Andy and Laura are reading “Chasing The Dragon” an autobiography of Jackie Pullinger.

Jackie Pullinger was born in Britain in 1944, and spent most of her young adult life sharing the love of Jesus with the drug dealers and prostitutes of the Walled City in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Unclaimed by either the Chinese or the British government, the Walled City was a dense block of high-rise apartments which became a no-mans-land of drugs, violence, and exploitation overseen by rival gangs. Jackie shares how God had to overcome her assumptions and preconceived ideas about what it means to “minister” until He finally broke her heart with a genuine love for the people of the city. After years of perseverance and personal growth in faith, hundreds were brought to faith through her witness. This move of God toppled the gangs and eventually brought down the Walled City itself.

I appreciate the honesty of this book as the author shares her struggles to trust God and live up to the life that she knew she was called to. In the end, it was the time she spent building relationships and showing other-centered love that finally broke through the barriers and allowed those in the city to understand and accept the love of Jesus. This is a great reminder to me that one of the most effective ways to minister is to simply pour yourself and the love that God gives you into the lives of those around you in practical ways. Jackie still lives and ministers in Hong Kong today.

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