DJ and Jennifer Searcy D & J news and updates In our last update, we asked for your prayers as we keep serving in the mission home here in Jakarta and also as we start preparing for our new ministry in Kalimantan. This month we have seen the Lord answer those prayers as we have worked on projects involving both our present ministry and our future one.
On the mission home front, we’ve had two Indonesian families staying with us for the past couple weeks. They have been processing their visas to go to the United States and finish their schooling. One is training to be a pilot, and the other an aircraft mechanic. They desire to be involved in missionary aviation here in Indonesia once their training is completed.
We’re very excited about their willingness to serve the Lord in this much-needed way. Please pray for them that all their paperwork will soon be in order and they’ll have a smooth transition to living in the States again (they previously spent a year and a half in the States starting their
schooling.) Besides that, we’re also planning to welcome 3 more new missionary families and 2 singles to Indonesia. They’ll be arriving in mid-April. All this coming and going of members of the missionary community means that DJ has close to 40 airline tickets to book this month.
On the "moving to Kalimantan" front, we recently placed an order for 6-months’ worth of non-perishable foods and household essentials to be sent in to our future home by boat. Our fellow missionaries purchased all of those supplies for us in the coastal city and put them on a freighter boat going upriver. Once the freighter reached the nearest trade town to where we’ll be living, DJ’s dad loaded them into small boats for the 6-hour journey further upriver to the village. We’re so thankful for all the work the supply buyers and DJ’s parents put into helping us get our supplies interior. It will be so nice to have them waiting for us when we get there!
All that to say, thank you so much for supporting us in prayer. The Lord is answering every day as He gives us the strength we need for the tasks at hand.
Please continue to pray for:
–Provision of finances for my (Jennifer’s) dad and sister to come visit us for three weeks in July and August
–Us to glorify the Lord in the things He gives us to do each day
–Wisdom in teaching Areli and Galilee about the Lord. We’ve recently started telling them Bible stories each night at bedtime. Pray that they will start to understand who God is and what He has done for them.
Praise the Lord with us:
–This month we received a package from a Sunday school class in Texas.
It was such an encouragement to us to open it as a family and realize that someone back home is thinking about us and praying for us.
–We feel so blessed by all the opportunities to get to know our fellow missionaries better when they stay here at the mission home
In Christ,
DJ, Jennifer, Areli, and Galilee Searcy
