Contact: Josiah Williams, Publicist, WinePress Publishing, 360-802-9758, josiah@winepresspublishing.com  

ENUMCLAW, Wash., July 18, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ -- When Edmund Ng's wife died suddenly, he was devastated. At first he felt supported when friends attended the funeral services, but when they stopped coming around in the weeks and months that followed, he was all alone in his grief. Even though he had been a church elder and pastor himself, he discovered that churches and the Christian community are poorly equipped to offer competent and consistent support to the bereaved. That experience spurred him to take postgraduate studies in counseling and grief therapy and become a professional grief counselor.

Eventually he met and married Pauline, a woman who understood his pain because she had lost her first husband in an automobile accident and had been a widow for fifteen years. Both felt called to a ministry of compassion and now, through the grief-support ministry they founded, Grace to Grieving Persons, they walk alongside people who are grieving personal losses. Edmund also teaches on the subject of grief support in churches, seminaries and counseling seminars internationally.

Edmund has formulated and effectively tested a simple, practical and biblically-based method of working through the grief process and he now puts it in book form. In "The TIME Approach to Grief Support," he explains how the acronym "TIME" stands for helping bereaved people talk about the loss, resolve issues, find meaning in the suffering, and move forward with hope and purpose. He believes that every Christian should have the understanding, knowledge and skills to journey alongside and support grieving persons as God has commanded all of us to comfort those who mourn.

Edmund Ng has a Master's degree in ministry and is a doctoral candidate with the University of Wales. He has filled leadership roles in church and parachurch ministries and is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors as well as the Association of Death Education and Counseling.

For more information, to request a review copy of "The TIME Approach to Grief Support," or to schedule an interview, please contact Josiah Williams by phone at 360-802-9758, by email at josiah@winepresspublishing.com, or by fax at 360-802-9992. To purchase a copy of this book, visit www.winepressbooks.com or call 877-421-7323.