International Bible Society-Send the Light (IBS-STL) has announced the appointment of Steve Johnson as global publisher.

Johnson, who previously served with IBS as director of communications, vice president for ministry services and most recently as group vice president, Americas, will work with IBS-STL publishers in Africa, Asia, North America and Europe to develop coordinated strategies of Bible translation, product development and publishing for ministry partnership, direct-to-churches, and consumer and trade markets.

IBS-STL officially merged March 1 to form one of the largest not-for-profit literature organizations in the world-a move that company officials said would maximize Bible distribution around the world.

IBS is one of the world's largest translators and distributors of Scripture, and is the copyright holder of the New International Version-the world's most widely read contemporary English translation of the Bible. STL is one of the world's largest distributors of Christian literature.