Michelle Benz

Adventures in Missions

Reaching Kibera for Christ through her children.

I am a missionary through Adventures in Missions (AIM), a registered 501 (c) 3 organization, that ministers all over the world in the name of Jesus Christ. Through AIM I have the opportunity to work with New Adventure School (NAS) located in Kibera, Kenya. 

How I got here: My life has never gone quite like I planned so how did I end up in Kenya? My childhood dream was to be a veterinarian and live on a small farm. Organic chemistry in college redirected my thinking and I switched to education preparing for inner city teaching. On graduating I went to Kenya; little did I know He would use that initial trip to change my life's direction! After finishing my master's degree in reading education, God led me back to Kenya once more, to work with New Adventure School.

My role at NAS: I get the amazing privelage to work with the teachers and staff at New Adventure School (NAS). What do I do? I came on full time with Adventures in Missions (AIM) February of 2008. It was originally intended that I move to Kenya immediately and begin work in teacher training and curriculum development. However, because of the recent political upheaval that Kenya has faced my move was post-poned. This September I will finally be returning!

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Education Ministry

Kibera, Kenya

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."
- Proverbs 22:6

The Kenyan education ministry through AIM began in 2003 with the inception of New Adventure School (NAS). What began as a vision by a local pastor to meet educational needs, soon evolved into a complete primary school (standards 1-8). NAS is a free public education service, as well as, Christian ministry to citizens of Kenya living within the Kibera Slums district. Located just outside of Nairobi, the capitol, Kibera is a crowded slum about the size of New York's Central Park and is home to approximately 1 million people. The children at NAS are from some of the poorest families in Kibera. At New Adventure School we strive to meet the following needs of these children:

Spiritual Needs: Provide Biblical training for children Provide spiritual training materials Physical Needs: Provide free meals Provide free education (grades 1-8) Provide additional educational training for teachers Emotional Needs Provide a safe environment Provide a loving environment

Help support the ministry of NAS

For more information about NAS follow the links below:
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Below are some of the lives that have been impacted through NAS...

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And that which I can do, by the grace of God, I will do." - D.L. Moody

"Instruction in youth is like engraving in stones." -African proverb

"If we are to teach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children." -Mahatma Ghandhi

"The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values." - William R. Inge