Author: Chris and Maggie Hostetter

A few weeks ago we finished up teaching Phase 1 (Creation to Christ) in our local outreach. When I say “we”, I really mean 20 Pal men who handled all the teaching in this outreach. Anyways, we ended Phase 1 by talking about end times – when Christ will come back, judge the world, and […]

As the idiom goes here, “Their stomachs are not small.” Translation – They have a large appetite.  Now, that does certainly include greasy pork, delicately smoked rat, and the white mans’ noodles and rice. However, it also includes their hunger for Scripture. From the early days and our first printed Scripture portions, the local body […]

Every Sunday morning, the Pal believers gather to worship together and listen to the missionaries teach God’s Word. Then, after a short break, Pal unbelievers gather to hear the Pal believers teach God’s Word. It’s an amazing sight: men who, a few short years ago, didn’t understand that God’s grace is free and lived in […]

Seeing snakes is not a common occurrence around here. All the snakes I have seen since moving here in 2012 could probably be counted using only my fingers and toes, so we are talking about only a few snake sightings per year. Often, those sightings come on a sunny afternoon when the snakes are laying […]

Sludgin’ through the mud up and down treacherous mountain trails, dreary rain dripping from my brow, my cheap mobile phone barely lighting my path.  It was miserable.  And it was wonderful. Had you peeked in on me an hour earlier, you would have seen me sitting amidst a sea of men, women, and children cramming […]

As you probably well know, it was no small decision for us to return to PNG.  I am not saying that choosing to stay stateside would have been any easier or any less of a decision – any choice would have been a big decision – and God led us to make the big decision […]

We fled from the bleary dreary Minnesota winter weather the day after Easter, and our plane ride wonderfully took us to the radiant sunshine and beautiful beaches of Honolulu, Hawaii.  And it just so happens that my parents live there, and so we enjoyed a fabulous week eating Grandma’s delicious cooking and playing in the […]

I figure if I start with an uninspiring title, then it’s much harder to be disappointed by the content of the post.  But if I throw out a catchy click-bait title and the post does not live up to its name, then disappointment abounds.  So now that I have set the bar as low as […]