Ramon was born and raised in Compton and Lynwood, California where he spent a lot of time freestyle rapping, cracking jokes, and going to church with his family. He attended El Camino Community College and was introduced to Campus Crusade for Christ where he served as a student leader, which eventually lead to taking short term mission trips to Ethiopia almost regularly. In 2005 Ramon married his beautiful wife Yvette and are now on their way to becoming a full house with Kaydon, 1, and a baby girl due in February.

During his time as a student in the Vineyard Leadership Institute, Ramon became an associate pastor at VX Church and at the same time began an initiative to start a church planting movement in Ethiopia that has seen 11 churches planted in 2 years. Now he is a part time student at Fuller Theological Seminary and has stepped into the role of full time pastor of VX Church. He feels called to equip and train people to become mature followers of Christ and to see the church embody racial and ethnic diversity. At home you will find him reading, watching movies, listening to a variety of music or sometimes cooking very exotic food.


Additional Interesting Facts About Ramon:

His favorite song is In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel

His favorite movies are all of the Lord Of The Rings films

His favorite food is Doro wot (Ethiopian chicken)