Most people will tell you that separation and divorce are the most painful and stressful experiences they’ve ever faced. It’s a confusing time when you feel isolated and have lots of questions about issues you’ve never faced before. Unless you've been there, it's hard to understand the hurt that comes from separation and divorce. Many of your friends and family don't fully understand what you are going through and don't know how best to help you. We do.

DivorceCare groups are led by people who have been through divorce and successfully rebuilt their lives. We understand how you feel because we've been in the same place. We'll show you how to deal with the hurt caused by your separation or divorce.

We meet weekly via zoom to help you face these challenges and move toward rebuilding your life.

There are three key parts to your DivorceCare experience:

• Video Seminar: Dynamic and information-packed videos featuring top divorce recovery experts.

• Support Group: Small group discussion about the video content and the issues faced by individual group members.

Workbook: Journaling and personal study exercises that reinforce each session’s topic.

Visit the event page for more information.

Questions?

Contact Margaret at 778-838-7400 or margaret@sjvan.org

It’s normal to feel nervous about going to a support group.

Most people at our group quickly feel more comfortable at their first session! There is often a sense of relief at finding others going through similar experience, especially when your situation has caused you to feel isolated. To help calm any anxieties, you can also learn a great deal about the program before you attend by visiting divorcecare.org.

Policy: The DivorceCare seminar and support group program is designed for those who have already experienced separation or divorce. Although considering separation is certainly a very challenging time, DivorceCare is not a good fit for those not yet separated or divorced.

Most things in life are not permanent. Grief Group helps you deal with the loss of a loved one, understand how to grieve, overcome emotional turmoil, and most of all, learn how to tap into the constant source of strength and comfort through the creator of the universe, God himself, through Jesus Christ. Grief Group at St. John’s is a 13-week support program for people who have experienced the death of a loved one.

Weekly Meetings:

• Video Seminar (1) (2)

• Discussion and prayer in support groups

Topics

• LIving with grief

• The journey of grief

• The effects of grief

• When your spouse dies

• Your family and grief?

• Why?

• The uniqueness of grief

• God’s prescription for grief

• Stuck in grief

• Top twenty lessons of grief

• Heaven

Resources:

• Weekly exercises and tool kits

• Optional 1:1 sessions

For more info and registration, visit the St. John’s Vancouver events page.

Watch testimonials →

Policy: Grief Group is most helpful when taken within a few months following a loss. But others who have lived with a loss for years and have not been able to overcome it have also found this program helpful.

(1) The Grief Group experts include 48 different doctors and professionals.

(2) Grief Group seminar leaders at St John’s are experienced facilitators of this course.

Hope. Healing. Wholeness.

Guilt, shame and repetitive behaviours are a recipe for perpetuating a painful relationship with sexual brokenness after years of feeling trapped.

Out of the Depths invites us to see that in this unwanted trap, God can work powerfully in our life to do more than we ask or imagine. In this program, James Wagner takes men through a biblically integrated therapeutic approach using a ministry called "Unwanted" to see how grace covers and keeps us from sin and compels us to good works prepared in advance for us that is shaped by the gospel.

Out of the Depths is an 18-week program. Learn more by visiting the St. John’s events page.

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God." | Philippians 4:6-7

There are a few primary ways to join us in prayer or seek prayer at St. John’s.

• Prayer teams are available to pray with you during communion

• Prayer is also available during our twice-monthly worship service Keeping Company with God (currently on pause).

Prayer chain

Crises can’t wait for scheduled prayer times. A prayer chain is active at St. John’s and available for those in need. Confidentiality is assured. For more info, contact the office at 604.558.4400 or care@sjvan.org

Do you know someone who would be blessed by a visit from a member of our Pastoral team?

If you do, we would love to visit them. We are called to minister to the elderly, sick and needy. If you know someone who would be encouraged by a visit: perhaps has trouble getting out of their home, is experiencing difficulties or is in hospital (or recently returned home) let us know!

Contact the church office at (604) 558.4400 or care@sjvan.org for more information.