It is our goal to really help people resolve conflicts and live the life God intended them to live.  We value our counselees' input on their experience with IBCC so that we know how effectively we are serving them. Here is what some of our counselees have said about their experience with us at IBCC.

While attending IBC’s Course III, some hurting areas of my life were confirmed. These painful areas needed healing. My life was greatly benefited by all of the speakers; however, with Jeff Pokone, there was hope and the means to safely address hurts that I had never felt the freedom to deal with.

One major issue was my identity in Christ. Due to divorce, I felt I was a 2nd class Christian. I minister in a Christian orphanage, and my feelings of inferiority greatly hindered my view of God’s unconditional love. These feelings were being projected to children whose greatest struggle is acceptance. Jeff discussed with me my position in Christ in view of divorce and gave me a listing of Scriptures that established this position.

A special Scripture that greatly helped me was 2 Corinthians 3:5-6— “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.”

Brother Jeff’s capacity to compassionately acknowledge, understand, listen, confirm, and identify with my desire for God’s best and need for Biblical answers met every expectation and more.

I came to IBCC because I was struggling with anger. Little did I realize how great my need for counseling was!

Jeff Pokone got to the source of my problem, helping me to see that anger was the outward result of unresolved woundedness in my relationship with my father, which, in turn, was affecting my relationship with my Heavenly Father, my wife, and my daughter. He addressed my need by helping me to identify areas of hurt and unforgiveness in my relationship with my father and demonic strongholds of thinking I had believed. Furthermore, he addressed my need for reconciliation with my wife and daughter, and explained to me how to walk in freedom and deliverance.

Since receiving counseling, I have learned to manage my anger. My relationship with my wife, my daughter, and my father have greatly improved. I have also been able to help others in spiritual need.

Our need was great! We were close to divorce, except that, because of our faith, we knew this was not an option. I came to IBCC with my husband, thinking we came to fix him, but only to find out that it was I who needed fixing.

Having been adopted, I struggled with feelings of abandonment. I also came to realize I had built “walls” around my heart that I was not even aware of. These “walls” hindered my relationship with my husband.

God has brought me to freedom. I have come to realize that the people who love me will let me down. But Jesus will never let me down. He will always allow me to “crawl up in His lap and get the comfort that I need.”

Raised in an ungodly home filled with emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, working sixty hours a week, helping aging and ill parents, losing control of my children, facing a past that was catching up with me quickly, and fearing that I had committed the unpardonable sin, put me in a psychiatric ward for thirty day stints twice. There, I was heavily drugged for severe depression and given ECT treatments. I had even tried to commit suicide.

It was at this low time in my life when I  received Christ into my life and was introduced to Rev. Jeff Pokone.

Rev. Pokone helped me resolve my feelings about the unforgivable sin, negativity, control, shame from past abuse, anger, fear, and the humiliation of attempted suicide. He also helped me identify through Scripture the lies that Satan had used to control my past life and feelings. He helped me understand the difference between the works of the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:19-22). By personalizing Ephesians 1:3-13, Rev. Pokone also helped me to find my identity in the Lord.

At present, I have reduced my intake of OCD medication by half and my depression medication by three quarters! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.