How LED candles can help grieving families
In this video a vicar in Ely Diocese explains how LED candles can be helpful to children for remembering loved ones who have died.
Ideas
Walking with the coffin
When a funeral has been in church, I invite the whole congregation to follow the coffin out at the end of the service and consciously commit it to God as the deceased goes on his or her final journey.
Baby funeral bedtime story
Baby funerals are always difficult. In the service, I read the baby their last bedtime story from the actual story book
A Candle for Kaylen
The night before a recent funeral for an 8 year old, I organised a Facebook event called ‘A Candle for Kaylen', asking the community to light a candle and put it in a window their home
Keep in touch with contacts by e-newsletter
One good way in which you can keep in touch with people who you meet through the occasional offices is by sending a regular email newsletter.
