Partner Ministries

Partner Ministries

Crossline

Crossline Edinburgh, a Christian telephone helpline and counselling service was the first to be established in Scotland, founded in 1990 by Edinburgh City Mission. Since then Crossline has grown and developed beyond the confines of Edinburgh and is now known as Crossline Scotland, based in Falkirk with branches in other Scottish towns. ECM still sponsors an Edinburgh branch from its Pilrig headquarters, the base for its counselling service.

Infomation:
01324 630643
chris@crosslinescotland.org

Care Van

Every night throughout the year, a team of people drawn from around 35 churches from different church denominations man the Care Van and tour the centre of the city. Their purpose? ... to express Christ's compassion for rough sleeping homeless people who spend their days and nights on city streets, marginalized, lonely, feeling that nobody cares.

Care Van, a project which is jointly sponsored by ECM and Bethany Christian Trust, volunteer teams who prepare and serve food, offer friendship, a listening ear and support to all who visit the van.

Someone once described Care Van as ... 'Compassion on Wheels'

The Winter Night Shelter

The winter night shelter was jointly founded and sponsored by ECM and Bethany Christian Trust, providing a place of food and shelter in different church venues for rough sleepers during the winter period. While the night shelter is operated under the management of BCT, it does so in co-operation with ECM who provide one of the winter venues at its Pilrig Centre.

Infomation:
0131 467 3030
info@bethanyct.com

The Edinburgh Creation Group

In November 2006 ECM co-pioneered a special outreach to the scientific and intellectual community based near the University. Deeply concerned about the godless attitudes around them, which can be traced back to the Enlightenment and Evolution, they sought to set up an effective ministry to dismantle the humanistic idol and present the truth of Creation and of Christ. In this way Edinburgh Creation Group was born, the team being made up of scientists and an historian. Since then leading scientists and experts have given regular weekly term-time talks using PowerPoint presentations to classes of students and others. These have been filmed and put on the Edinburgh Creation Group's website. The result of this has been that over 20,000 people world-wide have now watched the talks via the internet videos.