Gay scene an "unreached people group"

Today both Hopper and Rogers believe God can deliver anyone from anything, including sexual brokenness and addiction. Two hundred people, many of them Asian and Hispanic, heard their testimonies at the "Gaining Victory" conference held at Ontario Bible College, September 11-13.

Hopper had wanted a sex-change operation but could not afford one. Her doctors put her on a hormone treatment assuring her that short of surgery she could not be more male. She attempted suicide but God intervened. Through prayer and counseling God healed the lingering childhood traumas of her father’s desertion and her mother’s rape, which she had witnessed at age 11. "I had sworn then to be the gentleman that man wasn’t," she says.

In 1979, while Rogers was on the waiting list at Johns Hopkins Hospital for a sex-change operation, he had an experience in which "Christ’s love bathed me." Three days later the hospital announced it was abandoning all sex-change operations, arguing that such a surgical procedure was "not appropriate treatment for an emotional problem."

God intervened so powerfully in their lives that both Hopper and Rogers now counsel others who struggle with homosexuality.

Free of lesbianism for 16 years, Hopper is director of Another Chance Ministries in Vancouver and attends Burnaby Christian pastoral staff of Anglican Church of Christ Our Savior in Singapore. At the conference she gave an overview of homosexual recovery.

Since 1976 Exodus has been helping thousands of men and women find a way out of homosexuality. Today there are more than 100 Exodus referral ministries, each with their own local names, around the world. Exodus International serves as a non-profit, interdenominational umbrella agency providing accountability.