Change

"Change isn't the absence of struggle, it's the freedom in the midst of that struggle to make a different decision"

Alan Chambers, President, Exodus International
Exodus Freedom Conference
Opening Night General Session
Saint Paul, Minnesota
June 28, 2012

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