We Can't Deliver Emails

In early February, Google started enforcing a new requirement that they won't let companies like ours deliver emails to you unless we have verified some fairly complicated email settings. Ours were all set by February 1, just as they asked.

However, this morning we found out that our emails weren't being delivered properly -- not from Homeschooling Torah, Foundations Press, or my own blog at AnneElliott.com.

In fact, over 150 people signed up to get a free download this morning, to help them teach the book of Genesis -- but our email provider wouldn't send out the e-book because Google rejected our email settings.

We have spent all day trying to diagnose and fix the problem. In the end, we made the decision to install a verification "cookie" from Google on our site. Suddenly, everything started working again.

I feel pretty frustrated because I don't want Google's tracking code on our site.

But I also want you to receive our emails! 

The fact is, we are all being tracked by Google, Facebook, and others, everywhere we go online.

Either we "play the game," or I need to start sending you friendly letters by snail mail.

Maybe that's what will end up happening! It's something we're praying about. 

Our friends at Messiah2030.com had their YouTube channel demonetized earlier this week, and others in the Torah movement are struggling with similar issues to ours, such as when we received two strikes on YouTube last year because I shared Homeschooling Torah's "vision, mission, and goal." (They said it was bullying and hate speech.)

We Will Not Be Silent

We all worked very hard today to comply with best-practice Internet standards, to ensure that no one ever thinks we are spamming our customers or phishing for information that shouldn't be ours. We never sell your information. Your privacy is incredibly important to us.

But we will also NOT be silent about the Torah of YHVH nor about what the Scriptures teach.

We figure you wouldn't want us to, either.

Pray for Torah Ministries

Please continue to pray for us and for so many other Torah ministries that are in the line of fire lately. Sometimes we really feel tired, but we want to be "steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Master" (1 Corinthians 15:58).

Some days that means your favorite Torah ministries are trying to navigate complicated email settings. Other days, they are busy writing, sometimes forgetting to take a break for lunch. They have families, just like you do, and they might get discouraged at times.

When you add them to your prayer journal and remember to lift them up, day and night, YOU are helping get truth out throughout the entire world.

Thank you to all of you who already pray! It means so much!

Love to all in our Messiah,

Kraig and Anne Elliott

P.S. Would you like the free e-book I sent out from Foundations Press this morning? You are welcome to it! You can download it here. (Praise! Over 200 people have downloaded it so far today, and we estimate that this is the first exposure most of these have ever had to the Torah!)