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Our
Ministries and Messages equip the Body of
Christ to effectively, practically and Biblically care for
GLBT persons. Schedule Founder Bill Henson
today. Review our References. Click Brochure to see a PDF copy. We
are ready to serve you.
Our
Ministries
Radio Show
Our
strategic outreach program, Lead Them Home,
airs on Christian radio throughout Southern New England
and Eastern NY. The program continues
to grow as stations generously donate 15-minute
weekday slots to air our message. To air Lead Them
Home, Contact Us. You can
listen online to Lead Them Home each weekday at
9:00 am and 9:00 pm on http://renewfm.org.
Podcast
Lead Them Home: Bill Henson's
Podcast offers an online library of archived MP3 messages
that previously aired on the program. Each message is designed
to encourage and equip churches, ministries and families
touched by homosexuality while extending the Gospel to the Gay
Community. Visit http://leadthemhome.com, select a
program, and click the "play" icon. Available 24-hours a day.
Subscribe to our podcast to receive email notices when new MP3
messages are published: simply visit the site and click
subscribe.
Blog
Lead Them Home: Bill Henson's Blog
offers an online library of archived articles. Many of
these messages have aired or will air on our radio
program. Over 100 articles address the different needs of
church leaders, counselors, parents and families, campus ministry
staff and GLBT persons. Visit http://bihenson.org and select
an article by topic. Available 24-hours a day. Subscribe to our blog
feed to receive email notices when new articles are published:
simply visit the site and click subscribe.
Online Forum
GLBTFAMILYCARE is our Google
Group where families can confidentially connect with and pray
for one another. Join
today!
Family Care
Seminar
We offer a 1/2 day
workshop especially designed to equip and encourage families touched
by homosexuality. This seminar takes place in your local church.
This confidential setting allows families to come together and care
for one another while getting equipped with a Biblical mandate to
love and reach out to their GLBT loved ones. Listen
Now to learn more. Contact Us to
book Family Care at your church.
NEW!!! Family Care Seminar Now
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local churches throughout the United States. Now you can purchase,
download and listen to the seminar 24-hours a day. This is an
excellent resource for families, church leaders and counselors who
wish to minister redemptively to GLBT
persons.
Conference
Speaking
Founder Bill Henson speaks at conferences and
music festivals across the United States. Bill recently
presented a 2-day conference in East Africa attended by
80 pastors from
Kenya,
Uganda and
Tanzania.
Church & Campus Ministry
Teaching
Founder Bill Henson speaks at churches,
campus ministry retreats and on-campus events. We work
with campus ministries including InterVarsity, Campus
Crusade, Navigators and Chi Alpha. Bill has spoken at MIT, Harvard,
Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, NYU, BU,
University of Vermont, UMass,
Sam Houston State, Baldwin-Wallace,
Gordon College and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
Bill’s interview at Gordon-Conwell was published in the Summer 2004
edition of PulpitTalk.
Invite Bill to your church or campus (see Our Messages
below).
Leadership
Training
Our leadership
training program, The FOTOS Project, equips church and
ministry staff and lay leaders for effective ministry to homosexuals
and their families. Contact Us for more
details on The FOTOS Project.
Gay Community
Events
Founder Bill Henson
partners with other Christian ministries to share the Gospel within
reach of gay communities. Bill shared his testimony to 350 GLBT
students at Baldwin-Wallace College (OH). FOTOS partnered with
an evangelical campus ministry and a gay student
organization to present our Gay & Evangelical Voices:
Two Views, One Dialogue workshop during Queer Religion Week at Brown
University (RI).
Affordable
Counseling
Founder
Bill Henson and his wife counsel dozens of families and
individuals touched by homosexuality each year. Many parents
want to change sexual orientation - we focus on healing
‘relational orientation’ in families touched by homosexuality. Contact Us for information on our
Relational Orientation
Counseling.
Our
Messages
Bill's
Testimony
Founder Bill Henson's personal journey of discovering
same-sex attraction, denying it, repressing it, trying to escape it
and ultimately coming out. How he dealt with family, church and
God. How he dealt with the far right and far left voices in our
culture. How he fell in love. How God – later - intervened through a
job relocation and a mission trip to bring him to
surrender his same-sex relationship and sexual identity to
Jesus at the Cross.
The
FOTOS Vision
The story behind
the creation of FOTOS Ministries, Inc. The story begins with an
invitation to share my faith story to a group of 30 InterVarsity
students at an Ohio college. This private chapter meeting developed
into a campus wide event attended by over 750 people, including 350
GLBT students. The day was November 19, 2003 only hours after the
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court legalized gay marriage.
This story of our calling outlines the 'heart' with which we are
called by Christ to those who feel judged by the
church.
Campus
Ministry Outreach: Case
Studies
This
presentation details three 'in the gay community' campus events that
we've been part of including our participation at
Brown University's Queer Religion Week - at the
invitation of the gay community. It illustrates numerous "lessons
learned" for effective and not-so-effective ways to reach out
to gay communities on campus.
Eight
Effective Relational Principles (Safe Church or
Cast-the-Net)
After
leveling the ground at the foot of the Cross and recasting a vision
of the Culture War as the Great Harvest, this presentation outlines
eight effective relational principles that dramatically impact the
way Christians view evangelism. The message improves our
response to homosexuals but does so in a holistic way: these
principles apply to how we view, care for and extend Christ
to ALL people who feel hurt by the church.
Church-Wide Outreach: Case
Studies
This is usually a follow-up seminar to the one just above.
The 'vision' sounds great....but does it work? Yes, it works. Bill
shares examples of the fruit we are seeing.
Don't
Look Back: Press
On!
This message
looks at different Bible characters that 'looked back' - Lot's wife,
some potential disciples that had other priorities, and actual
disciples who turned away from Jesus after some time of following
Him. This is a convicting message about 'three powers' that tempt us
to look back or even to go back. This is a good message to encourage
people who have looked or gone back to their old way of living. We
need to forget what is behind us (so to speak) and follow the
Apostle Paul - to Press On.
Understanding What They Believe and
Why
This
session covers a complete compare and contrast of Gay and
Biblical Theology interpretation of: (i) the key
Scriptures that Gay Theologians
claim as positive affirmation of same-sex sexual
relationships; and (ii) the key Scriptures that describe such
relationships as sinful. This presentation will help
you compassionately understand the inside worldview
of homosexual theology and equip you to relate better to
homosexuals. This
Biblical text analysis is thorough and yet sensitively
done.
Does Jesus Address
Homosexuality?
Liberal
pastors and theologians say Jesus approves of homosexuality. Some
even go so far as to say He was gay. Even many
evangelical pastors often preach from the pulpit, "Jesus did not say
anything about homosexuality". But the fact is...Jesus did
address homosexuality. This is critical apologetic
information for every Christian and
Seeker. This intimate and comprehensive look into the
teachings of Jesus Christ may surprise you. Evangelicals
beware...there's something Jesus has to say to us as
well.
A Long
Process: Coming to Believe What I Now
Believe
Can the church present Biblical convictions regarding
same-sex relationships beyond the traditional 6 Bible verses
that deal with homosexuality? Yes, we can. Can we do it
compassionately? Yes, we must. There are all kinds of signals
that give us clues into God's plan. This presentation is similar to
Understanding What They Believe but it is more
personal discovery than theology.
The Gospel in Community
How do we live out the Gospel in community? In what ways does
our human brokenness get in the way? We go back to the beginning of
Creation to explore just what happened the moment Adam and Eve left
the Garden of Eden. The brokenness that resulted touches every
aspect of our lives. This exploration leads us toward recovery as we
surrender our strength and find that God’s strength is perfected in
our weakness. We find that we are spiritually sick: as eternal
spirit beings, we can only get better via spiritual medicine. Our
Great Physician offers us seven (7) prescriptions we need to live
the free and abundant life promised. Presented in two sessions.
Five
Life-Transforming Lessons of the Prodigal Father
This is a very interesting look at the interchange between
Pharisees and Sinners from Luke 13-15 culminating in Jesus telling
three stories about a Lost Sheep, a Lost Coin and a Lost Son. We
learn, directly from Jesus, five life-transforming lessons about how
our Heavenly Father draws prodigals home.
Refining Our Concept of Healthy Gender
Identity
This
presentation is designed for parents and Christian leaders who
oversee the spiritual, emotional and physical development of
children and teenagers. This material equips parents and leaders
with a three-step model calling for Awareness, Assessment and
Intervention. So many parents think 'healthy gender identity' is
about sexual orientation. True health in gender identity includes
but extends well beyond orientation: it encompasses one’s entire
personal identity.
Family
Care Seminar
This 1/2 day
workshop ministers to the unique needs of parents and families who
have adult or teenage loved ones dealing with gender or sexual
identity issues. Families are radically transformed from ‘church
culture’ toward a Biblical vision and mandate for relational
connection and evangelistic outreach to their loved
ones.
Gay
& Evangelical Voices: Two Views, One
Dialogue
This panelist session is specifically
designed to yield mutually respectful sharing between the GLBT
Community and Evangelicals. EVERYONE is welcome (including
those who do not identify as Christian). This session allows
panelists from all sides of the homosexual issue to share their
own personal story. The Moderator then asks a series of
questions. Finally, the audience is given time to ask their own
questions. This highly interactive session has proven to bring a
spirit of peace to an issue that often elicits anger and
frustration. FOTOS defers the Moderator role to the GLBT
Community. Our policy: we offer this session
only when invited by the Gay
Community. We presented this workshop during Brown University's
Queer Religion Week.
High
School Safe-Church
Initiative
Our teens should know - without a doubt - that we
love and accept them and that our church is a "home" where
they can explore their faith, share their struggles
and receive our support no matter what they are dealing with. This
material can be included in our Leadership Training of church
and para-church ministry leaders.
The
Mirror
Why do I so
easily see the blind spots in others while even more easily missing
my own? Is liberal theology all wrong? Is conservative theology
all right? Are gay activists really the force of evil
that I so often hear described on the religious
airwaves? Are televangelists really the neanderthal hatemongers
that I so often hear described in secular media? It is time we
take a real hard look at our true identity and
find out who Christ calls us to be to others in a world
full of Culture Wars. It's time for us to take a close look into The
Mirror.
How can
FOTOS serve
your church or ministry? Contact
Us
today.
You can reach FOTOS Ministries
toll-free at (877) 683-6867
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