GriefShare
Evaluation Toolkit

The GriefShare session videos offer compassionate, Christ-centered teaching from trusted grief experts along with real stories from people who have experienced the death of a loved one. The Session 1 preview, “Is This Normal?,” gives pastors, leaders, and potential participants a first look at how GriefShare speaks honestly to the confusion, pain, and questions of grief while helping people feel less alone and more hopeful.

The GriefShare Leader’s Guide equips church leaders and facilitators to lead a support group with clear agendas, discussion questions, and practical tips for creating a safe, welcoming environment. Designed for both experienced and first-time leaders, it helps prepare for each meeting, guide discussion, and handle sensitive conversations with care. More than an outline, it supports a Christ-centered experience where grieving people can find comfort, hope, and healing through biblical teaching and community.

The GriefShare Participant Guide helps group members continue processing what they are learning between weekly sessions. With biblical insights, practical exercises, guided questions, encouraging stories, and space for personal reflection, the guide gives grieving people a structured way to engage their thoughts, emotions, and questions throughout the week. It serves as a personal companion for the grief journey, helping participants apply what they hear in the session videos, prepare for group discussion, and take meaningful steps toward comfort, healing, and hope.

GriefShare is grounded in the conviction that God’s Word is true, trustworthy, and sufficient to speak with authority, comfort, and hope into the deepest pain of grief. Every form of GriefShare support—including the session videos, participant guide, leader resources, books, and supplemental materials—is developed from and shaped by Scripture and the hope of the gospel. The curriculum also heavily utilizes the wisdom and teaching of trusted pastors and experienced Christian counselors, ensuring that participants receive biblically sound guidance and compassionate, practical care. Through every resource, GriefShare seeks to help grieving people understand their experience in light of biblical truth, receive God’s comfort, and take their next steps with confidence in His promises.

GriefShare does not minimize suffering, explain it away, or treat grief as something people should simply “get over.” Scripture teaches that God sees the pain of the afflicted, hears the cries of the hurting, and invites grieving people to pour out their hearts to Him. He is the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort which means grieving people can come to Him honestly and find His comfort in their pain.

At the same time, the Bible helps us understand why suffering and death exist: we live in a world broken by sin, where death, injustice, disease, violence, and sorrow are not the way things were meant to be. But God has not remained distant from our suffering. In love, He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, who entered into our sorrow, suffered unjustly, died for our sins, and rose again so that sin and death would not have the final word. Because of Christ, grieving people can find comfort for today, forgiveness and peace with God, and the sure hope that one day He will make all things new.

GriefShare is built on a high view of the local church. We believe God has uniquely called and equipped local churches to proclaim the gospel, care for the hurting, make disciples, and embody the compassion of Christ in the world. GriefShare does not replace the ministry of pastors, elders, deacons, or church leaders; it exists to strengthen and support their care for grieving people. Every video, guide, book, and leader resource is designed to help local churches create a Christ-centered environment where people can be loved, shepherded, and pointed to the hope of the gospel.

Because GriefShare ultimately points grieving people toward the ongoing care, worship, teaching, and community of a local church, we ask every church partner to affirm our essential beliefs. And when GriefShare is facilitated by a non-church organization, we require sponsorship by a local church so that participants are not only supported through a grief recovery program, but also connected to the pastoral care and lasting community God has entrusted to His church.

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