Hello from Kenya!
We arrived back to Kenya on July 24, and have spent the last few weeks sorting through and organizing our new house! We are back in a house on Rosslyn Academy’s campus. Zeke has really been enjoying playing with other kids close to his each! Kelly has started back at Rosslyn Academy, and Matt is back working with at the Kuza office, so we are all adjusting to new routines. Zeke in particular is having to get used to a completely new place, new people, and not being with Mommy all day!
4:12 Staff Members Zephaniah, Sammy, and Fondo (Left to Right)
4:12 News
The 4:12 ministry has done a phenomenal job keeping the ministry moving forward since we’ve been in the USA. Last year 4:12 was only able to teach conferences for 3 months due to Coronavirus. This year we’ve been fortunate to be able to teach every month of 2021, which is a blessing. So far the team has taught 133 conferences, which has led to over 1700 people being added to local churches. This is all a result of our training pastors and church leaders to start youth ministries. Our conferences have been much smaller in terms of attendance, but God has been faithful. We’ve taught in three seminaries in Kenya , and we hope to resume teaching in other countries in the near future.
One of the 133 Conferences taught!
The New KuzaApp.com website!
Kuza News
Kuza has a brand new app and website! You can download the app on your smartphone, or visit our website to check it out. The website and app have an amazing evangelistic video provided by our partnering ministry, Spread Truth, out of Bloomington, IN. We have their video named “The Story”, which shares the gospel story from creation to the cross in 6 different languages. We're also setting up the website in such a way so that whenever someone receives Christ, they automatically receive an email and a text message about the next steps in their faith. We’re grateful to God for this amazing tool for evangelism and discipleship. It was extremely helpful for Matt to be in the USA this past year to get these new tools up and running. Kuza was reaching as many as 25,000 people a week in January of 2020, but in March, April, and May of 2020, we reached as many as 75,000 people a week. Since things have settled down to roughly 50,000 people a week. God has been good to us. We’re also adding in some new tools with a Google Ads grant, which gives us $10,000/month in free advertising credit on Google. This will enable our Kuza content to be more easily found on Google searches. We’re grateful for this and we’re praying that in the next year that we will double our weekly reach.
We are grateful for all of you, and pray for God's provision and grace for you during this time.
God bless you!
The Elmores- Matt, Kelly, & Ezekiel
Prayer Requests
Ministry
Pray for God to use our new radio program for his glory.
Pray for God's wisdom and blessing as we write new curriculum for our college ministry named SDM (Student Discipleship Ministry).
Pray for the 23 conferences this month to produce youth ministries and salvations of young people.
Pray for two Kenyan staff members who have COVID.
Personal
Pray for Zeke especially in his transition and wisdom for us as we work with him.
Praise for Kelly's headaches- after years of near daily headaches, they have significantly reduced!
Pray for all the friends and family we know in the States battling COVID. Matt's sister's family is currently dealing with COVID.