The Great Commission is our Mission.
Michael, Lori, Kaylee, Evan, and Ellie on Memorial Day Island living has some redeeming qualities, but after a while, it is really good to travel around and visit family and friends. Before leaving, I set up secure remote access to the servers in my home office so that I can do some essential maintenance from …
Read More Fellowship, Family, and Ministry on the RoadWe are celebrating the birth of our granddaughter, Ellie! May God bless Evan, Kaylee, and Ellie. Lori and I will go visit them, then visit Ben, Naomi, and our other two grandchildren soon. After that, we plan to visit friends and family in Colorado. We look forward to worshipping with church family in two places: …
Read More Meet Ellie!Did you ever have one of those times or seasons where challenging things keep happening? I can totally relate. I suppose most people can. Here is a little bit about what I recently was working on and how I kept in peace through it (unlike I would have been in times past). This last couple …
Read More OOPS!I was pleased to see the launch of the Tap Bible app. It is capable of downloading and displaying Bible translations from the eBible.org Sword repository. It is still under development, but it is already useful for Bible reading and searching. I’m looking forward to see how this develops.
Read More Tap Bible LaunchedI regularly get expressions of thanks for the many freely shareable Bible translations that we post online. These thanks really belong to all who support and pray for us and to God who enables all of us to do what we do. Here is an email that we received last week: Dear Michael, Thank you …
Read More Gratitude from GhanaBut someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?” You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies. That which you sow, you don’t sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some …
Read More Resurrection Power!We are grateful for your prayers for Lori’s eyesight and your encouragement. Lori has returned safely from Vietnam and seen three different eye doctors, here, including a retina specialist in Honolulu. She has vitreous hemorrhaging that results blood in the eye blocking both Lori’s vision and the doctors’ view of the retina. So far, it …
Read More Quick UpdateLori kayaking with her friend, Michelle, in Vietnam Lori went on a vacation in Vietnam with her teacher friend, Michelle, just for fun. Don’t worry. The trip was funded by Lori’s public school retirement pay, not our mission donations. While there, she suddenly lost vision in her left eye. She can still see with her …
Read More Please Pray for LoriScribe copying Scripture in Greek The Septuagint is the oldest existing translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek. We were blessed with a gift of not just the text of the Greek Septuagint, but an audio recording of it as well, complete with permission to share it. It was translated starting in the 3rd century …
Read More What is the Septuagint?Rachel with her dog, Kilo Before Lori and I had any children, Lori said that she knew that we would have three sons. We do. Their names are Nate, Ben, and Evan. We are blessed to have them in our family! I felt content with them, but then Lori had a godly vision of us …
Read More Celebrating Rachel!It could be today, or it could be years from now that Jesus comes again. Regardless, I want to please Jesus with doing His work in His way whenever He comes. Keeping this in mind helps me keep focused on what is truly important. Our greatest treasure truly is in our relationship with Father God. …
Read More Are you ready for Jesus’ return?When I look at all that God has done through us, I am amazed. Honestly, there have been times when I felt overburdened. Those must have been the times that I got distracted by burdens that weren’t from the Lord. Now I am getting better at hearing from the Lord what to work on and …
Read More An Easy Burden