Every Girl Counts: How God Is Using Girls’ Education in Kenya to Change Futures

🎧 Listen to this episode: If you’ve ever wondered how your ordinary obedience could make an extraordinary impact, this story of girls’ education and gospel discipleship in Kenya will show you it absolutely can.

📣 Share it with someone who needs a fresh reminder that God can use their ordinary “yes” to make an eternal difference around the world.

Every Girl Counts: How God Is Using Girls’ Education in Kenya to Change Futures

What happens when a simple step of obedience collides with an overwhelming need? In this episode of Steeple People, we sit down with John and Rene Cook, founders of Every Girl Counts Kenya—a ministry that uses secondary education as a pathway to the gospel for girls growing up in the slums of Nairobi. What began as research, a burden for adoption, and a backyard fundraiser has become nearly a decade of investing in 100+ students each year through school fees, discipleship, and long-term support.

You’ll hear how God used postpartum depression, global mission journeys, and even a teriyaki burger in Hawaii to reshape Renee’s heart and call their family into cross-cultural ministry. They share powerful stories of students who’ve come to Christ, parents who’ve been saved through WhatsApp Bible stories, and teen mothers who were welcomed, supported, and helped back into school when the culture around them said, “You’re done.” Every Girl Counts Kenya is not just about getting girls into classrooms—it’s about seeing whole families and communities transformed by the hope of Jesus.

If you’ve ever wondered whether short-term missions really matter, how to discern your calling, or whether God can use “non-seminary” people with business degrees and willing hearts, this conversation is for you. John and Renee invite us to think differently about growth, mission, and what it looks like to stay faithful to the mission God actually gives—one girl, one story, one next step at a time.