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STORY
a behind-the-scenes look at how this ministry came to be
Author and Bible teacher Jane Johnson founded Dig Your Well® in 2022 in response to the one question she is most often asked:
“How did you learn to the study the Bible that way?”
The short answer? Over the years, Jane taught herself to dig deeper beneath the surface of the Bible, searching for what was missing from the commentaries she loved to read — the lived experience of a woman waiting for her body to do what it was created to do, but could not.
She began sharing the things she was digging up—first on her blog, then on stages. When women attending the events she spoke at began asking her how to study the Bible the way she did, Jane created a simple how-to pdf that would eventually be morphed into Mercy Like Morning, and, eventually, the School of Scripture.
Our mission is to teach an entire generation of women how to study the Bible for themselves so that they can teach the next.
Keep reading for the backstory of the “Dig Your Well” name, as told by Jane in her first book, Mercy Like Morning. Here's an excerpt:
“I stood in Shawna’s kitchen, looking at photographs on the refrigerator as she expertly pulled shots from the espresso machine in the corner. The motor hummed and the caramel-colored liquid trickled out. She poured it into a cup of ice before topping it off with a swirl of canned whipped cream and a quick finish of sprinkled cinnamon.
“Handing the glass to me and keeping one for herself, she led me into the living room and we took our perch on the well-worn, deep purple couch. Kaleb was stirring in his crib upstairs, not yet asleep. And Shawna began asking the kind of questions you ask someone in the throes of a brand-new discipleship-based friendship.
“Where are you from?
Do you have any siblings?
What is your major?
Tell me your life story.
“This happened once a week—this sharing of learned life lessons. Week by week, we sat there swallowed up in her couch, reading different parts of the Bible alongside commentaries for explanation and insight and application. Shawna knew well that she didn’t have to be a Bible teacher in order to disciple-teach.
“Natural conversation followed. The simplest ones that always lead to the deeper ones. The ones that have grit and meaning.
“The ones that stick to your bones.
“‘Dig your well,’ Shawna said one day. I had been lamenting my struggle through singleness when the pastor’s wife [who would later become my best friend] taught me her most important life lesson. It was a reference from Psalm 84:6 and the people who pilgrim-pass through the Valley of Baca and make it a spring—or, as it can also be translated, a well. The pilgrims traveling through drew water from that spring-well before continuing on their way.
“‘Dig your well for yourself,’ she said, ‘and also for the people who follow along after you. And do it now, while you are single and can dig a little bit deeper and linger a little bit longer.’ She had a point. I really had nothing else to do but pass the hours drinking coffee, studying for exams, working my part-time job, and dreaming of how the rest of my life would shape up.
“Shawna had been digging her own well for years with regular quiet times, letting God fill it with the water of His Word. And on those afternoons, I sipped her handmade iced coffee and drank from her dug-out-well wisdom.
“Of all the things she taught me, that was what stuck. To dig down—and dig deep. Every day, coming to God’s presence whether or not I wanted to, whether or not I had the time or the inclination. In the good days and the ones full of tears. Dig in and dig down and dig deep into His Word. So that when life got busy, and there was marriage and a mortgage and little ones at my morning-feet, I could draw from my dug-out-daily well.
“And when I walked through the desert, I could drink from it.”
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Less diminishing. More believing that God will work with us, through us, and work all of our segmented parts and pieces for good. 🤎
It’s been a week since we celebrated the release of #theworthycommentary and the hard launch of the Dig Your Well® brand and the one moment that will sit with me forever? It’s when I glanced over from my makeshift stage and caught sight of my 9-year-old. His hands were in his pockets, his eyes were lit up, and he was locked in.
I told my husband later that it was as if I was watching the lightbulb of comprehension flick on for him - all those early mornings that he came downstairs to find me at the kitchen table with my Bible and laptop open, all those afternoon quiet times that he came to ask a question and found me at my desk. He put it all together in that moment and realized that it was building something.
I am viscerally aware that my kids’ childhood stories are a parallel ride to the birth of all of this and I have long prayed that they see the deep heart-work that God is carving out in me - that I’m not just their Mom who teaches women about Jesus. I pray that I’m their Mom who teaches them to hear God’s voice and love His Word just as much as I do.
When I was done speaking, my crew of people surrounded my family and prayed over me, my calling, this ministry. And, after that? Jordan wandered over to the shelf, picked up a copy of Worthy, and began to read.
A short while later, Rinnah slipped a book in front of me. Josh told her to ask me with sign it with a twinkle in his eye. “Rinnah-Roo,” I wrote on the dedication page, “this is your legacy.”
Two nights later, at bedtime, I went to do tuck-ins and both boys were already tucked up in their beds reading their own copies of Mercy Like Morning that they also picked up at the party, reading for themselves the story of my agonizing, decade-long wait to finally get to be their mom.
I didn’t expect to see it so soon, but I see it already - the fruit of all of this, the living out of this intentionally and prayerfully assigned ministry tagline that explains the why of it all. And I will keep digging my well until the day that I die. For me. For them. And for anyone who comes across these squares, these books, this space, feeling a little thirsty, and stops for a drink.
All this? It’s just the beginning.
I will NEVER get over stories like these—the way God uses the very words He had me string into sentences to wind their way around the nuanced and deeply personal experiences of women, leaving them feeling seen by Him, known by Him, and unmistakably loved.
I did my part.
Now, I get the jaw-dropping experience of watching God do His.
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