Author: Chris and Maggie Hostetter

Nothing much exciting happened today so you can just skip reading this one. Normal morning, homemade toast for breakfast, I was in the office working on translation by 7:30am. By mid-morning I had numerous guys in and out my office but I mostly ignored them and trudged forward on my work. (There’s currently not a […]

My alarm (my kids) didn’t go off this morning so I didn’t get my teeth brushed or my face shaved before I headed out the door for Post Literacy class (disgusting, I know). I did get three pieces of home-made toast and a banana into me though before throwing on the mud boots and tromping […]

No sleeping in today. Sundays are my day to get up the with the kids and make them breakfast (Maggie’s day is Saturday), and so I was up with the son. . .s and daughters and we had waffles for breakfast. Nate and I got together for prayer at 8:45 and then 9:30 was church […]

This one is going to be short, because 3 long blog posts 3 days in a row is too much for me. Today involved sleeping in a bit, visiting with some Pal folks (who came to us, we didn’t go to them), playing outside with the kids, playing soccer on the chopper pad with some […]

After homemade bread toast for breakfast and devos I went to the office (3 paces from the kitchen) and got to work. I spent the first part of the morning printing things for the next literacy class and then I left the office around 10am to just go hang with some peeps. Since finishing language […]

I was planning on posting about our translation workshop and doing a Happy Thanksgiving post but those are long gone now and I didn’t have a whole lot to say about them anyway. So, here’s the new thing I’m going to (try and) do. For the next week I’m going to journal each day about […]

The wooden ‘boat’ in the picture is called a manapa. When you beat it with the heavy stick its’ reverberating boom can be heard from a long ways off and it’s usually used to signal community gatherings. This one is located by the Literacy school and we would bang it about ten minutes before school […]

A couple weeks ago we graduated 14 students from our first ever Pal Literacy School. The whole community turned out and the rain held off as we went through a short program and then ate together. This was one step forward towards the ultimate goal of bringing people into a relationship with Jesus Christ. As […]

Living in “the bush” of Papua New Guinea, you expect to see lots of critters up close and personal. It seems like we’ve been having more close encounters than usual lately, so we thought we’d share some with you. Wa! Our boys have recently adopted two baby guinea pigs, offspring of the herd that our […]

This week has been a bit crazy as we had 5 people into Pal for a few days. Three were consultants that did language checks with each of us and spent many hours with us discussing the direction of our work here. The other two were ladies who came in just to bless us during […]