PURSUING MY DREAM

jada poon fine art portrait photographer hong kong

All throughout my youth, I have always struggled with the concept of justice and suffering – why good people have to suffer whilst bad people get their way. I have always yearned to ‘make things right’.

In 2013, I was given two separate prophesies that my work will heal people around the world, in places with orphans and broken-hearted, and that I will give people a voice. I had no idea what that meant, and it seemed too remote to me.

After that, I started working with NGOs on the area of anti-human trafficking, and through that, I not only met a lot of visionaries who inspired and mentored me, but I was also confronted with the darkest sides of humanity as I visited the alleys of HK and Cambodia. How can parents sell their daughters like commodity in Cambodia? How can men put into auction the virginity of a 5-year old child? I prayed for the Lord to break my heart for what breaks His, and my prayer was answered. My heart only got more and more burdened to reach out and speak up for women.

But as I spent time in Cambodia, I started questioning whether I was actually helping as a ‘visitor’, and began realising that the experience was more to grow me than to serve others. My time spent working on anti human trafficking broke my heart and made it fertile ground for God’s missions later to come. I thought about home - Hong Kong- where many women also feel unworthy, despite the fact that the struggles in our lives are manifested differently. We struggle with very similar fears in life and need support and resonance. So, why not start at home?

Hong Kong is a place where many of us have been raised to value ourselves through ‘success’, looks or approval. Many outwardly succeed yet struggle with finding joy and inner peace - ‘orphans’, broken-hearted in the loss of their own identity and values.

Having captured love for so many years, God has planted an additional mission into my heart – to campaign for love. Because if there is one thing to be remembered- it is this, that LOVE NEVER FAILS.

Jada Poon