Walk with families through the hardest days.
Walk with every grieving family your church serves through the hardest three months of their lives, with a book they keep close and open again and again, and your church's name on the cover.
Ready now · Fort Myers edition available · new cities about 4 weeks
No one should face the paperwork of a loss alone.
Death certificates, the funeral, Social Security, bank accounts, the house, the taxes. In the first weeks after a loss, a family has to make dozens of decisions while their hearts are breaking.
The Next 90 Days puts them in order, with the official steps for your state and gentle words for the grief. Your church is there when the casseroles stop coming: on the cover, in the letter and in the list of people who can help.
The Next 90 Days
A real 6×9 book with a full-color cover and black-and-white pages designed to be kept. Families open it again every time a new need comes up, and your church is there every time.
- 1The First Hours
- 2The First Week
- 3Planning the Service: Funeral, Cremation and Burial
- 4Death Certificates and the Paperwork Trail
- 5Social Security, Insurance and Benefits
- 6The Estate: Wills, Probate and the Executor
- 7Bills, Accounts and Debts
- 8The Home, the Car and Belongings
- 9Taking Care of Yourself While You Grieve
- 10Children, Teens and Grief
- 11Faith and Hope in the Valley
- 12Your Local Guide, your church first
Plus Good News for the Hardest Season and a "You Are Invited" card with a response card that comes back to your church.
Your city's book, with your church on the cover.
Every edition is researched for your city and verified with official sources before it prints. Nothing with your church's name prints until you approve it.
- Your state's rules on death certificates, probate and estates
- Local funeral homes, cemeteries and hospice
- County offices: vital records, property and courts
- Grief groups and counselors near you
- Your pastor's letter and your church featured inside
- Funeral and memorial follow-up
- Hospice and funeral homes
- Hospital chaplains
- Grief groups and care ministries
Choose how many families you want to reach
The outcome is families who know your church and come back to it. The book is already planned, customized for your city, presented by your church and placed through your outreach.
- "A gift from" your church, on the cover of every copy
- A welcome letter from your pastor, written with you
- Your church featured in the local directory
- Research and verification for your city
- Reorders at the same pack prices
Copies arrive about 4 weeks after you approve your cover and letter, in any city.
The Page-by-Page Promise
Nothing with your church's name prints until you have read and approved it.
The Delivery Promise
If your copies don't arrive within 30 days of your approval, you receive a full refund.
Payment
50% reserves your edition; the rest is due when you approve your cover and letter. It is a partnership: your families receive their books, and your church helps keep a missionary family in the field. Your church receives a receipt for every payment.
Before you begin
We already run GriefShare. Does this compete?
No, it complements it. GriefShare is a group for the heart; this is the practical help families need at home, and it can invite them to your group.
When should a family receive it?
In the first week, at the funeral or the first visit. It is written to be opened again on each day of the checklist.
Is it available for our city?
The Fort Myers edition is written. We research the local section for any US county: about 4 weeks after you approve your cover and letter.
Is the book free for the people who receive it?
Yes. Your church gives it as a gift. Readers never pay, never sign up and never share personal information to receive a copy.
Where does our church's payment go?
It covers the research, writing, printing and delivery of your books, and it also supports Sergio and Holly Alvarado's ministry in the field. Your church receives a receipt for every payment.
How much work is this for our church?
One short call, one approval of your cover and letter, and the joy of placing the books. We handle research, writing, design and printing.
Get the materials in your inbox
The sample chapter, the presentation for your team or board, and the packs and prices for The Next 90 Days. We will follow up personally.
Custom books for churches
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2701 Cleveland Ave, Suite 200, Fort Myers, FL 33901
Chapter & City is a ministry of Sergio and Holly Alvarado, missionaries who write and localize books that churches give to the people their city is welcoming. Every church that gives a Chapter & City book also partners with their ministry and helps keep them in the field.
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New in Town
The First Year
Building a Home Together