The ministry of The Navigators began in the 1930's through the call of God to a young Californian, Dawson Trotman. He began to teach high school students and local Sunday school classes. Then in 1933, he and his friends began to extend their work among sailors in the U.S. Navy.
Many hours were spent with individual sailors in Bible study, Scripture memorization and prayer with an emphasis on each teaching another what he had learned. By the end of World War II, thousands of men on ships and bases around the world were learning the principles of spiritual multiplication.
At the same time, the high school students whose lives Dawson had touched went on to reach out to others around them in Southern California. Today, nearly seventy years later, we minister not only in the military and with students on college campuses, but in the marketplace with businessmen and women, among homemakers, ethnic groups, international students, in countries around the world ... wherever there are people who need Christ.
The Navigator ministry has been at the University of Texas since the 1950s. As students began to minister to their friends the vision of reproducing your life grew and by the 1970s laborers were being raised up and sent out to all parts of the world. By the 1980s, The Navigators became a recognized student organization and has continued to see students impacted with a desire to know Christ and make Him known on campus, in this city, across the nation, and around the world.
