Author: Chris and Maggie Hostetter

We’ve been in the States for six months. By the time we fly back to PNG in a month, we’ll have slept in 16 different beds, spoken at 11 churches, visited many supporters, and lived in 3 different houses. We’ve been able to experience 3 of the 4 seasons and visit states from the east […]

Apparently, when your kids are in college or are playing high school sports, the summer ends in early August. Micah and Cole left for college and are settling into Liberty University as roommates, Micah for his sophomore year studying music and Cole as a freshman studying English education. Maisie and Bailey are well into their […]

In the Pal tribe, there are no separate words for “house” and “home.” Saying to someone, “That is my house,” would be the same as saying, “That is my home.” But if I were to ask my Pal neighbors, “Where do you live?” I think they would be very confused. They might think, “Where do […]

When we lived in the bush, we hiked everywhere. The Pal people don’t live in one or two main villages; they live in fifty tiny villages spread all over the mountains. From our house, we could hike for about 45 minutes in either direction and reach 10 of them, but for access to any others […]

Chris and Micah have been gone for 5 weeks now. No one in our family has ever been apart this long before. Micah found a job and is working full-time, and he’s traveling around seeing friends and supporters with Chris on his days off. He will be starting at Liberty University in about a month, […]

Well, I’m not sure what happened, but it’s not May anymore. In fact, it’s not even June anymore. So I’m definitely behind in my blog posting. But because we spent the past three weeks in the bush, I actually have things to tell you now instead of just posting end-of-the-year pictures of the kids. Pshftsh. […]

During the kids’ recent spring break we spent a week at our mission’s center on the coast of PNG. The heat and humidity can be a bit much after the temperate climes of the Highlands, but in exchange for living in a sauna you get to go to beaches with warm water, amazing snorkeling, and […]

We will be teaching a creation to Christ course one night a week at our home church. For you who live nowhere near us, please pray for this endeavor. Pray that people will come. Pray that I will teach clearly and accurately. And pray that lives will be changed. For you that live in our […]

Independence for the Pal church has always been the goal. From day one, we knew we couldn’t live there forever, and that thought was in the back of our minds during everything we did. Last fall we made the decision as a team that it was time to remove ourselves from the daily workings of […]

When New Tribes Mission PNG has all the staff that it needs in each department: business, IT, aviation, medical, maintenance, education . . . we are able to support the work of over 90 church planting families around the country.  Support workers make it easier for church planters to stay focused on their primary goal– reaching the tribal […]