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II. LOCAL ARRANGEMENT FOR ECUMENICAL CONFERENCES

During the year, Hong Kong became an Ecumenical Conference Centre
for South East Asia! Ecumenical church leaders from a ll round the
world came to attend a series of EACC Conferences in Hong Kong. The
Council as the host had the privilege of making local arrangements
for the following conferences:

1. The Asia Conference on Christian Education join tly sponsored by the
WCCE and the EACC June 15 - 17, 1966.

2. The EACC Inter Church Aid Consultation 25 - 26 October, 1966.

3* The EACC Youth Committee meeting 25 - 26 O ctober, 1966.

4. The EACC Faith and Order Conference 26th October - 3rd November,
1966.

5. Meeting of the Enlarged Continuation Committee of EACC 3 - 4 Nov-
ember, 1966.

6. The Consultation on Ecumenical Strategy and University Education
6 - 1 3 November, 1966.

III. The EACC Faith and Order Conference

The fir s t Faith and Order Conference sponsored by the EACC was
held during October 26 - November 1966 at the Chinese Methodist
Church, Kowloon. The Conference theme was: "Confessing the Faith
in Asia to-day." The main purpose of this Conference was to seek to
understand the actual situations of the Churches in Asia and to recog­
nize the specific pressures under which they liv e . It is hoped that
the churches w ill translate the findings of this Conference into action
according to the particular forms in which the problems of unity and
disunity between the churches are posed in each country.

125 church leaders represented 15 major church denonimations,
the National Christian Councils and the W.C.C. participated in this
important Conference. A team of four Catholic priests also attended
as observers. These delegates represented 17 Asian Countries, namely:
Australia, Burma, Ceylon, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea,
Laos, Malaysia and Singapore, New Zealand, Okinawa, Pakistan (East),
Pakistan (West), Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand.

A highlight of the Conference was a public Rally organized by
the HKCC held at the Concert Hall of the City Hall, on Sunday, 30th
October. Three leaders of the ecumenical movement, Dr. W. A. V isser't
Hooft, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, Dr. D. T.
Niles, General Secretary of the East Asia Christian Conference, and
Dr. J. Russell Chandran, Principal of the United Theological College,
Bangalore, India, addressed th e.gathering.

Meanwhile, a series of 7 John R. Mott Memorial Lectures delivered
by Asian church leaders in conjunction with the conference,-were given
at the Chinese Methodist Church, Kowloon, during October 26 - November
2, 1966.

The Council had the priviledge of arranging a reception Dinner
in honour of these visitin g church leaders and made a ll loca l arrange­
ments for th is important Conference.