Chasing the Dragon by Jackie Pullinger and Andrew Quicke
Until it was pulled down, the Walled City was Hong Kong's most foreboding territory. It was a lawless place, dominated by the Triads, and which the police hesitated to enter. Strangers were unwelcome. Drug smuggling and heroin addiction flourished, as did prostitution and pornography, extortion and fear.
When Jackie Pullinger set sail from England in 1966 she had no idea that God was calling her to the Walled City. Yet, as she spoke of Jesus Christ, brutal Triad gangsters were converted, prostitutes quit, and Jackie discovered a new treatment for drug addiction: baptism in the Holy Spirit. Hundreds discovered new life in Christ.
Chasing the Dragon tells the whole amazing story exactly as it happened. Equally amazing has been the reach of this ministry, now from Hong Kong to the Philippines, Thailand, and beyond. The ministry that started with Jackie and her friends taking people in to live and care for them has continued and developed to form the present St. Stephen's Society. Readers will be inspired by this tale of trust and loving like Jesus.
- Paperback | 272 pages
- 130 x 197 x 17mm | 196g
- 16 Feb 2006
- HODDER & STOUGHTON
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English
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0340908807
- 9780340908808
