Jackie Pullinger
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Jackie Pullinger MBE (born 1944) is a British Christian (Protestant) missionary to Hong Kong.
At the age of 20 Pullinger graduated from the Royal College of Music. She wanted to be a missionary, so she wrote to various missionary organizations. At first she wanted to go to Africa, but she had a dream that impressed upon her the idea of going to Hong Kong.[1] All of the missionary organizations that she wrote to rejected her. So she sought advice from Richard Thompson, a minister in Shoreditch. Richard told her that she should buy a ticket for a boat going as far as she could get and to pray to know when to get off from the boat. So she followed his advice and went to Hong Kong by boat in 1966 with only HK$100 on hand. When she arrived in Hong Kong she knew no one there and had no means of support.[2] The only reason the immigration officers allowed her in was because her Mother's godson was a police officer there.[3] She ministered as a primary school teacher in the Kowloon Walled City, which at that time was not policed by either Chinese or British authorities. With no police authority it had become by the 1960s one of the world's largest opium producing centres ran by Chinese criminal Triad gangs.[4] In there she established a youth club to help drug addicts and street sleepers. Through her youth club she has saved over 500 drug addicts and many more became Christians through her ministry.
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[edit] Published works
- Chasing the Dragon (1980)
- Crack in the Wall : the life and death of Kowloon Walled City (1989)
