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Well, to be perfectly honest but my church doesn't have any outreach or programs against homosexuality or to specifically help those dealing with homosexuality.
We have a delieverance ministry where people meet and talk about some really personal things from drug addiction, shopping addictions, to sexual immorality...but nothing specific to homosexuals.
We also host AA and NA meetings. A lot of the people who attend these meetings that are hosted at my church during the working week actually became members or visit often. They said they were drawn by the love of our church to open the doors for them to come and get help. And actually help w/o trying to proseltyze.
Two ministers of our church started an organization called Project Impact. Some of you may have heard of it..It was started out of my church and hte model is leased and taught to different orgs throughout the country. This program counsels and works with men and women who are first time juvenille offenders. In many different ways to help them get their life on the right track. The courts turn them over to this program based of Christian principles instead of sending them up the river (to jail). The headquarters (I think or maybe just a satelite office since they have a bigger building in LBC) is run out of my church.
Also we opened part of our church to house a small high school..filed with neighborhood students. My Pastor is active in the school as well and many of those children's parents have been blessed by our church as well.
Not to mention all the members of our church don't use the church to necessarily get involved in the things that are important to them...I'm an HIV/AIDS Peer Mentor, my friend is the Director of a very successful programthat helps get students from LAUSD into pretigious Universities...
So, I think most people have alot of bad experiences with a church at some point in their lives and have seen alot of heretic type churches and have used that experience to brand all churches. It's just not the case. I love people and I love helping people. I don't necessarily use my chuch to do everything that is in my heart to do for people. However, my church is more focused on everything I mentioned above than anything having to do with gay people or homosexual lifestyles. Maybe that's a fault of ours that we don't have or arent' developing some type of homsexual outreach program....or something.. But, there are homosexuals in the church and I know that some go to the delieverance meetings. No one is trying to change anyone or rip anyone from something they are doing. Jesus has just called us all to repentance..and we repent daily..those who want delieverance will ask for help and that's when we as brothers and sister provide assistance in that area. Of course we are praying w/o ceasing as well.
I'm of a younger generation so we are a bit more radical..a bit mroe people focused...and I think that mindset is taking over alot of the older things that may have happened in the past. We are definitely coming of age and getting into a different way to outreach and being more concerned with the least of these..like Jesus was...
I just thought I would share the above with you..since it seems like you might not know that there are churches many churches out there that don't have a anti-gay agenda. Honestly, I don't know one personally..and I sing so I go to ALOT of different churches.
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Lets Believe what the Bible says. It clearly states that God does not tempt us with sin. WE are tempted by our own desires due to free will. 
