Our Funeral Ceremonies
We deliver compassionate, heart-felt, meaningful tributes.
Greetings, I’m Andy Jaques from Soul Reflections.
When the time comes to farewell your loved one, most people want a ceremony that reflects on the special moments lived.
I can assist you in your time of need to create a ceremony to farewell your loved one, tailored to your specific requirements.
Soul Reflections provides funeral celebrancy services throughout greater Timaru. We also can provide service in Mid and South Canterbury, the Mackenzie Country and North Otago [and other areas by special arrangement].
Every soul has a story, a unique journey, a special place in someone’s heart.
From a true Celebration of Life to a more traditional ceremony, it would be an honour to help deliver a special farewell for your loved one.
I was reminded during my training that “A good ceremony can change lives. A great ceremony can transform lives”.
How I Became A Celebrant
From working through ambiguous grief with Mum, to coming close to the edge of life myself…
My Mum [God bless her] is a beautiful soul. She was diagnosed quite a few years ago with Alzheimer Disease.
Any terminal illness makes the family deal with something called ‘ambiguous grief’, where you work through the grieving process – while they’re still here.
This is an incredibly challenging scenario to navigate. From this experience, I believe I have developed increased compassion for others facing end-of-life situations.
My own life came very close a couple of times to ending [including 22 trips to ICU!] which resulted in open heart surgery to replace my main heart valve.
Early in 2024 while editing a video of my late Uncle, I was listening attentively to the Celebrant. With over 2 decades of Radio experience telling stories and working with crowds, it dawned on me that “I’d love to do this too”.
Many assignments through training at the Celebrants Training College [celebrantstraining.co.nz] and my trainers have helped open the beautiful door to being of service to others in their time of need.
Soul Reflections – ‘A Soul To Remember’.
Regional Coverage
We’re based in Timaru
Soul Reflections Funeral Celebrancy are rurally based in Timaru.
We generally offer services within the greater Timaru area [yellow area on the map].
We acknowledge that some families are not able to come to the main centres, and we are willing to travel [for the initial interview and then return to deliver the service] at a heavily reduced kilometre rate with no additional travel time billed.
Our general service area is marked in red on the map, although not absolute.
Please contact us for regional travel rates.
Contact us
Please feel free to send us a message and we will respond as quick as possible.
Kindest, Andy
