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about 100 people. We began offering protection to shops in the vicinity and if they did not want it, we would show them that they needed it. We took drugs ourselves and sold drugs to others.
About this time I was sent to prison. They said I had killed someone, but fortunately we managed to get someone to agree to confess to the crime, and I only served two years. While in prison I continued to take heroin.
When I left prison we expanded the area which the gang controlled. This meant a lot of gang war- fare as we had to force other gangs to let us take control.
Eventually we controlled all of Tze Wan Shan. The gang grew very large. I don't know how many were in it but there were about 300 people directly under me. We controlled all the gambling, the prost- itutes and the illegal drugs in that area.
Everything was fine except that I was a drug addict. I used to believe in Chinese idols and thought they would keep me safe, until once I was attacked and stabbed. From then on I did not think they were so good, and I stopped believing in them. I was completely lost and it was at this point that I noticed some of my friends had changed and had come off drugs. I was impressed by this and I real- ized that they had something more powerful than anything I had. I thought Christians were soft, but a friend who had become a Christian told me how a young woman, Jackie Pullinger, had prayed for him and how he had been filled with the Holy Spirit, and had since been healed of drug addiction. This really interested me. I was trying to come off drugs but found that I could not. So I went to her to see if she could help me.
When I met Miss Pullinger, she had been a miss- ionary in Kowloon for some time. She told me about Jesus, but I was not really interested, until she spoke of how Jesus would change lives. She
told me about the power of the Holy Spirit. I had never heard of the Holy Spirit but as she spoke I knew that I needed His power in my life.
She then asked me if I would like to pray and ask Christ into my life. I could not answer at first, then I just closed my eyes and prayed. God answered my prayer. Jesus came to me and cleansed me from sin, at the same time giving me the wonderful experien- ce of the baptism in the Holy Spirit. I was conscious of the power of God filling the place and I felt cold and hot at the same time, and I heard a noise like a wind, just like on the day of Pentecost! I over- flowed with joy and the presence of the Lord until it bubbled over and I burst into tongues. It was a wonderful experience. From that time on I often felt the need to go back and refill myself with His power. I thank God that He filled me with the Spirit as soon as I was regenerated because that gave me the power and the strength to give up the gang and to come off heroin. At that time I was shooting $400 worth of heroin a day, but when I was con- verted I came off drugs with no pain at all, and now even the scars have gone.
I stayed with the Society for eight months help- ing in whatever way I could. My first job was to clean the toilets and later on I was promoted to being chef as well. Then I went back to school for two months to learn English, so that I could go to England to Bible college. I worked with YWAM for a few months before coming to Elim Bible College where I am now a student.
I praise God for what He has done for me. Twenty-nine-year-old ex-gang leaders are not given grants for studying theology and neither are ex- criminals with over a dozen convictions normally granted visas to England. But here I am and God has supplied my needs and I believe He will continue to do so. I pray that God will use me to win people to Jesus so they can be changed even as I have been.
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