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express its concern about online live soccer matches. to a specific issue as their major concern. Every student
viii. Universal Retirement Protection was closely supervised and nurtured by a mentor. The
two interns who joined the Council were Mr. Roy Lui and
The C om m ittee is a m em ber of Joint Alliance of
Ms. Leslie Chow.
Universal Retirement Protection. The Alliance met with
Prof. K. C. Chan, Secretary for Financial Services and the HKCC would also like to thank the American Baptist
M ission, The M ethodist Church Hong Kong, and the
Treasury and Mr. Leung Chun-ying, Convenor of the Non­
Justice
official Members of the Executive Council respectively, to Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China for
express its views on Universal Retirement Protection. their financial support.
and
ix. Asylum Seekers and Refugees ii. “To be a Candle-light” Training Program
The Committee is a member of Refugee Concern The participating churches in the program included St.
Social
Network. Thanks to the continuous financial support provided Matthew Lutheran Church and Fu On Baptist Church Hay
by CWM/Netherso丨e Fund, the Committee and Christian Nien Chapel. A number of Christian university students
joined the program, which started from January 2010.
Action co-organized the “Gathering Together to Build a
House for God" program to provide refugees and asylum Upon completion of about 6 months of training sessions,
Concern
seekers with humanitarian aid, legal service and shelter. participants were divided into 3 groups to explore the
issues of Rights of Youth, Youth Poverty, and Sustainable
x. Introduction of the Concept of Advance Development and Youth. The participants also made plans
Directives for fellow ship m eetings on the above topics and held
The Committee submitted its comments to the Food meetings in other participants' fellowships groups.
and Health Bureau concerning the Consultation Paper of
Committee
Introduction of the Concept of Advance Directives. C. Gender Justice and Youth
Ministry
xi. Policy address
The Com m ittee wrote to the C hief Executive, Mr. To fo llo w up th e s u g g e s tio n s o f th e M is sio n
Donald Tsang, to make a number of proposals for the Consultation of Hong Kong Churches held in November
2010/11 Policy Address 2009, the Com m ittee set up 2 task forces on Gender
Justice and Youth Ministry.
B. Ecumenical Leadership Formation i. Gender Justice
Program
The group aims at the follow-up and promotion of the
T h a n k s to th e fin a n c ia l s u p p o rt p ro v id e d by Action Agenda made by the Sister Forum held in October 2009.
C W M /N ethersole Fund, the C om m ittee launched the
The group p re pa re d a serm on and p ra y e r fo r
Ecum enical Leadership Form ation Program with Ms.
Christian Family Sunday in May 2010. It also wrote 5
Leung Wai-man as the staff for the project.
articles with the theme "Unusual Family Series" to reflect
on the family from the perspective of gender justice. The
series was published in the Christian Times.
ii. Youth Ministry
To assist youth workers to respond to current issues,
the group held 2 seminars, the first one about post-80s
generation, held on May 4, and the second one about youth
and World Peace and Prayer Day, held on June 24, 2010.

D. Special Sundays
D uring the past year the C om m ittee prom oted
Participants of "To be a candle-light" Training Program material for 3 special Sundays.
visit labor organization in Shenzhen
Social Concern Sunday was observed on February
i. Ecumenical Summer Institute 21, 2010. The material focused on Fair Trade and was
prepared by CEDAR Fund.
This year 4 university Christian youths and 5 theology
students joined the program. The Institute was held from Environment Sunday was observed on June 6, 2010
June to July 2010. The curriculum of the Institute was under the them e “A C om m union of G od’s W onderful
designed in two parts. First, each alternate week a forum C reation". The m aterial w as prepared by the group
was arranged and followed by a reading tutorial. Between Christians for Eco-Concerns.
the forums, the students visited the marginalized in the Hong Kong Sunday was celebrated on July 4, 2010.
society. Second, the students were assigned to join one The sermon outline and prayer were prepared by Rev.
of the co-organizing NGOs as summer interns according Phyllis Wong and Miss Chan Kit-ling.

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