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of the Council, we promoted the 48th individuals, local churches and Christian
Worldwide Communion Sunday and the organizations, the campaign has
annual Week of Prayer for Christian achieved a grand scale. The donations
Unity. The Unity Week was celebrated received this year totalled HKS1.32
from 18th to 25th January 1088. The million. The Executive Committee
theme was “The Love of God Casts Out decided to use the funds to support the
Fear”. A joint statement was issued by following work: emergency relief for
the Council’s Unity Committee and the Heilongjiang fire disaster in Northern
Roman Catholic Diocesan Ecumenical China; a day care centre for children
Commission. We also encouraged the suffering from hepatitis in Guanghou;
churches to celebrate Unity Sunday. basic community health in Conghua
During the Week of Prayer for Christian County, Guangdong; Sahel food project;
Unity, the Council held an ecumenical Mozambique femine relief; Bangladesh
communion service at the Church of food relief; relief for victims of racial
Christ in China [CCC] Cheung Lo Church, strife in Sri Lanka; and the CCA Asian
followed by a breakfast fellowship hosted Emergency Fund.
by the CCC. The Clergy and Ministers
Group organized an English-speaking There is a Chinese saying, “The youth
unity service at the Hong Kong Union of today are the pillars of tomorrow’s
Church. society ’. In order to promote youth
concern, the Council organized the
In addition, we also celebrated the Summer With a Purpose programme,
World Day of Prayer at the Anglican All from 25th July to 20th August 1987,
Saints Church in order to stir the spirit to help young people improve the
of unity among Christians. The theme standard of their English and also
was “Open Doors”. Because of God’s explore the reality of the Christian faith
blessing, many Christians attended this in their lives. In addition, the Educational
service. All offerings went to the Fullness Concerns Committee organized a
Christian Vocational Training Centre.
seminar with the theme, "The Co
In order to promote Christian work ordination of Counselling, Discipline and
amongst sailors, the Council and the Religious Education in Secondary
Mission to Seamen jointly sponsored the Schools . More than two hundred people
annual Sea Sunday. The theme was attended.
"God's protection and people’s care for We promoted the Asia Sunday in
those at sea”. We humbly ask God to order to encourage more Christians to
confirm what we have done by our be concerned about the peoples of Asia
hands. and the churches among them. We
translated prayers from different Asian
Five Loaves and Two Fish and countries provided by CCA and
Social C oncern distributed them for use by the
churches. The theme was “The Mission
This was the fourteenth annual Five God in the Context of the Suffering
Loaves and Two Fish Campaign. Owing to and Struggling Peoples of Asia”. We wish
the positive response shown by that in sharing and prayer, God will bless
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