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"The American Family Outing"
What is "The American Family Outing?"
The letter of invitation asking Steve Parelli and Jose Ortiz to be one of the lead families in
"The American Family Outing"
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Austin, Texas, Lead Families Training
                                 February 20 - 22, 2008
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Training Site:  Doubletree Hotel Austin
Texas sunset from our Doubletree Hotel Austin room
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The Kotchick-Moore Family
Lancaster, CA
Kimrey Kotchick and Jeanie Moore
The Collie Family
Louisburg, NC
Angel Collie, Mary Helen Phelps
(Angel's mother)
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The Beggs Family
Houston, Texas
Kim (left) and daughter Laura Beggs
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Training
Left to right:
  • Kim Beggs and daughter Laura Beggs  The Beggs Family
  • Jutta Land and son Tom Land    The Land-Jenkins Family
  • Steve Parelli and Jose Ortiz    The Parelli Ortiz Family
  • Richard Jenkins (life partner with Tom Lands)   The Land-Jenkins Family
Steve and Jose
lunch with two
other lead
families at a
local Chinese
restaurant.
February 23, 2008
Austin, TX
Above Photo:
The Parelli-Ortiz Family
Steve Parelli (left) and Jose Ortiz at the
Austin, Texas, Family Leadership
TrainingTaken February 23, 2008, while at
lunch with two other lead families.  Austin, TX
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The Land-Jenkins Family
Mansfield, TX
Tom Land (left) and Richard Jenkins
  • They have a 13 year old son, Thomas
  • Jutta Land is Tom's mother.
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February 22-24, Austin, Texas
The Freeman-Chambers Family
Houston, TX
Michelle Freeman (left) and Georgia
Chambers
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The Berry-Sapp Family
Blaine, WA
Dotti Berry (right in both photos) and
Roby Sapp, her life partner


Jose Ortiz and Steve Parelli
(far left in photo at immediate left)
The Nagle-Pinkham Family
San Antonia, TX
Della Nagle (right in photo at right) and Ruth Pinkham
    They have eight children.  The following four are
    participating in The American Family:
  • Stacie (age 14)
  • Samantha (age 14)
  • Juliana (age 10)
  • Polly Ann (age 10)
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The Schilt-Koonce Family
Austin, TX
Paige Schilt (right in photo at right) and Katy
Koonce
  • Waylon (age 4)
Paige Schilt (above and at right)  is
Soulforce Director of Media & Public
Relations

Above:  Paige leads in the training.
Right:  Paige receiving flowers from her
partner, Katy.
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The Lutes-Stein Family
Austin, TX
Jeff Lutes (far right) and his partner Gary
Stein (far left in back)
    Children, left to right:
  • Trei, age 5
  • Niko, age 11
  • Jole' , age 4
The above Lutes-Stein Family photo was taken
December 1, 2007, and was sent as an attachment to a
letter Jeff sent to the lead families of The American Family
Outing
Jeff Lutes is Soulforce Executive Director
Jeff Lutes leading in the training sessions, Austin, TX.  
February 22-23, 2008
Congratulations! Cake at top center:
The adoption of Trei and Jole' to the Lutes-Stein
Family was legally finalized February 22, 2008.
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Training session, February 23, 2008
February 22-24, Austin, Texas
Bill Carpenter - St. Petersburg, FL
Soulforce Director of National Actions
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Bill Carpenter
Pictured here, from bottom left clockwise
    Director of Religious Affairs and
    Constituency Development
Rev. Troy Sanders
Rev. Troy Sanders   Sylvia Rhue
Paige Schilt                                           Sylvia Rhue
Jose Ortiz                Sylvia Rhue          Steve Parelli
Jay Bakker
Jose  Ortiz                      Jay Bakker    Steve Parelli
The DeCanio-Ritterback Family
Houston, TX
Elaine DeCanio (right) and Johna Ritterbeck
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The Johnson-Willoughby Family
Le' Tonia Johnson (right) and Carrie
Willoughby
  • Zandria, their daughter, age 15
This was a reunion for us (Steve and Jose).  We attended Dotti and Roby's wedding in 2004.
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At the Lead Family Training, Saturday, February 23, 2008,
Jeff Lutes spontaneously asked Steve and Jose to speak
impromptu to the lead families in training about their
experience in the "ex-gay" movement.

Go to:
Steve and Jose speak on the "ex-gay"
movement to the lead families in training
Steve and Jose participate in . . .
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On this page . . .
Lead Families Training, Austin TX, February 22-24, 2008
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Sites we found (using our AAA
guide book) along I-35 between
San Antonio and Austin,
Texas.
San Marcos, TX
San Marcos, TX
Landa Park, New Braunfels, TX
Gruene, TX
Gruene, TX
New Braunfels - Gruene, TX
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