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 […]

Thanks so much for your prayers and giving over the last couple months. We’ve been amazed at the extra gifts and the other ways the Lord has been providing for our needs. We’re continuing to get dental work done, and hopefully we are close to seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Tyndale […]

Thank you for praying for us during this busy summer.  The pace for us hasn’t slowed down much since we got back from our summer travels.  We’ve been spending time with as many different friends and family as possible, as well as trying to work through a long list of doctor and dental appointments.  We’re […]

Thank you so much for praying for us during our month-long ministry travels. We are so thankful for safety during almost 7,000 miles on the road from June 5 to July 3. We got to visit friends, family, supporters, and churches in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado. So many amazing […]

It’s been 2 months now since we moved here. Our house is still not completely set up, but we do have bedding and curtains now. 🙂 Meanwhile, we are busy studying the local language here using the same language and culture acquisition lessons that new missionary families use to learn the national language. We plan […]

We’ve been in our new ministry location for 3 weeks now. We arrived right before this country’s biggest holiday, followed a week later by another holiday (Independence Day.) As a result, most shops and businesses were closed for a good part of our first couple weeks here, which has slowed down the process of getting […]

Our two weeks in the village were bittersweet as we enjoyed the company of our Hobongan friends after over a year apart, but also had to tell them that we won’t be living in the village with them anymore, at least for a while. They understood the need that is leading us to move to […]

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 […]