Digital Discipleship Materials for African Youth & Young Adults
Kuza develops digital discipleship materials for youth and young adults because 75% of Kenya is under the age of 35. 98% of Kenyans own a phone and over 50% own a smartphone. The highest percentage of the population that owns a smartphone is youth and young adults. Also if a young person does not own a smartphone that is the first thing that they will buy. Another interesting thing is that Kenya uses more cell phone and wired internet data than any other country in Africa. All this to say that it makes sense for us to have digital discipleship materials for youth in Kenya. Kuza is not just about Kenya, but other African countries as well, though our reach is mostly focused in Kenya. Kuza has four main arms of digital discipleship materials they are blogs, videos, podcasts, and our app. See them below.
Blogs
Videos
Uliza
This video series is developed to answer the many questions that youth and young adults ask us.
Soma
This video series is developed to help youth and young adults learn how to read and study the Bible.
Podcasts
App
All of the content from the KuzaApp.com website is also available on the app.
Kuza is an app that will help youth and young people grow in their personal relationships with God on a daily basis through short devotions, blogs, videos, and podcasts.
Learn About Kuza
Why we developed Kuza
Training pastors in conferences and seminaries through 4:12 has been successful in starting youth ministry in many churches. However, we received feedback from many pastors that they felt they needed help in maintaining their youth ministry’s spiritual growth. We thought that a smartphone app, along with other digital resources on the Kuza website was the easiest, quickest, and cheapest means of distribution. To respond to the needs, we developed a team of local Africans to produce content for digital platforms for youth and young adults in an African context. We chose the name “Kuza” because it means “to be nurtured” or “to grow” in Swahili.
Kuza Writing Team
Kuza's content development team is made up of youth pastors and people in youth and college ministries from gospel preaching churches with the heart of helping youth grow spiritually. Kuza’s desires is to create content that is in an African context. Lots of content for college and youth ministries come from the west, but they are not entirely relevant for local needs. Kuza desires to change that. We have a strong passion for seeing youth and young adults grow in their salvation not just on Sunday but through a daily relationship with Christ.
Marvin Esonga
Husband, Father, and Pastor. Passionate for Discipleship, Fellowship and Scriptural sanity.
Kelvin Kinyua
Engineer of Digital Media aka Tech Nerd. Passionate about Bible Study, Movies, Music, and Jesus.
Justus Kingori
Pastor, Chai Connoisseur, and Traveler. Passionate about Missions, Evangelism, Discipling People, and Church Planting.
Gideon Thuku
Husband and Discipler. Passionate about Jesus, Photography, Manchester United, Soccer, and Bible Study.
Isla Okoth
Mother, Discipler. Passionate about Missions, Christian Hip-Hop Music, Reading, & Jesus.
Victor Okello
Discipler, Jesus Follower. Passionate about Reading, Weight Lifting, and Pork.
Matt Elmore
Husband, Father, and Missionary. Passionate about teaching the Bible, Football, Fishing, and a good Hamburger.
Kuza Stats
As of 2023 we are reaching as high as 250,000 people per week online.