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V. WORK OF standing COMMITTEES
1. Christian Citizenship Movement Committee (Cont’ d)

e) Display of selected photographs in schools

One hundred and seven photographs were selected for future
school display. The fir s t response to this o ffe r was the
Grantham Training College.

f ) Christian C itizenship Sunday

The 15th of July was selected as Christian Citizenship Sunday.
Many churches observed this Sunday and the Secretary was asked
to preach at the China Congregational Church.

g) Christian Citizenship Lectures

In July a member of the Committee was asked to lecture on
Christian Citizenship at the Student Christian Summer Conference,
Swatow Baptist Youth Summer Conference, also at the Youth
Meeting of the Assemblies of God Church.

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h) Christian Middle School Citizenship Wek
Since we have 2 sets of 50 of the Citizenship photographs
ready fo r display and two citizenship sound pictures, ' Like
Paradise' and 'Rennies M ill’ , together with two sets o f tape
records of interviews, we were able to a d v a n c e a step and
ask the Christian Middle Schools to observe a Citizenship
Week for which they can have access to a ll o f these materials.

The preliminary response had been quite good and we h op e th a t
by 1963 the Christian Middle Schools in Hongkong will have their
Citizenship Week to be held separately.

2, Committee for Co-operation on Church Development & Planning

The Committee was set up during the year as a committee of the Hong
Kong Christian Council. The Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Secretary are
appointed by the Hongkong Christian Council and the Chairman, Vice-Chairman
and Secretary of the Chinese Churches Union are members ex o ff ic io . Other
m e m bers are appointed, one member for each co-operating church. The co-
operating churches do not have to be members of the Hongkong Christian
Council but in practice only monbers of the Hongkong Christian Council are
represented. Participation in the Committee does impl y that the fin a l
decisions about Church Planning are withdrawn from the churches concerned.

The aim of the committee, as defined in its constitution "to assist
the churches, as separate denominations, in any way possible in planning
the extension of their work, and particularly in acquiring new sites and
building new churches, and secondly to strengthen the whole church, as
represented by the denominations taking part, in planning the work of the
church in Hongkong so as to ensure that the work of the church is as wid e-
spread in the Colony as p ossib le.”

Since its inception the Committee has been occupied with three main
concerns:

i) the drawing up and passing of its constitution.
i i ) the support o f a new survey of urban church growth in Hongkong
to be sponsored by Dr. Earl Cressey and undertaken by Rev.
Loren E. Noren. The Committee sees th is survey as an invaluable
means of assessing how effective is the planning of diurches in
Hongkong so as to avoid overlapping and give as wide coverage as
possible.

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