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. 

 

Currently, Refuge Ranch serves as home to Victor and Julie, three biological children and six children for whom they serve as guardians.

bullet Angie and Diana are sisters and came to Refuge Ranch at the ages of 9 and 10 from a difficult gang and drug ridden neighborhood in Mexico City. 
bullet Martha showed up at a Fishers of Men Evangelistic Medical Mission Crusade being held in her indigenous village in the state of Oaxaca.  She came home from the mission trip to join the Zaragoza family, leaving behind a life of abuse and malnutrition. 
bullet Ana became a part of the family the day after her birth.  Her birth mother, impoverished and struggling to care for five children, asked Victor and Julie to take Ana into their home. 
bullet Fidel was abandoned by his family and was living in the local government center, sleeping in the jail, when he was discovered by Victor during an Evangelistic Medical Mission Crusade in Fidel’s village. 
bullet Marthita was rescued from an abusive situation in her native Mazahuan village. 
bullet Josiah, Caleb, and Ruth, the Zaragoza’s biological children, complete the family for now.

 

The dream of Victor and Julie is to open their home to many more children in the future.