ABOUT KSOM
Kilimanjaro School of Missions, located in Kimana, Kenya, is a missionary training center focused on raising up people from Kenya to take the Gospel to the dark corners of Africa. It is a partnership between Missionaries Mikey and Shereen Cheshier and Brad Smith Ministries. After years of working together to reach the unreached in remote areas of Africa, Pastor Brad and Mikey had a mutual desire - to see Kenyans be raised up from among their own people to trained to be missionaries themselves. After much prayer, the dream became a reality.
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In the fall of 2019, after a conversation with the leadership of the Kenya Assemblies of God, they took a vision trip to lay eyes on a potential location to plant the school. At the base of beautiful Mt. Kilimanjaro, what once was an extension school built by a missionary was left empty and in disrepair. It would take much work, but the national leadership gave them the property and thirty acres of land to use to train leaders.
At the beginning of 2020, despite a worldwide pandemic, fundraising efforts were began to both renovate existing structures and to erect new ones. By the grace of God, by the fall of 2020, all of the funds necessary were received to complete the project. Due to the nature of the pandemic and its effects worldwide on the supply chain, 2021-2022 were spent slowly completing projects as materials and workers were available and lockdowns and travel restrictions were lifted,
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In the fall of 2022, with the blessing of the national church, KSOM reached an educational partnership with The School of Urban Missions (sum.edu) and their subsidiary, Broadcasting Network of Theological Studies. This partnership allows KSOM to maintain their own vision and individuality while giving them access to state-of-the-art digital curriculum designed to train ministers in the apostolic function of missions. Not only is KSOM the first of it's kind as it relates to developing missionaries, they will be utilizing a hybrid education process which will involve digital study through videos on tablets, classroom instruction with live teachers, and hands on missions training.
