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the Committee is making plans looking toward to the first of these
in 1970o A poster contest has been announced. Plans for a
service of dedication of leaders in the Christian Education,
program, are being worked out. A consultation is planned to
discuss the Christian Education needs in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Kindergarten Teachers' Association - Through the
enthusiastic leadership of Miss Angela Chiu, this Association has
held three rallies in this year with an attendance of well over
three hundred each time. This program has proved very popular,
and helpful.

Religious Education Association - The Committee has applied for
membership in the Religious Education Association.

Secretary for Christian Education - The Committee continues to
realize the need for someone to give at least part-time to the
guideance of the activities of this Committee. No one has been
found who can do this, but the hope continues.

Ecumenical Scholarship Exchange Com)aittee

The purposes of the Committee are:

1. To collect information from various sources concerning
courses of full-time study and special educational
conferences abroad which might be made available to
Christian students in Hong Kong. Special attention will
be given to educational opportunities of an ecumenical
nature; that is, opportunities involving the World Council
of Churches, the East Asia Christian Council or various
national Councils and church-related institutions abroad.

2. To make this information available to all denominations
and church-related organizations and educational
institutions affiliated with the Council.

3. To review student applications coming from the organizations
affiliated with the Council.

k. To provide whatever assistance to the students selected
for study abroad as might currently be at its disposal.

During the year 3 types of scholarships were available:

l. One Visiting Fellowship of $1,500 will be available at
the Canadian School of Missions and Ecumenical Institute,
Toronto, in each of the academic years 1969-70 and 1970-71.

The purpose of this Felloship is to enable a scholar
with prior experience and interest in the fields of
Missions or Ecumenics to spend an academic year (or
portion thereof) at the Institute doing research in some
subjects within one of these fields.

Preference will be given to men and women, ordained
or lay, between the ages of 28 and 40, who have already
had experience of the mission field or of ecumenical
activity, and who give promise of producing original work
which may promote the course of the Church's Mission in
Unity.

2. One Ecumenical Scholarship Exchange Scholarship - The
purpose of this scholarship is to enable a student to do post-
graduate studies in the USA.

3 . East Asia Christian Churches Scholarships - There are 26
free places offered by Colleges and Universities in the
East Asia Countries.