I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

John 10:10

Annual Conference
July 27-30, 2006

ConnECtion 2006 is a four-day retreat experience with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Christians that begins with dinner on Thursday, July 27, and ends after lunch on Sunday, July 30. Women can get an early start on the conference by attending the Women's Retreat July 26-27.

At the ConnECtion conference, you'll have the opportunity to hear powerful keynote addresses, participate in song and worship, join family groups made up of a small number of men and women, sit in on a variety of workshops, play and talk, and reflect on your experience.

Whether you are new or old as a Christian and regardless of where you are on your journey of integrating your spirituality and orientation, this will be a rich and rewarding weekend for you.

This year's conference and women's retreat will be held on the campus of Reed College in Portland Oregon.

Conference details:

• Reed College, Portland Oregon
• Oregon Tour Information
• Travel and Directions
• Discounts and Scholarships
• Workshop Topics
• Prayer Care
• Counselor Support
• Women's Retreat
• Request More Information
• Get on the Waiting List
• Registration (available online)

Dr. Ralph Blair is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City.  He is founder and president of Evangelicals Concerned, Inc.

Since 1980, Dr. Blair has organized and sponsored ConnECtion conferences which have been life changing experiences for hundreds of gay men, lesbians, and friends who are responding with trust to God's love and who seek to live thankfully and faithfully under God's grace and peace. A fellow of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, he studied at Bob Jones University, Dallas Theological Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary. Dr. Blair speaks throughout the U.S. and is the editor of a quarterly literature review on religion and homosexuality. 

Ann Phillips, M.Ed., M.Div., has been facilitating various educational and personal growth group experiences in a wide range of contexts for the past thirteen years.

Upon her graduation from college, she came out as a lesbian to her family and friends. After several years in a long-term relationship, Anne came to know Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior. As a conservative evangelical, she felt it was impossible to reconcile her newfound faith and her orientation.

Ann joined a local Exodus International (ex-gay) program. She was later recruited to be the Women's Program Director at Love in Action, International, in Memphis, TN. Within the ex-gay movement, Anne became a speaker and workshop leader confidently explaining the "causes" of homosexuality and how to "change" it.

However, after ten years of having "all the answers," Anne realized that God had not placed a period at the end of her now well-known testimony nor her life. Thus, she began the journey of trying to live the questions.

David G. Myers is Professor of Psychology at Hope College, Holland, Michigan and co-author of What God Has Joined Together? A Christian Case for Gay Marriage which is an effort to bridge the divide between marriage-supporting and gay-supporting people of faith by showing why both sides have important things to say.

Dr. Myers' scientific writings have appeared in two dozen academic periodicals, including Science, American Scientist, American Psychologist, and Psychological Science. David has written about psychological research for the public in more than three dozen magazines, from Scientific American to Christian Century, and has written fifteen books.

He is a Seattle native, an all-weather bicyclist, and an avid noontime basketball player and fan of his college's basketball teams. David and Carol Myers married while undergraduates at Whitworth College and are parents of three adult children, sons Peter and Andrew, and a daughter, Laura.

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