Define OSU NAVS Culture- Fall 2015

A couple years ago I came across a book called Leading from the Sandbox.  I picked up a model for helping teams develop clarity about the vision of their organization.  The idea is to provide four borders that define the activities that fit within your organization.  The hope is that, like a sandbox, these parameters provide boundaries to "play" within, while allowing members enough freedom to be creative, as long as they stay within the boundaries of the group.  The four boundaries are Mission, Central Ministry Focus, Preferred Culture, and Guiding Principles.

One of our Goals for Fall, 2015, was to define OSU NAVS culture.  Here's what we have prayerfully come up with using this model.

Mission: To Advance the Gospel of Jesus and His Kingdom into the Nations
Central Ministry Focus: Spiritual Generations of Laborers
Guiding Principles:

• Value of God's Word- 2 Timothy 3:16
•  Personal Relationship with Jesus- Matthew 4:19
• Personal Responsibility for the Great Commission- Matthew 28:19-20
• Value of the Individual- John 4:1-26
• Power of Spiritual Multiplication- John 17:20-21

Culture

• Fun/Welcoming- Acts 2:46-47
• Grace/Truth- John 1:14
• Commitment/Accountability- Proverbs 27:17
• Faith/Risk Taking- Jeremiah 32:17
• Simplicity/Reproducibility- 2 Timothy 2:2

What we Do:  Living and Discipling among the Lost

Thank you for praying with us as we ask God to continue to sharpen this vision, and accomplish all he wants do through us at Oregon State.

Goals 2017 at Oregon State

In Matthew 9:37, Jesus said,

"The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.  Pray therefore that the Lord...would send laborers into the harvest."  

We'll be able to really measure success of the OSU NAVS in 20 years.  If these students are still walking with Jesus, and making disciples, then we will be really excited.  We are asking God to develop Lifetime Laborers.

With this in mind, we have prayerfully come up with some goals for the 2015-2016 school year with this 20 year vision in mind.

Fall 2015

• Define OSU NAV Culture (Check out post on 2/17)
• Launch 3-5 Healthy Bible Studies on Campus
• Identify 15-20 Potential future Leaders
• Branch one study into a student led study

Winter 201617

• Disciple 15-20 Students with a vision of Spiritual Multiplication. -2 Timothy 2:2
• Recruit 5-10 to our new summer training program at Snow Mountain Ranch in Colorado
• See 3-5 Students discipling one person intentionally
• Establish a Nav Night on Campus

Spring 2016

• Begin seeing students putting their faith in Jesus for the first time
• Branch half of our Bible Studies into new Bible Studies
• Each Staff person sees a 3rd generation in 1-1 discipleship
• Recruit 10-20 student leaders for next year

Please join us in thanking God for his work in the lives of students, and that he would graciously empower the OSU NAVS to develop and send out lifetime laborers. 

2015 at OSU

Jacob, Scott, Garrett and Emily arrived in Corvallis
in September in time to begin meeting students on
campus.  We spray painted two bikes Beaver colors
and collected a stack of spiritual interest surveys.  We had a
great time meeting students and recruiting to our first
OSU NAVS Bible Study.

Throughout our first term on campus many students, mostly
freshmen, tried out our Bible Study on the book of John
in Cauthorn Hall on campus.  By Christmas break we began
to make plans to launch two new studies for the second term!

Every chance we get, we have
invited students into our home.
Following the model in
1 Thessalonians 2:8, we have
had the joy of sharing the Gospel
and our lives with OSU Students!

2 Carloads of students took a trip to Bend, OR with us for some
snowshoeing.  We got to seek God together on where the NAVS
at OSU are heading and what it would look like to be more
involved.