Art & Robin Allen

Robin and I came to a saving faith in Christ during our teen years.

The last five years of my active duty Air Force career I got involved with the Navigator ministry on base and began to learn how to follow Christ and be used in the lives of others.

I left the active duty Air Force in February 93 and then met Robin that September. I married her in August 94.  We have three children: Elizabeth (10), Philip (6) and Andrew (4).

Since September 2000 I have been serving with the AF Reserves at Lackland AFB in San Antonio. I was called to active duty for a year right after 911 in October 01 and then for another year in March of 03. 

During that first year I focused on sharing my faith with military people on the base. Through group bible studies and dedicated individual time I was able to help several get established in their faith.

As we saw this ministry grow and God’s blessing, Robin and I both realized through our hearts desire, the success of this outreach, the council of others, and in several other ways, that God was calling us to dedicate our lives to work with military men and women to know and live for Jesus Christ through the Navigators.

We came on staff with the Navigators’ Military Ministry in November 2002 and started ministry full time in Apr 2004 to the soldiers at Ft Sam Houston Army Post and the military community in the San Antonio area.

We have since moved near Killen Texas to minister to the 45,000+ soldiers at Ft Hood Army Post.

Well who are the Navigators and what do we do?

We are an International Mission Organization of mobile ministers who help people to “navigate” spiritually through life, and chart their lives by the Word of God.
 
People like you and me called to invest their lives into the lives of others.

Our Navigator work builds biblical foundations, into peoples’ lives, one by one and in small groups, helping people grow strong in biblical disciplines like:
Bible study,
Prayer,
Scripture memory,
Sharing Christ with others,
and building new disciples strongly rooted in their faith.

What’s our focus: Our aim is “To know Christ and to make Him known”

Why we do what we do: Great Commission:
Matthew 28:18-20 18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
Harvest is plentiful:
Luke 10:2 2 And He was saying to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.

How we do it:
 I think Paul says it well in… 1 Thessalonians