Guests:
Frank Sauder
Ted Witzig, Jr.
Show notes:
- Importance of communication to church once people became aware of the tragedy.
- How the church came together during the crisis.
- Family needs privacy.
- How we deal with loss is personal and unique to the individual.
- Loss affects us over time.
- Some people recover from the loss quicker than others.
- The church body has an important function to help the hurting individual(s); the elder can't do it all.
- Support from the national church body was tremendous.
- Needs of the local elder in dealing with his own loss.
- Various emotions experienced in the wake of a loss.
- It is important to meet people where they are at, not where we think they should be.
- Communicate caring to the hurting; can be texts/notes or physical touch.
- It may take months or years to work through hurt.
- Grieving process is God's design.
- Help grieving people find hope.
- We think we need answers (why?), to make sense of things. We need to trust in a God who cares.
- How can we help? Pray for them and tell them they are loved.
- Don't isolate when we are hurting.
- Trauma can add to the grief and get in the way of healthy grieving.
