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Biography
"Too young and unqualified to join
a missionary society, I asked God what to do with my life. 'Go,'
he replied and repeated this whenever I asked; and
when I inquired where, he added 'Go, and I will lead you.
I went. On the advice of a minister I took the cheapest ship I
could find, calling in at the greatest
number of countries. I got on and prayed to know where to get
off."
Jackie arrived in Hong Kong in 1966 and was immediately drawn to
the most notorious and dangerous city imaginable - Kowloon's
Walled City. It was into the den of
hopelessness and despair that she came, totally unaware of how
God would transform her life and, through her, the face of Hong
Kong's Walled City.
Today this work has been recognized by the Hong Kong Government,
by the United Kingdom (she was awarded an M.B.E. by the Queen in
1988) and by the University of Hong
Kong which has awarded her an honorary doctrate in Social
Sciences. She has two books: Chasing the Dragon and Crack in the
Wall - the life and death of Kowloon
Walled City.
Jackie reminds us that God's heart is towards the poor,
oppressed and downtrodden. She also reminds us the City of God
is a present as well as future
reality, and that reflections of it can be established even in a
place like the Kowloon's Walled City. |
