Elmores Newsletter - March 28, 2025
Hello everyone!
We hope you all are having a great start to the spring season! Right now it's the hot season here in Nairobi, but we're getting close to the long rains. Here are a couple of updates that we want to share with you.
We hit our target of $35,000
At the end of the year, we sent out a letter regarding our move to our new mission organization (SWH), getting a new office, and increasing expenditures to support our staff. We communicated that the move would cost us an extra $35,000. We requested you all to help us by increasing your monthly giving and by sending in one time gifts. We are very humbled and grateful to report that God has worked through you to provide just that. We have hit our target to raise the additional $35,000 in cash needed for this year. Because of your giving, we are able to continue in all our ministries, and are able to maintain our access to 19 million people between Kenya and Uganda. This is so exciting and we couldn't have done it without your support.
New Office
We are so grateful to have a new office space for Kuza. Moving away from the old ACO office was hard, but God has blessed us with a wonderful location. This new office is not just a physical space, but a strategic move that will significantly enhance our operations. We initially had several options after a long search, but in the 11th hour, God dropped a fantastic office in our lap, and we were able to sign a 5 year lease. We have set up a new studio that looks great and installed solar power to decrease our monthly budget. We were able to set up Starlink internet at the office because it’s the cheapest and best quality. Our landlord is allowing us to sublease the extra space we have in the house and turn another part of the property into Airbnb rentals. Our strategic location near the UN Africa headquarters and the U.S. Embassy makes it ideal for Airbnb rentals. We believe that the subleasing and the Airbnb will eventually bring in enough income to allow us to have our office rent-free, enabling us to channel more funds towards the ministry.
Somali Ministry
We are excited to announce a new ministry partnership in evangelism online to the Somali people of Nairobi. This new initiative is a significant step forward in our mission to reach more people with the gospel. We have made a partnership with a ministry that engages in aggressive in-person evangelism for Somalis on a nearly daily basis. Roughly 350,000 Somali people live in Nairobi, but it is suspected that there are many more who are undocumented. Worldwide, there are over 26 million Somalians, and less than 1% of them are Christians, making them an unreached people group according to Joshua Project stats. One of the missionaries who helps lead this ministry says that in roughly 10 years of ministry, he’s never led a single Somalian to Christ. He’s been verbally abused more times than he can count. He’s been beaten and had some equipment stolen. Yet, he continues to persevere in sharing the gospel with these people.
We believe that there is a great opportunity to reach Somali people online. Our partnering ministry has not done that yet, but are partnering with us because our Kuza staff knows how to do it. We plan to do advertisements on social media, and once they click on an ad, they will be led to a website we created with our partners, warkawanaagsan.com (which means “goodnews.com” in Somali. This site will be live in 1-2 months). Once on the website, Somali visitors can chat with our partnering ministry, set up a meeting, and form a discipleship relationship. The long-term goal is to start house churches for the Somali people. Our Kuza ministry will focus on the online part, and the Somali ministry will focus on the discipleship and church planting part. Please pray with us for the Somali people's salvation and house churches to be planted successfully.
Thank you for your support!
Matt, Kelly, & Zeke
Prayer Requests
Ministry
Pray for the salvation of the Somali people and for us to successfully reach them with the gospel.
Pray for the successful construction of our Airbnb, which will help generate income for the ministry.
Praise God for reaching our goal of $35,000 and not having to stop any of our radio and TV outreach.
Pray that we reach our goal of reaching 1,000,000 weekly online this year.
Personal
Kelly's health - Kelly has been having headaches (sometimes migraines) almost daily since the middle of January. Please pray for her healing.
Zeke's School - Pray for him to grow more confidence and to improve in his academic skills.
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