Carrie, The program is called GriefShare (https://www.griefshare.org/). It's
not a cheap program (about $500 I think), but once you are in, they help you
with so much. There's a leadership guide that is scripted and multiple DVDs for
training. They really have it set up for a lay person of the church to lead it,
but Geoff is doing it the first time (maybe 2nd too). It's a 13 week course and
we'd like to offer it in spring and fall for right now.
The program during the group time is to watch videos - these videos aren't one
person lecturing, but jumping from person to person whether it's an
author/pastor talking or an everyday person speaking about their grief. David
and Nancy Guthrie are the main speakers, but you'll see Tripp say a few things,
Ed Welch, Zig Ziglar, Joni Tada, etc. (It is the Guthrie's ministry and they
lost 2 children as infants which was the motivation to begin a ministry like
this.) The videos are many short clips because many times in the midst of your
grief you can't focus too long on one thing.
After the videos is discussion if people want to and then review what needs to
be done on their own for the next week in their workbook. These are daily
devotions that take 3-5 minutes to do. Scripture is in the book, so there isn't
a real need for a Bible. The books cost $15 and the program encourages the
churches to charge it b/c it's an investment in their grief process/recovery.
This is the third version of the program, but everything is done for a reason,
so you can tell it has not been thrown together but is very intentional.
On Tuesday, October 16, 2018, 12:25:35 PM CDT, Carrie Hub
<carriehub060300@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I did see that you were doing this and was so thankful. There is so much pain.
So much grief in this world.
What program are you using?
I will be praying for you (and these families). I can understand the feeling of
helplessness. Thankful that we know Someone who isn't helpless.
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 10:43 PM Renee O'Leske <larsen.renee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Oh wow... so heavy. . . Praying
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018, 9:43 PM K. Jeanne Colas <kristi.colas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Oh wow. I'm so saddened by this story. But it sounds like an incredible
ministry to have to people. I'll be praying!! Your parents and sister took me
out for breakfast on Saturday and to the airport and I really enjoyed being
with them. I sensed that they have healed really well from that pain. And I
understand better why now.
Kristi Jeanne Colas
11 rue Henri Dunant95410 Groslay, France
Le lun. 15 oct. 2018 à 22:37, Pamela Smith <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a
écrit :
Hi, ladies,Most of you probably have seen that we started a grief support group
at our church through my FB posts. This program was instrumental in helping my
parents after Tim died. A year after he died they started this group, and I got
my parents back. They were distant and hard to connect with during that time,
and I could just hear a change in their voice about 4-6 weeks in (this is
before Skype and texting, so we talked more often), and it was such a relief to
me to hear them laugh and not bitterly. I can't really explain it, but I know
this helped them immensely. So we had our first night tonight and I'm not at
liberty to say who came, but we had 2 from the community and 1 from our church.
The two from the community are closely involved in this situation that made
national news at the end of August the weekend before school started. There are
stories with much more information/details, but this one gives the general
idea.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mother-only-survivor-kayak-accident-kills-husband-three-kids-n905881
Maleia played with their oldest daughter on the playground at school. The
younger 2 kids weren't at school yet, but the little girl was going to join
Kat's class. Tonight there was so much raw pain. I would appreciate your
prayers as we walk through this with them. I feel very unqualified to do this,
and after tonight I know I'll be praying more often regarding this. I was more
involved with advertising and snacks that I didn't give as much thought to the
actual discussion. Geoff is leading and I'm just helping so I didn't really
have anything to prepare, but I felt rather helpless tonight as they each
shared. Prayer for wisdom would be really appreciated.Pam
