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young students in the wake of the expulsion of Swim" was also made for the So Uk Elderly
key figures of some religious sects from China. Centre. Slides and videos were also made to
The Council assisted in the formation of the mark the thirty fifth anniversary of Hong Kong
Concern Group for New Religious Movements Christian Service. A slide presentation on
and collected data for reference and use by whether secondary school student should fall
Christians. The Concern Group is in close con­ in love was produced for the School Social Work
tact with the Catholic Concern Group on Department of Hong Kong Christian Service. A
Religious Sects and other similar bodies. video introducing a new pre-school curriculum
is now being made for the HKCS Day Care
Centres.
6. Resource Centre
In early 1987, a new series of hymnal tapes
The Council has a Resource Centre and the entitled "To Search For My Direction’’ was
materials collected are made available to the launched, consisting of versions of contem­
Council’s staff, local clergy and the general porary hymns with new Chinese lyrics and local
public. Many students make use of the compositions. The Centre also made video
resources for research purposes. There are two productions of the songs for "Me and My
types of materials at the centre: newspaper world", Part II of the Faith and Life Series, and
clippings and journals. Newspaper clippings for the Five Loaves and Two Fish Campaign.
are classified into seventy eight categories, The entire recording and mixing was done at
including youth, women, children, elderly, social the new studio in the Centre which was a land­
welfare, economic affairs, political structure etc. mark event, and the tapes proved to be very
As for the journals, in our collection there are popular.
thirty nine Chinese titles, fifty five church
bulletins, and forty social welfare publications. The film for the 1986 Communication 5 Sun­
In addition, we have a collection of year books day was "To Build a Wonderful World through
of churches, government and social service Christian Communication.'! The Centre held
organizations. There are one hundred and three events, including a meeting for Christian
seventeen English periodicals and newsletters. Communications. Workers, a public forum on
The "Civic Education Resources Bulletin" " Christians and Public Opinion", and an audio­
stopped publication at the end of 1986 due to visual variety show jointly sponsored by the
personnel and financial difficulties. Honq Kong Catholic Social Communications
Office.

7. Communications Centre Last November, after the Executive Council
made a report on the recommendations in the
The Communications Centre provides
technical support to the Religious Broadcasting Broadcasting Review Board Report, the RTHK
and Television Advisory Committee and assists programme ‘‘Pentaprism’’ sought the Centre’s
in their production of two Chinese and four opinion on th e matter.
English radio programmes. During the past
year, the Centre made two slide productions, With the generous financial assistance of
entitled ‘‘Ethiopia’’ and ‘‘To Search for Water in some German churches, the Centre was able
the Sudan’’ for the Five Loaves and Two Fish to move to its new premises on the 6th floor of
Campaign. Furthermore, it produced a silde the Hong Kong Christian Service office building
presentation for the Tsuen Wan and Kwai Chung and to purchase some new audio-visual
Community Service Centre for the Elderly. A equipment to improve the quality of its
video production on "The Elderly Learn to production.

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