Lifeline telephone counselling service |
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| Title : | Lifeline telephone counselling service |
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| Creator : | Lifeline Adelaide | ||
| Date of creation : | [197-?] | ||
| Format : | Ephemera | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
The Adelaide Central Mission, like similar bodies, grew out of the failure of evangelists, such as the American Dwight Moody, to gain Christian converts among the desperately poor in the late 19th century. Missionaries, including Peter Thompson at his London East End Mission, concentrated instead on providing medical aid, food depots, legal representation and other necessities of life to those living in the slums. In Adelaide in the 1890s, the Rev. Joseph Berry took up this practical model of mission work, and in 1901 the Central Methodist Mission was opened at Maughan Church in Franklin Street. The Mission's diverse range of activities has included establishing Kuitpo Colony as a place for unemployed men in 1930, opening the first Goodwill charity shop in 1952, as well as men's shelters, nursing sisters for the poor, and many other services. This ever increasing range of services included the Lifeline telephone counselling service. Following a phone call from a man who then took his own life, in Sydney, in 1963, the Rev. Alan Walker opened the first LifeLine service in that city in March. In August 1963 LifeLine Adelaide opened followed. In its first year 25 volunteers took over 800 calls, and consequently counselled 400 respondents face to face. At the time of its 30th anniversary, in 1993, LifeLine Adelaide had 180 volunteers taking 15,000 calls a year. Today Lifeline continues to operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. |
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| Related names : | Berry, Joseph, 1846-1907 Moody, D.L. (Dwight Lyman), 1837-1899 Thompson, Peter Walker, Alan, 1911 Adelaide Central Mission East End Mission (London, England) Goodwill Stores Kuitpo Colony Lifeline Adelaide Maughan Church (Adelaide, S. Aust.) |
| Coverage year : | ca. 1970 |
| Place : | Adelaide (S. Aust.); Franklin Street (Adelaide, S. Aust.) |
| Region : | Adelaide city |
| Further reading : | Adelaide Central Mission. [Annual report], 1st (1901)- Bailey, Ivor. Mission story: the story of the Adelaide Central Mission, Adelaide: The Mission, 1988 'LifeLine - walk in or call', TransMission: the newsletter of the Adelaide Central Mission, Spring 1993, pp. 1, 4-5 'Ten thousand people phone Life Line in 1974', Central times, 12 December 1974, p. 12 |
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