Clearly, GriefShare will help your church minister to grieving people within your congregation, but the program offers additional benefits:

GriefShare equips lay teams to lead effective, ongoing grief recovery ministries. We provide training videos, a Leader’s Guide, regional training conferences and Internet-based tools to support your leaders.

Pastors tell us the ability to direct a grieving person to an ongoing support group has helped lighten their counseling load. Weekly GriefShare groups provide participants with valuable information about biblical recovery and provide a structured environment to talk about the issues they are facing as they deal with the difficult months following the death of a loved one.

A grieving person is often more likely to turn to a church now than at any other point as an adult. Many churches report that up to 90 percent of their GriefShare participants are from outside their congregation and at least half do not know Christ! GriefShare points group members to Jesus Christ as the foundation for healing as they go through the grieving process.