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English Ministries Special Sundays

English Broadcasting To promote church unity through
witness and prayer
Four Christian radio programs in English
are aired on RTHK-4 and RTHK-3 each week. Unity Sunday, World Day of Prayer and World
Rev. Judy Chan serves as Program Producer Communion Sunday.
and Ms. Yan Cheng is Program Coordinator. The
programs are: Sunday Service, Minutes That
To Promote Christian concern on
Matter, Reflections and Thought for the Week.
special issues
These programs are supported by the Social Concern Sunday, Christian Family
ecumenical Christian community under the Sunday, Asia Sunday, Environment Sunday,
auspices of the Religious Broadcasting and Communications Sunday, Hong Kong Sunday,
Television Advisory Committee (English/Christian). Education Sunday and World AIDS Sunday.
Participants include Protestant, Catholic and
Orthodox Churches and organizations in Hong Others
Kong. This year's Committee Chairperson is Fr.
Women's Sunday, Labor Sunday, Sea
Roman Carter, O.P.
Sunday, Elderly Sunday, Health Sunday, Youth
Sunday and Bible Sunday.
The televised Easter service was recorded
at St. John's Cathedral and broadcast on TVB
Pearl on Easter Monday, March 24, 2008. In Conclusion
addition, the Committee produced a series of
Special Sunday radio broadcasts on the themes
In February 2008, I attended the Central
of Favorite Hymns, Remembrance Day, Franklin
Committee meeting of the World Council of
Graham Festival, Unity Sunday, Lent, Palm
Churches. It was an inspiring meeting. I learned
Sunday, Ascension, Environment Sunday, Sea
a lot. The most important lesson I learned is to be
Sunday, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, and optimistic about the future of ecumenism.
Contemporary Hymnody. On June 8, 2008, The
Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding In a globalized society, we cannot close our
Bishop of the Episcopal Church USA, preached door and be content with ourselves. If we can
on the radio at the morning service of St. John's have diversity within unity and join together in
Cathedral. common ministry, those actions that bear positive
and fruitful results will bring harmony to the
society.
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HKCC has global and regional wisdom and
Rev. Judy Chan is the Editor of “News and
experience; we have confidence to promote and
Views". It is one of the major English publications
to expand the faith and witness of our church,
of the Council, giving a quarterly report on news
to bring goodness to our society and the world.
of the Council and the Hong Kong Church.
But first we have to have people with leadership
ability. Therefore we have high expectations for
the new General Secretary and for co-operation
with the team to become fresh troops.

In my seminary days, I was blessed by broad,
liberal theological teaching. During my studies, I
had contact and involvement with the ecumenical
movement. Today, 40 years later, I still firmly
believe that the ecumenical movement is the
mandate of God and our mission is to actualize
it in order to fulfill the prayer and desire of Jesus.
May God bless the Hong Kong Christian Council
as it seeks to bring churches together to do what
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the Lord requires: to do justice, to love kindness
and to walk humbly with our God (Micah 6:8).