This free, heart-warming video will help you navigate your grief and find healthy ways to cope after the death of your mom.
The death of a child is one of the most devastating losses a person can face—and one of the most tender ministry moments a church may be called to enter.
Parents grieving the loss of a child often struggle to find words for their pain. They may feel unseen or misunderstood, even by people who love them. They may be overwhelmed by questions, exhausted by grief, and unsure where to turn for help after the funeral is over and others begin returning to normal life despite still being deep in grief.
Your church has a meaningful opportunity to offer compassionate, ongoing care—not just in the immediate days after loss, but in the long months and years that follow.
Life After the Loss of Your Child: Hearing from others who understand was created to help you come alongside grieving parents with wisdom, tenderness, and hope.
Life After the Loss of Your Child is a compassionate guide for parents facing the unimaginable pain of child loss.
Through insight from grief recovery experts and bereaved parents, this resource helps grieving parents understand what they’re experiencing, feel less alone in their pain, and find small steps toward stability in the storm.
This resource offers:
- A gentle path through grief after the death of a child
- Guidance from grief recovery experts and parents who have walked this road
- Help for real-life challenges, including grief ambushes, difficult dates, family strain, parenting grieving children and teens, and honoring a child’s memory
- Prayers for moments when grieving parents don’t have words
- Biblical hope that does not minimize the depth of their loss
This resource helps parents hear from others who understand, so they can begin to feel less isolated and more supported in the pain they are carrying.
Throughout the book, you’ll also find prayers for the moments when you don’t have words.
Church leaders, care teams, Stephen Ministers, pastors, funeral ministry teams, and GriefShare leaders can use Life After the Loss of Your Child as:
- Support for those in GriefShare groups with this kind of loss (use as a supplement or to create a side group)
- A starting point for parents who are not ready to attend a group
- Follow-up care after a funeral or recent loss
- Support around remembrance dates, birthdays, holidays, and anniversaries
- A thoughtful addition to care packages for grieving families
- A resource for leaders preparing to care for a grieving parent
Whether a parent’s loss is recent or happened years ago, this book gives your church a way to offer more than a brief expression of sympathy. It provides ongoing, compassionate support for the realities parents continue to face long after others may assume they are “doing better.”
It also equips your church to care well in the immediate aftermath of loss—and in the long, tender journey that follows.
Life After the Loss of Your Child is a resource you can confidently place in the hands of hurting parents because it is:
- Christ-centered and grounded in biblical hope
It points grieving parents to God’s nearness without offering shallow answers or rushing their sorrow. - Practical for the real challenges grieving parents face
It addresses the daily pain points of child loss, from overwhelming emotions to family strain, grieving siblings, difficult dates, and meaningful remembrance. - Shaped by decades of ministry experience
Built from GriefShare’s long history of walking with grieving people, it reflects a compassionate understanding of what mourners need. - Strengthened by the voices of parents who understand
Bereaved parents and grief recovery experts help readers know they are not alone and that others have walked this painful road before them.
This resource helps your church or ministry extend care that is tender, steady, and rooted in hope.
Continue Caring for Grieving Families
The loss of a child affects the entire family. Along with Life After the Loss of Your Child, these additional resources help churches care for parents, children, and families with compassion and biblical hope.
Companion Videos
Free with the book
Grieving Children
Practical guidance for caring adults
