MEET OUR CITY DIRECTOR
For over 25 years, Patriece Johnson has passionately served with the Navigators. Both she and her husband serve as full-time missionaries with the Navigators ministry.
After 15 years of faithfully teaching, leading and making disciples at Joint Base Charleston, in South Carolina, Patriece returned to her hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio in 2020 to serve as the Navigator City Director. She also currently serves as the Co-Director of the African American Network.
Patriece is committed to life-on-life discipleship and raising up next generation disciple makers. In addition to this, her strategic and visionary gifts has afforded her many opportunities to serve nationally with the Navigators. She has served on the Navigator’s SHAW or Sexual Health & Wholeness Team, the Military Leadership Team, the Cultural Development Team, the African American Network Leadership Team, the Ethnic Advisory Council, the National Leadership Team Council and has provided leadership for Summer Training Programs in the US and abroad.
Patriece enjoys discipling and developing Christian women to reach the next generation for Christ. She also takes great delight in traveling and partnering in ministry with her husband and spending quality time with their three children.
A Word from the City Director
In June of 2020, my family packed up all our belongings, loaded up a U-Haul truck, and moved to Cincinnati to serve with the Navigators. Cincinnati became the new home to my husband and children, but it is where I was born and raised so it has been a humbling experience to see my hometown through a Kingdom lens. I was officially commissioned to serve as the City Director in June of 2021, and it has been an amazing journey to create a collaborative effort to reach our city for Christ. Serving as the City Director has opened my eyes to see that cities are ripe and strategic to advance God’s kingdom among many different people groups and contexts. The late Timothy Keller put it this way, “Cities, quite literally, have more of the image of God per square inch than any other place on earth. How can we not be drawn to such masses of humanity if we care about the same things that God cares about?”
Cities are the nucleus to world impact! In fact, about 55% of the world population are in cities (4 billion people) and by 2050, about 70% of the world population will live in cities. In Cincinnati the harvest is plentiful, and we are trusting God to lead us to the faithful men and women who will link arms with us to carry out the Great Commission in the city. The Great Commission is found in Matthew 28:18-20 and it reads,
18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations ,baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
My dream is that Cincinnati becomes a fruitful “City on a hill” in which the unified body of believers are equipped, empowered to advance the gospel of Jesus and His Kingdom together while living and discipling among those who are not yet part of God’s family. I want us to be a city that mobilizes disciple makers who will reach the next generation on every campus, church, community, and people group in our city, our country, to the ends of the earth. Thank you for your faithful prayers and support.
For His Glory,
Patriece Johnson
Cincinnati City Director
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