2 grief ministries bring comfort, healing to parents who lost children

Marge Bona and Lisa Torbenson share their experiences of child loss to support parents navigating grief and isolation.

Bona described the unexpected difficulty of losing a child in the first trimester in 2018, followed by the death of her daughter, Mary, in June 2024. Bona noted that the experience of a stillbirth was a painful awakening that required her to discern how God moves through grief and to address previous losses she had not properly processed.

Torbenson spoke about the isolation felt by parents after her 14 year old son, Neil, died from brain cancer in 2024. She said the loss changed her perspective on worry because her greatest fear had already occurred.