Author: Travis and Becky Lesicka

(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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

After much planning and anticipation we arrived in Papua New Guinea on January 3rd.  We got in too late to make our connecting flight to Goroka, so we spent the night in Port Moresby courtesy of the airline, who thankfully booked us a hotel near the airport.  The next morning we got on the first […]

(Next newsletter from Papua New Guinea!) And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. John 1:14 It’s the season of the year where we remember and celebrate Jesus coming to live among us, as the Word of God, to bring us the good news that he would pay the punishment for our […]

Answered Prayers Thank you to all of you for praying for us. Our trip to Pennsylvania and New Jersey in October went really well. We were able to visit with lots of friends and family and were able to speak at two churches. While we were out there we got an e-mail from the Papua […]

Greetings from Idaho! In our last newsletter we mentioned we were still waiting for our work permits. Good news! Our work permits arrived the beginning of August. Our next step is to get our visas from the Papua New Guinea embassy in Washington DC. Unfortunately their computer system for granting visas has been down for […]