Groups & Events
- GriefShare
This support group for those walking through the grieving process is offered online and in-person at various churches throughout the area. - Miscarriage, Infant Death, and Stillbirth (MIS) Support Group
This support group (which is not religiously affiliated) normally meets in Falls Church, VA, but is currently meeting online.
Care & Counseling
To register for prayer ministry appointments, pastoral care appointments, and counseling recommendations, visit ncc.re/support.
Local Christian Counseling Networks
- CentrePointe Counseling
- Life Christian Counseling Network
- Safe Harbor Christian Counseling
- New Life Christian Counseling Network (Nationwide)
For individually vetted counselors, use ncc.re/support.
Questions? Check out our Therapy FAQs.
Videos & Podcasts
Videos
- Adjusting to a New Reality (29 min)
Mike Foster and Jared Herd, As Normal As Weird Can Be - Baylor Clinical Professor Provides Hope for COVID-19 Grief and Stress (55 mins)
Joe Padilla, Mental Health Grace Alliance - Finding Hope in Grief – Insight for Living (1 hour)
Colleen Swindoll Thompson and Kay Warren - Grief and COVID-19 (14 min)
Preet Kaur - Grief and Loss During COVID-19 (1 hour)
Facebook Live with Kay Warren and Dr. Jerry Sittser - Grief Support: Equipping Ministry Leaders to Support Others with COVID-19 Grief (56 min)
Key Ministry - Grieving As A Family (6 mins)
Kay Warren & Pastor Tommy Hilliker, M.Div. - How to Get Through What You’re Going Through (39 mins)
Kay Warren - 12 Steps of Grieving – Steve Arterburn
New Life Ministries - Walking Through Catastrophic Grief (6 mins)
Kay Warren - What Not to Say to Someone Who is Grieving (6 mins)
Kay Warren
Podcasts
- David Kessler and Brené Brown on Grief and Finding Meaning
“Unlocking Us” with Brené Brown - Journeying Through Our Collective Dark Night of the Soul
Pete Scazzero, Emotionally Healthy Discipleship
Articles, Books & More
Articles
- After the Death of Her Son, Kay Warren Says that Easter Gives Her Hope Again
SimpleGRACE Magazine - After A Loved One Dies: How Children Grieve and How Adults Can Support Them
New York Life Foundation - Caring for Grieving People during the COVID-19 Crisis
Stephen Ministries - Coping With the Loss of a Loved One
ADAA - Faith, Grief & COVID-19: A Conversation
Sanctuary Mental Health - Five Things to Help Heal from Grief
Key Ministry - Grief Counseling Resource Guide: A Field Manual
New York State Office of Mental Health - Helping Your Child Through Grief
Parent Cue - How to Deal with Grief
US Department of Health and Human Services - Left to Grieve
World Magazine - Something Small: A Story About Remembering
Sesame Street - That Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief
Harvard Business Review - When Families Grieve
Sesame Street
Books
- A Grace Disguised
by Jerry L. Sittser - Confessions of a Grieving Christian
by Zig Ziglar - Gone But Not Lost: Grieving the Death of a Child
by David W. Wiersbe - Grieving with Hope
by Sue Catherine Holtkamp - Holding on to Hope: A Pathway Through Suffering to the Heart of God
by Nancy Guthrie - I Will Carry You
by Angie Smith - Not by Accident
by Isabel Fleece - Roses in December: Comfort for the Grieving Heart
by Marilyn Willett Heavilin - Safe in the Arms of God: Truth from Heaven about the Death of a Child
by John F. MacArthur Jr. - Safe in the Arms of Jesus: God’s Provision for the Death of Those Who Cannot Believe
by Robert Lightner - Treasures in Darkness: A Grieving Mother Shares Her Heart
by Sharon W. Betters - What If He Crawls Away?: A Child’s Journey Through Grief
by Renee Joy - When God Became ApParent
by Darren Daugherty