Exodus International will hold its annual Freedom Conference in Irvine,CA  this year. Charisma magazine discusses the event and how its celebrating its 35th anniversary conference.

Exodus International Marks 35th Year of Freedom Conferences

By Sarah Stegall
June 22, 2010

More than three decades ago, 63 men and women met in Anaheim, Calif., to encourage and support one another in their struggle with homosexuality. The event has since grown into an international conference and led to the founding of what is considered the world's largest ministry to people with unwanted same-sex attraction.

Exodus International, the organization birthed out of that first meeting in 1976, will celebrate the 35th anniversary of the event this week at Concordia University in Irvine, Calif.

Around 1,000 people are expected to participate in the International Freedom Conference, which begins Wednesday and includes workshops and testimonies from people who have left homosexuality. It will conclude Saturday with Love Won Out sessions designed to help those ministering to people with unwanted same-sex attraction.

Those in attendance also will hear from some of the original 63 people who met in Anaheim, including Exodus board member Ron Dennis and founding member Frank Worthen.   

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