Dr. Pat Castle can thank, in part, his 2008 encounter with St Padre Pio on Pike's Peak in Colorado to prompting him to found Liferunners which is the world's largest pro-life witnessing team with 20,557 members in 364 cities in 41 nations. Keeping in mind a survey indicating that 78% of post abortion women only needed an encouraging word or an encouraging sign to choose life and not abort their unborn babies, this apostolate, in Post Roe America, is a must to participate in to save pre-born children who are in danger.

Amazingly, it all began with a mystical encounter with St. Padre Pio in the Rocky Mountains in 2006 when Pat Castle was racing up 14,000 foot Pike's Peak while he was in the US Air Force and stationed in Colorado to teach chemistry at the US Air Force Academy.