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5. Possibilities for Ecumenical Study. Two documents ha ve been
received recently and it is hoped to organize study groups
to react to these papers. They are: "Salvation Today" produced
in preparation for the next meeting of the Commission on World
Mission and Evangelism; and The Wheaton Papers, a report on
a Consultation on the World Mission of the Church held in
Wheaton, Illinois.

B . DIVISION FOR EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION

Christian Education Committee

The Christian Education Committee of the Council held nine
meetings in 1968, with an average attendance of ten members.
Mr. Lee Lin Chi, after serving as chairman of the Committee for
a year, resigned in September. The Committee elected the Rev.
Paul Hsu to succeed him. M is Mildred Proctor continues to
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serve as secretary.
The main emphasis of the committee continued to be on
leadership training of Sunday School teachdrs, and other leaders
in the Church program. Instead of the rallies which had been
hold in previous years, inviting people to come to a central place,
the Committee set up a plan for Leadership Training Teams to go to
local churches. Twenty different subjects are available for
the inviting church to choose from. By the end of the year the
teams had been called on five times, and had reached a total of
160 people. In this regard, the Committee was aware that AVEC
during the year conducted workshops along lines equally useful
in the training of loaders.

The Hong Kong Christian Kindergarten Teachers ' Association is
an organization loosely related to this Committee, largely through
the membership on the Committee of the chairman of the association.
The Association has conducted three rallies during the year with
a total attendance of 1,180 persons, at these rallies the
kindergarten teachers see new procedures and equipment demonstrated,
hear about others' work, receive some printed materials to take for
their own use, and roceive the inspiration of devotional messages.

The Committee has felt increasingly the need for a Lay Training
Program. A sub-committee was appointed in September to work out
plans and procedures. A questionnaire was prepared and sent to
the churches for the purpose of helping the committee members know
better what is needed.

About four years ago the Committee requested of the World
Council of Christian Education, and received 10,000 copies of a
booklet in Chinese of New Testament pictures and stories; 10,000
copies of an Old Testament booklet; and 1,000 copies each of the
same booklets in English. Many of these have been distributed to
churches and schools in Hong Kong; others (especially the Old
Testament booklets in Chinese) are still available. During the
year 1,000 of the Old Testament, and 1,000 of the New Testament
books in Chinese were sent to Thailand for use among Chinese-
speaking children there.

In May the Committee took action seeking to explore the
possibility of securing the part-time assistance of some Christian
Education worker, as Secretary of Christian Education. Unfortunately
this plan has not been worked out.

Early in the year a sub-committee on Library presented a list
of books for inclusion in the ecumenical library of the Hong Kong
Christian Council.