
“How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in?”
. . .And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?” ~ Romans 10:14 (NLT) And I will add, how can they understand the preaching unless it is in their own language. New Tribes Missions Aviation in PNG exists to […]

The Lesickas July/Aug 2025
What job could be so important? On this day, three Kodiaks (two of them pictured) delivered about one and a quarter tons of cargo and nine Christian school teachers to this airstrip. One ton of the cargo was shuttled load after load by the R66 helicopter from this airstrip to another remote village where a […]

Lesickas May – June 2025
Check Rides and Simulator Work Check rides and simulator work is some of what Travis has been doing recently. In May he completed his check ride for instrument rating (flying by just the instruments on the dash when you can’t see out the windshield). The only tests that remain are our internal organization base check […]
About
Ever since Becky and I were married in August of 2015 we planned to serve overseas as a missionary pilot family, in fact, it’s part of the story of how we met. We weren’t completely sure which missions agency we would like to work with, but we had some ideas since we both had previous cross-cultural missions experience. After our first 6-months of marriage we took a 16-month job transfer to Hawaii, which is where our son Nathan was born. ...