‘Temple Street Father’ and his life mission helping Hong Kong’s homeless
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Since arriving in Hong Kong in 1985, John Wotherspoon has spent his time helping the city’s disadvantaged. The Australian priest was first posted to a Kowloon parish and on Lantau Island before spending a period of time teaching English in mainland China. In 2009, Wotherspoon moved to a subdivided flat in Yau Ma Tei’s Temple Street in Kowloon to be near the homeless. Over the years, Wotherspoon has earned the nickname “Temple Street Father” for his work with the local homeless and ex-convicts. And at the age of 74, Wotherspoon has no plans to slow down and intends to continue helping Hong Kong’s poor.
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Started this video with skepticism thinking how much can one father do. After finishing the clip, I have the utmost respect for the Father seeing that he is selfless and genuinely wants to help the less fortunate.
Is there a way I can donate to his cause?
Hey there,
The video mentions that that he is part of the MercyHK organization, so I googled it. Apparently, they are accepting donations but the process may be a bit complex. They have info for donations on their website: www.mercyhk.org/misc/info-for-donors.htm
His canto is better than mine. Mad respect for this man.
I JUST REALIZED IT WAS CANTO I WAS WONDERING WHY I COUOD UNDERSTAND SOME OF IT SJDJDND
I hope he gets to his place in heaven and has a fantastic time with all the friends and people he's helped over his beautiful lifetime.
Bless this man I hope he continues as long as his heart desires 💝
One world 🌎 One China 🇨🇳
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Everyone matters.
Everyone has their own story and some of them are worth to share. Like this one.
Bless this Father. We hope for the best and long live for him.
Total respect for Father Wootherspoon , awesome
This is probably one of the best video from scmp. I really like it
Blessings from Australia 🇦🇺
🙏✌🏼❤️
Thank you for helping the poor people.
Bless you father for you are a kind soul and truly living the gospel!🕊
Hats off you Father John.may long live.🙏🙏🙏
This gentleman is a great human being. Thank you for your work!
Wow, Sir.
U are truly an angel send from Heaven to help the less fortunate, the don and out.
U are a beacon of God's ray of hope.
At 74, u are still actively involved the such charitable movement without any recognition.
On behalf of those whom u have helped and i believed, many are still needing your help, i said THANK YOU VERY MUCH. U have a heart made of solid gold. Thank you, SIR.
What a hero… thank you for all your compassion and hard work. You are in my prayers.
He's a legend
Fabulous work Father John and friends. Respect and prayers from the uk.
Thank you Father Wotherspoon. We need people like you more than ever with a deeply divided, elite driven society we are in.
Big respect to yoy father for what you doing for them awesome work keep it up
What an amazing big hearted man!
Well done, what a extraordinary individual father wootherspoon is...
Thank you for sharing this story
If there is an angel walking among us today, he is Father John. Jesus has sent His assistant .
SUS
After all the trauma caused by clergy this is so heartwarming for me to see. Penance for sure.....
Very special man…
Wonderful Father......
This man, this person, this human is definitely got super better karma someday in afterlife 😇
Dear Father John, I want to be able to be like you, help people. Can i visit you in future, to learn more on how to help the people.
Thankyou Father John
You and your helpers are true disciples ❤ we can all help somewhere, 1 person at a time 😊
Bless you, Father John Wotherspoon
Real Angel with kind-heart 💞🙏 we need more people lwith compassion in this world 🌎
What a lovely man 👨
Super human. Respect.
Bless you father! you may be old. but i pray and hope you'll go to heaven one day.. i dont think you will see my comment but, we will be with you in spirit!
:D
Age is just a number. Just makes one wiser ( hopefully)
More energy than a lot of young people
A wonderful man!
Great hero, thank you, Padre.
more blessings to you Father
speechless😭
amazing story and even more amazing man.
So much respect for you father John... You got a place in heaven I'm very sure for that....your heart is full of love and mercy 💜💜💜
So sweet
Salute 👍
Thank you Father John.
Blessed you, Father
👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 For this man
Who gave this thumbs down????
you are inspirational Father
what you sow, you shall reap... bless you!
Defensive Designs do have some loop holes, where the homeless lives.
Father John is God's gift to to Hong Kong.
There’s a priest doing gods work more ppl need to see that there are faithful clergy walking the walk
Legend Aussie 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Legend human!!
Father, please take care yourself. Remember that you are very important. I wish you healthy and happy. I hope and I want one day I come here to do volunteer work.😊
hats off to you and your work sir. next time I will probably buy stuffs from mercy shop when in temple street. There is more to be done to help homeless people in hk. their blessing can bring success to HK.
An Angel.
there's a special place in heaven for people like sir john :)
I miss Fr john❤
🙏👏
Greatest man in the world
I thought he was Australian bc he has a kind of accent of my dad
He is
A big yum cha in heaven! Yes.
how can people send help to father John? so that he can help other more
life is not life, without dreams
That's some pay back...
yes
That is what we call a FAIR DINKUM AUSSIE. 👍
❤
that man is a saint
I'm sorry, I thought it said temple street fighter 😅
Like this old man
Theres also some of these in the Philippines, such as Mark Nowhereman
I’m only 74!
Hk got so much tycoon for what ? None of them can compare to this priest.
what a boss.
Angel
Praised the Lord😊
"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you've fed him for a lifetime."
Why is the Buddhist temples not build HOSTEL, KITCHEN.
ALSO labour short Hong Kong can pick up part time workers. There cannot be more than 0.2% that are in severe problem.
😌
Budhist too focused on meditation and not eating meat.... Maybe extra kungfu if in shaolin temple 😁
Father weatherspoon are you still active im going to try contact you
He will live to 1000 years
Fr. John Wotherspoon has his place in heaven assured.
Saint mother Theresa ❤️ another religious man.wish all people learn from this great soul...is materialistic.seeking fortune and driving big car the vision of success
sincerely, I was educated by a great school St Joseph Catholic school hong kong
As one of God's soldiers hes fighting for the poor!
A true christian man.
Taiwan is ❤️
🤩
so, what are the Riches doing now?
who's crying?!
😮
i see.
MacDonald ain’t the cheaper food and beer sure is a costly nonessential. Those people simply cannot think right and will never get out of the dire situation.
Free the uygur people
It's a fact that coronavirus won't go near homeless people.
Manic Street Preachers.
Stone Temple Pilots.
Nice Guy. I would Like to visit Asia and try Dog soup 🐕🍲🍷😋
What are the hong kong billionaires doing about this?
Driving fast cars and living in highrise condo
"He's not a drug addict he's an alcoholic" wft
Ok
Lk
It's the part we didn't see that speaks volumes. We only know it didn't work for him and that he soon left the apartment. These typ of shelters have rules for the safety of others staying there. Likely alcohol and drugs are strictly prohibited.
..... ? So ?
Sorry, both addictive syndromes, catholic church has been codependent to accept alcoholics and not the drug addict.
我是第一！
很棒!
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