This sermon shares a powerful testimony of encountering Jackie Pullinger, a remarkable individual who fearlessly entered the dangerous Wall City in Hong Kong to bring hope and light to drug addicts, criminals, and prostitutes. Through her selfless actions and unwavering faith, Jackie demonstrated how God can use anyone for His glory, regardless of qualifications or background, showcasing the transformative power of God's anointing in unexpected ways.

You asked me about Jackie Pullinger. I had the privilege of meeting her when I was with the British forces in 1967 to 69. I lived in Hong Kong at the time and I was, what would I be? I'd be 30, 28, 30 years of age. She was the same age as me and she came to Hong Kong and she was teaching at a little school on the island and she and two friends would go out in the streets almost every day giving tracts out to young people. There were a lot of servicemen there coming from Vietnam, American servicemen and then there'd be other young people who were into Hong Kong on the drug trail, on the opium trail going through Nepal and Tibet etc and she would give them tracts. Came into my home many times and she would talk to me about the Wall City. The Wall City was the former police garrison that was in the middle of Kowloon when the British took over possession of that place for a hundred years lease. They allowed this police group to stay there or this military group to stay there to keep order in Kowloon but over the years of course as Kowloon grew into skyscrapers and everything, this place became a place of refuge for the drug addicts and the criminals and the prostitutes who were fleeing from the Hong Kong police and as it got overcrowded they kept building up and the buildings around it got bigger and so it came to a place when I lived there where there were no gates into the Wall City at all, into the central city. It was a crowded out place full of vice and criminals and prostitutes. There would be guards on the outside of the buildings watching in case the police would try to raid the places and but to get into the Wall City there were certain shops you could go into them right by the airport in Hong Kong. Go through certain shops and nobody knew if they would accept the initiated and there was a door at the back and you'd go in and she wanted to go into the Wall City to be a witness there. There was a missionary who already went in there called a Mrs Donathorn, an old widow or old spencer maybe I don't remember she was well in her 80s and Jackie went in with her but of course a couple of weeks after she went in Mrs Donathorn stopped going in because she now had a replacement and so Jackie is brand new going in there and you read a book Chasing the Dragon she talks about having no fear which is amazing. So I said if I could come in with her and so she said yes she said so long as you come with nothing in your pockets having no belts and people think you've got something in a gun or even something or money and so just shorts which is what I normally wore, knee length socks and shoes and a thin t-shirt or thin shirt and so we went in one of the shops opened the door at the back and it's a five foot drop to the streets because Hong Kong is just built up on the streets of the original city five foot below us. There's an oil drum to step on a cement block and we stepped down into the street and the street we arrived in was narrow you could touch both sides with your hands and you can see when there were colour televisions and the people had colour tv but the rest it was just terrible terrible state and the street that I was on had a bottom of slope like this because sewage ran down the street and as we got down there's a prostitute over there who's half naked there's a man of you who's twirling a knife looking at these two intruders these are the first two things I saw and the sewage water coming down the street and overhead you can't see up because just overhead there are bamboo rods which came from one house to the other where people had formally hung their washing but over the months the people above them are throwing their dirty water out of the window so this has been covered with potato peelings and all that kind of thing and so they're rotted and so the people whose clothes have been destroyed or ruined just left them there so overhead was this network of rotting food and as we walked Jackie thumped it and you can hear the rats scurrying around as you walk then there'd be a gap and you could see five stories up to the sky then there'd be another matted covering from this and that's what we walked through I remember walking past an open building where there were maybe half a dozen or more men lying on the ground with their opium pipes opium drug opium house and we walked along and then we found a man lying in the sewage it's my first experience of the place and so Jackie gets down on the knees and pulls him out of the sewage props him against the wall takes a white handkerchief from her pocket and wipes his face down I'm standing beside her watching this this is this was a surreal it's another world I didn't know people lived like this and then we went on and we conducted a meeting for small children she had a little children's meeting I went in on two occasions like that with her and never ever ever dreamed of this girl who cried in my home in prayer who cried and felt very fragile never had any nerves about going into that place I never dreamt that she would be the instrument of God for such miracles that's happening in Hong Kong with drug addicts through her ministry but what it taught me Greg was this that God can take anyone upon whom he puts his anointing and use them for his glory and I've met many young men and women since Jackie who have equal anointing maybe not an equal anointing but have an anointing of God that is beyond the natural beyond the normal the use of God in mighty mighty ways but Jackie was quite a girl many men because Hong Kong at that time was full of missionaries overloaded with missionaries because they'd been put out to China two years before and so all this Chinese speaking came to Hong Kong and sadly there was a lot of conflict between the missionaries over many matters same organization but the American missionaries were paid more than the British and that kind of thing and it was a lot and I honestly confess that I left Hong Kong with a bitterness against missions and I found it quite humorous that God had taken me a complete circle to the place where I became a missionary pastor from there child myself but Jackie was one of these unique people she wasn't with an organization she wasn't paid she wasn't qualified to be a missionary and yet she was the only one invited on the radio to give a weekly I think it was weekly she was on little story for missions and Jackie would be on the radio every week and she'd tell little stories such as that I was out on the streets this week and I met George now George is a Geordie from Newcastle and then she'd come off with this wonderful Geordie accent telling a story about little George that was in the secular radio every week Jackie Pullinger none of the missionaries could get on there but she was so highly respected by the secular world as well as by some of us at least in the Christian world and of course now by the whole Christian world recognize the work she God did through her remarkable young lady but remarkable because she knew a remarkable God