The Great Commission is our Mission.
Lori with our granddaughter, Mary, with smiles that warm our hearts We are so grateful to have had the opportunity to visit all three of our sons at their homes in three different states, as well as visiting with other friends and family. We were able to help Evan and Kaylee with a few much-needed …
Read More Grateful!Jason Peebles (founder of World Outreach Ministries), Michael, and Lori Lori and I were delighted to visit our faithful home office, World Outreach Ministries, in person, last week. We met Jason Peebles for the first time in 2007 by Internet and telephone. We began using World Outreach Ministries as our home office for processing our …
Read More Appreciating World Outreach Ministries!Family photo with Cardinal Timothy Dolan after Fr. Lawrence (AKA Nate) was ordained at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Manhattan, New York. From left to right: Michael, Michele, Ben, Naomi, Francis, Monique, Lori, Kim, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Mary, Fr. Lawrence, Evan, Kaylee, Peggy, and Shawn. Lori and I and family had the pleasure of being in New …
Read More Celebrating MilestonesIf I (Michael) were to “retire”, what would that look like? I’m pretty sure that I would still be driven by the same passion to make God’s Word freely available to as many people speaking as many languages as I possibly can. That would mean doing pretty much the same things I do now. So …
Read More Can’t Stop, Yet!Evan, Lori, Rachel, Nate, Michael, and Ben in Papua New Guinea in 2008 This Mother’s Day, I would like to honor my wonderful wife, Lori. It takes a special woman to go into full-time missions in Papua New Guinea with three sons, and come back years later with three sons and daughter to continue serving …
Read More Missionary Mom!This 8-year-old computer served me in Bible ministry for several years until a couple of things went wrong and I couldn’t get it to run MacOS any more. Instead of sending it in for recycling after I replaced it, I loaded Linux on it and repurposed it as a Bibledit server. It is in active …
Read More God and Technology; 27 More Bible Translations Online!John 3:16 in the Alaba-K’abeena language of Ethiopia, one of the new Bible translations this week on eBible.org This has been an eventful week! I could really feel your prayers. Thank you! “Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow…” See Mark 4. We keep spreading the Word of God. Lots of it is bound …
Read More Five More Bible Translations Online!The Last Supper (John 13) as envisioned by Leonardo da Vinci and repainted by Giampietrino What would it have been like to be with Jesus Christ at the Passover meal that was his last supper before He was crucified? He surprised His disciples by washing their feet. He gently sent His betrayer on his way. …
Read More Dining with JesusSilver dinar of Vespasian, photographed by Michael Johnson at the Museum of the Bible I found the cure to worry about taxes and tariffs. It works, even though I have seen a lot of worry and sensationalism in the news and deep divisions among friends concerning opinions about taxes, tariffs, and politics. In our partnership …
Read More Taxes, Tariffs, and TestsThis week was one of taking care of a lot of little tasks: None of those things, by themselves, seem like much, at least to me. Sometimes mission work involves taking care of personal health, maintaining the house where we make our home and my office, helping others do the ministry God called them to, …
Read More Little Things Add UpInductive Bible study that I was leading in Papua New Guinea in 2010. There were people from many language groups attending, but all of them were fluent in English or Tok Pisin or both. I instructed in both languages (interpreting for myself). Now, in 2025 in the U. S. A., my in-person inductive Bible studies …
Read More Celebrating 25 YearsDo you know what was the hardest thing for me in becoming a missionary? It wasn’t the culture stress. It wasn’t the transience and frequent moving. It wasn’t dealing with international borders and political restrictions. It wasn’t tribal warfare and crime. It wasn’t language learning. It wasn’t having a missionary job that is different than …
Read More Missionary Support: Good, Bad, and Ugly