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A list of UK Christian organisations offering support, counselling and advice on abuse; some useful websites, books and other resources.
Christian organisations
CCPAS*
PO Box 133, Swanley, Kent, BR8 7UQ
Tel: 0845 120 45 50
Email: info@ccpas.co.uk
Website: www.ccpas.co.uk
The Churches’ Child Protection Advisory Service is a professional Christian-based charity that provides training, resources and advice in all areas of child protection and good working practice for churches. CCPAS offers a 24-hour helpline and is also an umbrella body appointed by the Criminal Records Bureau to process Criminal Records Checks.
SAFE
St Paul's Centre High Town Crewe, Cheshire CW1 3BY
Email: webinfo@safeinchurch.org
Website: www.safeinchurch.org
The purpose of SAFE is to provide love, support and encouragement to those who have been hurt by difficult church experiences. It is also a source of information and offers teaching and presentations on spiritual abuse in the church. Information booklet available can be downloaded from the website or acquired by sending a S.A.E. (50p of postage per book) to the address above.
Claybury Trust
The Pixmore Centre, Pixmore Avenue, Letchworth Garden City SG6 1JG
Tel: 0845 4340021
Email: admin@claybury.com
Website: www.claybury.org
An interdenominational church and leadership care and development resource for individuals and churches focusing on four areas: training, consulting, counselling and resources.
Cornerstone
Contact: Elizabeth O'Donohue
Tel: 020 7372 8901
Email: cornerstone_London@yahoo.com
Website: www.cornerstonetherapy.org.uk/ministers.html
London-based professional counselling and psychotherapy service with particular expertise and understanding of clergy, clergy couples and those in lay ministry. Also offering training, supervision, facilitation and consultancy.
CWR Ltd (Crusade for World Revival)*
Waverley Abbey House, Waverley Lane, Farnham, Surrey GU9 8EP
Tel: 01252 784733
Email: training@cwr.org.uk
Website: www.cwr.org.uk
Literature, seminars, non‑residential and residential counselling courses (5 day, one year or eighteen month), training and referral.
Institute of Counselling
6 Dixon Street, Glasgow G1 4AX
Tel: 0141 204 2230
Email: iofcounsel@aol.com
Website: www.collegeofcounselling.com
Correspondence education/training in clinical & pastoral counselling, resources & summer schools.
Oxford Christian Institute for Counselling (OCIC)
1st Floor Office, 119-121 London Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 9HZ
Tel: 01865 308889
Email: counselling@ocic.org.uk
Website: www.ocic.org.uk
Provides counselling, supervision, coaching, retreats, workshops and training in pastoral care.
Care for Mission
Elphinstone Wing, Carberry, Musselburgh EH21 8PW
Tel: 0131 653 6767
Email: admin@eihc.org
Website: www.eihc.org
Residential and outpatient medical care, rest, assessment and pastoral counselling for missionaries and UK Christian workers.
Websites
www.spiritualabuse.com
US-based Christian website with useful articles on the issue of spiritual abuse, links to other websites and an online forum.
www.christianrecovery.com
US coalition of ministries dedicated to helping the Christian community become a safe and helpful place for people recovering from addiction, abuse or trauma.
www.balmnet.co.uk
An international and interdenominational resource for ministers damaged as a result of abuse, bullying and stress.
www.walking-wounded.net
Us-based Christian website offering emotional help and encouragement - for anyone in abusive situations.
www.svox.org.uk
National organisation facilitating self-help networks for abuse survivors for healing and recovery, and educating the wider community about abuse, its effects and prevention (not Christian).
Books
Jesus Wept: Reflections on Vulnerability in Leadership
By Vanessa Herrick
Darton, Longman & Todd, London, 1998; ISBN 0232522766
Time for Action: Sexual abuse, the Churches and a new dawn for survivors
Report by Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) London, 2002.
Available from CCPAS.
From Silence to Sanctuary: A Guide to Understanding, Preventing and Responding to Abuse
By Jane Chevous.
Published by SPCK in 2004; ISBN 0281056390
Exposing Spiritual Abuse: How to Rediscover God's Love When the Church Has Let You Down
By Mike Fehlauer
Published by Charisma House Publishers,2001; ISBN 0884197689
The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse
By David Johnston & Jeff VanVonderen
Bethany House Publishers, 1991; ISBN 1556611609
Manipulation, Domination and Control
By PY Oyekan
Kingsway Books, 2000; ISBN 085476898X
Toxic Faith: Experiencing Healing from Painful Spiritual Abuse
By Stephen Arteburn & Jack Felton
Shaw Books, 2001; ISBN 0877888256
Healing Spiritual Abuse: How to Break Free From Bad Church Experiences
By Ken Blue
Intervasity Press, 1993; ISBN 0830816607
Churches that Abuse
By Ronald Enroth
Zondervan, 1993; ISBN 0310532906
Twisted Scriptures: Breaking Free from Churches That Abuse
By Mary Alice Chrnalogar
Zondervan, 2000; ISBN 0310234085
Ungodly Fear: Fundamentalist Christianity and the Abuse of Power
By Stephen Parsons
Lion Hudson, 2001; ISBN 0745950493
Power for God’s Sake: Power and Abuse in the Local Church
By Paul Beasley-Murray
Paternoster Press, 1998; ISBN 0853648999
Uncomfortable Reality: Abuse, the Bible and the Church
By CCPAS with Marlene Kickin
CCPAS, 2004; 0953435555
Guidelines for the Professional Conduct of the Clergy
A Church of England Report
Church House Publishing, 2002; ISBN 0715110055
Just about Managing? Effective Management for Voluntary Organizations and Community Groups
By S. Adirondack
London Voluntary Service Council, London, 1998; ISBN 1872582176
Enabling and Ensuring: Supervision in Practice
By M. Marken and M. Payne (eds)
National Agency, Leicester, 1987; ISBN 0861551087
*Member of the Evangelical Alliance
Compiled by the Evangelical Alliance's Information and Resources Centre, July 2006.
