It was on September 1, 1980, that the “Daily Word” telephone service was begun from my home in Nagoya, Japan. The purpose of the 90-second daily message was to give Japanese students of English an opportunity to listen to an interesting, informative, meaningful message spoken by a native speaker of English at anytime of day or night. From this inauspicious beginning, the service developed in a very surprising way following reports that appeared both in newspapers and on television. Eventually taken over by NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone), over the next 18 years, it averaged about 120 calls per day for a total of almost 900,000 calls. After being introduced into the NIFTY-Serve computer network in Japan and onto the Internet worldwide, there were more readers than listeners. Two textbooks for English students were published and messages were made available in Braille accompanied by cassette tapes at a library for the blind in the city of Kobe. Meetings of listeners/readers were held periodically in Nagoya where we spoke with one another in English. The service was discontinued at the end of February 1999, a couple of weeks before my wife and I left Japan after 47 years of missionary service there. In response to the expressed desire of “Daily Word” fans in Japan, I have reactivated the service on a web page [i.e., “Timely Words”] from our home in the Penney Retirement Community in Penney Farms, Florida,