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Refuge Ranch
Refuge Ranch,
located in central Mexico, is an adoptive home, headed by Victor and Julie
Zaragoza, for abandoned children. Receiving a home school education and helping
the family tend to the animals and garden on the ranch are two of the many ways
in which abandoned children find the love, nurture, freedom and structure
necessary to become all that God wants them to be.
The Zaragoza family currently consists of twelve children.
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Angie
and her sister Diana came from living in an abandoned
storefront in Mexico City with their drug-addicted birth mother. |
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Martha
walked alone from her mountain village seeking treatment at an EMMC.
She came home from the mission trip with Victor, leaving behind a
life of abuse and malnutrition. |
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Ana
has been part of the family since her birth. While pregnant, Ana’s
birth mother, young, impoverished and struggling to raise five
children, asked Victor and Julie to take Ana into their home. |
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Fidel,
like Martha, joined the family after an EMMC, in which Victor
discovered Fidel living in a jail cell, having suffered abandonment
by all of his living relatives. |
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Martita
and her sister Lolis survived the death of their birth mother
as young girls and the abusive conditions of their alcoholic father. |
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As a toddler, Daniel was dropped off with a missionary couple
by his birth mother who didn’t want him. The couple contacted
Victor and Julie who took him into their family. |
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Jocelin
joined the family upon the death of her single mother, Victor’s
sister. |
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Josiah,
Caleb and Ruth, Victor and Julie’s biological
children, complete the family for now. |
God has planted in Victor and Julie’s hearts the dream and vision
to continue to expand Refuge Ranch, its facilities and its staff, in order to
open the doors to many more abandoned children.
Refuge Ranch Staff
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Analia (Ana) Sanchez does general cleaning and assists wherever needed. She has a daughter, Renata Ruiz Sanchez.
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Cirino Cruz
is a mason by trade and heads all of the building projects at the
ranch. He also takes care of the livestock and does general
handyman work . He has two children, Berenice &Bernabe.
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Rosa Tovar
left her restaurant business to work full time as the cook at both
Refuge Ranch and on the Evangelistic Medical Mission Crusades.
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Magda Hernandez
takes care of the laundry and assists with cooking as well as other
homemaking duties. She has a daughter, Erika.
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Mark and Lucy Marshall
are from Indiana. Mark is an auto mechanic and takes care of the
vehicles, works with the construction projects and accompanies
Victor on the crusades. Lucy is a special education teacher. She
works with homeschooling the children. She also enjoys gardening
and canning the produce. They have two children, Aaron and Joanna.
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Adrian Tovar and Vero Gonzalez volunteer at both Refuge Ranch and on the crusades. |
Life at Refuge Ranch
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