Offer support with GriefShare

COVID-19 

has impacted

everyone’s grief

Your church can provide the compassion and care people need with a GriefShare support group. The 13-week program features:

Kits include everything your lay leader needs to start and run a GriefShare ministry.

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CHRIST-CENTERED GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPS

“With the stresses and strains of everything going on—[grieving] people need comfort.” 

Bill, Pastor

MORE GRIEF. LESS SUPPORT.

Whether or not COVID was the cause of death, it has impacted the grief of millions. More people are grieving, and the effects are heightened. They’re feeling alone and don’t know where to turn.

More 

deaths

The deadliest year recorded in US history

More grieving

people

4.5 million more people grieving a death 

More effects

on grief

Increased survivor’s guilt, anxiety, depression

“Every death from COVID-19 will leave approximately 9 bereaved.” 

Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

HOW CAN YOUR

CHURCH RESPOND?

GriefShare is a 13-week grief support group program chosen by over 20,000 churches worldwide. This Christ-centered, lay-led program is leading the way in helping churches care for the bereaved, both in person and online.

Video with experts 

Teaching on grief recovery topics

GriefShare helps 

your church minister 

to grieving people

Discussion with purpose

Safe place for people to share

Self-guided workbook

Scripture-saturated and practical

This year saw 15% more total deaths than a normal year.

Center for Disease Control

HEAR FROM OTHER PASTORS

Offer a support group in person or online, or both!

START MINISTERING TODAY WITH GRIEFSHARE

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YOU CAN MEET

TODAY’S GRIEF NEEDS

Biblical teaching & counsel

Respected Christian counselors and pastors share relevant insights on grief-related topics via the weekly GriefShare videos. David and Nancy Guthrie cohost the videos.

Your volunteers will be equipped with easy-to-use tools—including online training—for launching and running a grief recovery support group.

Lay-led design

Some grieving people are still staying home; others want to get out and connect. You can offer GriefShare groups for both.

Online & in-person groups

People are looking for help wherever they can find it. They’re exhausted from this past year and ready to be ministered to.

New outreach opportunities

NEW

GriefShare ministry coaches are standing by to help your church start and launch a group. It’s free to talk with a coach!

Free personal coaching

COVID-19 response tools

You’ll get a free COVID-19 video series. Plus, new payment options and online group management tools make hosting a group during a pandemic easier.

NEW

NEW

NEW

GriefShare 

draws people 

to your church

Grieving people in your community are in desperate need of comfort these days. Many don’t know what to do. GriefShare gives them a reason to turn to your church for help.

Start a group today.

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COVID-19 RESPONSE VIDEOS

Included with every GriefShare kit

Share with your group

You can share these online videos with the people you’re ministering to. Each 12–15-minute video features counsel from Christian experts and comes with questions for individual or group use. 

COVID-19 & Grief 

Anxiety & Grief 

Loneliness in Grief 

The Search for a New Normal

“We’re reaching out into our community, showing them there’s hope and people that care for them.”

Jonathan, Pastor

Video

sessions

PREVIEW

Participant

guide

PREVIEW

Leader’s

guide

PREVIEW

Promotional

materials

PREVIEW

WHATS IN A GRIEFSHARE KIT?

OFFER TIMELY MINISTRY TODAY

Order a GriefShare kit

Or give us a call. 

A GriefShare coach is standing by to help. 

800-395-5755

INT: 919-562-2112

FREE GUIDE FOR VOLUNTEERS

FREE GUIDE FOR PASTORS

NEED TO TALK 

WITH YOUR PASTOR?

Let’s Do This: Presenting GriefShare to Your Pastor

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UNSURE OF

HOW TO START?

3 Simple Steps to Launching a Lay-led GriefShare Ministry

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More effects on grief

More grieving people

More deaths

MORE GRIEF. 

LESS SUPPORT.

HOW CAN YOUR

CHURCH RESPOND?

HEAR FROM OTHER PASTORS

START MINISTERING TODAY WITH GRIEFSHARE

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“I found a church home because of GriefShare!”

Marcie

What participants have to say

“I felt lost and alone. GriefShare was a huge turning point for me.”

Barbara

“I’m in my second 13-week group online and am so grateful.”

Dianne

Isn’t the COVID-19 crisis over?

With vaccines and warm weather on the horizon, many people are looking forward to a sense of normalcy. But for people grieving a death, life will never be the same again. COVID-19 brought new complexities to the “normal” grief process, and grieving people will feel the effects for months to come. A lay-led GriefShare support group helps people work through their grief and learn to adjust to life without their loved one.

Contact

info@griefshare.org
800-395-5755
Int: 919-562-2112 

Media inquiries

jkennedy@churchinitiative.org
800-395-5755 ext. 225

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“I’m in my second 13-week group online and am so grateful.”

Dianne

“I found a church home because of GriefShare!”

Marcie

“I felt lost and alone. GriefShare was a huge turning point for me.”

Barbara

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