By Ryan Foley\/US Correspondent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alan Chambers, the former president of Exodus International, a once-prominent Christian ministry that sought to help people with unwanted same-sex attraction, has been arrested in Florida after authorities say he attempted to arrange sexual activity with someone he believed was a 14-year-old boy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a\u00a0statement\u00a0Tuesday, the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office in Orange County, Florida, said announced the arrest of Alan Chambers, 54, for attempting to \u201cmeet someone he thought was a 14-year-old boy – but it was actually an undercover detective.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the sheriff\u2019s office, Chambers faces charges of solicitation of a minor, transmission of harmful material to minors and unlawful use of a two-way communication device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office also asked anyone with information about possible additional information or allegations to contact investigators. While the agency did not reference Chambers\u2019 ministry background, a\u00a0local news report\u00a0identified Chambers as the former president of Exodus International.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Founded in the 1970s, Exodus International became one of the most well-known Christian organizations focused on helping people with unwanted same-sex attraction before\u00a0shutting down\u00a0in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor quite some time we\u2019ve been imprisoned in a worldview that\u2019s neither honoring toward our fellow human beings, nor biblical,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cExodus International is the prodigal\u2019s older brother, trying to impose its will on God\u2019s promises, and make judgments on who\u2019s worthy of His Kingdom. God is calling us to be the father \u2014 to welcome everyone, to love unhindered.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chambers further discussed his evolving views in a 2015 interview with\u00a0The Christian Post\u00a0tied to the release of his book\u00a0My Exodus: From Fear to Grace<\/em>. The book chronicled his personal experience with sexual orientation change efforts therapy and the eventual closure of Exodus International.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the interview, Chambers described so-called \u201cconversion therapy\u201d as \u201cdangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTo promise that someone can experience a complete elimination or eradication of a sexual orientation is something that I don\u2019t believe is possible,\u201d he added. \u201cIn all of my years at Exodus in working with people who had been subjected to reparative therapy voluntarily, I\u2019ve never met one of them whose sexual orientation changed completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It doesn\u2019t mean there aren\u2019t shifts. To promise someone, especially a minor, that there can be change I think is dangerous and should not be offered.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Chambers also told CP that \u201cthere are so many gay and lesbian people that I know, transgender people, bisexual people, you name it, who have a vibrant relationship with Christ and their sexual narrative doesn\u2019t negate their righteousness or holiness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Chambers, \u201cSomeone\u2019s relationship with Christ isn\u2019t dependent on the things that they do or the behaviors that they\u2019re involved in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n More than a decade after Exodus International closed, Chambers is again drawing public attention following the criminal allegations involving communications with someone he believed was a teenage boy. Chambers was\u00a0released\u00a0from the Orange County Jail on $15,000 bond on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Ryan Foley\/US Correspondent. Alan Chambers, the former president of Exodus International, a once-prominent Christian ministry that sought to help people with unwanted same-sex attraction, has been arrested in Florida after authorities say he attempted to arrange sexual activity with someone he believed was a 14-year-old boy. In a\u00a0statement\u00a0Tuesday, the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[1248,110,179],"coauthors":[976],"class_list":{"0":"post-13528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-faith","8":"tag-accountability","9":"tag-christianity","10":"tag-usa"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Alan-Chambers.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13530,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528\/revisions\/13530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13528"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=13528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}