Hi, I’m Alison Mitchell, and I’m the Children’s Editor at The Good Book Company. I’ve been here for twelve years, during which time we’ve grown from five of us (all getting involved with whatever job needed doing – I was pretty good at packing books) to more than 25.
My claim to fame is that I’m the only person in the company who has a Computer Science degree. But it’s from early 80’s when computers filled whole rooms and programs had to be translated onto punched cards before being fed into the machine. Later, as a research assistant, I developed educational software for one of the very early microcomputers. It was the bee’s knees with a whole 32K of memory. None of us could have imagined an iPad back then.
My computing degree is thirty years out of date and irrelevant in today’s world. But the children’s work I was doing at that time still feeds what I do today. And while my understanding of Scripture grows all the time, the truths in it are never out of date. I get the same joy from helping children meet their heavenly Father through His Word as I did as a teenager at my first holiday club.
Since my stint in computing, I’ve worked for a para-church organisation, been a full-time church youthworker, and then a Primary Schools Christian Worker. In millennium year I joined The Good Book Company to develop a brand-new range of Bible-reading notes for children and families: XTB and Table Talk. What an incredible opportunity!
These days I have a mix of roles. I write and edit material for children and young people – and have a passion for helping parents to explore the Bible with their children. I’ve also had the privilege of editing much of the Christianity Explored range. And I do a lot of training, too. But all of it, ultimately, is about helping people engage with the Bible for themselves, discover who Jesus is and why He came, and grow in their knowledge and love of God. It’s a brilliant job, and a fantastic privilege.
Alison Mitchell is a Senior Editor at The Good Book Company, where she has worked on a range of products including Bible-reading notes for children and families, and the Christianity Explored range of resources. She is the bestselling author of The Christmas Promise and the award-winning Jesus and the Lions' Den.
