As Lead Them Home enters our 15th year of ministry, we reflect on God’s faithfulness in the past and direction for the future. For the past decade, we have sought God’s wisdom for a specific vision focus: 2010: “Authentic: One Message, All...
Fifteen years ago, Lead Them Home pioneered a missiological approach for loving LGBT+ people in the church. We established four missional goals to create a new church history in which LGBT+ people will be valued, included, and engaged well. Along the way, God led us...
Trigger warning: The following article discusses the topic of suicide. Note: If you or someone you know is suicidal, please call the Trevor Project Hotline at 1-866-488-7386 or the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255. In the past year, the CDC...
One of our four missional goals at Lead Them Home is to protect against victimization of LGBT+ individuals. It is easy to think that as more rights have been given to LGBT+ people in our country that this objective is not needed. According to a new study released by...
Research, as shown in Guiding Families, has long showed that LGBT+ youth are 2 to 8 times more likely to attempt suicide than their straight peers depending on whether they have family acceptance. Acceptance can make a major difference in the life of any teen going...
Fifty years ago today in the early hours of the morning, New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a prominent backstairs gay club in Greenwich Village, Manhattan during the 1960s. Tired of continual police harassment and raids, patrons and neighborhood residents...
