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The 'Medical Sunday' 1960 was given to the lepers, on October
16th. We called it the Leper Sunday. On June 5th the beloved wife
of Dr. Sturton died. Friends quickly contributed generously in her
momory to a 'Rose Sturton Scholarship Fund' for a Chinese radiographer.
The bi-lingual quarterly publications were issued as usual giving
information of the activities of the Association. A summer conference
was held at St. Stephen's College, Stanley on Sunday 31st July, 1960.
Discussion report, and lectures were made, and some fruitful conclusions
arrived at Regular Meetings were held and lecturers were invited to speak
on different topics to members. The expansion of the Association will
surely help the medical field in Hong Kong to approach more nearly to
its call.

(b) Hong Kong Christian Welfare & Relief Council
The Council membership remained at twenty four churches and agencies,
and both regular and emergency meetings were held, at which plans for
joint work were made, funds allocated, and the experiences and difficulties
encountered were exchanges. Increased funds were received from many
countries as a result of World Refugee Year appeals.

The two main functions of the Council are raising funds for members'
own work, and developing and operating on a pilot basis certain inter-
church projects. The first task - the raising of funds for members'
work - resulted in grants sixteen members totalling $1,147,488.46. The
second task involved the development of four projects - rural resettle-
ment, rehabilitation of drug addicts, self-help rehabilitation, and
vocational training - by the Council on behalf of all its members.

In addition to these two main tasks, the Council operates through
committees for specialised work. A Vocational Training Committee
co-ordinates the work of the members in this field, a Disaster Relief
Committee co-ordinates relief to victims of fire, flood, or typhoon
disasters and recommends to the Council all appeals for inter-church
aid for this purpose, an Emergency Cash Assistance Committee makes
available funds for relief to individuals through members, a Youth
Work Committee is starting on extension and improvement of the youth
activities of members, and an Ecumenical Work Camp committee sponsors
and carries out the annual work camp.

For all of this work, funds have been received from the national
Christian councils of thirteen countries, from five national missionaiy
bodies, from eleven schools or groups, from seventeen individual churches
(apart from the many hundreds of churches who have contributed through
their national Christian Councils) and from a number of individual donors.

The Executive Secretary of the Council, Mr. S. Y. Lee, has the help
of a number of fraternal workers, whose services are part of the contri-
bution made to the Council's work by the British Council of Churches.
These are Mr. J.B. Atkinson as Secretary, Rev. J.A, Muir as Principal
of the Practical Training Centre, and Mr. G. Stokes as Youth Work
Training organiser.

In addition, two outstanding volunteer workers have come to Hong
Kong during the year and helped with the Council's work, Rev. R.
Sprackett and Mr. J. McCahon, B ob Sprackett helped greatly with the
running of the Presbyterian Case-Work Centre for many months, including
taking charge of it while its diiector was on leave, while John McCahon
developed and supervised the planning and constiuctional work involved
in the new settlements for rehabilitation of drug addicts. The Council's
sincere thanks go to these two who have worked so hard in furthering
its work.