COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., (November 3, 2025) — A recent release from NavPress author Daniel Im was recognized at The Word Awards, an annual awards program hosted by The Word Guild to honor the best of Canadian Christian writing from the previous year. Im received the Writer of Colour Award for his 2024 book, The Discipleship Opportunity: Leading a Great-Commission Church in a Post-Everything World. Two other NavPress titles—Karen Stiller’s Holiness Here and Christie Thomas’ Little Habits, Big Faith—were finalists in the Christian Living – Personal Growth category.

“I’m delighted to see these gifted authors recognized for their writing,” says Deborah Sáenz, acquisition editor for NavPress, which is a business ministry of The Navigators. “All three books offer deep insight and wisdom, enriching individual readers and strengthening the Church as a whole. The recognition is well deserved.”

Daniel Im (Edmonton, Alberta) is a pastor, Bible teacher, and podcast host with a passion for the local church. In The Discipleship Opportunity, Im offers a powerful, practical resource for church leaders seeking to navigate the challenges of today’s rapidly evolving, post-pandemic, post-Christian world.

“As I was writing this book, the question that was burning in my heart, my soul, and my mind was how we could be more faithful to Jesus’ Great Commission in this ‘post-everything’ world that we’re living in,” Im shared upon receiving the Writer of Colour Award. “I’m so grateful to hear all of the stories from the pastors and the church leaders who have […] told me the ways that they have changed the way that they disciple and preach and evangelize — because the ways that we used to do it don’t work anymore.”

Holiness Here by Karen Stiller (Ottawa, Ontario) and Little Habits, Big Faith by Christie Thomas (Sherwood Park, Alberta) were included on the 2025 Word Awards Short List as finalists in the Christian Living – Personal Growth category. Holiness Here invites readers to explore how holiness pervades the Christian life, even in its seeming mundanity. Little Habits, Big Faith offers simple daily practices to support children in their spiritual growth.

Founded in 2001, The Word Guild is a diverse and growing community of Canadian writers, publishing professionals, librarians, and others who share a passion for the written word and affirm a common statement of faith. The guild’s mission is “to organize and serve Canadians who communicate through the written word from a Judeo-Christian worldview, so that they can increase in faith and excellence and inspire all readers.” The guild’s annual Word Awards program “exists to encourage writers and recognize their accomplishments over the past year,” offering awards in three primary categories: Unpublished Works or Writers, Published Works or Writers, and Specialty Awards.

To learn more about The Discipleship Opportunity and other NavPress titles, visit NavPress.com.

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About NavPress

NavPress is a business ministry of The Navigators. With a rich catalog of bestselling books, discipleship resources, and The Message^® Bible, NavPress equips readers “to know Christ, make Him known, and help others do the same^®.” Since 2014, NavPress has been in a publishing alliance with Tyndale House Publishers, one of the largest independently-owned Christian publishers in the world. NavPress resources are sold, distributed, and marketed worldwide through Tyndale House Publishers. NavPress, the NavPress logo, and The Message^® are registered trademarks of NavPress, The Navigators, Colorado Springs, CO.

About The U.S. Navigators

The Navigators is a ministry that shares the gospel of Jesus and helps people grow in their relationship with Him through Life-to-Life^® discipleship, creating spiritual generations of believers. Since its founding in 1933, The Navigators has upheld the mission “to know Christ, make Him known, and help others do the same^®.” Our Worldwide Partnership includes around 6,000 staff of 85 nationalities, serving in 123 countries. Navigators encourage spiritual growth across life stages, serving wherever people work, live, worship, and play: on college campuses and military bases as well as in urban neighborhoods, workplaces, churches, local communities, and hard-to-reach places. To learn more, visit www.navigators.org.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., (October 13, 2025) – The Navigators, a 92-year-old worldwide disciplemaking ministry, is excited to announce the release of How Do I Get To God’s House?, a children’s picture book that makes the gospel accessible for young readers. The book was released on October 7, 2025, and will be available for purchase at NavPress or wherever books are sold.

Written with accessible language and paired with captivating illustrations, How Do I Get to God’s House? takes children on a playful yet profound journey to discover where God is and how they can know Him. The book offers a fresh take on The Bridge to Life illustration, a classic Navigators resource, giving children a clear, relatable way to understand the gospel, sin (“mess-ups”), and salvation through Jesus Christ.

In this story, a curious child asks: “Where is God? Can I find Him in the sky? Should I swing as high as I can?” Through wonder-filled questions and everyday adventures, the book introduces young readers to big ideas: the reality of sin, the Big Lie that separated us from God, and the incredible hope of Jesus, the Way back to God’s house.

Perfect for families to read together, this book is a gentle, hope-filled guide that deepens children’s faith and understanding of God’s redemption story. With its uplifting exploration of God’s love and grace, it gives parents, teachers, and ministry leaders an invaluable tool to explain salvation in ways children can both grasp and cherish.

By building on The Bridge to Life, a tool that has helped millions share the gospel for decades, this book bridges generations offering parents, grandparents and teachers a faithful, time-tested message wrapped in charming, new illustrations and child-friendly language.

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About NavPress

NavPress is a business ministry of The Navigators. With a rich catalog of bestselling books, discipleship resources, and The Message^® Bible, NavPress equips readers “to know Christ, make Him known, and help others do the same^®.”

Since 2014, NavPress has been in a publishing alliance with Tyndale House Publishers, one of the largest independently owned Christian publishers in the world. NavPress resources are sold, distributed, and marketed worldwide through Tyndale House Publishers.

NavPress, the NavPress logo, and The Message ^® are registered trademarks of NavPress, The Navigators, Colorado Springs, CO.

About The U.S. Navigators  

The Navigators is a ministry that shares the gospel of Jesus and helps people grow in their relationship with Him through Life-to-Life^® discipleship, creating spiritual generations of believers. Since its founding in 1933, The Navigators has upheld the mission “to know Christ, make Him known, and help others do the same^®.” Our Worldwide Partnership includes around 6,000 staff of 85 nationalities, serving in 123 countries. Navigators encourage spiritual growth across life stages, serving wherever people work, live, worship, and play: on college campuses and military bases as well as in urban neighborhoods, workplaces, churches, local communities, and hard-to-reach places. To learn more, visit www.navigators.org.

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October 13, 2025
Contact: Angela Northamer, Communications Specialist, (719) 594-2181, angela.northamer@navigators.org

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (September 25, 2025) — In continued celebration of its fiftieth anniversary, NavPress launched the Good Books, Big Questions podcast on Tuesday, September 23, 2025. Hosted by Karen Stiller and centered on “bold, loving, and sensible conversations about faith” — a motto inspired by The Message^® translation of 2 Timothy 1:5–7 — the new podcast will feature candid interviews with NavPress authors and staff on the complex issues that inform their writing, ministry, and personal spirituality.

“This podcast is for anyone who is earnestly pursuing — or rebuilding — their faith,” said Dave Zimmerman, publisher of NavPress. “Our hope is that these conversations will help people feel less alone in their questions and more hopeful about where the questions might take them.” 

Good Books, Big Questions is hosted by NavPress author Karen Stiller, former editor of Faith Today magazine and founding host of the Faith Today podcast. She says of the new podcast, “I get to speak with authors and editors who don’t hide from tough questions about faith. How does the biblical story deal with resentment, insecurity, and the other things that keep us up at night? How might Christian faith speak into experiences of racial trauma, abandonment, and grief? How can writing serve as a form of deep communion with others as we navigate the complexities of life together? This is the kind of dialogue we want to make room for.” 

Good Books, Big Questions is available on all major podcast streaming platforms. Guests featured in season one will include Joyce Koo Dalrymple, author of several LifeChange Bible studies and contributor to The Message^® Women’s Devotional Bible; Jared Ayers, author of You Can Trust a God with Scars; Norman Hubbard, author of More Than Christians; and other NavPress authors and staff members. Season two will be released in early 2026. 

To learn more about the ministry of NavPress, visit  www.navpress.com.

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About NavPress 

NavPress  is a business ministry of The Navigators. With a rich catalog of bestselling books, discipleship resources, and The Message^® Bible, NavPress equips readers “to know Christ, make Him known, and help others do the same^®.”

Since 2014, NavPress has been in a publishing alliance with Tyndale House Publishers, one of the largest independently-owned Christian publishers in the world. NavPress resources are sold, distributed, and marketed worldwide through Tyndale House Publishers.

NavPress, the NavPress logo, and The Message^® are registered trademarks of NavPress, The Navigators, Colorado Springs, CO.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 25, 2025
Contact: Mariah Franklin, Marketing and PR Content Editor, (719) 594-2563, mariah.franklin@navigators.org

What prompted you to write a book on leadership?

One of the visions in my life is how do we deprofessionalize and uncomplicate disciplemaking, so the everyday Christian feels like it is something they can do. How do you make it relational, intentional, and thoughtful? Those were the themes that drove my previous books on disciplemaking — being committed to the everyday person.

So those same themes that I had for disciplemaking carried over into my thinking about leadership. How can everyday leaders lead others well in the context of where they are, in Godly and effective ways? How can people walk away and think, “God could use me as a leader right where I am with what I am doing.” I wanted to create a book about the lessons I’ve learned on leadership, particularly in a generation of wisdom, focusing on how to become an everyday leader. Someone who doesn’t have a lot of staff, money, or buildings, but who can feel empowered to lead others in their context.

When you talk about everyday heroes and leaders, what’s the difference between them and traditional leaders? Why do we need to lean more into everyday leaders?

Most of the time, books written about leadership are written by corporate or business leaders, people who are very successful and are often writing for others like themselves. We exalt CEOs or pastors of megachurches, and we put them on pedestals. And we can learn from them and the models they set for us.

However, a lot of times, they aren’t writing for the mid sized pastor, marketplace leader, or neighborhood activist who is just wanting to advance the gospel in their area. These are the everyday people, those that are leading in local, sometimes small, places, and they need just as much help and guidance. So I wanted to write for the everyday leader, helping him or her succeed in the leadership calling and challenges that they are facing on a local level.

What are the four qualities of wisdom gathering that your book discusses, and why did you choose them?

The first is being a lifelong learner, realizing that the classroom is always in session for me and my life in ministry, the workplace, and my neighborhood. With God as our teacher, we need to learn how to sit back and gather the wisdom he’s providing from our experiences.

The second is to be a collaborative leader, since there is wisdom in community and a group of believers. We need to ask ourselves how we can extract wisdom from our community and work together, realizing that we can’t do it by ourselves.

The third element is cultural wisdom. We are all placed in a context, a culture. In those cultures, there are certain values, languages, histories, and practices present, and we need wisdom on how to identify what those are.

Lastly, we need to be innovators, coming up with new approaches, resources, and strategies, and we need wisdom on how to do that. As an innovator, I can produce wisdom for the local leader to craft local solutions for local challenges.

If you could have readers take away one big point from your book, what would it be?

That God promises to give wisdom, but it might not be a quick fix solution. In my last chapter, I talk about choices we have to make to pursue wisdom. It’s often slow, like disciplemaking, and it takes a lot of hard work and thoughtfulness and searching Scripture or talking with people. So as a leader, I need to be willing to chase after wisdom, to give it the time and attention that it deserves. In the book, the four practices will not only help you apply wisdom, but they also help generate wisdom for you as a leader.

Discipleship Tip:

What does it mean to be an everyday leader? You can step up and lead others by seeking the Lord’s wisdom on how to serve and meet others’ needs in the communities and spaces you are already in. Pray and seek the counsel of other believers to find guidance on how you can lead others in new ways during your everyday life.

The Ways of the Leader

Want to learn more about how you can be an everyday leader? Read the first chapter of Bill’s book, The Ways of the Leader, today.

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