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Ron and Barbara Johnson
The
above
pictures are of our home in the Rocky
Mountains of
Wyoming. The left picture shows two firewood piles and a new spring
garden. (We have just this spring (2011) moved the firewood piles
closer to the mobile home and expanded the garden.) The mobile home,
bought 37 years ago shortly after we bought
the
property, is to the rear. A back yard (much of which
is Barbara's barnyard) is between it and the large cottonwood
trees. The right picture is a view of our levee, the river, and the
bluff where the river turns and continues easterly. When the
ground is warm enough to begin planting the garden, then the river is
at
its high water level from mountain snow runoff.
~~~
C. Ronald Johnson was born in 1940 in
south Texas, raised in New Orleans and then Opelousas, Louisiana
and finished his last two years of high school in Nederland,
Texas, and in July he entered the Navy. At the end of three years he
was
honorably discharged as Second Class Petty Officer. He attended college
at Lamar College of Technology (now Lamar University) in Beaumont,
Texas, from which he graduated with honors and received a BS in
Electrical Engineering. His first engineering job was in R&D in
the aerospace industry in Florida for two years, during which he and
Barbara were married. Then he attended the University of Miami and
received an MS in Electrical and Ocean Engineering. He continued
R&D work for a total of ten years.
Ron believed God was leading him to
quit engineering, which he did, and for nearly a year he, Barbara, and
newborn Benjamin ‘waited on the Lord’. They were led to become pastor
of a Southern Baptist mission in a small town in the Rocky Mountains of
Wyoming, which lasted only a few months; yet, the Lord led them to stay where
they were… whereupon the expected “less than a year before moving again”
ran its course and they still abide where God had placed them.
Quickly God made it clear that Ron was
not to work at a regular job for a living... instead to continue
‘waiting on the Lord’. Their savings lasted five years. Then, in reading
about the life of George Mueller, Ron and Barbara together
prayed if the Lord so chose that He might lead them into the
kind of life that depended on His provision. As it has turned out, God
so
chose and has remained faithful.
The story of Ron and Barbara...and Ben
growing up to go away to college in a private school in Florida and
then to get his MS in Electrical Engineering at Ohio State...is for
another time and place. Ron and Barbara (and Ben until he left for
college) continue living close to the soil in their mobile home with a
large garden on the banks of the Wind River where often moose have
gotten into the fall cabbage crop. Ben raised rabbits and won many
ribbons showing them at the county fair. Barbara raised Ben and goats.
The milk from the latter she has sold and/or traded. There has
been much
hunting, fishing, hiking, firewood cutting… but also much helping of
neighbors and sharing with many of God’s people. Ron and Barbara became
longtime
friends with the Assembly of God folk as well as with the Baptist folk
of the church that developed from the early mission. Indeed, we are friendly with all the churches. Over the years Ron
has studied his Bible and early on he became interested in ancient
history to augment his studies.
About the age of fifty or so, Ron
answered a question from a friend about faith by writing some ten or so
pages. A month later he came across those pages in his computer and,
studying them, it seemed that the topic would make for a good little
book. Not realizing that it would become a book, he became caught up in
trying to express to the computer his concept of the subject. At first
he wrote about what he knew of faith. But soon (no doubt by the Lord)
he realized that the stories of scripture taught far better on the
subject. (The many stories in the Bible and the words of the Apostle Paul
and God’s ongoing work have been the encouraging factors to Ron and
Barbara in their faith.)
This writing began in winter and by spring he
knew he was, indeed, writing a book with God’s blessing. That initial
work grew to two years and became the draft of GOD’S HOOK. Then the
Lord led him into GOD’S ROCK, taking four years of initial research and
writing. Then many years were spent in developing writing skills by
going over and over the manuscripts, as Ron wanted to not take away from
the subject matter by poor writing. The work is now left to God and to
the folk that read its pages.
~~~
Barbara, with a BS degree in Elementary
Education from Florida Atlantic University, taught first and second
grades in public school and second
grade in an Evangelical Lutheran school until Ben was born. Since then
she has often played the piano for churches and she teaches piano to
children. Consider the illustrations in her mother's books on the
'Other Books' page and you will see her creative skills.
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