Brian Hayward

In order to be included in RW360’s Directory, this individual has fulfilled and affirmed these training and accountability requirements.

Categories:

About Brian Hayward

Brian has a background in health care administration (MPH, CHES), as well as Biblical and cross-cultural studies. He also has some experience in real estate and as a foster father.

Throughout his career, Brian has served low-income populations in urban and rural areas in the U.S. and abroad. He served the Lord in Africa as a public health professional after completing his MPH. He currently serves as a Navigator Representative with the Navigators, a worldwide outreach organization headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO. The Navigators’ purpose is the discipling of Christians with a particular emphasis on enabling them to share their faith with others.

As an Outreach Minister, Brian was trained in leadership through serving as a member of the Detroit Navigators leadership team, his mission’s national leadership team, leading a local outreach team, and completing a 13 month leadership training program with a cohort of other leaders. Since 2020, he leads a network of practitioners who strengthen one another through fellowship and partnership towards living and living like Jesus among peoples of different faith backgrounds. Brian also serves on his mission’s national leadership team.

Volunteering with Medic International, Brian opened up a new country of service in 2009, where he assisted missionaries to develop their own sending base. He’s also volunteered with various agencies since 2011 resettling refugees and serving asylum seekers.

Brian pursued Conciliator training through Peacemaker Ministries, having been certified in 2016. He’s had the privilege of helping mission and church staff and members, missionaries and trainees, business partners, and couples in conflict to resolve their differences biblically and experience the transforming power of the gospel.

His passion is to equip Christians on mission to demonstrate the gospel of Christ in the way they handle conflict, including with people of other cultures and faiths. He’s currently pursuing a Master’s of Near Eastern studies at Wayne State University with a concentration in Arabic. Brian is fluent in French and in standard Arabic and is becoming increasingly passionate about the cultural and ethnic dynamics of conflict.

Since 2023, Brian’s been trained (SCAO approved) and is getting experience in the Detroit area as both a Civil Mediator and more recently as a Domestic Relations Mediator.