Lester is the Director of Hands In The Community, a non-profit serving Tulare and Kings counties. He has served as a board member and counselor with organizations providing biblical counseling and training. His biblical counseling training was through the International Association of Biblical Counseling.
About Us
Lester Moon
Sherry Anderson
Sherry attends Living Word Fellowship Church in Porterville. She is certified by the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors and the International Association of Biblical Counselors. She has 20 years of counseling experience.
Mike Anderson
Mike has been counseling for 19 years and is certified through the International Association of Biblical Counselors. He attends Living Word Fellowship Church in Porterville.
Pastor Ron Story
Pastor Story retired from Parkside Chapel in Visalia after 33 years as Pastor. Ron has joined our team as board member and will assist in counseling needs.
Michelle Drummonds
Michelle attends Visalia Nazarene Church. Her interest in biblical counseling led her to BCM where she joined our team of certified counselors. Michelle is certified through the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors.
Renee Hellstern
Renee attends Radiant Church. She has been serving BCM for the last 3 years and has her certification in Biblical Counseling through the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors.
Karon Ussery
Karon attends Parkside Chapel in Visalia, and has her certification through the International Association of Biblical Counselors. Karon has been counseling for 15 years.
Pastor Dayton Kitterman
Dr. Dayton Kitterman is pastor of Faith Community Church in Visalia. Dayton serves as an Association of Certified Biblical Counselors Fellow in biblical counseling training and has been counseling for 25 years.
Claudia Brookshire
Claudia has been counseling for 15+ years and has her Biblical Counseling Certification through the International Association of Biblical Counselors. She attends the Assembly of God in Visalia.
Pastor Jathan Newton
Jathan Newton is pastor of Abounding Grace Church in Visalia, CA. As pastor in the local church, Jathan has been counseling for 20+ years. He is pursuing certification through the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors.
Board of Directors
Pastor Dayton Kitterman
Pastor Ron Story
Sharon Anderson
Lester Moon
Michael Anderson
Romel Pumarejo
Pastor Jathan Newton
Our Mission:
“Bringing Christ Back to Counseling and Counseling Back to the Church” – David Powlison
Sufficiency of Scripture
BCM is dedicated to use the sufficiency of God’s word to address all issuess of life struggles.
Consent To Counsel
Through Biblical Counseling Ministry
Our Goal
Our goal in providing Christian counseling is to help you meet the challenges of life in a way that will please and honor the Lord Jesus Christ and allow you to enjoy fully his love for you and His plans for your life.
Biblical Basis
We believe that the Bible provides guidance and instruction for faith and life. Therefore, our counseling is based on scriptural principles rather than those of secular psychology and psychiatry. Neither the pastoral, nor the lay counselors of this ministry are licensed as psychotherapists or mental health professionals.
Professional Advice
In the process of Biblical counseling, there are often times when there is a need for significant advice concerning legal, medical, financial or other technical areas. In those occasions you will be encouraged to seek independent professional counsel. Our pastoral and lay counselors will be happy to cooperate with advisors and help you to consider their counsel in the light of relevant scriptural principles.
Confidentiality
Confidentiality is an important aspect of the counseling process and we will carefully guard the information you entrust to us. There are four situations, however, when it may be necessary for us to share certain information with others: when a counselor is uncertain how to address a particular problem and needs to seek advice from another pastor or counselor; when a counselee is attending a bible based church and it is necessary to talk with his or her pastor or elders; when there is a clear indication that someone may be harmed unless others intervene (BCM is a State Mandated Reporter); or when a person persistently refused to renounce a particular sin and it becomes necessary to seek assistance of others in the church to encourage repentance and reconciliation (see Matthew 18:15-22; 24:11). Please be assured that our counselors strongly prefer not to disclose personal information to others, and they will make every effort to help you find ways to resolve a problem as privately as possible.