Who is Jackie Pullinger?
In 1966, Jackie Pullinger was a new Christian with a heart for sharing with others. As she shared in her sermon, as a young convert in England she just felt it was wrong to be staying in a room full of Christians praising God when there were folks outside who had never heard of Jesus. She felt a strong pull to missions work but was told that she was too young and not educated/experienced enough. So she paid for her passage on a tramp steamer and headed east. When she got to Hong Kong, she felt this is where she should be. She got off the boat, was let in the country even though she didn’t have much money to her name. At first she tried the traditional way of ministering to folks — passing out tracts. But what do pieces of papers telling of God’s love mean to folks who can’t read and are taking heroin three times a day? So she began to love and pray for the folks. Lives began to change. A large part of her ministry was in the Walled City in Kowloon (which was torn down before the hando
