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“How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in?”

“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 […]
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The Lesickas July/Aug 2025

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 […]
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Lesickas May – June 2025

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 […]
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March – April 2025

March – April 2025

Family Happenings Now that Travis is flying much more, he is sometimes away overnight.  One of the kids was telling me how they didn’t like this and wished daddy didn’t have to be away.  I explained to them that when daddy is away it’s because he’s helping people, and when we keep everything running smooth […]
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A Few ‘Finally’s’

A Few ‘Finally’s’

Finally Flying  Greetings from warm and sunny/rainy Papua New Guinea.  Thank you all for praying for Travis’s flight permit to arrive.  He finally received it on January 13th and has been flying with a training pilot since then. He’s been flying missionaries and supplies in and out of the remote locations where they work and […]
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Merry Christmas from our new home!

Merry Christmas from our new home!

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. . . ” John 1:14  Or as C. S. Lewis put it in Mere Christianity, “The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.”  We are so thankful we get to play a small part in bringing this good news […]
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A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

(That’s actually the title of a good book by Eugene Peterson, but it also describes this newsletter well.) “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up.  And […]
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July/August 2024

July/August 2024

What do those missionaries teach anyway? Recently I was reminded that there are a lot of misconceptions about foreign missions.  It reminded me of something I heard a speaker say to some high school students attending a diversity day event many years ago.  Talking about the middle eastern religion she followed, she said, ‘It is […]
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“No Additives”

“No Additives”

That’s how Becky’s language helper describes salvation.  We trust that Jesus’s death on the cross paid the penalty for our sins and “no additives.”  It’s not we trust Jesus. . . and we do a certain amount of good deeds or only worship on a certain day of the week or quit smoking (or in […]
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Learning Language is Fun. . .

Learning Language is Fun. . .

 . . . and it’s a lot of work.  Right now our focus is studying the national language of Tok Pisin (Melanesian Pidgin).  Learning the language and culture is important so that we can communicate clearly and develop quality relationships with PNG (Papua New Guinea) citizens.   Language learning is broken down into four levels: […]
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