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5. The Committee on Missionary Orientation and Study managed Ministers’ Group, and the HKCC. The program included “The
to arrange a Missionary Night and a Day Orientation Course Living World Program”, “The Church Workers’ Dinner”, “The
held at the Methodist Conference Center, Silvermine Bay. Joint Worship Service’’， and a pulpit exchange was arranged on
6. The main emphasis of the Christian Education Committee the first Sunday of the Week of Prayer.
continued to be on leadership training of Sunday School 5. In the fall of 1969, an Orientation Program was arranged by the
teachers and leaders in the church program. Instead of inviting Committee on Missionary Orientation and Language Study for
people to come to a central place, the committee set up a plan newly arrived missionaries at the Shum Oi Church. The
for Leadership Training Teams to go to local churches. By the program consisted of a presentation of Chinese ways of thinking
end of the year, the teams had been called on five times and the and a discussion on the subject of relations between
total people reached was 160. The HK Christian Kindergarten missionaries and Chinese.
Teachers’ Association was also organized. It conducted three 6. The Christian Education Committee sent two delegates to
rallies during the year with a total attendance of 1180 persons. attend a consultation on Christian Education and Lay Training in
7. Three types of scholarships were available through Ecumenical Perth in April 1969. A Lay Consultation on Lay Training
Scholarship Exchange Committee. Mr. Kong Po Ling was sponsored by the Christian Education Committee was held in
awarded an ESE scholarship to study in Princeton Theological October 1969 at the Chinese Christian Churches Union, 33
Seminary in USA. representatives participated in the training. The first Christian
8. The Christian Family Life Committee held a consultation on Education Sunday was set on the fourth Sunday of September.
“Youth and Marriage” on May 8, 1969 at the Ward Memorial The HK Kindergarten Teachers, Association held three rallies
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Methodist Church, Kowloon, 120 people representing 15 in this year with an attendance of well over 300 each time.
denominations participated in this consultation. 7. The United Christian Hospital was now progressing speedily
9. The Youth Committee a. appointed 2 members to assist the towards the time when consultation could finally begin. If
Youth Tea House program and helped to recruit volunteers; b. everything went smcx)thly and construction proceed without
helped the WCC Youth Department, for a survey of out-of­ delays, opening of the hospital would occur in September 1972.
school youth work; c. assisted the program of the International 8. A consultation on “Youth & Marriage” sponsored by the Family
Christian Youth Exchange; d. appointed representative to Life Committee was held at the Ward Memorial Methodist
attend a WCC meeting on “Youth and Unemployment”； e. Church, 125 people representing 15 denominations participated
sponsored a consultation on “Youth Look at the Church Today” in the consultation.
9. The service of the World Day of Prayer was held on the first
and put up an essay contest on the same subject.
10. The World Day of Prayer service was held on March 7, at the Friday in March at the St. John’s Cathedral, over 700 people
Methodist Church, Kowloon, over 700 people attended. The attended. This year the ICWDP just sent out material and
offering HK$1,069.30 was given to war victims and refugees in suggestions but did not arrange service. So the service for the
Laos. Whole of S.E. Asia was prepared and printed in HK and the
translation and printing was done by the CCLC.

1969-1970
1970-1971
1. The HKCC now had a membership of 21 major churches bodies
and Christian organizations. Members of the Council 1. The first contract of the Hospital building was signed. It was
expected that the Hospital would be completed by the end of
represented 77% of the total Protestant Church membership in
HK. 1972.
2. A second consultation on the Mission of the Church in HK was
2. The HKCC sponsored a city wide Consultation on the Mission
of the Church in Hong Kong held on 19th-20th January 1970 at held at Morrison House, on 4th-5th January, 1971 and was
attended by 70 church leaders. Many suggestions for action
the Morrison House to give a thorough re-examination of the
life and work of the church in HK, 120 representatives from the were made.
HKCC member churches and organizations, 12 observers from 3. During the year, the Council appointed representatives to 10
RCC and other churches participated in the sessions. Ecumenical Conferences which held in HK, Japan, Djakarta,
3. During the year, the Council had more than 20 visitors from Bangkok, Geneva and Peru.
overseas to discuss matters of common concern. Many of them 4. The Council together with the HKCS sent a total of
were Directors, the Secretary from EACC office and some HK$86,981.76 through WCC to help relieve the suffering in
from the WCC and Reformed Church in America and Canada. East Pakistan and Biafra.
There were also writer, professor and consultant from 5. During the year, about 200 church leaders from five continents
Vietnam, USA, Philippines, Japan, Switzerland, and Canada. visited HK.
4. For the first time, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity this 6. The Church Unity Committee of the Council had been holding
year was planned by a Joint Planning Committee made of discussions on <4Some Fundamental Problems of Church
representatives of the Roman Catholic Church, the Clergy and Union.” The first discussion dealt with the “Episcopacy”， and

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