Global wars, natural disasters, financial meltdowns, layoffs, violence in the streets, health epidemics— unrelenting real-life crises all of us live with in today’s world. What happens when one or more of these threats are not just looming in the news, but come home to your house? How can you keep going , or even cope? Where are answers, needed resources, hope?
In How to LIVE with a Broken Heart, Lessons in Loss, Dave and Beth Weikel offer a hands-on one-day workshop to give practical support to those living today’s headlines. When they found themselves in a season of loss and pain, their search for help and meaning amid chaos on many levels, provided tools and reassurance to walk into the worst life can be. This path led them to identify with others in the storm, blind-sided by life’s surprises and crushing blows. Their discoveries are benefitting those who have yet to find their way.
This workshop is for you if any of the following are true:
§ Have experienced a significant loss, a family member or close friend to death, divorce, or broken relationship
§ Have faced a life-threatening health situation or a care-giver of a chronically ill person
§ In the midst of a career reversal, loss of job, financial crisis due to the loss of retirement savings,
§ Been affected by the housing market deflation, been evicted, foreclosed on, or are living in a multi-generational setting of necessity
§ Have a family member in the military, currently deployed, wounded, dealing with post-traumatic stress
§ Dealing with life after a family member has been incarcerated
Basic security needs—job, home, financial security, family stability, because of these and other losses, you are feeling:
ü Periodically overwhelmed by sadness, fear, or anger
ü Not sure you’ll ever feel “whole” again
ü Long for refreshment, relief, renewal
ü Not sure about “next steps” because of loss and its aftermath
A One-Day Seminar:
This one-day workshop will provide a framework to see grace in action, as God does His best work. Those who participate will benefit from the following:
o Exploring the implications of loss in every life
o Practical strategies to gain understanding of how to walk through the pain and confusion toward renewal and growth
o How to avoid pretending and connect with God’s promises in authentic ways
o Learning to battle through grief with a recovery plan
Speakers: Dave and Beth Weikel have worked in full-time ministry, business, and public education for over 30 years. God is using their season of loss to provide hope and healing for others.
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Beth Weikel’s Biography:
I’ve been the mother of two talented and Godly sons of which my husband and I are grateful to God for and am the grandmother of a curious and outgoing two year old, Ian’s son. Jonathan was nearly eight months old when a roadside IED killed his daddy during his second tour in Iraq, while doing his command with Ghost Troop. I’ve been a pastor’s wife, published writer of articles and features and editor of a Christian newsmagazine, a secondary English teacher in public school for over twenty years, a volunteer in ministry efforts and civic affairs that support healthy community. Since my retirement from full-time employment, I’ve rediscovered time to enjoy my continuing interest in art, photography, music, gardening and design. My husband and I each facilitate small group discipleship studies most of the year. In the past two years God has been my Sustainer, Rock , and Friend who has brought me through a series of losses I would have never imagined. I am a Bible student and teacher.
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So when God calls you into a season of loss and grief, He becomes your all and all. He meets you and builds into your life a dependence on Him as He states in 2 Corinthians 1: 9, “that we do not rely on ourselves, but on God who raises the dead.” My desire is to share this message of dependence on the sufficiency of Christ.
Contact information: Dave and Beth Weikel, 719-339-6259 (cell) or dweikel@offspring.net
Please view the website: lifefromloss.com or byhisdesignonline.com
Information available about speaking schedules, registration procedures, related cost, and other helpful resources
Tag: “Loss Experts”
(platform—loss and God’s sufficiency) See website for sample interviews, other “take away” materials and resources for purchase
Controversial Questions:
1. Do people in this society address loss?
2. What kinds of loss matter?
3. What resources are available? helpful?
4. If loss is a normal part of life, why don’t we handle it better? (family break-up, other dysfunctions)
5. Does God care?
6. Who is in control (when life seems out of control)?
7. To what extent are other family members affected by the loss of a spouse, a chronic illness, financial reversals?
8. What are ways to deal with depression, fear, and anger surrounding a significant loss?
9. Is anyone immune to loss? Why/why not?
10. Are there any positive benefits to a season of loss?
11. How can friends help? the church?
12. Why do you have an appreciation for others who are facing loss?
13. What opportunities come up on a regular basis that allow you to express what you’re learning?
14. Based on your experience as educators, what have you observed among students and their effectiveness when coping with loss?
15. What are the features of the workshop?
16. Do you have any other resources that might help families and others gain awareness and healing in their lives?
Endorsements:
Steffan Tubbs, KBDI ( PBS Denver) & KOA radio
Earl Friesen, Life Skills Plus, therapist/grief counselor, Colorado Springs,CO
Doris Waldrup/Mincks, counselor and director, Wives of Warriors Worldwide (a ministry of ACCTS)
Marlene Bagnull, author and director, CO Christian Writer’s Conf.
Bonnie Carroll, director, TAPS (Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors)
Jamall Badry, CEO, Music Evangelism Foundation (Bible Conference)
Joy Myers, therapist, “Joy for the Journey” radio program, Castle Rock, CO
Karen DeLorenzo, Hook Ministries trainer, CO Dept. of Corrections
Cindy Fitzkee, Pastoral Care Ministries, Woodmen Valley Chapel, Colorado Springs, CO
Kirkie Morrissey, author/Bible teacher and director, Women of the Word, Colorado Springs, CO
