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Below are testimonials from clients about how
Firm Foundation Counseling Center
has made a difference in their lives.
Feel free to scroll down and read how lives were changed...
Post marked- 08/02/05
The card-
You’re appreciated so much. This brings a heart-felt thank you, but it really can’t begin to say how much your kindness meant, how helpful you have been.
Note:
Thank you so much for seeing our daughter Tracy. We love her dearly and now that the Lord is working in her life. Thank you for all you do touching others lives for the better.
March 2007-
Dear Tim,
I just wanted you to know your counseling, prayers, and biblical wisdom is right on tract! I can’t tell you the times I have wanted to throw in the towel because of fear tormenting me or discovering a set back in my husbands addiction. I make myself go back to the training and teaching you taught me to not get so discouraged. Instead I try to be the person God wants me to be and I pray like crazy for whatever he reveals to me concerning our marriage. I have learned to look at all relationships in a different way now. Not the way the world teaches but with endurance Gods way of doing things. I would never have believed I would be a peace and happy again—but God knew it and I wanted to let you know how much I appreciated your faithfulness and sharing your Godly wisdom with us through our mess! With great gratitude---
11/07/08
Tim
This note is, first to tell you how much I love and appreciate the lovely cross, it will be treasured. Second to say how much this past year has been a blessing for me, to see how God has blessed and lead you in this difficulty job. Its wonderful to see how people, who some are in the depths of despair and hopelessness respond to the counseling you give them. I feel God speaks thru you so don’t be discouraged when we don’t’ see as many people each week as we would like. This is not for us to worry about, but to pray about and put it in God’s mighty hands. Bless you and your beautiful family.
05/09/05
Dear Rev. Tim Brown,
I recently saw your ad in the Daily Journal and I thought I would write and ask some questions. My wife and I have always wanted to be Christian Counselors. Would you please tell us how we could become involved in Christian Counseling? We believe we are call to do so, and we love helping people. We are involved in Crossroads Bible Institute and writing a few other prisoners (?), but we would be happy to explain the ministry that the Lord has placed in our hearts.
If you would please send us information on this and whatever advice you can give us. We praise God for your ministry and hope and pray God opens more doors.
09/29/05
I came to Firm Foundation a fairly new Christian with my marriage falling apart seeking Biblical guidance through my trials. I did not know what direction I needed to go in- what I did know was that after handling things on my own for so many years, I wanted to handle things God’s way this time. My marriage is not healed and I still go through trials but through Brother Tim’s leadership with the Bible as his guide I have learned to handle my situations as God. Unconditional love and forgiveness as God has for me is the most important thing that I have walked away with and am learning to apply not just wit my marriage but all area of my life with the people who have hurt and disappointed me on my life’s journey.
I now realize that it is never God’s intention for a marriage to end in divorce Mal 216 “For that Lord God of hosts says he hates divorce,” and even in cases of adultery that He would rather this be grounds of forgiveness rather than divorce. I am currently “standing in the gap” for my marriage. Job 22:30- “He (the Lord) will even deliver the one form whom you intercede who is not innocent; yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.” I am hanging on to God’s Word and have faith that He will five me all that I need as I need it. Phil. 4:19- the world says given our circumstance, my husband’s behavior, ect. For me to take this stand and not divorce him is nuts but I no longer want to conform to the “world’s view.” Rom. 12: 1& 2-“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God which is your responsible service. And do not be conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
I know that God has told me to stand for my marriage, not on the basis of what the outcome will be, but because it is what the Lord requires of me. My job is to obey, Him and leave the results up to Him. My marriage is a scared covenant, permanent and I am committed by and to my marriage vows. God continues to confirm my stand every day. I can tell you story after story, coincident after coincident, scripture after scripture and the peace in my heart when I am obedient rather than insisting on “my rights”. It isn’t about me. What might God be able to do in our lives and those around us if I let God make that choice rather than me? Ester was put in her circumstances “for such a time as this” – could that be the case with me? Might God want to use me like He did Hosea? David didn’t cower and run from Goliath and Moses didn’t give up and abandon the children of Israel when they were hardhearted and disobedient.
I have learned that this battle is spiritual and Satan is the enemy, not my husband. John 10:10- “The thief, Satan, has come to steal, kill, and destroy but I, Jesus, have come to give you life abundantly full and free.”
God DOES want to heal hurting marriages and I urge anyone who reads this to seek God’s will concerning their marriages as well as all areas of your life. Brother Tim has lead me on a Spiritual Journey that has forever changed my life and I praise God every day for allowing our paths to cross.
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I just wanted to write you a little note, (I know that it would be more personal if it was handwriting, but my writing is horrible and I wanted you to be able to read this easily, please for give me.) I don’t know if you will even remember my husband and myself, you helped so much. When you met me I had just separated from my husband he was a “recreational” drug user (so he said) and I was afraid that if I stayed with him our children would be taken away from me. I am saved and my husband says he is, but he doesn’t lead our home spiritually. You reminded me that I needed to be a better role model for him, so I went home and we ended up going to counseling together. I just wanted you to know that you really did help us, and I am so very thankful that you are allowing God to use you. I also kind of wanted to give you an update on our relationship. (We kind of “dropped out” of counseling. You said that you were going to start “weaning” us off, and things came up and we didn’t completely finish counseling the way that I would have liked to, but I am learning how to be willingly submissive and let my husband make decisions and be the leader that our family needs him to be.) When we first started attending counseling he would go to church with me, but after awhile he quit again. We quit having a weekly date night, and he has also quit wearing his wedding ring again (for “work” reasons of course, he does manual labor) and even though that sounds like a lot our relationship is STILL 100% better than it used to be. (I asked him why he didn’t keep the promises to me that he made in counseling, and he has no excuse.) But on the good side we have truly grown closer together, he now sleeps in the bed almost EVERY night that he is home (he works out of town) we are intimate much more, we are HAPPY in each other’s company, we almost trust each other completely, and now know that we are each others priority unlike before. Most importantly, I believe, He has quit using drugs. That is AWESOME! He does a lot with our children I am not the sole authority anymore we have two boys who are 5 (they are NOT twins, they are 10 months apart) and he is teaching them what it means to be a man. I am so proud of him. He takes them places and does “boy” stuff with they and they LOVE it! (Please pray that with me that my husband will be the Christian he should be and lead our family spiritually). You taught me to look on the positive side, so I just pray and know that one day Joe will be where God wants him to be, I am just trying to stay in my place and allow him to have the leadership role that one day he will fulfill. We are learning to “parent” together, and our life has just totally changed God has done so much for us through you and we just wanted to say thank you!
Our whole family thanks you. Please continue to pray for us.
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When I first came to Firm Foundation I was mentally, emotionally, and spiritually distraught. I have been blessed to have this ministry in my life for the past four months. I chose Firm Foundation because I know to many people who go to doctors or counselors and are diagnosed Bipolar, Manic Depressed, or some other type of “illness” (which all in all I believe are attacks by the devil). I did not want to depend on medications as had been recommended in the past. Rev. Tim Brown showed me thru God’s Word if my trust, faith, and heart are in the right place the Lord will bless me wit the fruits of the Spirit. I need the spiritual guidance, medicine from the scriptures and a closer walk with God. I needed to fight off the demons of the past and forgive myself as well as others. I want to serve the Lord and seek his will in every area of my life.
The past seems to haunt me less as my desire to walk with Jesus grows more. Firm Foundation and Rev. Tim Brown have been a major part of my spiritual growth. His knowledge of the scripture as well as just letting me know I am not the only one who struggles is a blessing to me. Many of my fears have been replaced with confidence. In today’s world other than church meetings with other Christians is a rare occurrence for me. I feed off my hour every week and find inspiration in it. At Firm Foundation I know I am being lead in the right direction. Rev. Tim shows me scriptures to use as a reference for areas I must work on in my life. I praise God for a ministry such as this.