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Breaking Free by Russell Willingham

Apr 27th, 2016 by His Way Out Ministries

The world is awash in sex. We are bombarded with it everywhere we turn. When this ever-present temptation mixes with human weaknesses and unmet needs, many get pulled into addiction to sexually sinful behavior. They may detest their own habits, but they can’t seem to break the pattern.

Russell Willingham speaks from his own experience and that of the many he has counseled, “Yes! There is hope. Jesus offers forgiveness and healing.” In Breaking Free: Understanding Sexual Addiction and the Healing Power of Jesus, the essentials are spelled out in practical steps that can help people begin to break free.

Russell Willingham is the Executive Director of New Creation Ministries in Fresno, California. Breaking Free is available at Amazon.com.

And check out Freedom from Sexual Addiction and Pornography by Russell Willingham on Vimeo.

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Coming Up in May 2016

Apr 27th, 2016 by His Way Out Ministries

Saturday May 7, 2016
For Ladies Only

It is our nature to isolate when we are struggling with the various trials in life. But we do not have to walk through them alone. Open the door to healing by sharing your experiences, strengths and hope and by becoming willing to accept God’s grace in solving life’s problems.

For Ladies Only, facilitated by Ginny Mitchell, is women supporting, praying, loving and caring for one another by being real and not hiding their feelings. For Ladies Only offers a safe environment to talk about real issues ladies have and are sometimes too ashamed or afraid to talk about. Come and receive biblical guidance, prayer and encouragement for your healing journey.

For Ladies Only meets on the first Saturday of each month from 9:00am to 11:00am at His Way Out Ministries Office.

Saturday May 28, 2016
Friends and Family

Craig & Karen Fulwyler

Friends and Family offers a relaxed, informal meeting that is available to anyone seeking to understand the complexities of homosexuality and become more effective in reaching those combating same-gender attraction.

Facilitated by Craig and Karen Fulwyler, Friends and Family assists parents, friends, co-workers, a fellow brother and sister in Christ, a neighbor, face the complexity of emotions, actions and questions that will undoubtedly surface when learning of an individual’s homosexuality. Please see the article Friends and Family Care Group for additional information.

Friends and Family meets on the fourth Saturday of each month from 9:00am to 11:00am at His Way Out Ministries Office.

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Friends and Family Care Group

Apr 21st, 2016 by His Way Out Ministries

Craig & Karen Fulwyler

Whether the confession comes from a son, daughter, spouse, co-worker or close friend, the admission of homosexuality hits like a bombshell, especially in Christian homes. Instantaneously, life seems completely out of control. You are now headed in a direction you never, ever thought you would be going.

Without fail, a week does not pass without His Way Out Ministries receiving at least one phone call or email expressing, “Well, I sure didn’t think I would ever be faced with this!” The majority of calls and emails come from pastors and parents due to a child’s or congregation member’s confession of same-sex attraction. Homosexuality always seems to be someone else’s problem until it knocks on your front door.

Once the initial impact has subsided a bit, while Christian families know God is the answer, it still takes a long time for them to wrap their mind around how to engage God in what they perceive as needing to be done. Make no mistake, when someone we know confesses their same-sex attraction, many Christians struggle with how to maintain a Christ-like manner and position.

Every individual that awakens to their issue of same-sex attraction has already been through quite a heart-wrenching process and therefore it really doesn’t matter whether the individual has embraced the gay identity or is still combating and resisting temptation as well as seeking freedom from same-sex attraction. Often, very often, parents in particular will respond to the crisis by focusing on their own pain and deep sense of loss forgetting the individual plagued by same-sex attraction has already experienced a huge amount of pain and loss.

Not long ago, a Christian mother contacted His Way Out Ministries and once again offered the expression we have heard so many times during the 22 years of His Way Out Ministries, “I never thought I would be contacting you with a problem of homosexuality in my family.” The mother was understandably shattered. Initially, while the mother did respond and react appropriately standing upon the right Scriptures, the son responded with a very interesting and revealing remark. He said, “Mom, you keep telling me how hard this is for you to hear and deal with. Don’t you realize how hard it has been for me these many, many years, being raised in a Christian home and knowing that once this got out it would kill you? Ultimately, I had to make a decision that I knew nobody would be happy with. Please consider and realize that I have my own demons to fight.”

At Friends and Family Care Group, we acknowledge that picking up the pieces of life after receiving disturbing news is a challenging and difficult task.

Within our Care Group meetings…

We purpose to see the need to face the reality of what has happened, let go of the person, often just at a time when we feel we need to hang on harder, accept responsibility for our own actions as they relate to the situation, and grow spiritually through it all.
We seek to understand and face the complexity of emotions, actions and questions that most people have upon learning of a child’s, friend’s, co-worker’s or fellow brother or sister in Christ have upon learning of the issue of same-sex attraction.
We challenge each other to make godly choices for spiritual growth in our lives as well as the issues facing the family, Church, and community at large.
We encourage everyone to allow God to use them in the lives of their children, friends, family and church members with regard to the issue of same-sex attraction and related issues.
We distinguish carefully between homosexual attraction and homosexual behavior.
We encourage faith that God is able and willing to bring wholeness to the homosexual person.

As faithful followers of Christ Jesus, we must never affirm homosexual practice. But we can at least affirm the fact that the individual struggling with same-sex attraction has tried to be honest with us and has taken quite a risk in telling us, knowing it is not what we wanted to hear.

For everyone of us, one of the great crossroads in life is trying to come to terms with choices children, friends, and family members are making that are no longer within our control. Often, we feel helpless to stop what is happening, and it is often a very frustrating, if not frightening position in which to find ourselves. Ultimately, our choices about how we are going to react are sometimes all we have left.

Even if God were to answer the question “why” He has allowed this or that to happen in our families and friendships, this would not change the fact that it has happened. We must face reality, and understand that life, at least in some respects, just may never be quite the same again.

However, looking through the eyes of faith, it will become much better, as we learn the lessons the Lord has for us in “this situation.” To that end, in light of our acceptance of this reality, we can ask, “What now, Lord?” rather than, “Why?”

Friends and Family Care Group meets on the 4th Saturday of each month from 9:00am to 11:00am at the His Way Out Ministries office.

Craig and Karen Fulwyler
Friends and Family Care Group
His Way Out Ministries

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Your Support Changes Lives

Mar 28th, 2016 by His Way Out Ministries

Dear Friends,

Your support changes lives. Very often, we receive emails and calls from around the world with individuals, families and churches expressing their appreciation for our focus of ministry.

Our email conversations with individuals, families and churches in Bakersfield, throughout America and overseas in places such as South America, the Caribbean, Europe and Australia continue to absorb several hours per day. Youth and family referrals remain at an all-time high.

All of us at His Way Out Ministries truly covet your prayers. You make it possible for His Way Out Ministries to reach around the world with a message of hope in Christ Jesus. Today, the need remains great but too often the resources are few. Please help us by sending a generous donation today! Your gift will ensure that we can continue this inspiring ministry God has entrusted to us.

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Coming Up in April 2016

Mar 28th, 2016 by His Way Out Ministries

Saturday April 2, 2016
For Ladies Only

For Ladies Only meets on the first Saturday of each month from 9:00am to 11:00am at His Way Out Ministries Office.

Saturday April 3, 2016
Hope Community Church, Pico Rivera, CA

Pastor Phillip Lee will present “Homosexuality and the Church” during the 9am and 11am Sunday morning services. Please visit Hope Community Church for further details.

April 4, 11, 18, 25, 2016
His Way Out, Las Vegas

Jill Stacey Rodgers

On Monday evening’s beginning at 6:00pm, Jill Stacey Rodgers facilitates a discipleship class designed to help men and women with unwanted same-sex attraction. The class is held at Calvary Chapel – Lone Mountain. Beginning at 7:00pm, Calvary Chapel – Lone Mountain also offers Most Excellent Way using Biblical principles to overcome habits, addictions and compulsive behaviors. The group meets for a time of teaching, discussion, Biblical guidance and prayer.

For more information, please contact His Way Out Ministries.

Sunady April 10, 2016
Chester Avenue Community Church, Bakersfield, CA

Pastor Phillip Lee will be sharing a ministry update with the congregation during the 10am Sunday morning worship service. Please visit Chester Avenue Community Church on Facebook for further details.

Sunady April 17, 2016
Parkside Church, Bakersfield, CA

His Way Out Ministries will be exhibiting at the Parkside Church Missions Fair during the two Sunday morning services at 8:30am and 10:45am. For further details, please visit Parkside Church.

Saturday April 23, 2016
Friends and Family

Craig & Karen Fulwyler

Friends and Family meets on the fourth Saturday of each month from 9:00am to 11:00am at His Way Out Ministries Office.

There is no charge for any Ministry Services of His Way Out Ministries.
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The Choice I Made When I was Twenty-Three by Mark Sevillano Jr.

Mar 28th, 2016 by His Way Out Ministries

The choice I made when I was twenty-three is about a young man’s coming-of-age story. It’s about overcoming battles with identity, sexuality and spirituality. At age twenty-three Mark faces his secrets, pain and anger from the past and announces to his parents that he is gay. After his announcement he begins feeling empty and desperate once again searching for help and answers.

One day is his room he receives help in a way he least expected. Mark perseveres through some of his hardest moments in life eventually marrying his true love. Through it all he realizes that everything people do, become, and achieve all starts with the power of a choice. Here is Mark’s story of hope to those who have ever wondered who am I? What am I here for? And, how one choice can put you in a brand new direction that will change your life forever.

The Choice I Made When I was Twenty-Three by Mark Sevillano Jr. is available at Amazon.com.

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Trinidad and Tobago Bound! 2016

Feb 28th, 2016 by His Way Out Ministries

On March 3, 2016, Craig and Karen Fulwyer and I will be returning to Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. During our 10-day stay, one-day conferences will be held at Westside Community Church and Tacarigua Open Bible Church titled “A Christian Response to Homosexuality.”

Craig and Karen Fulwyer, His Way Out Ministries and Maria Branford, Hospital Christian Fellowship

Conference topics include: Youth and Homosexuality, From Lesbianism to Grace, Homosexuality and the Reality of Change, Homosexuality and the Church and Sexual Identity Confusion.

Conference speakers: Rev. Michelle Smith, Maria Branford, Craig and Karen Fulwyer, Pastor Phillip Lee, Pastor Anthony Oliver and Pastor Fitzroy Griffith.

Our Ministry Partners: Left: Dr. Garthlyn Pilgrim, Hospital Christian Fellowship, Pastor Phillip Lee, Nicole Larsen, Christian Radio Isaac 98.1FM, Dr. Judith Henry, Hospital Christian Fellowship, Rev. Michelle Smith, The Power of Change Outreach International (Jamaica)

For additional information and to listen to radio promotion for the conferences, please visit: The Caribbean: Truth Must Not Be Silenced

Dr. Judith Henry, Hospital Christian Fellowship; Pastor Phillip Lee; and His Excellency, Anthony Carmona, President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

In geographical terms the Caribbean area includes the Caribbean Sea and all of the islands located to the southeast of the Gulf of Mexico, east of Central America and Mexico, and to the north of South America. Some of its counted cay’s, islands, islets and inhabited reefs front the handful of countries that border the region. Trinidad and Tobago is a Caribbean two-island nation near the coast of South America.

Trinidad has the cultural energy and is environmentally rich too, as any naturalist will tell you. Tobago mean while is legendary for its peace and calm and its affection for the old-time ways. Surpassing the beauty of Trinidad and Tobago is the warmth and hospitality of its people.

Michelle Smith and Phillip Lee at Christian Radio Isaac 98.1, Port of Spain, Trinidad

For many years now, each ministry trip to Trinidad and Tobago always includes a visit to Isaac Christian Radio 98.1FM which is the most widely listened to radio station in all of Trinidad and Tobago.

The Caribbean Ministry Network (Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and America) is dedicated to raising awareness, educating and equipping the Body of Christ throughout the Caribbean to minister to those who struggle with unwanted same-sex attraction.

Jamaica is an island in the West Indies, 90 miles south of Cuba and 100 miles west of Haiti. It is a little smaller than Connecticut. The island is made up of coastal lowlands, a limestone plateau, and the Blue Mountains, a group of volcanic hills, in the east.

Since 1999, His Way Out Ministries has been raising awareness, educating, and encouraging the Body of Christ in Guyana to minister transformingly to those struggling with same-sex attraction. Guyana is a tropical country on the northern shoulder of South America and is approximately the size of Great Britain or the combined size of the States of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts, and bordered by Venezuela, Brazil, Suriname, and the Atlantic Ocean.

For many years now, His Way Out Ministries has enjoyed a strong ministry partnership and friendship with Operation Restoration, a local Guyanese ministry. Operation Restoration equips leaders with the requisite knowledge and skills to impart God’s perspective on human sexuality, and seeks to empower youth, through educational and cultural programs, to become role models in the way they manage their sexuality.

Operation Restoration (Guyana) – Left: Jennifer Flatts, Hazel David-Longe, Pastor Lee, Phyllis Jordan, Donna Collier

Of all the challenges that we face as the Church in today’s society, whether in America or in the Caribbean, sexuality is undoubtedly one of the greatest.

If we, as Christ-followers, being fully and unconditionally committed to the entire Word of God, and valuing our call to be the salt and light of society, then we must come to terms with the rapidly changing scene around us and, in particular, the cries of individuals, families churches seeking help with regard to same-gender attraction and related issues.

God offers new life to all who are willing to receive it. Getting energized to fight homosexuality as just an “issue” may seem worthy, but we shouldn’t let that become more important than praying for the souls of the lost and hurting – and doing something positive to help homosexuals who want out of their captive lifestyles.

The Holy Spirit is mightily on the move in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Guyana with other doors of ministry opportunity opening in the Caribbean. Truly, through the atonement of Jesus Christ and the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit, God has, is, and will be delivering men and women from the snare of homosexuality.

Caribbean Ministry Network
(Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, United States)

Dedicated to raising awareness, educating, encouraging and equipping The Body of Christ throughout the Caribbean to minister to those who struggle with same-sex attraction.
Is based upon our concern regarding the issue of homosexuality and we seek to minister to those within the Church and Islands throughout the Caribbean, with the truth of Scripture, the power of testimony and the dialog of issues.
Is committed to effectively and compassionately communicating God’s heart concerning sexual brokenness and wholeness, while disputing the unchangeable nature of sexual orientation.
Affirms that all persons need the ministry of the Church in their struggle for sexual wholeness, and we commit ourselves to that end. Our position rests on the Authority of Scripture versus the interpretations of some of the social sciences.
All ministry services are centered on the biblical foundations of compassion, integrity, and dependence on God.
Believes through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and the healing power of the Holy Spirit, often mediated by extended and competent ministry, prayer, and a caring Christian community, the sexually broken can experience transformation towards wholeness.

All of us at His Way Out Ministries truly covet your prayers. You make it possible for His Way Out Ministries to reach around the world with a message of hope in Christ Jesus.

Pastor Phillip Lee
Executive Director
His Way Out Ministries

“If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, the I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is tested.” Martin Luther

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Coming Up in March 2016

Feb 28th, 2016 by His Way Out Ministries

Saturday March 5, 2016
For Ladies Only

For Ladies Only meets on the first Saturday of each month from 9:00am to 11:00am at His Way Out Ministries Office.

March 3 – 13, 2016
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Pastor Phillip Lee will be conducting a series of one-day conferences titled “A Christian Response to Homosexuality” at Westside Community Church and Tacarigua Open Bible Church and speak as guests on Christian Radio Isaac 98.1FM. Conference topics include: Youth and Homosexuality, From Lesbianism to Grace, Homosexuality and the Reality of Change, Homosexuality and the Church and Sexual Identity Confusion. Conference speakers include Rev. Michelle Smith, Maria Branford, Craig and Karen Fulwyer, Pastor Anthony Oliver and Pastor Fitzroy Griffith.

March 7, 14, 21, 28, 2016
His Way Out, Las Vegas

Jill Stacey Rodgers

For more information, please contact His Way Out Ministries.

Saturday March 26, 2016
Friends and Family

Craig & Karen Fulwyler

Friends and Family meets on the fourth Saturday of each month from 9:00am to 11:00am at His Way Out Ministries Office.

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The Caribbean: Truth Must Not Be Silenced

Feb 14th, 2016 by His Way Out Ministries

The Apostle Paul said, “I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the barbarians.” (Romans 1:14)

There is no doubt Paul understood and lived his life as a debtor to “everyone” on the face of the earth because of the Gospel of Jesus. Do we, as Ambassadors for Christ, realize that same debtedness to every unsaved soul which includes the vast, enormous and virtually untouched mission field called “the gay community?”

Regardless of many recent events surrounding “gay,” The Church cannot – The Church must not – underestimate itself; it holds the only answer there is to homosexuality and related issues.

Personally, I am convinced we have moved into a new era where each and every faithful follower of Christ Jesus must address and answer the following:

Do I accept the Bible as the Word of God, as the sole authority in all matters of faith and practice, or do I not?

Do I accept Scripture as a revelation from God, or do I now trust in human knowledge, human learning, human understanding and human reasons?

Or, putting it more simply, do I, as a faithful-follower of Christ Jesus, pin all my faith to, and subject all my thinking, to, what I read in the Bible – including what God has clearly stated with regard to His divine intent for human sexuality?

Presently, at His Way Out Ministries, we are continuing to experience a huge demand “to minister” to local and overseas individuals, families and churches, impacted by homosexuality. Homosexuality is not a hopeless condition. There is restoration, forgiveness and healing through Jesus Christ. No, the Gospel has not changed. People were delivered from homosexuality in Paul’s day – and they still are today.

Although the Bible is clear that homosexual practice is against God’s pattern for humankind, would you please help us to continue to be the bearer of good tidings to those with unwanted same-gender attraction and not just announce that a certain lifestyle is sinful?

At His Way Out Ministries, we look beyond the “gay” or “lesbian” label to the whole person inside. Rather than seeing our friends, family members or fellow brothers and sisters in Christ as a homosexual, we see each individual as a person impacted by the brokenness of same-sex attraction.

The goal and privilege of His Way Out Ministries is to continue sharing with everyone the transforming power of God’s love and forgiveness without compromising the truth – balanced with God’s grace.

We are purposed to continue offering the message that many are trying to silence today: There is freedom from homosexuality through the unconditional love and grace of Jesus Christ.

The Caribbean Ministry Network: Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and the United States, remains dedicated to raising awareness, equipping, educating and encouraging the Body of Christ throughout the Caribbean, to minister transformingly to those with unwanted same-sex attraction.

Below is a radio ad which shares information about conferences that are coming up in Trinidad and Tobago on March 5th and 12, 2016. To God be the glory!