Our best decisions about life's important events are seldom made in atime of crisis. Living Fully, Dying Well is designed to assistus in making careful, wise and prayerful preparation for meeting life's mostimportant moments. In this study, participants will learnhow to face openly and unafraid the benefits and limitations of aging and end oflife decisions. The planning kit includes a copy ofthe: leader's guide, participant's book, and the DVD featuring an opening video for each of theeight sessions. The eight sessions work in Sunday school classes or in small groupsand can be studied in a weekly sequence or as stand-alone sessions. Chapters include: Living Fully Theology of Aging Our Culture of Aging Finding Purpose and Meaning Getting It All Together: PracticalDecisions Dying Well What Happens When We DieHow Then Shall We Live "Click here to read theIntroduction" Video segmentsfor the eight sessions include diverse presenters including Rueben Job, Rev. JohnCollett, Director of the Center of Aging, Dr. Rick Gentzler, physician David Jarvis, attorney Mary Boyd and more. View the promotional clip. "Living fully is life's most rewardinggift. Young or old, rich or poor, at the peak of our powers or weakened by thelimitations of age or disease, living fully is something that in our better momentswe all desire and with God's help can all achieve. ... Just as we cannot live fullywithout serious consideration of life and it's meaning, we cannot die well withoutconsideration of death and it's meaning for us all." from LivingFully. "I think "LivingFully, Dying Well" is the best book on the combined subjects of living anddying that I have ever seen. Usually these subjects are dealt with separately, butRueben Job has the insight to know how integral the two are and he deals with theprocess of living, aging and dying as really one. This is a good resource forindividual reading, but an even stronger case can be made for this as an excellentresource for groups in the church who need a method for exploring living, aging anddying as a natural process of life itself. This study invites individual reflectionin the midst of Christian community where a group of persons can make use of inputfrom presenters of various disciplines who share their ideas on the subject (thisinput comes from viewing a DVD). I think this study is unique in that it enablespersons to address the issues of death and dying as a part life."Living Fully, Dying Well" has excellent teaching/discussion helps: Each chapter has the Teaching Point, Scripture on which the chapter is based, Prayer, Hymn suggestion, Notes about the DVD presentation, Questions forreflection/discussion, and other Resources. This is an outstanding book by BishopRueben Job and should be used to open dialogue in an area that has too long beenneglected." Larry W. Sonner, D.Min. I am an ordained UnitedMethodist minister who is retired. For 27 years I was the Pastoral Counselor for theIowa Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. "Ilike the way it tackles every aspect of aging - the practical, spiritual, physical, and psychological. It is a resource that has been needed for some time and it isdone extremely well. Thank you for producing it and thank you for making itavailable to our churches."

Ray Roberts MediaSpecialist East Ohio Conference United MethodistChurch