Field: South Africa
Home State: Georgia
Children: Emily, Ryan & Cason

Elliott and Katherine are appointed to develop educational, agricultural, and economic empowerment ministries and build relationships with the people of the Eastern Cape of South Africa. In one of the more impoverished areas of the country, Elliott and Katherine will be supporting a preschool, furthering agricultural programs including hydroponics, leading job skills training and micro-enterprise development, as well as encouraging local pastors. They are also interested in eventually engaging in ministry to orphans of HIV/AIDS, hospice care for HIV/AIDS, and youth development. They have three children – their son Cason will be joining them in ministry in South Africa, Ryan will remain in the U.S. for college and Emily is in Africa in a ministry of her own.