Testimonials:
1. My private counseling time with
Mike was a tremendously comforting, in-depth, very meaningful personal growth
experience. Mike went way above and beyond the role of a traditional
counselor, with the amount of time, effort and countless hours he spent in preparation
for our appointments. He genuinely cares about his clients focusing on
not only their mental health, but their physical and spiritual health as
well. He is truly skilled at providing an individual with the tools to
take an overwhelming obstacle, problem, or devastating life event and turn into
an opportunity for growth, personal reflection, and a chance to really
learn who you are in the purest sense. The challenges he
has faced in his own life have given him a fantastic vantage point from which
to help others to view their own struggles. I would recommend Mike to
anyone who is facing even the most difficult circumstance
imaginable. The attentiveness, honesty, openness, and sincerity he
conveys are a true comfort and just a few of the wonderful benefits
of spending time with Mike.
2. I met Michael Rumble ten years ago during the darkest time in my life! I
had just found out that my Mother was dying of cancer, and when I returned home,
my husband said he was leaving me and walked out! My whole world was without
hope or light! The next day I called and made an appointment with Michael and from the first day I met him, I knew that God had led me to him. He made me feel
instantly at ease and that he really cared about what I was going
through!
I saw Michael once a week for about a year, and I could not have done
this alone. He helped me to see the bright side of life again, how to deal with the issues in my life, and how to cope with death and dying. He also had a grief group meeting once a week where several
people talked about the pain of losing a loved one. This was also extremely
helpful to share and to listen how others make it through with his
guidance.
Michael is a gifted counselor and listener who truly cares for those he is consulting. It
shows in his words of wisdom and hope that he gives you to get through the
pain. You lose your faith sometimes when you go through such pain, but Michael helped me see that I was truly valuable which helped me to find and apply the answers for coping well with life. Through it all I was able to regained my faith. He is
a gifted counselor and I can't sing his praises
high enough and I truly am grateful for his help in bringing the light back into my life!
Sincerely, Sharon.
3. The hospital setting itself makes you nervous, the smells, nurses moving from one
room to the next, doctors checking quickly on the progress of their patients,
talking to you quickly because they want to leave quickly, they have nothing
further to offer your mom to help cure her, nothing else to do medically but to
keep her comfortable until the time she leaves this earth.
We were
asked if we would like to see a chaplain/counselor. This is how we met a man
called Mike Rumble. Our family was
gathered at the bedside of a woman who had been a great mother, grandmother, great
grandmother, hard worker, loving friend to many.
When he
walked into the room, we had to look up to see this strong presence which
didn’t fit most of the counselors/chaplains you have ever met before. He was not at all afraid of walking straight
into the room full of people who are facing all this trauma. Each with his or
her own drama involved in how we thought this should continue.
After
shaking hands with each and every one of us – he looked us straight in the eye
– something the Dr’s had quit doing. They were uncomfortable with the
circumstances as they were at this point. He was not. This was his thing to do
in life.
It was his
comfort with the situation and his strength that was what I noticed first. He
didn’t shrink from the circumstances unfolding before us all – he embraced it,
and allowed us the privilege of watching him teach us how to handle this new
scene we had just moments before been thrown into.
He walked up
to my Mother, looked down on her and asked her what she needed. She told him
she wanted to cry. It suddenly occurred to me that Mom was dying, but didn’t
know anymore about how to go through this than the rest of us. He told her it
was okay to cry. He connected with her right away. His presence in the room
made each of us feel better, calmer, more secure in the knowing that this
dilemma of dying might be handled in a way in which my mother could be treated
with respect, have a counselor she could talk to – and she did tell him things
that she never did talk to us about. He told my mother about his own story. His
battle with cancer, a bone marrow transplant, and the night he walked through
the valley of the shadow of death. He understood her and where she was – that
makes all the difference in the world.
He has a
booming laugh that will tell you when he is on the floor of the hospital where
you are located. He’s not afraid of even that – He will teach you to laugh,
embrace what life has to offer you. Connect you with a whole different way of
looking at things. His way is to embrace it all. He taught us that all things
are part of living and dying. All things are part of the experience. All things
can be met with strength and loving kindness each to the other.
As time went
on, we didn’t want to lose track of him. We asked him if we could see him
again. And he reassured us that he would be at work there again, and would look
us up. That’s exactly what he did. He looked for us and we looked for him to
come and be a part of our family’s needs at the time – and to teach us how to
construct a truth that we could learn to live with without this wonderful Mom
in our lives.
He did that.
He stayed in touch with us – even when my Mom was moved to Hospice and was in
their care for pain management for end of life treatment. He came to another
hospital to visit us – and helped us walk through yet another event that we
struggled with – the final hours and days of my mother’s life here on this
earth. He was the one who noticed she was in pain – he was the one who called
the nurses with his booming voice and told them she was in pain, they hustled
to take care of it. He’s the one who helped us determine that – he told us to
watch her blink once for yes and 2 times for no when he asked her questions.
That was the only way she could communicate then. If he hadn’t stopped by to
see her and us, she would have suffered for a while, but that didn’t happen.
This man
meant so much to our family we have kept in touch with him 14 years later. When
we need someone to talk to – he is the counselor we choose. Our family thinks
so highly of him we would recommend him to everyone as the one person who knows
how to connect with each and every person he meets. His wisdom and love for
life is part of his gift.
I highly
recommend this man to help with your family, your children, your problems that
seem almost impossible to figure out. Call him and hear that booming laugh for
yourself. I bid you peace.
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4. Mike is truly an inspiration. He has helped me
in many ways at many times. Just his
words and how they are presented create thought processes in one’s
mind. He does not judge, but brings up things that allow you to
think about those things in a different way. His vast personal experience
in many geographical areas enhances his efforts in assisting others like me..
We are all trying to figure out what true happiness is, and it is really right
in front of us. Mike merely helps you figure that out. He always
ties it all back to what we all end up leaning on God. It is funny how we try to run from what is
best for us right from childhood. Mike brings it together in a way that
allows YOU to pull it together. Thanks, Fred
