El Sauzal News

Cincuneta años. Fifty years. Today boasted a special milestone for El Sauzal: Papa Ramon and Mama Magdalena’s fiftieth wedding anniversary. A celebration was held and overflowed with guests who came to celebrate with the two who have changed so many lives.

Ramon now pastors a church on the Nequa Indian Reservation near to the orphanage, but his impact in the community reaches beyond that church’s walls. He has planted many churches in the community, including the church the orphanage children attend. Not only has Papa Ramon been a Shepherd for the community, he has guided and raised generations of children at the orphanage.

Of Ramon and Magdalena’s fifty years of marriage, forty-two have been spent shepherding the lives of children through El Sauzal Orphanage. In the book of Ephesians, Paul tells us that it is a great mystery that God has made the earthly institute of marriage to image the heavenly love Christ has for His Church. Papa Ramon and Mama Magdalena have been blessed by the Lord to share half a century together, and God has used those years to bring many children to Himself through lives lived in obedience to the Gospel. Christ has sacrificed Himself to make us God’s children and continually keeps us as His own; Ramon and Magdalena have lived lives that mirror this truth by working tirelessly to keep the orphanage open and being parents to all of the children who have benefited from their love.                       

-Patty Siegmund