We lovingly call it “the shed”. It's our staging area, located on the Clairemont Emmanuel Church property, just off Interstate 5 and only 25 minutes from Mexico. So much goes on in this small building and everyone who visits us knows about “the shed”. Our across-the-border trips start and end here.

Our shed is a steel building with a big metal roll-down door. I was looking at the rather unusual graffiti on this door the other day. Graffiti always carries a message of some type. Normally I'm turned off by graffiti but this graffiti gave me a lot to think about.

The graffiti was unusual because of two reasons. First, it's on the inside of the shed, not the outside; and second, it's the hand printed names of some of the thousands of teens who have visited and worked with us at one time or other. The names cover the span of more than twenty years to the present. How the tradition started I don't know, but it gives the shed real personality.

There, clearly and creatively written on our roll-down door, are names...names of people impacted by the experience of our ministry. Perhaps this is the closest measure we can have as to the many young lives that we've affected by challenging them to make a difference in their world. We're serious about influencing young lives for Him and I think you'll agree this is a significant graphic.

Thanks for your help in making our ministry to American teens possible. Our years in ministry have proven over and over that it takes a team to get a “bottom line” like we have. It isn't von or Aaron, or the Spectrum missionaries; it's all of us!

Thanks!

Von, for all of us serving in Mexico.

A small section of hand printed names on our door.

A group of teens ready to leave for Mexico.

Sorting clothing at our shed.

Our shed on a big crowded Saturday.

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