Bible Web Sites Resurrected

Does spiritual warfare affect tech? I’m pretty sure it does. Last Friday night (the 13th of February 2026), Lori and I just got home from church, and I was getting ready to relax. Then I discovered that our main web server was offline. This single computer hosts all of our Bible distribution web sites, our missionary web site, a Bible translation software web site, our missionary web site, and the Papua New Guinea Christian Radio Network web site. It was not an easy fix, so I shifted all of the web site traffic to the hot standby server. In the morning, I discovered that server was also offline, and down hard, like the other one. So, I thought that I would just allocate a new cloud server and restore it from a backup on a different computer. Then I discovered that (1) the backup process had failed for the last several attempts, so I didn’t have an easy backup to restore from, and (2) due to some server software upgrades that were incompatible with the remote control software that I was using, the newly allocated server also didn’t work. I’ll spare you the technical details, but it was a “perfect storm” of bad things happening. I still had the contents of what was supposed to be on all of those web sites, so I tried something different that I hadn’t ever done before. I set up a computer in my office to host all of the web sites, connecting them to the Internet with a brand new fiber optic connection. I worked through the weekend. By 5:00 AM Monday, I had the four most important Bible web sites running again. By Thursday, I finished getting all of the rest of the sites up and running, and got some of the separate services like the contact forms, automatic updates of Bible sites, and the the metrics page working again.

That seemed like a lot of work to make it look like nothing happened. But something did happen. With God’s help, I built the web server back better, with better hardware, a more stable software setup, and no loss of data. More than that, I felt God’s peace as I worked with Him to restore the Bible web sites. Thank you to all who pray.

AI image of what my last week felt like.

Please Keep Praying

Thank God for:

Please pray for:

  • Building more robustness into the new Bible server setup
  • Healing and health for our family
  • Bible study software development
  • More Bible web site updates
  • Wisdom concerning printed Bible projects
  • Implementation of a better way to post audio Scriptures
  • Our ministry volunteers
  • More Scriptures to be translated and released to freely go to more people in more languages

How can we pray for you, today?