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World Day of Prayer Committee

This Committee was elected in March 1971 to plan for the
World Day of Prayer Service which had been held on Friday,
March 3rd 1972 at 3:00 p.m. in the City Hall. It was again a
bilingual service.

The bilingual committee had 18 members, 12 Chinese and
6 English speaking members under the co-chairmen Mrs. Joan
Rogers and Miss Wong Yuk Mui.

The Committee had met 7 times. In spite of much discussion
about the time of the service the majority of the Chinese
members felt 3:00 p.m. was the best time. During the year
there has been a good deal of adverse comment about the time
chosen, and it is hoped that next year the time will be changed,
or several services held.

The theme this year was "All joy be yours" - a service
prepared by women of East and West Eruope.

The leaders of the service were Mrs. Joan Rogers and Mrs.
Rayan Ma. Various members of the committee took part in the
service and three special concerns for prayer were led by
other people involved in these subjects.

The choir was again led by Mrs. Wong Man Kwong and was made
up of members of several churches. A group of three young
people sang two modern songs to guitar accompaniment. Eight
girls from the True Light Middle School did Mandarin group
reading from Psalm 146.

A collection of $1,432 was taken and 2/10ths ($280) were
put aside for World Day of Prayer use locally for training
and at H.Q., the reamining $1,152 was given to the United
Christian Hospital.

A back cloth of a cross designed by Audio Visual was very
effective and three beautiful flower arrangements were also
given. Mrs. Rogers did the 7:35 a.m . programmes during the
week of World Day of Prayer on Radio Hong Kong. These were
most effective. Mr. Rogers also used his programme "Crossroads"
that week for the World Day of Prayer and interviewed Mrs.
Krommenhoek. Miss Wong Yuk Mui was interviewed for Chinese
radio following the service.

Posters had been sent to a great many Churches asking them
to draw the attention of their congregations to the service.
Orders of service had been sent to schools and hosptials. As
in previous years all the Chinese service sheets for South
East Asia had been printed here. The Chinese press gave good
coverage to the service, but the English press was poor.