Author: Chris and Maggie Hostetter

Imagine not being able to say your own name. Imagine a stranger (like a missionary from a faraway country) coming up to you and asking your name, but you are forbidden to say it. Instead you smile, giggle a little, and look around to your family or friends for help. This is what happens if […]

We look down upon the clouds just as often as we look up at them. It is a pretty cool place that God has brought us to. It has been really cool to see how God has been providing and bringing plans together for our house building. Some things have come together recently that were […]

Here’s some pics of what we’ve been up to lately. We celebrated Maisie’s 3rd birthday a week ago. We also had some visitors from a few hours hike away that brought a meal to share. Those are claws sticking up from the pot, and that little girl is sucking on the skull. Also, we got […]

I had the privilege of learning how to put a roof on a house last Friday. Nate and I took the 30 minute hike to a nearby village to where we knew this cultural event would be commencing. When we arrived (about 8:30am) there were not many people around and we hung out in a […]

We had another work day today continuing to clear the land for our house. On Friday, everyone we saw we told that we were going to work on the ground some more and that if they were free we’d love to have some help. On Saturday we started a little before 9am with just us, […]

What do you spend your Monday mornings thinking about? Getting the kids ready for another week of school? Your morning commute? How awesome the pastor’s sermon was yesterday? Well, a few weeks ago I spent my Monday morning thinking about my yodel. Out here in Pal country, we live right in the middle of some […]

One of the things on my “I want to see/do in Papua New Guinea” list was to see the dangerous and feared muruk bird. They live in the jungles of Papua New Guinea and can be quite dangerous as a full grown one has the leg power to break bones or bash skulls. While, thankfully, […]

My coworker took these pics while we were out together learning language. We’ve been planning for the rest of the year, scheduling flights and house building teams and what not, and I thought I’d share with you what the rest of 2012 holds for the Hostetter clan. Lord Willing. . . The heli will be […]

The sick boy that was talked about in our previous post has died. Yesterday I helped the family as they chopped down a tree and used their knives to carve it into boards for a coffin. Today they will be burying him. We do not know if the boy could have been saved had he […]