We believe community is important, and you're invited! Everyone has a desire and a need to be known and cared for, and that's only possible in a community of others. To build such a community, we have organized and organic opportunities to connect on a weekly level through our large group, in small groups, or on a one-to-one level. Year after year many new students would agree that our Navigator community is an awesome place to grow strong in your relationships with God and with others!
Check out various opportunities below to get a snapshot of what our community looks like on the University of Minnesota campus and the ways you can connect with us.
Check out various opportunities below to get a snapshot of what our community looks like on the University of Minnesota campus and the ways you can connect with us.
Weekly Small Groups on Campus
Our life-to-life approach to discipleship requires proximity. Our small groups often share meals together, study the Bible together, pray together, serve together, and have lots of fun together. For most students who commit to a small group the result is solid growth in their walk with God, and a solid group of long-term friends. We offer both mens' and womens' small groups in most dorms as well as a number of different off-campus options. We also have a small group that focuses on basketball and building relationships in the Rec Center.
If you are interested in connecting with us, fill out the form HERE
If you are interested in connecting with us, fill out the form HERE
Nav Night: Our Weekly Large Group
Thursdays from 8:00-9:30pm in Bruininks Hall room 412
Nav Night is our weekly large group gathering on campus during the school year. Expect relevant messages taught from the Bible, a time of prayer, hearing from fellow students, and a chance to connect and meet people. Nav Night typically runs from 8:00 to 9:30 on Thursday night, but people often stay late to hang out and eat snacks. If you are new to Navigators, Nav Night is one of the best ways you can come check out our group!
Nav Night is our weekly large group gathering on campus during the school year. Expect relevant messages taught from the Bible, a time of prayer, hearing from fellow students, and a chance to connect and meet people. Nav Night typically runs from 8:00 to 9:30 on Thursday night, but people often stay late to hang out and eat snacks. If you are new to Navigators, Nav Night is one of the best ways you can come check out our group!
Organized Events
Every month or so we try to do an organized event to gather our Navigators community together. In the fall we typically try to do something outside like hiking or painting pumpkins. Sometimes we get all the men or women together for a short retreat style event on a Saturday morning and afternoon with a message and something fun or service-oriented. We love to host house parties, football watch parties, Thanksgiving potlucks, and Christmas parties! Everyone is welcome to any of our organized events. Over winter break we try to do a fun retreat at a camp, or a ski trip.
Organic Community
It's not uncommon for students in our community to have all sorts of sproadic things going on throughout the week with each other. This is really where the magic happens! In the past, some groups of students do intramural teams together, host game nights, movie nights, do trivia together, go swing dancing, polar plunges, watch Gopher football, host baking competitions, spontaneous worship nights, and pretty much anything else you can imagine. Saying yes to any invitation is a quick and easy way to grow new friendships! We hope you'll join for whatever happens next!
Life-to-Life Discipleship
One of the best ways to be known and cared for is in life-to-life discipleship. Seeking to be faithful to Jesus' call in the Great Commission to make disciples, it is our passion to personally invest in a generation of people who, in turn, desire to invest in others who will do the same. "What you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also," (2 Timothy 2:2).
