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unity for recreational and social activities, fellow- income.
ship, learning and information about present
events. The membership is currently 120, of
whom about 12 are able to support themselves,
while the others depend upon Public Assistance.
To facilitate the churches’ audio-visual
efforts, the Department engages in the following
programme：

Teaching
The staff taught ‘Audio-visual Education，
at the United Lutheran Theological Seminary
and ‘Speech Communication， and 'Audio-
COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT visual Methods in Production5at the Hong Kong

Baptist College.

Training opportunities for Christians in the
making and use of audio-visual tools were
provided by frequent workshops.
The Communications Department is the
audio visual service arm of the Hong Kong
Christian Council to help enlarge the churches’ Production of Cassette and Slides
evangelistic and teaching capacities. It is run by Two cassettes —Eastern music and Christmas

a committee whose policies are carried out by organ music — and three slide series — a

a staff of ten persons with an annual budget Children’s educational cartoon, the birth of
of approximately $200,000. Christ as portrayed on stamps, and the Lord’s
Prayer Today in Asia — were produced. The

Department also dubbed a number of Christian
films into Cantonese.
To reach out to the community, the Depart-
ment engages in the following programmes:
Communication Sunday
In cooperation with the Roman Catholic
Diocese, a packet of materials was prepared and
Radio programmes sent out to all the churches, and a joint pastoral
In the year under review, 2 Chinese pro- letter to the community in celebration of this
grammes and 13 English radio programmes were special Sunday was issued.
produced weekly. 7 special Chinese radio pro-
grammes for Christmas were also produced.

To further serve the church and the com-
munity, the Department launched the following
projects:
Training programmes
Workshops and demonstration talks on the use
of audio-visual equipment - overhead projector,
16 mm film projector, use of audio-visual in An Audio-visual Equipment Survey among local
teaching, studio control and film dubbing - were churches and church related schools. The
provided for church and educational bodies. purpose was to give direction to the planning of
services and materials.

Cassette reproduction Capital investment in select pieces of video
A total of about 50,000 cassettes were produced equipment towards establishing a Video Tape
last year on behalf of organizations such as the Recording Centre.
Religious Education Teacher’s Union, local
churches, Christian schools and colleges, the
Billy Graham Crusade, language institutions,
Macmillan Publishing (HK) Co., Time-Life The Audio-visual Newsletter, begun in April, is
Incorporated, and the Social Welfare Depart- a bi-monthly in Chinese with a circulation of
ment. This programme is a major source of 1,500 copies.

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