Pat Neal (President)

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I believe it is through our relationship with Jesus that we can live the life God created us to live. We can trust that God has wonderfully and powerfully made us to live out loud in this world. I was only able to claim this truth as my own after finding ECWR. Prior to finding ECWR I struggled to believe God loved me just as I am; I had lost trust in the image of God that is me.  But ECWR provides a place for the broken to heal; for fires to be rekindled; for trust in God to be restored; for our stories to matter. In the safety and support of ECWR, lives are changed and potentials are restored. I know. It happened to me. I want to help make it happen for others. 

I spent years trying to change who I was, until one day I thought, if God isn’t changing my orientation, perhaps it’s not meant to change. Hoping I was not alone on this journey, I began to search for others. By the grace of God I was introduced to Evangelicals Concerned, and my life has not been the same since. I attended my first ConnECtion in 2001 and was overwhelmed by the love and acceptance that I experienced not only by God but from everyone I met. The walls that I had built around my heart, started to crumble and the healing began. I have received so much from this organization and its members, that it is an honor to work together with others to further this ministry, so those who have not yet heard the good news that, it’s ok to be gay and Christian, will hear and be free. “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” John 8:32

Having been raised in a Christian home, I struggled with gay feelings throughout my teenage years. Then, in my early twenties, while living in Dallas, Texas, I came across the local ECWR chapter. My interaction with the local group was the start of the reconciliation of my spirituality and sexuality. I've been a faithful member of ECWR ever since that time. Now, some twenty years later, it is an honor to serve the ECWR membership through working on the board. I seek to serve with a servant's heart. I pray that my time on the board will edify and encourage my fellow board members and the membership at large.

Clyde Zuber (Board Secretary)
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I came to faith at the age of nine through the reading of Good News for Modern Man. Soon afterward I began readinghe works of C.S. Lewis such as The Chronicles of Narnia, The Great Divorce, and Mere Christianity. Since my faith was founded on scripture and my thinking formed by listening to one of the greatest minds of the Christian faith, I knew my relationship with God was secure even when I began to recognize my sexuality. I first learned of the existence of Evangelicals Concerned while a student at Moody Bible Institute through a leaflet that was given to me by some former students at MBI's Founder's Week. Upon reading the leaflet, I prayed a quick prayer and God's answer in that instant was to be patient and put that prayer on hold. Seven years later, God further answered that prayer when I discovered Scanzoni and Mollenkott's book Is The Homosexual My Neighbor? in the bookstore of Dallas Theological Seminary. As a young adult I was praying fervently for companionship and for an understanding of my sexuality. God followed up my persistence soon afterward by leading me to John Boswell's book Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality in a Logos Christian Bookstore. In much the same way that I met and understood God through reading, I met and understood myself through the books God provided in what most would consider the most unlikely of places. I soon made contact with EC and met my husband of the past twenty five years.

Pamela Peters (Board Member)

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Mike Perez (Board Member)

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Hola All - My name is Mike Perez, a 61 year old Latino gay man with jet black hair forever! I attended my first Connection in '91 then joined the Denver EC as a steering committee member soon after. I am currently a Directions NW member in Seattle living in Seattle and Puerto Vallarta . I am a former Roman Catholic turned Christian Evangelical back to Catholic and continue to have faith in biblical stories that lead my spiritual and physical life. Between EC and my 12 Step groups, I finally feel safe in being gay, Christian, and alive. Of note, I have always been an advocate, in school, in work, as a Chicano Studies Teacher and United Farmworker, and most recently as a Soulforce volunteer. I look forward to some serious and fun work on the ECWR board.

Jon (Board Member)

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