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• Rev. Oscar and Juanita Ramos-Missionaries

Rev. Juanita and husband Rev. Oscar Ramos, have been assigned to the Louisiana Annual Conference through the National Plan for Hispanic Ministries.

As the conference coordinator for Hispanic Ministries, Oscar is responsible for overseeing the conference’s efforts in reaching out and ministering to its Hispanic population. As Coordinator of Latino Ministries for the Louisiana Conference Annual Conference, Rev. Juanita Arrieta-Ramos serves through the National Plan for Hispanic and Latino Ministries (NPHLM) with the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church. Rev. Arrieta-Ramos shares that listening to God’s call and responding to it was one of the best things she has done in her life. “As Christians we are called to do mission wherever we go, wherever we are. God called me long before I was aware of it.”

Juanita and Oscar's home conference is the Indiana Annual Conference.  The Rev. Oscar Ramos-Gallardo was assigned to the North Indiana Annual Conference through the National Plan for Hispanic and Latino Ministries. As the conference coordinator for Hispanic Ministries. Prior to his commissioning as a GBGM missionary, Oscar served as co-pastor of the La Sagrada Familia United Methodist Church in Goshen, IN, for seven years. Reflecting on his ministry, Oscar says he sensed God’s presence when “I saw our Hispanic community in Goshen looking for our leadership in many areas of community life, especially advocacy.” He adds that he has also experienced God moving through his ministry in his work as “part of a group of people who alleviate pain” and in witnessing “many families experiencing God’s abundant life after ‘living’ in the middle of a senseless life.” 

Juanita and Oscar are the parents of two children, Damara, age 9, and Emilio, age 7.