Author: Chris and Maggie Hostetter

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 […]

An update on our kids: Micah – The tall one with no meat on his bones is Micah. He’s dressed up for our Medieval Festival but normally you would find him naked from the waist up. Because of this, and his frequent exposure to the sun, his skin is almost as dark as the people […]

The special project below is for New Tribes Aviation in Papua New Guinea. Our work relies on New Tribes Aviation but despite this new plane’s ability to land on short runways, our helicopter pad isn’t quite long enough. So, we will continue to rely on the helicopter for most of our aviation needs. However, this […]

*I don’t have any pictures of the fire, so some more Literacy School pics will have to do. It was last Friday night and we had just put the kids to bed for the night when we heard people yelling and hollering in the distance. It is not that uncommon for people to be hollering […]

A new video of Chris and Maggie Hostetter in the Pal tribe of Papua New Guinea has been uploaded to youtube.com. It’s entitled “Hostetters Oct ’12 – June ‘13”. It’s of house building, literacy preparation, and more. Check it out! www.youtube.com/chrismaggiehostetter

It feels good to be back home, back to work, and back together! We flew back to Pal with my sister and brother-in-law after our family break in the middle of June and spent a week showing them around the jungle. We had to struggle through good-byes again, but getting back into the swing of […]

Our first literacy class has begun! The day before our first class we invited the whole Pal community and had a big party celebrating the start of the Pal Literacy Program. We ate together and talked about the new ‘school’. Also, we had each of the 14 students come forward, pay their small school fee, […]