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News #285 – Hong Kong
June 30, 2004
Exhibition will show development of Bible work in China
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| Zhang Wan Long standing alongside his woodcarving depicting the "Life of Christ". Nanjing, China. Photo: UBS/Larry Jerden (PRC01DJ-7.JPG) |
HONG KONG — An exhibition displaying the Bible ministry of the Chinese churches is currently being assembled with help from the Hong Kong Bible Society. The exhibition is being put on by the China Christian Council and the National Committee of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement of Protestant Churches in China (CCC/TSPM), with the support of the Bible Society.
Due to open at the Hong Kong Exhibition Centre on August 5 and run until August 10, the exhibition will be entitled A Lamp To My Feet and a Light For My Path. It will cover the period from the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 through the cultural revolution of the 1960s and '70s, when churches were closed and Bibles confiscated and destroyed, to the establishing of the Amity Press, the expansion of nationwide Bible distribution networks by the CCC/TSPM and collaboration with overseas Bible publishers, particularly Bible Societies.
The greater part of the exhibition will be based around a 'time tunnel' in nine sections but there will also be live shows featuring a troupe of some 40 singers and dancers giving performances three times a day of Bible-based songs and dances.
Exhibits will include historic printed Bibles and others handwritten in secret during the Cultural Revolution. Stories and testimonies of how believers preserved and shared their Bibles during those difficult times will be displayed in texts and in short documentary videos.
Meanwhile, the exhibition's centrepiece will be a long, solid wood carving depicting the life and teachings of Jesus. The piece took three master woodcarvers more than three years to make (see World Report 358/25)."The Hong Kong Bible Society has been entrusted with the task of coordinating the entire event as well as mobilising the entire Christian community to support the event," said David Wong, the Society's Voluntary General Secretary. "We have strategically planned the venue alongside with the World Congress of Baptist Youth in Hong Kong – with their understanding – to increase the exposure to international visitors."
Each visitor to the exhibition will receive a special souvenir Bible and a daily Bible quiz will offer as prizes the chance to visit Nanjing and Amity Printing Press. (330 words - HONG KONG.24.06.04)
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