GRIEF
RESPONSE
SERVICES
Compassionate Grief Support
For individuals, Groups, and Community.
A safe place to be supported through your grief. Each persons grief journey is unique.
Grief Response Services exists to serve the Bermuda community with compassion, confidentiality, and understanding. We recognize that everyone grieves differently, and each person’s journey deserves patience, care, and support.
Our service includes one-on-one support, support groups for death of a mother, father, sibling and person with multiple losses.
Meet Muriel Williams
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Muriel Williams is a retired nurse, grief support specialist, grief educator, and the founder of Grief Response Services. After many years of working closely with people through nursing, Muriel saw first-hand how deeply grief affects individuals and families across Bermuda.
Her heart for this work grew from a simple but powerful understanding: many people are surrounded with care in the first few weeks after a loss, but as time passes, they can often feel alone in their grief. Recognizing this need, Muriel began offering support to those navigating loss and continued to pursue training so she could better serve the community with compassion, care, and understanding.
Through Grief Response Services and the Grief Response Ministry Team, Muriel provides emotional and spiritual support to individuals and families across the island. Her work includes one-on-one support, group support, grief education, home visits, community outreach, and faith-based grief support.
Muriel describes this as “a ministry to a felt need in our community.” Her approach is grounded in compassion, confidentiality, and the belief that everyone grieves differently. While not everyone may need formal counselling, many people need support, a listening ear, and someone willing to walk alongside them.
About Grief Response Services
Grief Response Services began over 10 years ago, formally growing from community outreach efforts in 2016. What started as one-on-one support has developed into a wider island-wide service for individuals and families experiencing grief.
The ministry began when the church went into the community to better understand the needs of people across Bermuda. Through those conversations, it became clear that many individuals and families were carrying grief and needed compassionate support. In response, training was offered within the church to equip grief responders to serve those in need. As the ministry grew, Grief Response Services began providing one-on-one support, group services, and outreach to people across the island.
Today, Grief Response Services continues to support the community with emotional and spiritual care, recognizing that grief is deeply personal and that no two journeys are the same.
You're Not Alone
Support for every stage of the grief journey.
Grief Response Services offers compassionate support for individuals, families, groups, churches, and communities. Our services are designed to create safe, confidential spaces where people can feel seen, heard, and supported.
1:1 Grief Support
Personal grief support for individuals navigating loss. These sessions provide a safe and confidential space to talk, process emotions, and receive compassionate guidance.
Group Support
For those who are experiencing death of a parent, sibling, or multiple losses, or pet loss. We offer Group support. A meaningful space for individuals to connect with others who are also walking through grief.
About Grief Response Ministry
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The Grief Response Ministry is a branch of Adventist Community Services created to provide emotional and spiritual support to those who are grieving. The ministry responds to individuals and families after a loss through phone calls, home visits, prayer, encouragement, and compassionate care.
The team offers support in practical and meaningful ways, including sympathy cards, visits to grieving families, and connection to additional grief support resources. The ministry also facilitates GriefShare support groups, a 13-week program that provides a safe and welcoming space for people to understand the emotions of grief, learn healthy ways to cope, and receive steady support throughout the journey.
In addition to direct grief support, the ministry organizes Grief Fairs to bring helping
individuals and organizations together in one place, making it easier for the community to learn about available services.
Each year, the ministry also hosts a Candlelight Service of Remembrance, offering families and loved ones a meaningful space to honor and remember those who have passed.
At its heart, the Grief Response Ministry exists to remind people that they are not alone and that support is available every step of the way.
Community Support
Grief support services offered to the community by the ministry.
Grief Share
A GriefShare support group is a safe, welcoming place where people understand the difficult emotions of grief. Through this 13-week group, you’ll discover what to expect in the days ahead.
Surviving The Holidays
Grief is harder around the holidays
Know how to deal with the challenges. When you’re asking questions about your grief, a quick, cliché response is not what you need.
Loss of A Sposs
Losing a spouse is like losing a part of yourself. Your husband or wife was your partner. Your confidante, Your bestfriend. The person you turned to in good times and bad. You're not alone in your pain
Memorial Events
We support and host memorial events that give individuals, families, and communities space to remember, reflect, and honor loved ones.
Trained Grief Responders Across Bermuda
There are trained grief responders serving through Seventh-day Adventist churches across the island.
Somerset Church
Estrick Ferguson & Angela Ferguson
Rockaway Church
Terry-Lynn Gibbons & Henry Gibbons
Southampton Church
Susan James & Rosamund Gibbons
Warwick Church
Dawn Santucci-Holder
Pembroke Church
Asnick Hyde, Corliss Burgess
& Michelle Trott
Devonshire Church
Joanna Bean & Alicia White
Hamilton Church
Ernest Dean-Degraff
Restoration Church
Fredrika Lambert
Midland Heights Church
Marleen Warren, Joann Trott
& Murial Williams
St. George’s Church
Marie Binns
Get Involved
Grief Response Services hosts and participates in events throughout the year to provide support, education, remembrance, and community connection.
Annual April Grief Walk
The Annual Grief Walk creates space for the community to walk together in remembrance, support, and hope.
This event is an opportunity for individuals and families to honor loved ones while being surrounded by others who understand the weight of grief.
Annual August Grief Fair
The Grief Fair is designed to inform the Bermuda community about the grief support services available on the island.
This event brings together resources, services, and support systems to help individuals and families learn what is available to them during times of loss.
Candlelight Service of Remembrance
The Candlelight Service of Remembrance is a special annual gathering held to honor and remember loved ones who have passed. This service offers a peaceful and reflective space for families, friends, and the wider community to come together in remembrance.