Ben Miller, Wilderness Supervisor / Foreman
BA in Bible and Missions

I never cease to be amazed at the way God works in bringing Capstone the right people for the right position. We struggled hard for a long time looking for exceptional men to lead our Outdoor Adventures expeditions. Thankfully, God sent us Ben Miller. When I think about guiding and training staff to be guides, I think about the enormous responsibility it is to keep the residents safe while in the field.

Ben’s job is multifaceted and includes: being the foreman on Saturday workday; leading groups in rock climbing, caving, fishing, canoeing, and hiking; daily supervision in Canine Therapy, weight workouts, and activity time, and in fixing about anything. His main responsibility is to keep the boys physically safe during any of these activities. Anytime you go into the wild, there is danger, so you need a paranoid safety freak like me to lead the group and to train the other leaders. I think that one of the best strengths that Ben Miller has is that he is humble and therefore coachable. Ben came to Capstone proficient in his job but has not stopped learning how to do it better.

Ben is a strong man and a Christian man. I am thankful he is on the team, first because he meets the needs of the job that I mentioned above. But, I am mainly thankful to have him because his heart is set on fighting to set boys free to become who God made them to be.

Ben has a wide range of talents that he puts to use at Capstone. He is a CPI instructor (Crisis Prevention Intervention) and does annual trainings with each one of us. He is mechanically gifted and very good in construction. He often is involved in different building projects going on at Capstone as we grow and need new facilities. He is a visionary and is constantly working and dreaming about ways to improve what we do here. He is one of the hardest workers that you will ever meet and often inspires the residents here to improve their personal work ethic.

Ben is married to Rachel, his much better half, and they have three children, Troy, who I think will be a college defensive end someday, since he was over ten pounds at birth, Emma who luckily takes more after her mother than Ben.
Ben’s favorite scripture is Philippians 2:5-11, “Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-even death on cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”