REBUILD
Finding Hope After Loss
Where can you turn when you're grieving the death of a loved one or a pregnancy? REBUILD workshops offer comfort, hope, and practical tools for healing after the death of a loved one, miscarriage, or infertility. We invite you to join us.
How can you get through the days to come? One good place to turn is to others further down the grief journey. Having that person to turn to who KNOWS what it is like, FEELS the emptiness that comes with that kind of loss, and has FOUND WAYS to manage their loss is priceless.
“Grief is not a condition to be cured, but it can be an opportunity to be a companion. We all experience grief, but we are often unprepared for its impact on our lives. It is a journey best traveled in a community and may require unexpected courage.”
- Julie Thomas, Rebuild Coordinator
What to Expect
- Duration: 10-week workshop, offered each Fall and Spring
- Large-group teaching: Practical insights from therapists and teachers who have experienced loss.
- Small-group conversations: Safe, confidential discussions led by compassionate leaders.
- Practical tools: Strategies to manage grief in constructive ways.
- Spiritual connection: Insights on connecting spiritually through loss.
- Specialized groups: Small groups for different types of loss, including spouse, child, parent, sibling, pregnancy (miscarriage or stillbirth), and infertility.
Rebuild Registration is now Open!
FAQs
Resources
BOOKS
□ A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss by Jerry L. Sittser
□ A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
□ Colors of Goodbye: A Memoir of Holding On, Letting Go, and Reclaiming Joy in the Wake of Loss by September Vaudrey
RETREATS
□ While We Are Waiting: Offers bible-based support for those experiencing the loss of a child - whilewerewaiting.org
□ Faith and Grief: Offers support groups, workshops, and retreats to those grieving the loss of a loved one - faithandgrief.org
□ Respite Retreat: for parents who have lost a child - nancyguthrie.com/respite-retreat
SUPPORT GROUPS
□ Braving Infertility Together: provides support to women through all stages of infertility - bravingit.org
□Journey of Hope: Provides free peer grief support groups to children, adolescents, and their parents or adult caregivers who have experienced a death - johgriefsupport.org/
□ Hope Dawning: The mission is to introduce and connect bereaved mothers in the local community to the area's faith-based healing resources through outreach and camaraderie-building events - hopedawning.org
□ Hope Mommies Online support-neonatal loss: Hope Mommies exists to bring the Hope of Christ to bereaved mothers and families experiencing infant loss - hopemommies.org
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
Volunteer Opportunities
Small Group Facilitators
Facilitate small group discussions with participants who have experienced a similar loss.
Requirements: Complete a semester of Rebuild, process your loss in healthy ways, and attend leadership training.
AV Support
Manage the AV Booth during weekly meetings.
AV Requirements: Meet with Michael Black for training. Be available each week beginning at 6:30 to set up for the session.
Get Connected
Meet the Team
Angie Rogers
Core Team Facilitator and Speaker
Donna DaCosta
Core Team Facilitator and Speaker
Mary Pat Parma
Small Group Facilitator
Cheryl Rielly
Small Group Facilitator
Gerald Henricks
Small Group Facilitator
Jerry Beacham
Small Group Facilitator
“After being a widow for 3 years, I went through the Rebuild sessions as a way to gauge where I was on the grief journey. It was very reassuring to know that I had not lost my mind and that I would regain confidence in decision-making and gain the courage to make changes. The group sessions gave me new ideas and helpful directions to move forward. However, I did not consider myself ready to lead a group table until a speaker said that after losing her son, all she needed from a Grief Ministry was to see someone a little further along on the journey who was happy and hopeful again. I knew that God had restored my happiness and hope, so that was what I had to offer to others who had lost their spouse.”
- Mary Pat Parma, Rebuild Small Group Facilitator