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CLICK HERE for a financial report of
expenditures made and gifts
received to date for the Kenya
Project 2007.
    Spring 2007
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¿Gay y cristiano?
¿Homosexual y católico?
¿Cristiana y lesbiana?
¡Sí!
Creemos que nuestra sexualidad es un don de
Dios y algo para celebrar dignamente. La
homosexualidad no es ni pecado ni enfermedad.

A continuación están los cinqo sitios de
Otras Ovejas.
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Gay and Christian?
Queer and Catholic?
Christian and lesbian?
Yes!
We believe that our sexuality – whatever our
orientation – is a gift of God to be celebrated with
dignity.  Homosexuality is not a sin nor a sickness.

Below are the five web sites of
Other Sheep
Other Sheep's Official English Website:  
About Other Sheep; The Writings of
Tom Hanks and other Resources; Newsletters;  Book
Reviews, ILGA, How You Can Help; Contact us; and
more . . .
The Other Sheep website
of  the Executive
Director, Steve Parelli
(at right in photo), and his
partner Jose Ortiz:  Their
personal stories and their
summer ministries in Latin
America and Africa
El sitio web oficial de
Otras Ovejas en
español.
Other Sheep Foundation of Argentina is in English and Spanish.
The writings of Tom Hanks and more . . .
Fundación Otras Ovejas de Argentina esta en ingles  y en español.
Los escritos de Tom Hanks y mas . . .
This website was reconstructed in June of 2007
Visits made to this web page since June 2007
"I have other sheep that are not of this
fold.  I must bring them in also."  
John 10:16
Tom Hanks
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New web pages and current notes of interest at Other Sheep:
PHOTO  SCOTT GUNN  
Davis Mac-Iyalla

JUNE 19, 2007

  • Davis Mac-Iyalla, Anglican Gay Nigerian Leader shared his story at the
    Episcopal Church of the Holy Apostles, New York, NY, June 19, 2007
  • Excellent article by Matthew Streib on the LGBT Christian work in Nigeria
  • See pictures of Bishop Gene Robinson with Davis.  Robinson gave a
    sermon at the June 19, 2007, meeting at the Church of the Holy Apostles
  • Links to Gene Robinson's sermon and Mac-Iyall's address

           For the web page containing the above information
            and links, CLICK HERE
The Inspirited,  a publication of the Association of Welcoming & Affirming Baptists,
in its Vol 11 No. 3, Spring, 2007, issue, published an article by Steve Parelli
entitled "My Debt of Gratitude to a Welcoming Church and Queer
Theologians" in which Pastor Jerri E. Williams is portrayed as a pastor who
encourages gets.   CLICK HERE for the news publication.  The article is on the
bottom of the first page.
Rev. Dr. Jerri
E. Williams
Slide Presentation
(You need Microsoft Power Point)

Click on the link  that
corresponds to the segment of the study
you want to view.

At the prompt, select "Open."  Wait
20 Seconds.  When the presentation
appears,  left click to advance slide by
slide, or feature by feature within a
slide.  

April 27, 2007
--An Introduction and Five Parts--
The Bible and Homosexuality:
A Power Point Presentation
Created by Steve Parelli, Executive
Director, Other Sheep
The abduction
of Ganymede
NEWS
Summer Report 2007
  • News already Made: Tom Hanks' May Speaking Tour to Brazil  PAGE 1
  • News In the Making: Steve and Jose's Summer Project 07 in Africa  PAGE 4
  • Personal Testimony: Evangelical Baptist Pastor of Argentina writes One Year later
    about his "Coming Out"  PAGE 1
  • Quote of the Month: "Send the Books" -Davis Mac-Iylla  PAGE 3
  • Inspirational: Manhattan law firm; a hymn; & Kenya, Africa  PAGE 3
  • Featured Photo:  NYC Pride Parade Family Picture PAGE 2
The Gay & Lesbian Review
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WORLDWIDE
July-August 2007
This issue of The Gay & Lesbian Review
carries an article by Stephen Parelli entitled
Why Ex-Gay Therapy Doesn't Work:  
Postmortem on a Baptist pastor's sincere
attempt to change
  • This article is an abridgment of the paper Steve and Jose gave as a seminar in three countries in
    South American (Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) in July and August of 2006.  
  • The paper, unlike the article published in The Gay & Lesbian Review, is extensively footnoted with
    quotes from recognized and acclaimed "ex-gay" authors.  
  • Go to the paper in English.  Go to the paper in Spanish.  
  • Go to pictures and story of the seminar in Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Bible and Homosexuality:  A Power Point Presentation
SITE 1
SITE 2
SITE 3
SITE 4

    STEVE AND JOSE REPORT ON THEIR MINISTRY IN KENYA & UGANDA,
    JULY 8 - August 24, 2007  CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS
NEWS

Steve Parelli and Jose Ortiz's July-August 2007 Kenya Project:
  • PFLAG comes to Nairobi, Kenya
  • I felt how the Apostle Paul must have felt
  • Nairobi radio listener says he felt so sinful, until today
  • A meeting with an Anglican Priest by divine appointment
  • Other Sheep East Africa (OSEA) board formed in Nairobi, Kenya
  • The eight member OSEA board
  • Two OSEA board members suffer persecution
Also:      
  • Africa calls for your help:  'Send the books!'
  • Gay groups and Methodist churches in Buenos Aires open doors to the author of The Man
    Jesus Loved

Announcement:  An essay by Steve Parelli published in the July-August 2007 issue
of The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide
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CLICK HERE for Other Sheep East Africa website (OSEA)
Two new major writings have been added to www.othersheep.org website:

a scholarly study on biblical sexuality
by James E. Miller

RAW MATERIAL
CLICK HERE

a Friar preacher recounts his
spiritual journey

WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN?
by Gerard B. Cleator, O.P.
CLICK HERE
October 31, 2007
Thomas D. Hanks
presents a paper at the AARSBL 2007 Annual Meeting
(American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature)
San Diego, California; the paper was presented on November 17, 2007

Topic of paper: "Robert Jewett (2006) and Robert Gagnon (2001)
on Romans 1:16 - 2:16"

CLICK HERE for the paper in full

for discusion on the paper, contact Tom in Buenos Aires by email after
Dec. 1, 2007; email:  thanks@wamani.apc.org
PICTURED ABOVE
Rev. Dr. Tom Hanks,
Theologian / Director of Mission.
Buenos Aires, 2006
For additional writings of
Tom Hanks
CLICK HERE
CLICK HERE TO
SEARCH OTHER
SHEEP WEB SITES
Enter here, or use the following navigation bar to link
to web pages of Other Sheep's Official English Website:
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Other Sheep 2008 Winter Report (January-March, 2008)

In this issue:

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    Also:     -Tom Hanks delivers paper at SBL conference, San Diego 2007
    -New writings by Jim Miller and Gerard Cleator
    -Steve and Jose's itinerary
NEWS

Other Sheep Executive Director, Steve Parelli, visits Costa Rica
April 19 - May 5, 2008  
Jose joins Steve for the first week.
New York State's Pride in the Pulpit:
(Posted here June 27, 2008)
  • Steve serves on the Pride in the Pulpit Committee (when he's not travelling).
  • Pride in the Pulpit is a program of the Empire State Pride Agenda, New York’s statewide Lesbian,
    Gay, Bisexual and Transgender civil rights and advocacy organization. For more information visit
    www.prideagenda.org
  • Our New York state voices are needed.  Albany legislators need to know that there is a religious
    voice other than the voice of the religious right and that Albany needs to represent ALL the
    people, not just the conservative religious right.   Chick here to sign the Pride in the Pulpit Three
    Issue Sign Up.
USA LGBT civil rights News Items________________________________________________________________________
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Rev. Michael Kimindu, Coordinator for East Africa
Jose Ortiz and Steve Parelli's 2008 ministry (July 4-August 5) in
Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda.  
CLICK HERE FOR THE INDEX OF REPORTS
"Here I am on the cusp of
seventy years of age . . . a
Presbyterian pastor and
missionary" ministering to fifty or
sixty "queers and queens" in
"this northern Thai village
context."   July, 2009.
Articles by The Rev., Dr. Kenneth Dobson   -    "The Thai Village Gay Way" and other writtings
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Kenneth Dobson

Our 2009 Asia Trip  (June 26 - August 30, 2009)
NEPAL   THAILAND   SINGAPORE    MALAYSIA
    Steve and Jose
    in Thailand
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Steve & Jose's
Travels, Meetings and Events





  • Chiang Mai, July 10 - July 29, 2009
  • Bangkok, Mae Sot, August 23 - 29, 2009

    See our BLOG for commentaries on our
    different experiences throughout the trip.


RECONCILING MINISTRIES NETWORK CONVOCATION
September 3-7, 2009  Reconciling Ministries Network
Convocation, Estes Park, Colorado



September 27, 2009.  Steve preaches at Memorial
UMC, White Plains, Westchester, NY.  View the
manuscript and hear the sermon on podcast.
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Kenneth Dobson
Tell Rick Warren, John Stott and Douglas Carew to tell the Association of Evangelicals in
Africa (AEA) to Denounce the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009.  
October 12, 2009
The AEA, with the endorsement of Warren, Stott and Carew, published a feature article on "Homosexuality" in the Africa Bible
Commentary (2006) that in word and in spirit can be taken as an endorsement of this Anti-Homosexuality Bill of Uganda.  AEA must
clarify that its publication (in partnership with Zondervan Corporation, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA) does not in any way indicate
agreement with what is happening in the Parliament of Uganda at this time.
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New as of
January 2010
Counter
Otras Ovejas Latinas/os

en los
Estados Unidos de América
    Other Sheep Latinas/os in the USA
Rev. Thomas S. Bigelow
Coordinator for
Latinas/os in the USA
Other Sheep in Asia
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Other Sheep and Blue Diamond Society and Jesus MCC of Indianapolis,
Indiana, Announce the Translation and Distribution of the book The Children
Are Free in Nepali for Nepal.
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