Mt Bethel Church GriefShare

This is a past group

This group ran October 7, 2020 – January 20, 2021 • Search for a current group.

Group location

Meeting online

This group met online.


The GriefShare experience

Watch this video to learn what it’s like to join a GriefShare group.

Group details

Contact person

Rev. Kim McGarr, Care Pastor
770-652-9913 Send message

Meeting room

The GriefShare meetings will be held through an online Zoom call until further notice. They will be held beginning Wednesday, October 7, 2020 from 7:00 to 8:15 p.m. until the end of January, 2021 (see exact dates). Also, note that we will be having four weeks of an optional in-person outdoor meeting with physical distancing and masks required beginning Sunday, October 4, 2020, from 4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. The outdoor group is also scheduled to meet on October 11, 18, and 25 at the same time. We request that you bring your own chair to those meetings.

Child care

Not available

Group website


Church sponsor

Mt Bethel Church
770-971-2880 Website

If you have recently, or maybe some time ago, experienced the death of a very significant person in your life, whether that be a spouse, parent, child, sibling, or friend, you are wholeheartedly invited to join our online educational GriefShare support group facilitated by Drs. Susan Zonnebelt-Smeenge (psychologist) and Robert DeVries (pastor), beginning, October 7, 2020. This group will meet online on Wednesdays from 7:00 – 8:15 p.m. while awaiting the time determined by the Mt. Bethel staff that it will be safe to meet indoors. They will also be facilitating an outdoor group requiring physical distancing and masks until weather deters that group. This outdoor educational GriefShare support group meeting will be held on Sundays beginning October 4, 2020 through October 25 from 4:00 to 5:15 p.m. on the West side of the main parking lot of Mt. Bethel UMC. Each person will need to bring their own chair. When this group can no longer meet outdoors due to weather, the group will be encouraged to join the online Zoom meetings on Wednesdays from 7:00 – 8:15 p.m. The weekly sessions will parallel each other so hopefully no one needs to miss participating in any of the 13 sessions. We hope to see you at one of our two options of our educational grief support meetings. Dr. Susan Zonnebelt-Smeenge, a licensed psychologist and one of the facilitators of GriefShare at Mt. Bethel, is presently available online through a HIPPA approved secure website to provide grief, loss, and dying psychotherapy including other individual and family related concerns you might have. Her services are available to anyone from the community as well as Mt. Bethel church members. You can schedule an appointment or get more information by calling Susan at 616-780-1082.


Meeting schedule

You are encouraged to join us on any week. Sessions are self-contained.

Meeting Date Time (ET)
Session 1 Wed, Oct 07, 2020 7–8:15pm
Session 2 Wed, Oct 14, 2020 7–8:15pm
Session 3 Wed, Oct 21, 2020 7–8:15pm
Session 4 Wed, Oct 28, 2020 7–8:15pm
Session 5 Wed, Nov 04, 2020 7–8:15pm
Session 6 Wed, Nov 11, 2020 7–8:15pm
Session 7 Wed, Nov 18, 2020 7–8:15pm
Session 8 Wed, Dec 02, 2020 7–8:15pm
Session 9 Wed, Dec 09, 2020 7–8:15pm
Session 10 Wed, Dec 16, 2020 7–8:15pm
Session 11 Wed, Jan 06, 2021 7–8:15pm
Session 12 Wed, Jan 13, 2021 7–8:15pm
Session 13 Wed, Jan 20, 2021 7–8:15pm