Author: Chris and Maggie Hostetter

Chris was the Missionary Speaker at Raccoon River Bible Camp in central Iowa during senior high week at the end of July.  Carolyn was one of the campers. I (Chris) never spoke with Carolyn during the week.  I’m not sure I could pick her out of a crowd and I’m not even sure of her […]

There you have it: Our New Guinea budget in a nutshell. Or a pie shell.  Those ($) numbers are what we need each month.  As you can see, a big chunk of the dough goes to taxes (which we are personally and entirely responsible for), and health insurance (ditto), and travel (which is expensive no […]

2 Great Grandparents, 2 Grandparents, 1 Great Uncle, 6 Parents, and 7 Children fill the house we’re in right now.  Crazy, but great!  We are with Chris’ family at his parents’ house and its the first time his family has all been together in a couple of years, and most likely the last for another […]

We’re chillin in Alaska this morning.  We flew in to Anchorage Thursday night, May 12, and we’ll fly back Wednesday night, May 18.  We enjoyed a couple days with some good friends that live near Anchorage and then we drove to where Chris grew up, Glennallen.  Sunday morning we shared about our ministry in Church […]

What do chest X-rays, HIV tests, police clearance forms, thumb prints, and Australian-sized passport photos have in common? You need them all to get into Papua New Guinea! Our work permit applications are done and in the mail, and we have started on the next round of paperwork – for entry permits (visas). God continues […]

Happy Easter!  This is the reason we have life.   This is the reason we’re leaving everything we know and everyone we love to go to Papua New Guinea.  Because of what He has done for us, how could we do anything but serve Him?  This world has so many things that steal our attention, but […]

Spring is finally springing, and we’re grateful to see the snow go and not too sad that it might be many years before we see snow again.  Ok, not sad at all. Not a lot to update, but I felt it was time to write an update regardless.  The last Sunday in March we spoke […]

“We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.” — Wesley Duewel, head of OMS International July 31st is rapidly approaching and we grow more excited with each passing day. We’re continuing to trust that the Lord will have us on our […]

Several of you have asked us how you can help our family outfit itself to survive in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. Well, there are many things that we need, so I thought it might be easiest to make a registry at Target so that those who are interested can see a list and […]

Here is a brief overview of the paperwork process we’ll be going through over the next several months. 1. Obtain passports – Passport applications are in for all the kids. 4-6 weeks and the passports should be in our hands. 2. Obtain work permits – Just for Maggie and I. 3. Obtain entry permits – […]