Church Photos
The Lighthouse Mission, Catholic, and Protestant church’s involvement helped the Filipinos in Stockton be able to establish a community. It created a place for children to learn different languages and hobbies and helped them to acclimate to the differences of the ways of life of the Philippines and Stockton. The sad part about church involvement was that they often forced the American way of life on the Filipinos. The Filipino’s did not let the white people control their lives completely by adding cultural values to the protestant and Catholic beliefs. The churches added a place for the people in the Stockton Filipino community to gather as a community and come together to fight for their rights as workers, business owners, and education seekers.