Executive Director of OneByOne, Kristin Johnson, is featured in Chamber's new book, along with five other testimonies of transformation.

Alan Chambers, Harvest House, $13.99, ISBN 0-7369-1691-2

Exodus Book Tops Best Outreach Resources of 2006
May 1, 2007

Exodus International's book, God's Grace and the Homosexual Next Door, was named among the best resources by Outreach magazine, a leading provider of outreach products in North America. The publication honors resources that are voted on by readers and a panel of 10 experts. Results of this year's vote have just been announced in Outreach magazine's May/June 2007 issue.

God's Grace and the Homosexual Next Door, a resource designed to help evangelical churches and individuals practically demonstrate compassion to gay men and women, was named "Best Target Outreach" by Outreach magazine. The book is co-authored by Alan Chambers, President of Exodus International, as well as other Exodus staff members including Executive Vice President Randy Thomas and Scott Davis, Director of Student Ministries.

Several key areas are addressed including the behavioral complexities and roots of homosexuality; dealing with fear and ignorance within the church; leading gay men and women to Christ; mentoring repentant homosexuals in the church and helping youth affected by homosexuality. The book, published by Harvest House Publishers, also offers practical guidelines on talking with gay men and women.

"We are grateful for this honor and are tremendously gratified by the positive response this book has generated," said Chambers. "Now, more than ever, the world needs to hear of the compassion, grace and mercy that Jesus Christ offers to every individual regardless of their human struggle. It is our great hope that this book will continue to inspire and equip the Christian community in proclaiming this message."

Notable authors and speakers such as Joe Dallas, Coral Ridge Ministries Founder Dr. D. James Kennedy, Christian recording artist Sheila Walsh and Dr. Robert Wolgemuth have endorsed the book. It is available in Christian bookstores across the country.

Nancy Heche was just recenlty featured on the 700 Club and The O'Reilly Factor. Dr. Heche has been a guest speaker for OneByOne at the 2006 General Assembly in Birmingham, AL.

Nancy Heche. Regal, $19.99 (224p) ISBN 0-8307-3912-2

With master’s and doctoral degrees in pastoral counseling, celebrity mom Heche seems a well-educated, poised, and caring woman. She has certainly endured more relational disappointments, setbacks and tragedies than most. In this candid yet somewhat clumsily written memoir, Heche tells her life story in the hope that others (Christians and nonbelievers alike) will find common ground through her suffering and look to Christ for redemption and sustenance. Heche was married for 25 tumultuous years before her homosexual husband died of AIDS and his secret double life came out. Heche’s 18-year-old son then died in a car crash and her actress daughter, Anne, began a public lesbian affair with Ellen DeGeneres. Within a short space of time,

Heche found herself spiritually desolate, involved in numerous affairs, and caught within a cyclical pattern of estrangement from loved ones. Happily, her story doesn’t end in personal destruction. Heche chronicles how a sensitive group of Christians wedged their way into her broken heart and reveals how over time, healing and a new life emerged. While this autobiographical tale is engaging, Heche’s passionate mission to overcome hatred among individuals on both sides of the issue of homosexuality is the book’s true contribution. Ruth Graham (Billy’s daughter) provides the foreword.