David and Teresa Searcy, now retired, ministered among the Punan people in Asia Pacific. “The group baptized about 30 individuals. These were the folks who had gone through the 70+ chronological lessons that Rachel [David and Teresa’s daughter] wrote and then helped teach in ... 2023. Rachel tells of many amazingly clear testimonies of understanding the grace of God. I look at [the] pictures and am awed to see this group of raw and tough Punan hunter-gathers worshipping the Creator of heaven and earth on this rock bar.

“There is progress when I picture in my mind what this situation could have been if the gospel had not come long ago. If the truth had not come, this would be a spiritually dark and dismal place, with people afraid of evil spirits, afraid of the wind, afraid of death, afraid of each other. Now to see this group worshipping the Creator on this rock bar brings tears to my eyes, and I can only worship with them.”

Pray that the Punan church would continue in spiritual growth and maturity.