A few years later in seminary, I decided to major in pastoral counseling. I often found Jay Adams’ ideas more sound than anything I was studying. While in seminary, and then during my first pastorate, I worked in three psychiatric in-patient hospital settings, and still could not integrate. The straw that broke the camel’s back was when one of the members of my little country church got admitted to the psychiatric hospital where I worked. In desperation, I called Jay Adams, who did not know me. Within a few minutes, the receptions had me on with him, who gave me a half hour on the phone. He encouraged me to take a ten-week training course in nouthetic counseling. This changed my life! I ended up leaving the psychiatric setting and starting two biblical counseling centers, one in Connecticut and one in New Hampshire.

Years later, Jay encouraged me when I was struggling with my son’s Mormon upbringing. I had lost custody of my son in a divorce.

Jay encouraged me again by phone a few years later when I struggled with the “Sonship” program which had been brought into a church where I was an assistant pastor. He wrote me into the book he was writing without mentioning my name.

I cannot adequately express my gratefulness to God for the life and ministry of Dr. Jay Adams.