Welcome Reception

When: Friday, June 25th from 5:00-6:30pm.

Location: Campus of Concordia University
Personnel at the gate will direct you to parking and the VIP Reception.

Please RSVP: click here or call (888)264-0877

You are invited to a Welcome Reception for friends and church leaders who are interested in the ministry of Exodus International. You will be treated to assorted hors d’oeuvers and delicious gourmet desserts.

Randy Thomas, Executive Vice President of Exodus, will share the mission of Exodus and where we sense the Lord’s leading for the future of this ministry. Immediately following the reception, we also invite you to be our special guests at the Evening General Session for the 35th Annual International Freedom Conference where hundreds will join together in worship and former NFL Player, Author, and Pastor Ed Tandy McGlasson will be the General Session Keynote Speaker.

We look forward to meeting you in person on June 25th at Concordia University in Irvine, CA. Please prayerfully consider joining us as we look to the future with great anticipation of where the Lord is leading His Body as we commit to ministering truth and grace to a world impacted by homosexuality!

Randy Thomas

As the Executive Vice President of Exodus International, Randy Thomas oversees more than 230 professional mental health, ministry, and church-based member agencies across North America that offer hope and help to individuals wanting to leave homosexuality. Founded in 1976, Exodus is the largest Christian organization dealing with homosexual issues in the world today and is a dynamic, growing network of men and women who have experienced God’s healing and transformation.

Prior to coming to Exodus, Randy was the Executive Director of Living Hope — an Exodus member ministry in Dallas, Texas. Randy provided strategic vision and direction while managing the day-to-day details of the organization for seven years. While there, he created the first online youth outreach initiative that now reaches young people all over the world with a message of change.

Randy’s own story as a child raised in an abusive home who grew to struggle with homosexuality at an early age allow him to better communicate the hope of transformation to those experiencing the same emptiness and despair in gay life.

He travels extensively speaking on the topic of homosexuality and has shared his story with members of Congress, conservative leaders and in churches and colleges across the country.

He has been interviewed by numerous media outlets across North America and Europe and has appeared in a full-page ad presented in The Los Angeles Times. His story was the subject of an award-winning article in The Dallas Morning News and featured in the book, The Good Life, written by bestselling author and former Watergate figure, Chuck Colson.

Ed Tandy McGlasson

Ed Tandy McGlasson is a very big man with a very big heart for hurting people and a very big vision to reach them with the love – and the Blessing – of the Father. A five-year veteran of the National Football League, Ed details his life in his best-selling book The Difference A Father Makes – a book that has changed thousands of reader’s lives with nearly 200,000 copies sold since its release in 2004.

Ed’s book has put him in great demand as a speaker and encourager to men and women all over the nation. Ed challenges them to understand how it feels to be truly blessed by your father, to be both fully accepted and altogether appreciated. To the millions of men and women who have never experienced the blessing of their own biological dad, he offers practical steps to receive the awe-inspiring blessing of their Heavenly Father.

After his football career ended, Ed became the pastor of the Vineyard Christian Fellowship, Anaheim, CA. He and his wife Jill and their five children have lived in Southern California for 28 years.

About the Freedom Conference

From June 23rd through the 26th, Exodus will be holding our 35th Annual International Freedom Conference at Concordia University in Irvine, CA located in Orange County. Approximately 1,000 individuals from around the world join us for this life-changing event including individuals desiring real answers, hope, and freedom for themselves or their loved ones. Pastors and ministry leaders who desire to become better equipped in addressing and ministering to those within their local communities also attend this conference. Besides powerful worship and inspirational messages, dozens of practical workshops will be presented on counseling, relationships, overcoming personal struggles, societal issues, support for family, starting a ministry, and various other topics. Please visit our conference website and for information about our upcoming International Freedom Conference.