Author: Chris and Maggie Hostetter

We’re completely out of our apartment and packed.  Tomorrow morning at 8:30 we’ll be loading up 10 suitcases and 4 bright eyed and bushy-tailed kids to go to the airport.  We’re tired (“To bed early!” I say.) but excited and ready.  I can’t tell you how thankful we are for your prayers and what a […]

We leave Thursday, September 29th for Papua New Guinea.  We’d appreciate your prayers as we travel and settle in to our new home.  We’ll be flying from Minneapolis to LA, and then from there to Sydney, Australia.  If all goes well we’ll have two days to rest and enjoy Syndey before flying onto Port Moresby, […]

Its been a busy time of preparing to go overseas.  Last week we packed up most of the house and then I took all our stuff to Springfield, Missouri to get shipped to Papua New Guinea.  I borrowed the brilliant Bristols’ Durango to pull my fabulous father’s trailer and had a smooth1500 miles of driving.  […]

Maggie and I have work permits!  Yay!  What does that mean?  It means we’re on the last step before buying plane tickets.  Now that we have work permits we can send our passports to the embassy in D.C. and have visas stamped in them.  When our passports are back in our hands we can purchase […]

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 […]