‘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
Bless this man I hope he continues as long as his heart desires 💝
One world 🌎 One China 🇨🇳
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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.
Total respect for Father Wootherspoon , awesome
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.
Blessings from Australia 🇦🇺
🙏✌🏼❤️
This gentleman is a great human being. Thank you for your work!
Thank you for helping the poor people.
This is probably one of the best video from scmp. I really like it
Thank you Father Wotherspoon. We need people like you more than ever with a deeply divided, elite driven society we are in.
Hats off you Father John.may long live.🙏🙏🙏
Bless you father for you are a kind soul and truly living the gospel!🕊
What a hero… thank you for all your compassion and hard work. You are in my prayers.
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 an amazing big hearted man!
Thankyou Father John
You and your helpers are true disciples ❤ we can all help somewhere, 1 person at a time 😊
Total respect for Father Wootherspoon , awesome
Fabulous work Father John and friends. Respect and prayers from the uk.
Big respect to yoy father for what you doing for them awesome work keep it up
A wonderful man!
Well done, what a extraordinary individual father wootherspoon is...
He's a legend
Wonderful Father......
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.
Very special 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 💜💜💜
What a lovely man 👨
Bless you, Father John Wotherspoon
Super human. Respect.
This man, this person, this human is definitely got super better karma someday in afterlife 😇
Real Angel with kind-heart 💞🙏 we need more people lwith compassion in this world 🌎
more blessings to you Father
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.....
Thank you for sharing this story
you are inspirational Father
👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 For this man
Blessed you, Father
Thank you Father John.
Great hero, thank you, Padre.
Father John is God's gift to to Hong Kong.
speechless😭
amazing story and even more amazing man.
Legend Aussie 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Legend human!!
what you sow, you shall reap... bless you!
So sweet
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.😊
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
There’s a priest doing gods work more ppl need to see that there are faithful clergy walking the walk
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.
Salute👍
there's a special place in heaven for people like sir john :)
An Angel.
Greatest man in the world
Salute 👍
Who gave this thumbs down????
I miss Fr john❤
how can people send help to father John? so that he can help other more
A big yum cha in heaven! Yes.
Hk got so much tycoon for what ? None of them can compare to this priest.
"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."
Fr. John Wotherspoon has his place in heaven assured.
Defensive Designs do have some loop holes, where the homeless lives.
life is not life, without dreams
that man is a saint
That is what we call a FAIR DINKUM AUSSIE. 👍
I thought he was Australian bc he has a kind of accent of my dad
He is
Theres also some of these in the Philippines, such as Mark Nowhereman
That's some pay back...
Angel
As one of God's soldiers hes fighting for the poor!
I’m only 74!
Like this old man
🙏👏
❤❤
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 😁
Praised the Lord😊
A true christian man.
❤
Taiwan is ❤️
so, what are the Riches doing now?
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
He will live to 1000 years
I'm sorry, I thought it said temple street fighter 😅
who's crying?!
Father weatherspoon are you still active im going to try contact you
what a boss.
Free the uygur people
yes
It's a fact that coronavirus won't go near homeless people.
it's sad this australian priest's kindness is overshadowed by the evil of his country's foreign policy.
Why, just why would you taint the reverence of this man with your political comments? That's just sad to use this as your platform.
@@AuditClerk because the millions of victims from australia's participation of wars outweigh the hundreds this priest has helped. it's unfair to those millions when they dont have a voice.
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.
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.
Manic Street Preachers.
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i see.
Stone Temple Pilots.
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