Psalm 73:26: “My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever”
CRISPULO Cabie Ablang, resident pastor of the Berean Believers Fellowship, Inc. of Barangay Muzon of the City of San Jose del Monte in Bulacan, died at the St. Luke’s Medical Center in Quezon City on Tuesday, his family announced. He was 72.
He is survived by his wife of 43 years Charry (nee Rosaro Tamargo), sons Kristofer Ryan, a car buff, and Mark David, former Director IV of the Department of Finance; two grandchildren, Fiona Athalia and Ezekiel; daughter-in-law Judy Ann; brother Constante, a civil engineer and alumnus of Mapua Institute of Technology, and sister Zenaida, a social worker with the Children’s Mission Philippines, an alumna of UP in Diliman.
Ablang is the nephew of Honor Blanco Cabie, opinion editor of Manila Standard.
Ablang, who studied at the co-educational Central Colleges of the Philippines in Quezon City, was born in Pinili, Ilocos Norte where he spent his first 10 years of formal schooling, before enrolling for a banking and finance degree in the metropolis.
He was the eldest of the three children of Maximino Ablang of Santa Lucia, Ilocos Sur and the former Hermenigilda Cabie of Pinili, Ilocos Norte, the inland town where warriors walked during the Philippine-American War and the Second World War in the 1940s.
He worked as administrative aide at the Manila office of general contractors ACK Construction for 22 years before becoming an elder of the Baptist church in 1995 and eventually a resident pastor of the Berean Believers Fellowship, Inc. in barangay Muzon.
A soft-spoken and well-mannered person but with a good draft of humor, Ablang often told friends and colleagues his catchphrase in life: “Don’t let problems bother you, just relax; and children must always have respect for their parents, and whatever the children achieved in life, they should always be grateful to their parents.”
In his lifetime, Ablang co-established a religious/charitable organization Hope and Opportunity in Poor Children’s Education Philippines, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2011, through which they provide school supplies to 100 pupils – kinder to grade 7 – from indigent families.
As resident pastor, he also conducted bible studies every Wednesday, apart from Sunday bible studies for adults before he shared with the congregation the word of God.
Funeral plans are being arranged by the family.
