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resources through college, in feeding schoolchildren, in youth work,
in agricultural settlement, in such limited emigration as is possible,
and in the rehabilitation of cured drug addicts.

This is not necessarily or exclusively done in Christian fellowship
in committee or council, as it is often of greater value for the churches
to participate in the work of a civic body.

The Christian Welfare & Relief Council’s efforts during the year
have as before been mainly in seeking to make known their members’ work
through inter-church-aid, and in seeking funds or them. Of the total
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of $1 ,325,352. 56 subscribed during the year, $1 ,290,917. 56 has been
applied in this way, the churches and agencies benefitting being shown
in the statement of accounts following this report. Certain joint
projects have been supervised by the Council in their formative years
before being launched to independence, these being in the fields of
youth work, vocational training, and agricultural settlement, and in
work with drug addicts which, during the year, as handed over to
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lutheran World Service, a member agency, to be carried on all members’
behalf.

Support for the work has continued to come from all over the world,
the largest contributors being the churches of Great Britain and of
Canada, and there is additional support, meeting a substantial part of
the Council’s administrative cost, from the Inter-Church-Aid Division of
the World Council of Churches as a part of its Service Programme. It was
gratifying to be able to show the work to the representatives of so
many overseas churches who help, on the occasion of their presence in
Hong Kong for the Inter-Church-Aid Consultations of the World Council
of Churches and the East Asia Christian Conference in October, to which
the Hong Kong Christian Council was host.

Finally, there is the generous and long-maintained help of the
British Council of Churches, without which much of the joint work would
never have been possible - help with funds for pioneer projects, support
for existing ones, and not least the support of two of the Council's
staff members. To the Director, Miss Janet Lacey, C.B.E. therefore
we express our very speical thanks, appreciating too the visits she has
been able to make up us over the past years, and to all who are helping
the work in Hong Kong - individuals, church congregations, socieities,
and councils of churches - the thanks of the Churches are due.

2. Hong Kong Doctor’s Christian Association
(Report to be submitted later)

3 . Audio Visual Evangelism Committee
By action of the committee, the Rev. Thomas W. Lung, who arrived
in January to work in the broadcasting department of the committee, was
made Executive Director for the whole committee. He replaced Mr. T .
Cheng who was unable to continue with the committee.

The Visual Aids Department
of the committee purchased a used Austin Countryman to replace
the Austin car which was no longer road worthy.

Mr. David Ling was given a leave of absence by the committee to
participate in a five month radio workshop which was conducted by the
South East Asia Radio Project and the Broadcasting and Visual Aids
Committee (BAVACO) of the East Asia Christian Conference. The workshop
was held at DYSR, the Christian radio station of the Philippine National
Council, in Dumaguete City, Philippines. He returned to Hong Kong in
November.

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