ENCOURAGING WIDOWS & WIDOWERS

• Pray with them
• Pray for them
• Be an active listener

• Be a safe person for them (Read the book: Safe People by Townsend & Cloud)

• Help them adapt to living alone
• Invite them to your family activities
• Invite them to your family holiday activities
• Ask them “in what way might I support you?”
• Offer to help with auto and home repairs and maintenance
• Offer to help them with chores such as mowing the yard, trimming trees, shrubs, etc.,

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