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COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT
HONG KONG CHRISTIAN COUNCIL

production. It is estimated that during the year
INTRODUCTION BY THE GENERAL SECRE- over 100 Chinese programs and 600 English pro-
grams were produced. Aside from small contri-
TARY
butions for office expenses, these services were
he main task of the Communications De- provided free by the Communications Departm ent.
partm ent is to provide various forms of
audio-visual services to local congrega- Apart from regular daily and weekly programs, we
T tions, church organizations and secondary were invited by the Radio/Television Hong Kong
schools to assist them in their evangelistic efforts Chinese Section to produce a series of thirteen
and educational mission. half-hour stereo church music programs during the
summer. We named the program “Melody of
.
During the past year, under the leadership of the Sharing” We introduced Christian pop singers —
Communications Committee, chaired by Dr. Hey- their feelings and the meaning of their songs.
ward Wong, the work of the Departm ent has steadi-
ly progressed. CASSETTES
Of course, this would not have been possible with- e produced a series of two Cantonese
out the initiative of its Director, Mr. Horatius cassettes for those in China who are
Kwok, and the full cooperation of his staff. under 30 years of age and have no reli-
W gious background. Local visitors to China
The emphasis of the Departm ent has now shifted were encouraged to buy them as gifts for their
from merely providing technical services to that of relatives and friends.
creative production, as is made clear in the follow-
s
ing report. A children’ story cassettee was produced and is
now available.
PROGRAMS/PRODUCTIONS To meet a great demand, we re-produced another
1,000 Mandarin hymnal cassettes entitled " Praise
to the Lord” .
RADIO
SLIDE SETS

s
e assisted the government’ station, hree unique slide sets were produced:
Radio/Television Hong Kong, and the
grams. This involved secretarial work, organization T ⑴ “An Easter Story” （ ii) “A Christmas
participating denominations, in producing
，
W both Chinese and English religious pro- Story”，and (iii) “The Life of Christ” .
and coordination of programs, studio time and Stamps of the world were used to illus-
trate the scripts.
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