Us on a camping trip... and yes, it was cold!
Happy Fall! (Or happy spring to us in the southern hemisphere!)
Kubamba Radio and new devotional - Matt was interviewed on live radio regarding our new Kuza devotion called “Live Free”. The devotion is about living free from addictions. Afterwards, a young lady contacted Matt through Kuza and thanked him for the app. She heard about it on the radio and said it has been hugely helpful for her in combating her addiction with alcohol.
Rosslyn’s CFS- Rosslyn’s High School had their cultural field study (CFS) trip in September this year. Matt organized 4 of the sites, and Kelly went on one of them. It was a great and meaningful trip this year.
Kenya Elections- Well, we had peaceful elections in August, but the results are being contested in court due to reports of election fraud and corruption. We now have another election scheduled for Oct. 26. This situation has stirred up more political tension, so we are praying for continued peace.
AFLEWO - Matt had an amazing opportunity to promote Kuza at an event called AFLEWO (AFrica LEt’s WOrship). AFLEWO is a worship concert that included a 250 person choir and great praise band. It started at 6 pm on a Friday night, and ended at 6 am on Saturday morning! There were roughly 15,000 youth and young adults there, standing shoulder to shoulder and worshipping God for the entire 12 hours.
Missions Devotion - In preparation for a new Kuza devotion on Missions, Matt & some of his team members have been attending a bible study called “Xplore” by the Center for Missions Mobilization (CMM). It’s been a fascinating and revealing study about mission work among unreached people groups. These are people that most likely could not find someone to share the gospel with them. Our goal with this new devotion is to encourage youth to give their lives to frontier missions. We pray that at least one youth who reads this devotion will devote their lives to the mission field of an unreached people group.
Ethiopia - Matt was asked by a partner organization named “Youth Ministry International (YMI)” to help teach at a conference at the Evangelical Theological College (ETC) in Ethiopia. YMI and ETC are hoping to start a masters in youth ministry degree, which will pave the way for more trained teachers at the bachelor’s level. We hope this will allow more and more youth pastors to reach the more than 29 million youth of Ethiopia.
Personal - We love our newly renovated house, and have a bit more space to move around in! No news on the adoption front yet. Kelly is helping coach cross country at Rosslyn again this year, and is enjoying that.
Thank you for your continued support of us! God has been encouraging us about the importance of our work, and we are grateful for your role in it.
Matt and Kelly
Prayer Request:
1. Continue praying for us to reach our goal of 10,000 downloads of the Kuza app between now and December 31st. We currently are half way there.
2. Pray for the fruit of the 20 conferences and 1 seminary training we did in Aug/Sept.
3. Pray for us to partner with a seminary in Rwanda.
4. Please pray for a peaceful Kenyan re-elections coming up in October.
5. For fruit from our Missions devotion. We desire to have 1 out of our current 3000 readers feel the call to full-time missions.
6. Pray for us to find national partners to teach our conferences on the coast of Kenya.