Leslie Christie; a Founder of L.A. Help Line
The Rev. H. Leslie Christie, 74, a retired Baptist minister who helped found the Help Line Telephone Clinic of Los Angeles in 1965, died Sunday in Seal Beach. He had been ill with respiratory ailments.
Christie, who once was an associate of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale at Marble Collegiate Church in New York City, was in the administrative ministries of the United Baptist Church before becoming director of the department of urban evangelism for the Los Angeles Baptist City Mission Society in 1957.
He lived in New York City from 1969 to 1978 and again from 1982 to 1983 where he founded Peale’s Telephone Crisis Counseling Center.
Survivors include his wife, Birdie, a son, granddaughter and three sisters.
A memorial service is scheduled at 2 p.m. today at First Baptist Church of Palos Verdes.
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