Who We Are
Meet our local and global Navigators teams serving at Wichita State University.
Local Navigators
Meet our campus leadership team dedicated to helping students know Christ, make Him known, and help others do the same.
Campus Directors
Mark & Annie Scaffidi
Campus Directors
Mark and Annie, along with their three children (Bella, Eden, and Isaac), lead the WSU Navigators. Their lives drastically changed when they were in college and their friends shared the Gospel with them through the help of the Navigators. Now, Mark and Annie actively act as examples to students on what it means to know Christ, make Him known, and help others do the same.
Full Time Staff
Garett Butler
EDGE Corps
Garett labored in the Navigators as a student at WSU, and when he graduated decided to continue laboring as a member of the Navigators staff team at WSU. While he was in college, Garett's friends and mentors in the Navigators helped establish the vision to boldly proclaim Christ, and now he is excited to be part of passing that vision down!
Daniel Parham
Staff in Training
Daniel came to Christ his sophomore year of college after the Navigator's equipped his friend, Michael, to reach the lost. Since then, Daniel has been apart of Navigators as a student first, and now as a full time staff. He later graduated from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and is using his skills to investing in the upperclassmen at WSU, helping raise up more generational disciple-makers.
Sabrina Parham
Staff in Training
Sabrina first met the Navs as a Computer Science student at WSU in 2019. Since learning about the disparity of ethnic groups in other countries that don't have access to the Good News about Jesus, she has aspired to go overseas as a missionary with her husband Daniel. In the meantime, she is grateful to serve with the WSU Navs as the Nations Liaison as well as the Community Group Coordinator. In her free time, Sabrina enjoys reading, board/card games, puzzles, and long walks on the beach.
Ally Madrigal
Navigators Representative
Ally joyfully serves with the WSU Navigators as a Co-Regional Missions Coordinator. She is dedicated to life-on-life discipleship, helping students fall in love with Jesus during their formative college years and equipping them to do the same for others. Ally’s prayer is that students become lifetime disciple-makers who take the gospel "from next door to everywhere".
What We Do
Biblical Teaching
Providing solid biblical foundation through NavNight and community groups.
Discipleship
One-on-one mentoring and discipleship relationships that foster spiritual growth.
Campus Outreach
Reaching students across WSU campus through evangelism and service projects.
From One Man's Vision to a Global Movement
The remarkable story of how a simple truth changed everything: "You teach him what you taught me!"
"You Teach Him!"
It was a simple moment that revolutionized discipleship forever. Sailor Les Spencer brought his shipmate to Dawson Trotman, asking him to share the life-changing truths he'd learned. But instead of teaching the sailor himself, Trotman looked at Spencer and said something revolutionary:
"You teach him what you taught me!"
This moment in 1933 sparked the vision of "spiritual multiplication" - disciples making disciples who make disciples.
2 Timothy 2:2
"And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others."
The Journey Continues
A Lumberyard Worker's Vision
In California, young Dawson Trotman begins discipling sailors with a radical idea: every believer can teach someone else. Starting with simple Scripture memory and personal discipleship, this small beginning would transform how the world thinks about making disciples.
Thousands at Sea Transformed
During World War II, The Navigators explode across the U.S. Navy. Sailors on ships worldwide begin discipling each other using "person-to-person teaching of God's word." By war's end, thousands of military personnel are practicing spiritual multiplication.
"The impact was extraordinary - from ship to ship, base to base, the movement spread organically as transformed lives transformed others."
Going Global
The first Navigator missionary is sent to China in 1949, marking the beginning of international expansion. By 1953, headquarters moves to the breathtaking Glen Eyrie property in Colorado Springs - a castle that becomes the heart of global Navigator ministry.
Our Mission
"To know Christ, make Him Known, and help others do the same®"
Through Life-to-Life Discipleship - studying the Bible together, praying, encouraging and counseling new believers, and equipping disciples to make more disciples.
Join Our Team
Whether you want to volunteer, intern, or join staff, there is a place for you in our ministry.