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us and make us grow in humility and September 1967 in Taipei. The
mercy. Executive Committee responded to the
Asian Church Women's Conference
T h e o lo g ica l R e fle c tio n and request to help them to organize a
Evangeliam family life seminar in July 1989 in Hong
In order to help our colleagues to be Kong by inviting Mrs. Nancy Chow to be
the Chairperson of a working committee
unswerving in following God’s Word, to
preach the Gospel and to continue to be to prepare and organize this seminar.
alert and active, our Commission on Also, upon the invitation of the Shanghai
Mission and Theology organized two Christian Council, our Chairperson, Ms.
theological forums. The two addresses Ko Siu Wah, together with Rt. Rev. Peter
Kwong, Rev. Yung Kok Kwong, Rev. Li Ping
were given by Raymond Fung, the
Secretary for Mission and Evangelism of Kwong, Dr. Heyward Wong and Mr.
the World Council of Churches. The titles □avid Lin, visited various churches in
Shanghai district in September 1987.
were "City-wide Evangelistic Crusades We also invited a delegation of ten
— a Missiological Assessment” and "A
Vision and Strategy for World Mission Christian leaders from Jiangsu Christian
and Evangelism”. They were held on the Council to visit Hong Kong in November
1987. They had a most enjoyable time of
4th and 5th March 1988, at Cheung Lo
Church. They aroused much response fellowship with Hong Kong church
from the public. leaders.
The Commission on Mission and On behalf of the Council, Ms. Ko Siu
Theology also invited the Rev. Shen Yifan, Wah, Rev. John Tse and Rev. Yung Kok
the Vice-President of the Chinese Kwong, attended the Chinese New Year
Christian Council, to give two talks on Celebrations organized by the
16th and 17th June 1988 at Ward Colloquium of Six Religious Leaders to
Memorial Church. The themes of the further friendship and understanding
two talks were “The Chinese Church in among different religions in Hong Kong.
the Process of Theological Reflection” In response to the International Year of
and “The Chinese Church and the the Homeless, the Colloquium organized
Communist Party”. The attendance was a charity walk, and the Council sent a
very high for both these talks and they representative to participate in the
evoked great interest. ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the
beginning of the walk. In addition, our
representatives, together with other
E cu m e nical F e llo w sh ip and religious leaders, met with Basic Law
R elationship W ith F ra te rn a l Drafting Committee members from the
Bodies mainland during their visit to Hong Kong.
We maintain close relationships
characterized by mutual support with M essage and Revision of th e
other ecumenical Christian bodies. This C o n s titu tio n
year we responded to CCA’s invitation to This year, the editorial committee of
send delegates to attend the North "Message” [the Council’s monthly
East Asia Education Conference in Chinese theological bulletin] published nine
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