Four years ago, “Everybody Loves Raymond” star Sawyer Sweeten tragically passed by committing suicide at the age of 19. This week, his family honored him in a way that he truly would have loved.

People Magazine reported that the Sweeten family teamed up with Sawyer’s second family at Loft Ensemble, a theater company based in Los Angeles, to restore two old theaters on the grounds of the St. Matthew Lutheran Church in North Hollywood, California. The upstairs theater was named “Sawyer’s Playhouse” by his family, and they added the plaque, “May this place be a light for all to find safety and friendship through creativity. Dedicated on April 23, 2019 by the Sawyer Sweeten Foundation, the Rosenthal Family Foundation, and Ray and Anna Romano.”

Sawyer and his twin brother Sullivan starred as Geoffrey and Michael Barone on the hit sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond,” which ran from 1996 to 2005. Their older sister Madylin also starred on the show, playing their older sister Ally Baron.

When Loft Ensemble learned that they had to move locations due to an increase in rent, Madylin decided to hold a fundraiser for them while honoring her brother at the same time.

“We reached out to the Rosenthal family (Philip Rosenthal is the creator of Everybody Loves Raymond) and the Romanos and asked them if they’d be interested in participating as well,” she explained. “They said not only would they be interested, they’d be interested in matching the Sawyer Sweeten Foundation. We’re very lucky that we were able to get enough to renovate both spaces.”

During the dedication, Madylin told stories about Sawyer and the lessons he taught her in life.

“My brother was a very deep and brute guy,” she said. “It worked for him. He wore it well. Most of the one-on-one conversations that I had with him were about the existential dilemmas that we have. He had so many ideas about what this was all about, where we go when we die and who we were meant to be not on this planet. He believed in things and in people and it’s what made him happiest.”

“I think that’s why he likes this place so much and why I feel him here,” she added. “Everyone is so full of belief here and we jump over the barriers of our minds and we push ourselves to believe harder and to accept harder and to love harder here more than any place I’ve ever been. I feel him in the walls watching and guiding the young souls who come here who just need help believing. My brother told me once that belief in any form is so powerful that it creates our reality and the next reality that we’ll encounter, that believing in heaven and reincarnation is what makes it real. That particular belief of his gives me the most joy because he believed in everything so he is everywhere. I urge you, all of you to come here and find him when you need a light and when you need to believe.”

Watch the heartfelt dedication in the video below.