![]() The handlebars were very long, so when I rode it, my arms were really spread apart. At first, I had difficult mounting it because I was barely 5 feet tall at that time. He handed his bike over to me instead.ĭouglas’ bike was blue. But Auntie Paz probably thought that I needed it more, so she introduced Douglas to me. Douglas actually planned to give his bike to my aunt, Paz Tamolang, who was an LA member at that time. They donated their bikes to selected LA people. They went to a Los Banos-based Christian fellowship, Lakas Angkan (LA). When their mission was over, Douglas and friends made a stopover in the Philippines before flying back to Hawaii. The mountain bike was perfect for that purpose. They needed cheap vehicles that can climb the rolling hills and sprint through the vast plains of China. They rode mountain bikes and distributed secretly Gospel tracts written in the Chinese language to people in the rural areas. He belonged to a group of around a dozen Americans who went to communist China in the 1980s to share God’s word in that closed country. (photo from the Castillo Family collection)ĭouglas was a Christian missionary to China. My siblings (left to right): Joan, Jay-R, and Lenlen posing at UPLB Baker field with my mountain bike in 1985.
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