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4) regular publication of news covering recent Growth in Young People”for over 30 youth and
developments concerning the Church in China, social workers from Hong Kong Christian Service
during January-February that dealt with both
5) organization of seminars on this topic,
theory and methods.
6) preparation of pamphlets on faith and
theology for Chinese Christians,
Two popular student ministries programs were
7) preparation of statements on the religious again carried out during the summer. 90 Form V
policy of the People’Republic of China, students from 18 schools participated in the Senior

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8) reception and hospitality for Church re- Student Retreat — an intensive one week personal

presentatives from China, and growth experience, while 23 Form IV students

9) research on “Household Churches”in China. from 10 schools participated in the five week

“Summer With A Purpose”program - a long-term
ACTING ON OUR CONCERNS community building experience. A volunteer staff
of 15 underwent 18 hours of training for the
DOCUMENTATION former, while a multi-national staff of 6 experienced
an intensive two-week orientation/training program
aterials from two hundred periodicals for the latter.
and fourteen daily newspapers were
organized into three main categories by THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION
M our staff throughout the year. These
three categories are: (1) periodicals and annual he Division of Mission regularly invited
reports, (2) newspaper cuttings (over 100 headings), concerned people to reflect on specific
and (3) documents (over 100 subjects). issues. Last year our staff gave various
T speeches as well as published articles
CONSULTATIONS/SEMINARS/PROGRAMS covering themes like “Evangelism to the Poor” ，
“The Government’ Policy on Migrants" ,
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everal consultations and Seminars were “Christians and Trade U nions”，“Hong Kong and
organized by the Mission Division during the Church in Hong K ong”，“Concern of the
the year, the most prominent being the Christian Church for the Child in Hong Kong",

S Mission Consultation last November. The and “The C hurch’ Involvement in Education
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input for that consultation came from addresses in Hong K ong” .
by various guest speakers, case-studies by the
participants, background materials prepared by
the staff, and above all, the discussions and CONSULTATION ON WORLD MISSION &
reflections of the participants. EVANGELISM

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In addition, four Seminars were held between he WCC’ World Conference on Mission
April and September to stimulate Christian and Evangelism, under the them e " Your
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awareness and comm itment in several im portant Kingdom Com e” was held in Melbourne,
areas of concern. Rev Canon Alan Chan, Mr. Philip T Australia in May with participants from
Lam, Mr Raymond Fung and Rev Paul Tong were over eighty countries and regions (including the
invited to speak on the following topics re- O rthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church,
spectively: and the Protestant Churches). Another Consultation
on World Evangelism, organized by the Laussanne
1) “Mission Trends of the Church in Hong Kong” ,
Committee, representing the Evangelical ecumenical
2) “The Stance of Christian Church Towards the movement, was held in July in Pattaya, Thailand.
Problem of Chinese Immigrants” ,
Participants participated on an individual basis and
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3) “The Church and the Gospel for the Poor”，nd were mostly from para-church organizations.
4) “Reflections on the Church and Student
M inistry” . Members of the staff made valuable contributions
to both consultations.
The Education Secretary also conducted a series
of six half-day Seminars on “Stimulating Personal PUBLICATIONS