Author: DJ and Jennifer Searcy

This year we have the rare opportunity to spend the holidays with family in our home country.  We’ve already enjoyed two different family Thanksgiving dinners and a Thanksgiving dinner at church too.  The week of Thanksgiving was a very hard one for my (Jennifer’s) grandmother.  She was in a great deal of pain due to […]

We’re currently enjoying south Texas fall weather—40s or 50s at night and 70s in the day.  The pecan trees on the back half of my (Jennifer’s) dad’s property have produced a bumper crop this year, so we’ve been picking pecans every chance we get.  I realized a while back that this is the first time […]

We’re down to only 3 1/2 weeks before our June 4 return to Asia Pacific. The next few weeks will be filled with packing, shopping for the things we need to take back with us, and saying a lot of very difficult and emotional goodbyes. We appreciate your prayers for us during this time. Last […]

Since we arrived back in the United States on April 29 for our home assignment, we have logged over 18,000 miles on the road. Over the summer we traveled across the southwest to California, up the coast all the way to Washington, across the north as far as Wisconsin, and back down through the Midwest […]

In our last update a few weeks ago, we mentioned that the kids and I (Jennifer) had all been suffering from coughs, and that the kids had fevers. Shortly after we wrote that e-mail, Tyndale took a quick turn for the worse. His breathing was very rapid and labored, suggesting pneumonia, so we decided we […]

Thank you for praying for Rachel while she worked with translation helpers in the village upriver at the beginning of this month. They worked very hard and finished the first draft of the book of Acts, as well as part of the second draft of Exodus. Now Rachel is getting ready to go downriver on […]

It’s been 6 months since we’ve been out to town.  We’re really looking forward to the chance to talk to our families on the phone again, as well as to fellowship with the other missionaries from our region.  The kids can’t wait to eat ice cream, and Mommy and Daddy will enjoy having internet access […]

We arrived in Indonesia safely

Our first flight leaves from San Antonio at 9am on Sunday August 3. From there we fly to Detroit and on to Tokyo. After Tokyo we stop in Singapore for half a day and will try to get some rest before flying on to Jakarta

I wanted to personally thank everyone who responded to our last e-mail.