Author: Chris Hostetter

Now that we are back in the land of eternal summer, it is easy for me to forget that many of you are pulling out your jeans and sweaters and consuming pumpkin-spice everything while building your social schedules around football on Sundays. And yet, somehow the desire to decorate for Christmas is slowly taking root […]

It has been a full month for the Hostetters. Here are the highlights. After traveling across the world, we moved into our new house on our mission center in the Highlands. It is a great house, and we look forward to making it our home for the coming years. After we spent about a week […]

For almost the entire month of June, we were touring the country in our van to see family, supporters, and churches who have loved us and prayed for us and supported us financially for many years. We started off in Missouri, then swung down to Louisiana, then stopped in Mississippi, Kentucky, and Ohio and finally […]

This month’s blog post is a chapter of a book written by Cole and titled How to Be a Missionary Kid. He wrote it for an English class assignment, and the title of this chapter is “Run Around in the Mud.” It’s impressive how much fun we could have with merely the space around three […]

When we teach and translate in the Pal language, we have to be very careful as we choose the words to use. A deep understanding of the language is necessary because a simple transfer of words from English to Pal will sometimes result in unintended meanings. We often remind ourselves that it doesn’t matter what […]

Dear Minnesota, You are a pretty nice state. Lots of trees, great people, the right amount of lakes… And I’m not complaining about the white Christmases. I love those! But don’t you think it’s time? Just let go of the wind. And the cold. And the sleet. Just let it all go and give us […]

The first and only time I have ever done CPR on a real person was shortly after we moved into the Pal tribe. Isolated as they are from medical care, death was common for people from every demographic. At the time, we had seen a rash of women dying in childbirth, and since we were […]

While we wait out the winter, our coworkers have returned to the tropical breezes of Papua New Guinea and are plugging back into their ministries there. Nate was able to take a trip into the tribe to visit the Pal church and do some digging on some issues that have come up since we all […]

Furlough is half over. As I sit here overlooking the frozen wasteland that is central Minnesota in January, I can’t help but think about my coworkers in PNG with their flip-flops and sunglasses, going along their merry way with no snowpants on. The grass is always greener. Sometimes literally. God has been so good to […]