Support and encouragement for your grief journey
After the funeral, when the cards and flowers have stopped coming, most of the people around you return to their normal lives. But your grief continues and you feel alone.
Often, friends and family want to help you, but don’t know how. That’s the reason for GriefShare. Our group is led by caring people who have experienced grief and have successfully rebuilt their lives. We understand how you feel because we’ve been in the same place. We walk with you on the long path through grief toward healing and hope for the future.
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Connie McMullins
The reason I felt led to begin a group at Sunnyside. I had lost five family members within a year’s time, including my mother and father within six months of each other. I found a GriefShare group to attend and the day I was to attend this class the Lord begin to lay upon my heart to start a group at Sunnyside. We had lost seventeen church members that year. After attending the thirteen- week sessions, I went through training sessions, and we began in the Spring of 2015. GriefShare is a Bible based study of helping others who are grieving the loss of a loved one. Everyone who has attended GriefShare has said that it helped them. Connie McMullins
Jim Webster
Jim is a leader in our Grief Share ministry. In 2000 his wife Sara passed away from an illness that took its toll for four years. Jim worked with Sara and made sure she was taken care of and fed. After she passed he did not know what to do. He was so used to being busy taking care of his wife that he did not know how to function without her. Jim shared that he moped around for about a year after Sara had passed, then he heard about GriefShare. He loved it because it was an opportunity to share his struggles, receive encouragement, and see that others were struggling as well. He said, “The more you talk about it and get it in front of you, the easier it is to overcome.” After a year of attending GriefShare meetings he met a woman named Joan. They helped each other to heal from grief. They started dating in 2002 and married. After many happy years, Joan got sick and passed in 2020. Grief arose again. Drawing upon his own times of grief, Jim continues to encourage and lead others through their difficulties with grief.