Bereavement Journey Webinar

19 June 2025

The Bereavement Journey® is being run across the UK in person and online.

It offers 15 films over 7 sessions, usually offered weekly, and sometimes with a light meal or refreshments. Participants are placed in groups of 6-8 for discussion following the films and volunteers guide them in exploring their loss, aided by a manual.

We will be holding a webinar to share more about this process on Thursday 10th July at 11am, and repeated at 7pm. Please join us:

Zoom.us - Meeting ID: 937 314 7464 - Password: CF

The newly released Finding Jesus report from the Evangelical Alliance paints a compelling picture of a society awakening to exploration of faith prompted by pain, crisis and a search for meaning; of God instigating people’s journeys often through spiritual experience and drawing people to himself, and where many are helped to come to faith by small groups and experiencing church: 38% ‘cultural’ Christians, 21% spiritual but not religious, and 21% having had no contact with church. This follows the Bible Society and others reporting a ‘Quiet Revival’ in Generation Z.

This has been the experience for almost two years of churches running The Bereavement Journey® - a group-based programme run by the charity AtaLoss, which helps grieving adults to process loss.

An analysis of feedback from the first 162 courses since its re-launch in 2023 has shown:

• 39% attending with no previous church connection
• of whom 66% are choosing to attend the optional final session on Christian faith
• and as many as 90% of the course leaders reporting that some or all of their participants want to stay connected with the church afterwards, with many expressing interest in exploring faith further, being baptised or confirmed.

This is from courses run by 22 denominations and across all areas of the UK.