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Online Workshop
Finishing Well
This extremely practical workshop will give you much needed space and compassion to think about Finishing Well. This is a topic many will run away from, but thinking about your own life’s end, or that of a loved one can actually provide wonderful clarity and strength for your journey. This is where the practical and the spiritual meet.
Your workshop host Paul Vrolijk has over 30 years of leadership, life and death experience. As a pastor he has accompanied many people and families on this journey. The dying and death of his father in 2022 inspired him to write a book, Farewell to my father. It helped him to think about his own mortality and how to embrace that. It has given him much clarity and strength in a surprisingly joyful way.
Paul’s greatest longing is to see people flourish. His mission is to serve God’s people, so they can fulfil their God-given potential for Jesus Christ in full. Paul is the founder of Christilience.org, Anglican priest and an ICF certified coach.
Like all Christilience courses and workshops, Finishing Well aims to help you live, work and lead from a place of purpose and peace.
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Thoughtful, reassuring and inspiring
The author shares personal detail of the intense experiences of his and his family's bereavement in a way that is so thoughtful and sympathetic. The book prompts prayerful reflection for all who read it. It also assures all of us who face similar sad challenges that we are never alone, and that we can and do have hope, comfort and support. Such a witness to how shared faith helps us in pain and lament, which gives great encouragement.
5 star review on Amazon.com
20 November 2023
Thought Provoking
I loved this book - a spiritual journey during the last days and ultimate death of a beloved father written by his devoted son - sensitively compiled inaugurating hope, joy and peace in death.
DEIDRE
5 star review on Amazon.co.uk, 2 December 2023
“Paul Vrolijk recalls the last two months of his father’s life and the two months that followed his funeral in Farewell to my father. His experience included the emptying and selling of a family home that had been in the family for half a century. The book serves as a touching account of familial love, memories from youth, doubt and faith, God’s love and faithfulness working in and through all things, and the love and care of a village community. Moreover, it’s a celebration of gratitude. The author’s story encourages readers to think about what it means to die well, as well as what needs to be said and done when someone comes to the end of their life. It also serves as a helpful guide on what to expect if you’re preparing for the death of a loved one. The book serves as a bold proclamation that “nothing can separate us from the love of God.” In fact, God is always working even amid suffering, dying, and all the practical details that must be considered when someone dies”
— Words on Amazon.nl on Farewell to my father
