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God’s message for the Kuyu What does it look like to hear God’s story for the first time? An update from the Kuyu team: ‘Fifteen years ago, the Kuyu people started writing letters, asking someone to come and teach them “God’s talk.” Lord willing, on November 30th they will finally begin hearing God’s story in their […]

 New Tribes Mission Aviation in Papua New Guinea serves 40+ church planting locations where travel by car is impractical or impossible. Below is an update from one of these locations. Tanguat Discipleship and Translation Update  Around 2010, a church planted among the Inapang language group had the desire to reach out to their neighboring language […]

 Towards the end of our missions training we were asked to come up with a 60 second explanation of what we would be doing, ours went like this: We enable church planting missionaries to live in villages in remote locations.  Many of the people groups still unreached with the gospel are in hard to reach […]

. . .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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]