My wife and I, along with our four children, are full-time missionaries, dedicated to fulfilling the Great Commission. We believe in Jesus Christ. We work primarily in the area of supporting translation of the Holy Bible for people who don’t yet have it in their heart language. 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. If you have lots of patience and/or a broadband Internet connection, then you might enjoy our 2-minute 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.
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 28:18-10 (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 main focus is software for use by Evangel Bible Translators, Wycliffe Bible Translators, New Tribes Mission, and others to increase the productivity of Bible translators all over world. I believe that the time I spend on this software will be gained back many times over in the time saved by Bible translators doing their work, with the result that the Word of God will be made available much sooner to more people in their own languages. 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. Rainbow Missions, Inc, which we lead, underwrites the cost of publishing this Bible freely on the Internet.
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. We don’t spell
it out plainly on any web
page or other public posting (and ask you to also not do so) so that
spambots
and viruses don’t harvest our new email address and flood it
too. 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 PNG paper mail address for packages and personal mail is:
MICHAEL &
LORI JOHNSON
SIL BOX 421
UKARUMPA EHP 444
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
The best deal on package shipping rates is the USPS flat-rate priority mail box. It is best to email us before sending anything, though, to see if there are any customs or duty issues involved.
Financial support only should be sent through:
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.
Our phone numbers are listed below. When calling from the USA, dial 011 before the country code for Papua New Guinea. You might want to check phone rates before calling... they range from about US $0.35 to $7.50 per minute, depending on which long distance service, plan, or calling card you use. If you can't reach us on one number, try another one.
| Telephone numbers | Country Code | Prefix | Suffix | Extension | Notes |
| B-Mobile | 675 | 671 | 0146 | This is the most likely telephone number to work when trying to reach Michael when we are in or near Ukarumpa. | |
| Home | 675 | 737 | 4614 | Our home telephone number. Please call after 1:30 PM MST to avoid waking us up. | |
| Work | 675 | 737 | 4322 | 218 | This is the telephone on Michael's desk at work. |
| Digicel | 675 | 7218 | 2933 | The Digicel mobile telephone network is separate from the B-Mobile/Telikom telephone network, so we have a Digicel phone to talk with other Digicel customers. Because signal strength is weak in Ukarumpa, it takes several tries to connect to us (because we have to go outside and climb a hill to talk on this phone, even though we can hear it ring in our house). Air time is much cheaper on Digicel, though, for outgoing calls. Incoming calls are free for us. |
Papua New Guinea is 10 hours ahead of UTC and 16 hours ahead of Mountain Daylight Time. When it is [an error occurred while processing this directive] MDT, it is [an error occurred while processing this directive] in PNG.
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