"FROM GRIEF TO HOPE"

Luncheon with special guest, Anna Whiston-Donaldson, NY Times Best-Selling Author of Rare Bird: A Memoir of Loss and Love

Allowing your children to play in the rain seems an innocent right of passage. So when her son and daughter asked to go out and play during an afternoon rain, Anna said yes.  But only one child returned home. Anna's 12-year-old son, Jack, drowned following a freak flood in the swollen stream behind her Vienna home. 
 

About Our Guest Speaker...

Anna Whiston-Donaldson is a popular blogger and author whose New York Times bestselling book, Rare Bird: A Memoir of Loss and Love chronicles the raw, early grief of losing her 12-year-old son in a freak accident. 

Selected one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2014, Rare Bird resonates with readers looking for hope in impossible circumstances. 

Anna is a dynamic teacher and speaker. With unfiltered honesty, humor, and grace, Anna explores themes such as community, faith, vulnerability, and survival when the life you expected doesn't go according to plan.