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concern and for the Hong Kong community. The planning for the
programs has been done primarily by the Industrial Committee.
It is hoped that this meeting will be enlarged in the future.

Just getting underway is a program of supplying information
on what is happening between the Churches in Inter-Church Relations.
This is being done on a small scale and it is hoped that this can
be enlarged. It has been exciting for the Secretary to participate
in the Diocesan Convention sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church.
The Convention is meeting between March and June. Eleven work
groups have been set upeach meets twice a month. They cover
such diverse areas as liturgy and sacraments, Religious Instruction,
Education, Laity, Priestly Life, Religious, Social Dimensions of
the Church, Communication Media, Ecumenism, Government of the
Diocese, and Evangelization. Invitations were sent to a large
nurnberof Protestants to the Opening Service and to participate in
the various work groups as observers.

The Secretary participated in a Community Development Seminar
sponsored by the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. In this
way, it is hoped to relate Church development in the Council to
the broader aspect of community development.

Last fall a program of "Advanced Ministerial Training in Pastoral
Care" was sponsored jointly by the Yang Social Service Centre, the
Hong Kong Christian Council, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong
Kong and the Chung Chi Theological Seminary. The program lasted
ten weeks and included ordained ministers and other church
workers.

A second seminar entitled "Human Relations in Pastoral Care"
began on April 20th for another 10 week period. It is hoped
that other Inter-Church training programs can be developed.

Mush of the time of the Division staff along with the other
staff of the Council was spent in the preparation for the
Consultation on the Mission of the Church held in January 1970.
The report which came out of that Consultation should form the
foundation of much of the work in the Division over the next
year.

Committee for Co-operation in Church Planning and Developments
The work of the Committee for Cooperation in Church Planning and
Development this year has been basically in three areas.

(a) Time was given to consideration of the plans of church
development in three denominations. Namely, the Anglican
Church, the Church of Christ in China and the Salvation Army.

(b) Preliminary steps have been taken to establish an Ecumenical
loan Fund Committee in Hong Kong. The proposal is that a
committee be set up for small loans to churches and Christian
organizations. These kinds of loans are to be repaid from
giving by church supporters. The only security is a higher
church authority guarantee. Normally the loan would be up
to US$5,000 at 3% for seven years. It is suggested that a
committee be set up for two-thirds of the membership
nominated by the Hong Kong Christian Council and that the
Committee itself has power to coopt an additional one-third
of its membership. In this way it is hoped that loans may
be made available to churches for various projects and
through their repayments, saving the loan funds set up in
the Council.

(c) This year the Committee assisted in the process of preparing
the askings for the Project List of the Division of Inter-
Church Aid of the World Council of Churches. Whereas in the