Welcome
to the Journey
Living
Till We Die is a curriculum that can begin this conversation in:
Sunday
School, Older Adult Programs, Retreats, Small Group Bible
Study, Stephens Ministry Groups, and many other possible settings
for congregational or personal use.
The Study
Guide offers complete session plans, activities, handouts
and resources to enable congregational leaders to develop a course
for their own setting.
What
the curriculum is about
Six
sessions are offered for facing the challenge:
How do we, as people of faith, put into practice our hope –
living fully the days God has given us?
The goal
of the course is to couple the resources hospice offers with
the needs of faith communities in talking about death. Open conversation
can enable hospice to reach out to people sooner with a wealth of support
for that final journey. Great benefits occur when
these conversations begin within the life of the local congregation.
The
course grew out of a faith practices approach which represents a
refusal to leave our beliefs in the realm of theory, insisting that they
can make a difference in how we live our lives. The study guide for
Living Till We Die serves as a companion to the book, Practicing
Our Faith, A Way of Life for a Searching People, ed. Dorothy C. Bass,
Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1997. Twelve faith practices are presented in the
book. The study guide focuses on six of those, exploring them through an
end-of-life lens. These time-honored spiritual practices
have much wisdom to offer from that perspective.
The six practices are:
Honoring the
Body
Healing
Keeping Sabbath
Dying Well
Forgiveness
Singing Our Lives
