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Why Baja?
Even though it is only a few miles between San Diego and the border towns of Mexico, they are worlds apart. Riding the bus towards Baja, the landscape will drastically change as you enter a world of scarcity and hardship. Often, families of five or more sleep in small shanties built with scrap wood, metal sheets, and broken bricks. The poverty-stricken conditions make it nearly impossible for the people of Baja to provide their families with the basic need for shelter. This summer, the work of your hands can change that!

Level 1 Experience
Join over 300 other missionaries and be prepared to work hard and deliver hope as you take a week to serve God in Mexico. Show love through construction and leave a lasting structure behind that will remind one family of God’s love daily.

Acts of Love
You will build a home for a needy family, see incredible smiles on the faces of the children and parents that you serve, and leave a lasting impression on them as they move into the home that you built. Watch tears of joy stream down their faces as you give them the keys to their new home. When you’re not swinging a hammer, part of the day will also be spent going house to house and ministering to people in the surrounding neighborhood through service projects and children’s programs. This week will be packed full of physical and spiritual building of hearts and homes!
*Minister with the Newsboys! The band has already booked their tickets to serve in Baja this summer!

Baja trip was AMAZING! Giving the keys to a family to the new home you helped build for them---knowing that each day they will know God’s love and provision because we cared…..Stays in your heart! Amazing!  -Brooke

The teams have continued to work hard each day. We as leaders are very proud of them for the effort and heart they give. We are bringing the word into these communities sometimes for the first time.

Hola to all you Baja supporters! We are finally settled in and beginning our ministry. After a few long days of training and getting acquainted with each other we put it into action. Yesterday was our first day of ministry. I saw all the hard work pay off. Our ministry includes building a house from the foundation up, as well as VBS (vacation bible school). The VBS consisted of songs with actions and puppets, original drama productions, and crafts.  The first day I watched our groups work hard for our lord and completely set up the frame of a house, they were hammering nails like crazy working their Jesus loving butts off. The VBS was very successful as well, teams round up about 25-30 native children and put on an amazing and entertaining show. The Bible narrative of the day was Jonah and the Big Fish. Teams put on a great play I heard laughs and giggles from all around from all ages, also the kids did crafts making paper bag puppets of Jonah. All in all we spread the word of Christ through our actions and entertainment.  I want to let everyone know that your children and friends are in good hands and are praising out Lord in awesome ways this week. Keep all of us in prayer as we embark on the rest of this week and remember "faith without deeds is dead" James 2:26 Further Updates to come :)

Garrett Coble

Garrett Coble currently resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Garrett is finishing his PhD in marketing and will be a marketing professor at Oral Roberts University this fall. Garrett discovered Teen Mania at an Aquire the Fire when he was 15, and his life was changed. He went on his first trip to Russia in 1999 and has been on over a dozen Teen Mania trips around the world since to countries such as South Africa, Peru, Mexico, and Panama. After working for about a year in Mexico and Peru, he began developing trips for local churches as well. Today, Garrett is passionate about Latin America and teenagers and is excited to see lives changed in Baja this summer.

Glenn Climer

Glenn currently resides in Winter Garden, Florida and has been involved with youth Ministry for over 19 years as a youth pastor and youth leader. He is currently serving as the president of Ezekiel Ministries which reaches out to the youth of Orlando through extreme sports. He has been with Teen Mania since 2004 and has lead trips to Mexico, Peru, Washington D.C., Costa Rica & Scotland. Glenn has been married to his wonderful wife Anita for 21 years and they have 4 amazing children which are involved in missions as well!

Candace Blackstock 

 Candace currently teaches English as a Second Language in Tennessee to grades 6-8. She Graduated fromTennessee State with a Masters in Education.    Then she worked in film and TV professionally before becoming a teacher. Was a youth pastor for 10 yrs. after Graduating from Every Nation Leadership Institute in 2002.She has served with GE as a leader for 10 yrs where she has led 21 trips with Global Expeditions.   She was a project director for 16 of those trips which include Dominican Republic, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico,Jamaica, Uganda and Romania

Aimee Johnson

Aimee Johnson, is originally from Fresno, CA She met her husband while attending Teen Mania's Honor Academy in 2000.  They were married in 2003  and moved to Charlotte, NC. They have 4 children there oldest Bailey is 8 and was adopted her 2 years ago after a mission trip, they also have Kindallyn who is 5, Kassidy who is 3 and Noah who is 1. She has her teaching credentials but is currently running a home daycare so that she can stay home with there little ones. They hope in the next 3 years after my husbands completion of Physician Assistant school to be able to head overseas to do missions full time. She has been involved in missions since 1994 and has been to Costa Rica, Honduras, Australia, L.A., and to Mexico multiple times.

Joy Peeler

Joy Peeler resides in Maryland where she has been involved in various local church ministries throughout the years, including youth ministry, worship ministry, women’s ministry and other family ministries.  Joy has traveled on thirteen short-term mission trips to nine countries.  Eleven of these excursions have been with Global Expeditions and include countries such as Mexico, India, Trinidad, Thailand, Peru, Honduras, Costa Rica and South Africa.  She has been involved in mission leadership during nine trips, four of which she has served as a Project Director.  Joy is currently pursuing a nursing degree with the goal of using the acquired skills overseas in full-time mission work.

Tiffany Dowdell

Tiffany is originally from Canada and currently resides in Atlanta GA, working in the radio industry. Tiffany was an Honor Academy intern in 1997 and worked on staff with Teen Mania for 4 years. Her first mission trip with GE was in 1994. Tiffany's first trip as a team leader was to Australia in 1999 and her first year as a project director was in 2001 to Panama. Countries she's travelled to with GE: Ecuador, Albania, Hong Kong, South Africa, Panama, Australia, Trinidad & Tobago, England, Germany, Poland, Peru & Mexico.

Sheri Harris

Sheri Harris resides in rural Southern Illinois not far from Metropolis, Illinois with my husband of 23 years. She has three amazing daughters and one son-in-law. Sheri is an office assistant at her husband’s dental office and youth director at her local church. She leads and speaks to Jr. High and High School students on a weekly basis. She co-directs a Mission Camp for her local church and has had the honor of speaking in various area churches as she encourages students to participate in missions and evangelism. Her first trip with Global Expeditions was in 2004 as a Team Leader. I have been to Monterrey, Mexico, Matamoros, Mexico twice, Texas Jr, Baja, Mexico, and Kenya, Africa twice.

***Note:  All prices are in U.S. currency***

Ministry Difficulty Rating:  2 of 5
Physical Difficulty Rating:  4 of 5

Age:  must be 13 by January 1, 2010
Language:  Spanish
Religion:  Roman Catholic