The 9-5 Window: Life after Campus

Adam, University of Wyoming Navigator Campus Director, wanted to help his students get rid of the “cookie-cutter” thinking of what it takes to reach the nations.  “Students want an adventure and we all want our lives to matter.” 

​Adam’s thinking on why he wanted the University of Wyoming to host the missional enterprise Entrepreneurial Readiness Workshop:

We believed it would bolster the idea among our students that they are uniquely gifted to reach any context where God places them.  We hope our students leave campus feeling confident they can see God use their lives in the workplace and neighborhood just as much as He did on campus.

NavMissions designed the ERW around the integrated life—where God’s design and calling for each of us meets.  We believe there needs to be a destruction of the sacred-secular divide and fresh building of the integrated laborer, especially in the unreached "9-5 Window" (the workplace).

​The ERW promotes a vision for new mission frontiers for those who don't feel led into a pure gift-income role.  One goal of the ERW is to see if anyone fits the mold of an international cross-cultural laborer.  But the vision is much broader than international service and we hope to see many people starting or influencing businesses here in our NavCities with a focus beyond a financial bottom line.  Kingdom values expressed through the triple bottom line will create a missional enterprise context for our calling in the U.S. and around the world. 

My hope is that any campus that is seeing a noticeable growth in God's heart for the nations would consider hosting an ERW.  I believe it is my job as a Campus Director to introduce our graduating students to more networks and passionate people then myself.  If all they know after four years is what "Adam" thinks about ministry, missions and the Lord, then I have failed.

The ERW is adaptable for campuses, military bases, churches, mission organizations, and NavCities.  If you would like to partner in hosting an ERW, please email NavMissions at [email protected]. 

The next ERW is September 30, 2016 in Colorado Springs. Get info and register at gendesk.org/erw.

– GEN Desk Director