Refuge Ranch
The children receive a home school education and find the love, nurture,
freedom and structure necessary to become all that God wants them to be.
Scroll down this page to meet the family, the staff of Refuge Ranch, and some images of life on the ranch!
The Family of Refuge Ranch
Josiah, the oldest biological son, was born in Indiana in
April of 2001.
Two years later, in June of 2003, the family answered God's call to move to Mexico.
In
March of 2004, Angie
and
her sister Diana,
who were 9 and 10 years old,
came
from living in an abandoned storefront in Mexico City with their
birth mother to become part of the family.
Angie and her husband, Juan, married in 2019, live in Acapulco.
Diana and Robbie, along with their son, Liam, born in 2017, live in Monterrey.
Two weeks after Angie and Diana joined the family, the second biological son, Caleb, was born.
When
Caleb was two months old,
Martha, age
6, walked
alone from her mountain village seeking treatment at an EMMC.
She
came home with the crusade team, leaving behind a life of
abuse and malnutrition,
increasing the family from one to
five children in a span of two months.
Ruth, the third biological child, was born in November of 2005.
Ana
has
been
part
of the family since her birth in August of 2006. While pregnant,
Ana’s birth mother,
young, impoverished and struggling to raise
five children, arranged to surrender Ana at birth.
In
July of 2007,
Fidel,
at age 7, joined the family after an EMMC,
during which the crusade team learned that he had been abandoned by all of
his relatives.
Fidel now lives independently in the Mexico City area.
alcoholic father, stepmother, and other family members, Martita sought safety at a Christian mission. The missionaries
contacted Refuge Ranch and she was welcomed into the family in February of 2008 at age 13.
Martita married Leonel in 2016 and together they pastor a church in Guerrero.
They have a daugher, Layla, born in 2019.
In July of 2009, Daniel
joined
the family at the age of 21 months when his birth mother
abandoned him.
Severe congenital heart disease required surgery at
age five which led to his death on September 8, 2013.
Lolis
is Martita's biological sister. For almost two years after Martita
joined the family, attempts were made to also bring
Lolis into the
family. Finally, in December of 2009, at the age of 12, Lolis joined
her sister at Refuge Ranch.
Lolis and German, along with their daughter, Ximena, born in 2016, live in Toluca.
.who ranged in age from 10 to 2. Their mother had left them to the care of their elderly grandmother who was unable to adequately meet their needs. In 2015 Fatima went to live with her biological mother, and in 2019 Leo and Miguel chose to return to their biological mother. Carolina returned to her biological mother in 2020. David continues to live at Refuge Ranch.
Alejandro
joined the family in November of 2011 at the age of 11 after
having spent those first 11 years
being jostled from one living
situation to another, including relative's homes, shelters and even
the street.
At this time Alejandro lives on his own.
Harumi and Crhistopher became part of the family in 2018 when their single mother decided she no longer wanted them. Although their mother had granted Julie custody, their biological grandparents were able to attain legal authority
for Harumi and Crhistopher to live with them for now.
Mauricio, age 6, and Kimberly, age 5, joined the family in January of 2020
after their mother left them with their grandmother who was unable to properly care for them.
Nicolas,age 5, Alondra, age 7, and José, age 12, came from a situation of extreme domestic violence
and became part of the family at Refuge Ranch in October of 2020.
The Staff of Refuge Ranch
Adrian & Vero Tovar serve at both Refuge Ranch and on the crusades. They have a son Isaac.
.
Rosa Tovar
left her restaurant business to work full time with Fishers of Men. She serves as the cook at
Refuge Ranch
and as a volunteer counselor on the Evangelistic Medical Mission Crusades.
Life at Refuge Ranch
