Author: DJ and Jennifer Searcy

We wanted to let all of you know that we're planning to return to the States for 6 months of home assignment from February-July of next year.

We're happy to announce that the Lord has blessed us with another little one on the way.

Any of you who've ever fought with rabbits over a garden may understand something of what we face to keep our produce for ourselves, except that rabbits can't swing in from the treetops to snatch away bananas, cassava, and pineapple tops.

It has been raining almost constantly for the past 4 or 5 days, causing a lot of flooding in the capital city. Many neighborhoods are under several feet of water, and many of the main streets in our area have become rivers. You can imagine what that does to traffic in a city of over […]

6:15 AM--Rise and shine. Un, the lady who works here at the mission home, is already in the kitchen starting preparations for breakfast.

We hope this New Year's Eve finds you reflecting on God's incredible faithfulness.

The life the Lord has called us to is full of moving and saying goodbye

On August 17, 1945, Indonesia officially declared independence from the Netherlands.

Tomorrow we finish up another unit of language study, and on Sunday we hit the road again.

We just found out that there was another earthquake off the southern coast of our island, which resulted in a tsunami. Some of you may have heard about it before we did, so we wanted to let you know that we are fine. This earthquake was farther from us than the one that hit a […]