ups and downs of leadership.

Missional Enterprises

Pray that Europe’s missional enterprises would be financially sustainable, make a social impact, and be environments for spiritual transformation as they continue to serve Europeans especially in Eastern and Central Europe.

Students Work

Pray for the growth of student ministries. Pray for creativity in engaging with new students and in training new student leaders.

20s and 30s

Pray that God would strengthen our ministries to people in their twenties and thirties, helping them to grow in generational disciple-making. Pray for new initiatives that are starting in Europe focused on this age group.

Latin

America

Praises regarding last year’s requests

  • The “Your Calling” (Tu Llamamiento in Spanish) program was launched in August of 2022 with 121 next generation leaders committed to a 2-year process to discover and grow in their contribution in the expansion of Christ’s Kingdom. 

  • Many of the older generation laborers are investing in the next generation as mentors in the “Your Calling” program.

Regional initiative with next generation leaders (“Your Calling”)

  • Although most of the participants have been able to establish a growing trust with their program mentors, some have found it difficult. Please pray that these relationships can flourish, stimulating both the older and younger generation to grow in faith. (Isaiah 43:19)

  • Please pray that God would raise up a new generation of laborers who are trusting God to make disciples of Jesus and asking themselves the same questions we find in Romans 10:14-15.

International GEN meeting in Monterrey, Mexico, March 24-26

  • "When the Foundations are Collapsing, What Can the Righteous Do?" 

  • During this missional enterprise gathering, entrepreneurs from around the globe will open the Scriptures, share real-life stories from their part of the world, dialogue together around Kingdom practices, and explore practical opportunities to expand God’s Kingdom through business.

  • Please pray for these men and women to walk away with a clearer vision of how God sees enterprise as a means for expanding His Kingdom through transformed lives. (2 Corinthians 5:17-19)

Endurance and hope for the local works in LAN

  • Bearing with the failures of others requires a deep conviction that God will accomplish what He has said He will do in the Scriptures. Please ask God to fill us with His endurance and hope so that by encouraging one another, we can glorify our God by living harmonious lives. (Romans 15:1-7)

MENA

Middle East and North Africa

ADVANCE!

Once again, the MENA Region started the year with 22 days (January 10-31) of worship through prayer and fasting. Our Navigator Calling begins with the words “To advance…” and we feel that the Lord has placed this on our heart as we enter into 2023. Pray with us, as we trust that God will advance His Kingdom in the MENA Region throughout 2023 and beyond.

MENA Region Five-year Missions Master Plan

We praise God for the work of His hand as we have begun to implement our Five-year Missions Master Plan. Our established starting point is Acts 13:1-4 to guide our posture as we look to send believers throughout the MENA Region. We are so encouraged by the doors the Lord has been opening before us to expand to new places in the MENA Region.

Over the past year, two exploratory trips were taken to a country in the Gulf. The Lord was clearly at work preparing the path before our team. Pray with us that God will finalize preparations for our team to return and begin to live and minister there.

Internal Expansion

One of our countries in North Africa and one of our countries in the Middle East are actively working to expand to new locations within their respective countries. Pray that the Lord would continue to raise up the laborers and clearly guide them as they establish themselves in the new places the Lord has called them to be.

Country Leader Selection

One of our teams in North Africa has matured to the point that we are ready to help them select a Country Leader from among themselves. Pray with us that we would be receptive to the Holy Spirit’s clear guidance and leading as to whom to entrust with this responsibility.

Open Door

Through a series of trips to a new country in the Middle East, we have been astounded by the opportunities for ministry that we’ve found. In a portion of this country, there is a specific people group that was disproportionately and brutally wronged by ISIS. We have had the privilege of connecting with a believer among this people group who is boldly reaching out to his own people. Pray with us that God would continue to open doors and level the paths for us to be able to send teams into this portion of the country.

North America

Canada, Caribbean, United States

Canada

Praise God that people are coming to faith in Christ and new leaders are joining us. We thank God for the encouragement and hope this gives us.

That God would give those in campus ministry and those involved in leading our campus works clear pathways forward through the challenging realities of ministering on campuses in this country.

That everything we do as ministers of the Gospel here would flow from a deep joy in the Lord, genuine love for people, and sacrificial lives.

That God would continue to help us recruit more staff by creating favourable conditions, effective strategies and clear inviting.

That God would continue to help us empower labourers by identifying, serving and equipping them.

Just as justice is the foundation of God’s throne, may it be the foundation of all of our work and may this resonate deeply with all of our staff and volunteers.

Caribbean

Please pray Isaiah 42:10 and Isaiah 54:2-3 for the Caribbean work. In this pioneering work, ask God to strengthen and establish the foundational generations of national laborers in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago and another country. Pray that our ministries would grow toward local sustainability in finances, leaders, and laborers. Pray that we will give appropriate focus to mainstream society, such as among Roman Catholics and the economically disadvantaged. Ask God for nationals who have resources and connections to help sustain the work long term.

Please pray for the situation in Haiti. The socio-political chaos in this country is hitting an all-time low, placing our staff and laborers in challenging, risky, and even dangerous situations. God has shown us that He is working this way throughout our Worldwide Partnership. Pray we can discern His will in knowing how to adjust to these situations, when to stay, and when to move. Pray for wisdom as to our country leader in Haiti and his family — to discern if and when to relocate temporarily and yet continue ministry from within or from afar.

In terms of missions sending, pray for wisdom as to receiving a couple and a single missionary from the Francophone Africa Navigators to minister in Haiti. This couple and single missionary continue to raise funds and be convicted to pursue this move, in spite of the socio-political situation in Haiti. Pray for wisdom to discern the right timing and strategy to make this move a reality.

Lastly, pray that the Caribbean could, one day, become a sender of missionaries to hard-to-reach parts of the world. Pray that God would help us successfully launch missional enterprises in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and another country.

United States

Praise for the Lord’s Faithfulness

Praise God for the work He is doing to draw the US Navigators into a deeper work of unity and interdependence. There is great movement toward trusting God for something only He can do, both in us and through us, to fulfill our Calling and live into our Vision. We are heading into our National Staff Gathering (once every 4 years) at the end of 2023, and we are excited about the ways we anticipate God using this event to bring greater focus, energy, and alignment to raising up everyday disciplemakers next door to everywhere.

Prayer for the Lord’s leading as we pursue our 2030 National Strategy

Our 2030 strategy is reinvigorating our focus on everyday disciplemakers. 

  • Pray for the glory of God to be manifested in all the corners and nations of our country and the world through flourishing communities of Jesus-loving, Word-living disciplemakers. 

  • Pray for clear leading from the Lord as we identify some older wineskins that need to be traded in for new wineskins. 

  • Pray for our staff and ministry friends to grow into greater faith with a bigger view of God.

  • Pray we can discern together what the Lord is asking us to grab hold of and what we must let go of! 

  • Pray that, as we listen to the Lord, we will swiftly and courageously submit to the Lord’s leading with Joshua 1:9 clarity and confidence.

  • Pray we will be vigilant as Navigators to live the Gospel, modeling a faith that unifies, invites, and restores image-bearers in a country torn by cultural, political, and philosophical differences. Pray our staff will bring light, hope, truth, AND blessing to those around us in a way that leads to healing, conviction, and redemption. 

  • Pray we will increasingly be experienced as a welcoming place for people of all ethnicities, cultures, and languages, speaking truth while engaging in humility with a wide variety of people on their faith journey.