Finding Hope: Surviving Suicide, Accidental Death, and Sudden Loss
  
October 13, 2021– 6:30 P.M.-9:00 P.M.
Church of the Ascension

 
Greif can be overwhelming especially if you experience the sudden loss of a loved one.  Our featured speakers will provide a message of hope. Find more information at
www.hopeinscripture.com/
  
The Evenings Agenda
6:30 p.m. – Opening Prayer/Remarks
6:35 p.m. – The Project Chrysalis Story
6:45 p.m. – First speaker – Deacon Ed Shoener
7:45 p.m. – Carl’s Cause – Bob and Kelly Specht
8:00 p.m. – Break
8:15 p.m. – Second Speaker – Jennifer Hubbard
9:00 p.m. – Closing remarks/Adjourn
 

Bereavement Rosary 

Our next Rosary will be on October 13.

Project Chrysalis
Monthly Meetings (Last Tuesday of each month)- 7:00 P.M.

Ascension Catholic Church- St. Luke's Room
9500 W. 127th St., Overland Park
St. Mark Room and Via Zoom-

Project Chrysalis is a ministry offering hope through Sacred Scripture and community to parents or grandparents who have lost a child or grandchild. While this ministry is not a bereavement group, our mission is to offer support and hope through scripture in a time of transformation. For more information, including the Zoom invitation link, contact Deacon Ken Billinger at 913-634-4210 or email kbillinger@archkck.org. The group is open to parents who have lost a child or grandparents who have lost a grandchild.

If you’re going through a challenging or difficult time, don’t suffer alone. Ask for help. Our parish’s Stephen Ministers have been through extensive training and provide confidential, one-to-one, Catholic/Christian care to parishioners who are experiencing a difficult time. Click HERE to learn more.

You may have learned your unborn baby has a severe medical disorder, you’ve lost a baby, or there are complications in your pregnancy. You are likely scared, anxious and wondering; what do I do or where can I go? 

Right here! Please call us 816-931-2539 or send us an email by clicking  here asking us to reach out to you instead.

At Alexandra’s House you have at your near-immediate disposal a large, compassionate, ever-growing community of your peers. It consists of parents, couples, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends, and more, ready to welcome you with open arms and understanding hearts. We each have been skillfully trained to serve you by our own personal losses of our babies from any cause, both expected and unexpected ones. Because we’ve been there, we can truly say 'I/we understand'.

www.alexandrashouse.com/

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When a loved one dies, grieving that loss can take a long time, but you are not alone. GriefShare is here with support groups, and now daily emails, that provide encouragement and reminders of the recovery process.
Sign Up HERE to receive a daily email.
 

Grief support groups are free and available to anyone in the community who has experienced a loss.  Generally, they meet once or twice a month year round.  These groups are beneficial because they provide a place to begin sharing your grief with others who have suffered a loss. They also promote building long-term supportive relationships.

The following is a list of on-going grief support groups located throughout the area. Contact locations directly for more information. 

Click HERE for location information.

 

Beginning Experience Ministry

This is a peer grief ministry for separated, divorced and widowed persons. The loss of a loved one through separation, divorce, or death is one of life’s most traumatic experiences. It can result in nearly unbearable feelings of loneliness and grief. Many people who have suffered this loss feel left out by their church, uneasy around married friends, unsure of themselves and uncertain about their futures.

Beginning Experience of Greater Kansas City, Inc. offers a continuum of programs to help those who have lost a marital relationship due to death, divorce or separation move through the experience of grief and loss into a future with hope renewed. Each program is presented by those who have suffered such losses themselves and are willing to share their experience to help others.

Beginning Experience Weekend

Beginning Experience Coping With Life Alone

2021 Calendar

 For more information click HERE.

The following resources have been recommended by the Bereavement Coordinator for Catholic Charities in NW Kansas. The list is not exhaustive-those listed are geared toward the Johnson County area-for more details or locations, please call our Pastoral Ministry Coordinator.

Survivors of Suicide Support Group
Cradle of Love Healing Center
2013 Clay Street N. Kansas City, MO
Celina Affolter | (816) 436-4992

Survivors of Suicide Support Group
Shawnee Mission Medical Center-Life Dynamics Building
Bonnie & Mickey Swade | (913) 681-3050

NAMI of Johnson County
Family & Consumer Groups
Shawnee Mission Medical Center-Life Dynamics Building
Phone: (913) 599-9995

Solace House- Center for Grief and Healing
Kansas City Hospice & Pallative Care
(913) 341-0318