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3. Pastoral Counseling Seminar for Women September:
Clergy: The Church and Youth
In order to strengthen the pastoral counseling October:
roles for women clergy, the committee The Challenge of the Chaplaincy
organized two special seminars on "Pastoral November:
Counseling for Women Clergy". "Counseling Cooperation in Social Service between the
the Dying "and "Family and Marriage Churches in Hong Kong and China
Counseling" were the topics of the two December:
seminars. Due to the enthusastic responses, Today’s Christmas
there is a need to have similar seminars in the
future. 1992
January/February:
4. Participation in International Conferences: The Future of Unity
The Committee has maintained a close March:
relationship with international organizations The Search for Human Dignity
and participated in international conferences. April:
During the past year, the committee sent The Quality of Spirituality
delegates to participate in two major May:
conferences. Mrs. Captain Wong Leung Mei The Christian and Sharing
Ling represented the committee to attend the June:
"Consultation on Theologically Trained Support for the Pastoral Ministry
Women" October 12-15, 1991 in Bangkok, July/August:
sponsored by the CCA Women’s Committee. In The Theological Implications of 1997
addition, Ms. Chan Yuk Ping attended the CCA
Women’s Concerns Committee and visited the
Women’s Desk of the NCC in Japan.
FIVE LOAVES AND TWO FISH
5. Fellowship of the Least Coins:
The purpose of this world-wide movement is to COMMITTEE
provide a means by which women, regardless It has been seventeen years since the
of their race, nationality, culture and status, can establishment of the campaign. The fund drive
express their concerns and participate in the
is conducted every year and is distributed to
fellowship of reconciliation through the the poor and the victims in disaster areas. This
offering of the least coins in their country. The is a way to express our Christian concern.
committee also helped translate the "Circle of
Prayer" into Chinese. The Committee is in the During the past year, a total of HK$5,792,815
process of planning for the Asian Church was received and distributed to support
Women's Conference (ACWC) Day.
international relief work as follows:
1. China flood rehabilitation project
HK$1,602,000
2. Kurdish relief.................................. 1,223,000
3. Bangladesh cyclone relief............. 1,073,000
"THE M E S SA G E " EDITORIAL 4. Mozambique relief............................. 300,000
COMMITTEE 5. Ethiopian relief................................... 300,000
6. Commonwealth of independant states food
There is a purpose behind the publishing of the
Council’s monthly —"The Message” . That parcels.................................................. 113,000
7. China: Yi Meng Shan deep wells project,
purpose is to explore how to be Christian in the
context of today's reality. Shan Dong............................................. 150,000
8. China: Reconstruction of Dengta School,
The themes of "The Message" during the past Yingda, Guangdong.............................. 150,000
9 Philippines: Pinatubo rehabilitation project
year were as follows:
156,000
1991
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