Evan, Ben, Michael, Lori, Rachel, and Nate Johnson on 17 August 2010 (click for a larger picture)
My wife and I are
full-time missionaries, dedicated to fulfilling the Great Commission.
We work primarily in the area of supporting translation and publication
of the Holy
Bible. We don't get paid for that, but we live on donations, which fund both our living expenses and ministry expenses. We have spent about 8.5 years in Papua New Guinea. Michael's current
task is electronic Bible publishing at the University of
the Nations Kona Campus, where Michael is on staff as a volunteer.
(We are still helping the organizations we were helping before, as this
is part of a collaborative effort between organizations.) You may
want to read our current newsletter
or past newsletters
using the free
Adobe
Acrobat reader. We also have a Papua
New Guinea picture gallery and a picture
gallery with photos from Papua New Guinea and other places we have
traveled. You can print out our prayer card and put it on your
refrigerator. If you have lots of patience and/or a broadband
Internet connection, then you might enjoy a 3-minute,
10-second slide show.
(That same video is available in a
zipped ISO image that can be burned to a DVD for playing on a
regular DVD player as well as on a computer.) We have a mailing list
for
our partners who like to get regular updates and pictures, and a
light-weight text-only email list for people who have slow and
expensive email connections. Email us
if you want to be on either of those mailing lists. Michael also has a blog. You can follow us on Twitter or connect with Michael and/or Lori on Facebook.
Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. 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, teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. -- Matthew 28:18-20 (WEB)
Our vision is to help fulfill the Great Commission by contributing to the monumental task of making the written Word of God available to every people group in their own language. This is a monumental task, because of the more than 6,800 living languages spoken today, only about a third of them have even one book of the Holy Bible written in their own language. How can you really effectively make disciples of Jesus Christ without a Bible that they can understand? I am using my software development and linguistic skills to make the work of Bible translators all over the world more productive. My current project is a joint project with YWAM and Bible translators to publish Scriptures in many languages in many electronic formats. Because of the unique nature of the software development work that I do, I work both with other software developers in the United States and with Bible translators at field locations. For more information, please see our newsletters. For people with broadband connections and/or lots of patience, we have a PowerPoint presentation.
I also work on the World
English Bible part time. Unlike most modern English Bible
translations, this translation is
not copyrighted, and may be copied freely
without payment
to me or anyone else.
There is nothing as powerful as the love of God, as expressed in His
Word. This video posted on You Tube by New Tribes Mission gives a
glimpse of that power. (Disclaimer: I didn't make this video, but I
have some friends in New Tribes Mission and lived in the same country
and saw some of the same sorts of things.)
The video above gives a good feel for parts of Papua New Guinea.
In another video posted on Facebook, Bible translator Neil Anderson
talks about Bible translation. I helped with the typesetting of the
printed new Testament that he worked on (Folopa), and also posted it online.
We receive no regular salary. Instead, we rely on the prayer and financial support of people like you, not only for our own living and travel expenses, but for ministry and project expenses. To find out how to better pray for us, please read our newsletters. If you send us your email address and request ministry updates, we also let you know more specifically what we are up to and how you can pray for us, as well as how we are praying for you. If the Lord lays it on your heart to cheerfully partner with us financially, then you may mail a check or money order.
Our main email address used to be mpj@eBible.org,
but we no longer read all email to that address because of the flood of
junk mail. It just wasted too much time to try to
find good email in that mess. A working email address to reach us for
personal email
is what you get when you replace “mpj” with
“Kahunapule”
in our old email address. For
private and/or authenticated email, I use Gnu
Privacy Guard. Another way to get a message to us in a way
that is
more secure than regular email is to use
our web contact form.
Our mailing address for personal mail and packages is:
MICHAEL
& LORI JOHNSON
UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS
75-5851 KUAKINI HWY # 17
KAILUA KONA HI 96740-2199
USA
Our post office box is also still open:
Michael & Lori Johnson
PO BOX 5278
KAILUA KONA HI 96745-5278
USA
WORLD
OUTREACH
MINISTRIES
PO BOX B
MARRIETTA GA 30061-0379
USA
+1
770-424-1545
Please
mark your donations "FUND CODE #70" to
ensure that we are credited with your donation. Please do not send
personal mail to our support address.
Our phone numbers are listed below for personal calls to us (not unsolicited sales calls) only.
| Telephone numbers | Country Code | Area Code | Prefix | Suffix | Extension | Notes |
| Verizon Wireless | 1 | 808 | 333 | 6921 |
This
is the
number most likely to reach Michael. To reach Lori,
replace the "2" with a "3" in this number. If we don't answer this number, we might be outside of the USA. Try the one below. |
|
| Skype | 1 | 719 | 387 | 7238 | Skype
name: kahunapule. This is a
Colorado Springs local
number that will reach us almost anywhere we wander, as long as we have
a
solid Internet connection and are close to our computer. If you don't
get an answer on this line, try the one above. |
Hawaii is 10 hours behind UTC and 3 hours behind Mountain Standard Time.
It is now
Places to go from here:
Are you ready for His return?