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Important Events from 1954 to 1990

Since a number of important historical events were 4. One delegate was sent to the IMC Assembly at Ghana, and
inadvertently o m itted from the HKCC chronology printed in the three representatives were sent to the ^Training Institute on
35th Anniversary Special Issue of the 1989 Annual Report, an Marriage and Family in Thailand.
updated chronology is being included in this year's Report. 5. A Week of Prayer for Christian Unity was planned and also the
Council decided that special prayer services would be held on
Monday.
1954
1. On Jan. 18, the HKCC was formed and held its first Annual 1958-1959
General Meeting. 1. Under the auspices of the HKCC, the Protestant Churches of
2. The draft of constitution was accepted and would be brought to
HK again observed a Week of Prayer for Unity of the churches,
Annual Meeting for final acceptance.
Jan. 18-25, 1959. Member churches were requested to offer
3. The meeting would be bi-lingual. their Sunday collections on the 18th for the work of the HKCC.
4. The Executive Committee members included Chairperson,
2. A sub-committee on Revision of the Constitution was appointed
Vice-Chairperson, Chinese Secretary, English Secretary, Hon.
to change the wording in several places for clarification.
Treasurer, seven Executive members and three members. 3. A booklet entitled “The Attitude of a Christian towards Love,
5. Application to the Government's lot for the Christian cemetery.
Marriage and Home” was published. Eighty thousand leaflets
on different topics depicting Christian responsibility towards
society were distributed to 89 Chinese Churches and Christian
1955 organizations.
1. The proposed site for the cemetery was on the Clearwater Bay
4. The objection of the villagers to the use of the land of Pofulam
Road, about 8 miles from Star Ferry. as a cemetery delayed the establishment of the Christian
2. Other information not available. cemetery. Later in the year, Government offered a site at the
end of the Clear Water Bay Road for a new cemetery.
5. Welfare of the people had slowly become the pattern of the
1956 work of the Council.
1. The numbers of westerners on the Executive was changed 6. HK Doctors Christian Association was formally inaugurated on
from “four” to “five”， and the Executive members from May 28, 1958 and with its own constitution. The purpose was
“seven” to “twelve”. Three Missionary Societies had already
to strengthen the work of Christian Medical witness throughout
applied for membership and were accepted. They were: the Colony.
The London Missionary Society 7. R equested the m em ber churches to observe the
The Evangelical and Reformed Church Commonwealth Youth Sunday on May 18.
The Baptist Mission of North America and 8. Requested all the member churches in HK to observe Christian
Tsung Tsin Church Family Life Week in May of each year.
2. Mr. S. Y. Lee was appointed as Hon. Executive Secretary. 9. Participation in International Conference
3. A joint application for the land for cemetery at Pak Fa Lam was * sent two delegates to participate in First Asian Industrial
sent by the HKCC and the Chinese Churches' Union. Evangelism Conference in Manila;
4. Accepted the proposal of a Christian Citizenship Movement * sent four delegates and 12 observers to Japan to attend 4
Standing Committee. conferences during July and August:
a. World Institute on Christian Education
b. World Convention on Christian Education
1957 c. Asian Youth Work Consultation
1. The application for the New Cemetery had satisfactory d. East Asia Christian Literature Conference
progress. * The Christian Doctors Association acting as host to the
2. The sub-committee of the Christian Citizenship Movement Conference of Christians in Medical Work in East Asia Today
Standing Committee met on January 23, and the total members held from Dec. 28, 1958 to Jan. 1, 1959 under the auspices of
of the committee increased. the East Asia Christian Conference.
3. The Secretary was asked to write to IMC and WCC stating that 10. Approved the integration plan of IMC and WCC.
the Council was prepared to act as their corresponding agency 11. In response to the joint appeal of WCC and EACC, a sum of
in HK. HK$3,141.75 was sent to Indonesia for Relief.

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