The Christian Fellowship of Healing (Scotland) was established in the 1950s in Edinburgh as an ecumenical organisation to promote the importance of the healing ministry of Jesus among the Christian communities in Scotland and to create a centre from which healing could be offered.

This has given rise to a prayerful community which offers the following -

  •  compassionate companionship in groups to support those seeking healing

  •  an intercessory prayer service available for everyone

  •  weekly healing worship

  •  resources for individuals and churches in the form of healing literature and guides

  •  courses in healing to deepen people's understanding of the process of healing

  •  direct support to individual churches for the development of a healing ministry

  •  ministry in the form of Christian listening, or spiritual direction, or laying on of hands.

CFH regards healing as central to Jesus' teaching and ministry and seeks to continue this tradition of healing by teaching prayer and creating several different contexts in which healing prayer is offered. The Fellowship's experience is that groups help people find the capacity to love and support one another, involving a process of prayerful growing in the understanding of God, the self and of others.

Thus people learn about prayer by taking part, listening deeply to one another and God, experiencing the healing flow of God's love for themselves - and are enabled to offer healing prayer for others. This way of working mirrors Jesus' ministry with his own disciples.

The Fellowship's belief is that churches would benefit from this approach to ministry both to empower their own lay membership and as a way of enabling people on the edge or outside the church to experience the healing power of compassionate community; and they also believe that their healing approach should be available to peoples from all faiths, including those who have none, and from all walks of life.

The Fellowship is now seeking a sponsor to help the organisation enable more people to access its services and partake in its healing approach.

The development it seeks has four main aspects: to become a more effective resource centre for churches for healing theology, information and support; to grow its outreach work to enable its short courses on healing and forms of prayer and meditation to be accessed by a wider community; to develop its ministry so that the organisation can offer more extended support to individuals; to increase and diversify its group ministry.

Contact: Steve Hatton, Administrator

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