July worship & Learning Series
As Long As You Need: Permission to Grieve by J.S. Park
July 7, 14, 21, 28 ~ Book Study 7.7 & 7.21*

Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permission and the process for how to grieve and heal at your own pace.

In As Long As You Need, J.S. offers an honest and unrushed engagement with grief, decoding four types of grieving—spiritual, mental, physical, and relational—and offering compassionate self-care and soul-care along the way.

If you are struggling to process loss, pain, or grief from the last few years or the last few minutes, J.S. is an experienced and deeply empathetic listener and grief catcher who has held the pain and questions of thousands of patients....

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* Book Study: July 7 & 21 at 11 a.m. Led by Renae Matkins, who completed both her certification program for spiritual direction/guidance and her masters degree in pastoral counseling in February 2024. Renae has been providing Spiritual Direction for the past 16 months, first as part of her program and now as part of a private practice. She has been a member of Plymouth since 2018, serves on the Christian Formation board, and is a Plymouth representative to the FC Interfaith Council.