BROSS – New Beginnings http://setfreeministry.us A collection of resources for the grieving. Sun, 09 Jul 2023 18:27:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 A New Direction http://setfreeministry.us/a-new-direction/ Sun, 09 Jul 2023 18:27:39 +0000 http://setfreeministry.us/?p=349 [Read more...]]]> I spent the last school year trying to figure out a way to retire. I wasn’t sure if I was financially secure enough to retire. So I did some research and discovered I can do it! So, as of May 31, 2023, I am officially retired.

I have started a new page called, can you believe it? Retirement. I am starting with the information I learned about Social Security, as that was the key to my being able to retire.

I’ll be sharing more as my journey begins, and plan to add more information on my finance discoveries and future plans.

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Updates http://setfreeministry.us/updates/ Fri, 17 Jun 2022 17:56:05 +0000 http://setfreeministry.us/?p=331 [Read more...]]]> So, it has been over two and a half years since Joe passed. This October will be three years. Here are some updates in my life.

Life had evened out. I had my house livable and in a happy place. Circumstances suddenly changed when it became necessary for my mom and I to move in together. We both had single-wide homes, and neither was large enough for both of us, and could accommodate mom’s health needs. So, we decided to buy a double-wide and sell both of the singles.

That was the beginning of an eight-month series of very stressful events. Packing, fixing, moving, trying to sell, and things not selling, paying extra lot rents on places were weren’t living in. Everything finally got wrapped up last month with the final sale of mom’s place. We moved in to our new place in December, and we have a lot of work to do yet, but we are liking the new place. We have high hopes!

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New Pages http://setfreeministry.us/new-pages/ Sat, 20 Feb 2021 21:59:46 +0000 http://setfreeministry.us/?p=290 [Read more...]]]> I am finding new ways to add to my web site. I’m making lists of things that your spouse may have done in the past, and you don’t know it’s even something you have to do now! I will be expanding this as I get new ideas and suggestions. I’ll add in some links to video tutorials where I can. I hope some of these things will help you out! There have been so many things I didn’t know had to be done.

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New Beginnings http://setfreeministry.us/new-beginnings/ Sun, 20 Dec 2020 17:52:10 +0000 http://setfreeministry.us/?p=263 [Read more...]]]> So, it has been over a year since Joe died. Fourteen months. Life has been a little crazy in that year. I’ve had foot surgery, a pandemic, an old mobile home than needed renovating, and figuring out what my life is going to look like now. I haven’t really figured out that last one yet. But I did start a support group in my park for people who have lost their spouses. Unfortunately, there are a lot of candidates for my group. New Beginnings is the name we’ve chosen for ourselves, so I’m going to use it here also.

As I continue to move forward with my life, I’ve learned a lot, felt a lot, and met a lot of wonderful people in the process. So I’m converting this website over to a place where I can share my heart and my findings about widowhood, and anything else I feel like. It’s my website, right?

I have not deleted the blog posts from our ministry and my husband’s memorial services. I just can’t bear to lose them right now. I’m sure you understand!

If you’re visiting, I hope you will find something here that inspires you.

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Blue Water Free Methodist Church Memorial Service for Joe Ross 10/26/19 http://setfreeministry.us/blue-water-free-methodist-church-memorial-service-for-joe-ross-10-26-19/ Sat, 26 Oct 2019 16:38:57 +0000 http://setfreeministry.us/?p=239

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Joe Ross Michigan Memorial Service (Brian Ross Facebook Live) http://setfreeministry.us/joe-ross-michigan-memorial-service-brian-ross-facebook-live/ Sat, 26 Oct 2019 16:35:03 +0000 http://setfreeministry.us/?p=236 https://www.facebook.com/brian.ross.357622/videos/10218578428030719/

Partial recording.

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Joe Ross Michigan Memorial Service (Joe Ross Facebook Live) http://setfreeministry.us/joe-ross-michigan-memorial-service-joe-ross-facebook-live/ Sat, 26 Oct 2019 16:33:30 +0000 http://setfreeministry.us/?p=234 https://www.facebook.com/joe.ross.752487/videos/2464082330477501/

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Joe’s Michigan Memorial Service http://setfreeministry.us/joes-michigan-memorial-service/ Thu, 24 Oct 2019 23:57:21 +0000 http://setfreeministry.us/?p=232 https://pollockrandall.com/obituaries/14121

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Prayers for Tiffany http://setfreeministry.us/prayers-for-tiffany/ Fri, 18 Oct 2019 04:11:30 +0000 http://setfreeministry.us/?p=230 Prayers please for my daughter. She was traveling back to Maryland after helping me all week, and her alternator went out.

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Joe’s obituary http://setfreeministry.us/joes-obituary/ Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:08:23 +0000 http://setfreeministry.us/?p=226 https://www.gentry-morrison.com/obituaries/Jere-Ross/#!/Obituary

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