Ökumenische TelefonSeelsorge Erfurt e.V.

The TelefonSeelsorge Erfurt introduces itself

The ecumenical TelefonSeelsorge Erfurt e.V. was founded in 1992, it stands in sponsorship of the Protestant and Catholic church. In the past year we celebrated our 30-year existence. We are a team of trained volunteers with different professions, life situations and denominations. We are available around the clock, even when other drop-in centers are already closed.

"Hello, do you have time for me right now?" "Can I talk to you about anything?"

This or something similar is often how conversations begin at the Telephone counselling. It is not always the large dramas and personal disasters, which makes people dial our number. Many of the 8.343 calls, which reached us in 2022, were primarily about everyday worries and needs, the kind of things we all know:

worries about relatives, fear of war and violence, fears about the future due to inflation, but above all they were about loneliness and isolation.

People who are looking for a way out of their limitations or want to develop new perspectives for their lives, experience through our counselling that there is someone who listens and sorts things with them. That often creates a first relief and large proximity in the phone call.

At present 69 volunteers work in Erfurt at the counselling telephone, which is attainable anonymously and around the clock. The nationwide free phone numbers of the counselling telephone are the following: 0800 111 0 111 and 0800 111 0 222

We are always looking for people who engage in this valuable service.

For more information about our work, please contact the office of the ecunomical Telefonseelsorge Erfurt e.V. at Tel. 0361/5621620, by mail: telefonseelsorge.ef@t-online.de or on our homepage: www.telefonseelsorge-erfurt.de