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B. Five Loaves and Two Fish Campaign
1998
This year is the 24th anniversary of the Five Loaves September A Response to th e Q u a lity School Education
and Two Fish Campaign. The purpose of this Policy
campaign is to encourage Christians concern and O cto ber The C hurch and N ew Im m igran t M in is try
sharing for overseas needs. 1998 funding projects N ovem ber The C hurch in a M u lti-c u ltu ra l Society
are listed as follows: December C od W ith Us: N ew R eflections on the

Incarnation
D e s ig n a te d F und
HK$ 1999
1. Zhangjiakou Earthquake. Hebei (China) 1,0 8 2 ,406 January/February A Response to th e W eek o f Prayer
2. C hina Flood 9 8 2 ,2 2 1 ,250 March Exploration o f the N ew Era o f C hurch U n ity
3. Back to School Project (China) 1,3 0 1 ,217 A p ril The Ecumenical M ovem ent o f the C hurch
4. Beiwan Kei O i Prim ary School (China) 3 4 2 ,700 M ay Staying Together in the M id st o f Economic
5. Yellow Plateau Project (China) 75 ,298 Recession
6. N o rth Korea 2 4 4 ,984 June D iscipleship in the 2 I st C e n tu ry
July/A ug ust C hurch Responses to th e “ In te rn a tio n a l Year
Non-designated Fund: HK$756,650 o f the Elderly"

Total : HK$6,024,506 Communications

Non-designated Funding Projects are: I. News & Views

HK$ "News & View" continued publication as the quarterly
I. CCDB - Rural development 66,813 English international newsletter of the Council. The
(Bangladesh) newsletter is also published on the Council's homepage.
2. CASA - Rural development (India) 105,171 Rev. Judy CHAN is the Editor.
3. Mengzhou Primary School in 100,000
Houcheong Township. Puding II. Radio & Television Ministries
County. Guizhou, China.
The Council continues to support religious
The total fund is HK$200,000. of broadcasting in Hong Kong. Rev. Judy CHAN served as
which HK$ 100,000 is contributed Acting Coordinator for the Religious Broadcasting and
by Wanchai Rotary Club as a Television Advisory Committee (English/Christian) from
matching fund. September 1998 - April 1999. Beginning May I. Ms.
Christina CHUA assumed duties as
For emergency needs, it was determined to transfer Coordinator/Producer of the Committee. Her position is
non-designated fund HK$226,606 to the being funded initially through a grant of the
Emergency Fund to make up the total amount to CWM/Nethersole Fund. This year's Committee
HK$500.000. Chairperson is Fr. Roman Carter. O.P. of the Catholic
Church. The Committee's programs for the past year
In addition, "Back to School" is a project that helps are as follows:
sponsor children in rural areas in Mainland China to
go back to school. The Chairperson of the working A. Christian Radio Broadcasts
committee is Rev. LAW Kit-choi.
Minutes That Matter:
The “Message” Editorial Committee A nine-minute program aired from Monday to Friday
at 9:50 a.m. on RTHK-4
Rev. Eric SO Shing-yit is the Chairperson of the Committee
and Ms. Louisa WAI is the editor of “Message", the Reflections:
Council's Chinese newsletter. A three-minute late night meditation aired from
Monday to Friday around midnight on RTHK-4.
The themes during the year of 1998/99 were:

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