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Articulating the Message of Freedom

About Equipped To Love

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Encountered for Freedom

A few years ago Ken and Elizabeth, with our friend Rodger, began meeting together over coffee to share how God encountered us—it wasn’t long before we realized our experiences were relevant and spoke directly to the needs many people face. So, we resolved to establish a resource for people longing to understand homosexuality better and find resolution, and Equipped to Love was born. 

Ken and Elizabeth followed the Lord into sexual wholeness and today cast vision to countless others seeking God’s heart for their sexual identities. Drawing upon their combined experiences of walking away from homosexuality, they offer understanding of the issue that opens doors for compassion and understanding.

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We are a resource to:

  • individuals

  • family members

  • friends

  • church leaders

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 Ken Williams

Co-founder of Equipped to Love

I began a pursuit of my true sexual identity in 1987 when my battle against homosexuality grew into intentions of suicide. After decades of failed attempts at freedom, I encountered God in areas & ways that transformed me. The following years healed childhood trauma, replaced lies with truth, forged deep intimacy with God, and established self-love and masculine identity.

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I didn’t fit in with the boys, as a child. They didn’t seem to like me, and neither did I. So from first grade, I began to live every day in a fantasy world of codependent fixation on whichever boy in my life I saw as the picture-perfect male. It was how I affirmed myself and coped with a life of hopelessness and insecurity. My very first sexual desires were for other males. I had none for females. And my pain medication for 20 years was daily addiction to masturbation, which sometimes included stents of serious addiction to pornography. The shame of those sins and multiple inappropriate sexual encounters resulted in a suicidal season at age 17. I couldn’t fathom breaking free of my addictions or ever finding a woman sexually attractive, let alone becoming married to a woman, enjoying sex with her, and fathering children…until a life in Christ became deeply experiential for me.

Today, I meet with others and help place them into the hands of the God who helped me find genuine identity and inner peace. And I help churches and organizations understand and navigate LGBTQ issues. I am an author; have been a pastor since 2006; am co-founder of Equipped to Love, a ministry which serves those impacted by LGBTQ; am co-founder of CHANGED Movement; serve Moral Revolution as a lecturer and minister; and hold a B.S. in Marketing/Finance. My greatest joys are my beautiful wife and our four incredible children.


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Elizabeth Woning

Co-founder of Equipped to Love

I “came out” in my early 20s and attended a Presbyterian Church (USA) seminary openly lesbian. As a student in seminary I lobbied for marriage and ordination of LGTBQ-identifying individuals and ministered among gay-identifying youth, espousing a theology that embraced homosexuality. Upon graduating I served as a youth pastor in a small rural community, where an encounter with Jesus radically shifted my perspective. The love of God drew me into a revelation that transformed my life.

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I have great passion for understanding homosexuality as it affects Christianity in our culture. I regularly consult with pastors and leaders who seek to establish connection with the LGBTQ community and to better serve individuals in churches who do not identify as gay, yet struggle with sexual identity issues. My heart is to see the LGBTQ community fully reconciled to God and to explore compassionate means of connection to those who disagree with traditional Christian beliefs.

I teach at the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry and regularly facilitate interactive conversations about homosexuality. I hold a Masters in Theology and am an ordained pastor.

My husband, Doug, and I live in Redding, CA.


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Equipped To Love Team 

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Caleb Boggan
Administrator
Caleb Boggan
Administrator

Caleb is passionate about walking people through the process of healing and growth into the fullness of their identity and purpose. Having spent a good amount of time internationally, he is most at home in the back of a truck bouncing through the jungles of a new country and exposing people to God’s heart for the nations. He also has a huge heart for the people in the entertainment industry and longs to see the unconditional love of Jesus set them free to truly be the powerful people of influence they were created to be.

Administrator
Amy Ligon
Worship/Intercession, Administrative Assistant
Amy Ligon
Worship/Intercession, Administrative Assistant

Passionate about seeing people released into the full knowledge of their worth, Amy has given herself to traveling all around the world teaching and empowering people in their gifts. Worship combined with Intercession is her favorite expression of her gifts and song is her preferred language. She has given her life to seeking and cultivating an atmosphere of Encounter with the Lord because she is convinced wholeness and identity are found in the light of His beauty and knowing who He is.

Worship/Intercession, Administrative Assistant
Bree Stevens
Marketing & Distribution
Bree Stevens
Marketing & Distribution

Bree is a marketer and graphic designer at Bethel Church. She has a B.A. in Business Marketing and Graphic Design from Fresno Pacific University, and joined the ETL team in 2018 for the start of the CHANGED Movement. Bree is passionate about worship and creativity, and loves connecting people to the heart of the Father. To date, her favorite project has been designing the CHANGED Book

Marketing & Distribution
Abram Goff
Web Development
Abram Goff
Web Development

Abram Goff has been part of the Moral Revolution team since 2014 creating graphics and different forms of media. He has a B.A. in Graphic Design and Advertising from Concord University and has served through graphic design inside and outside the Church for over a decade. His passion is to see people across the nations extravagantly fall in love with Jesus and walk in passion, purity, and purpose. He believes each person is made to be fully alive and fully beautiful in their original design discovered through relationship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. With Southern Baptist roots and as a graduate of BSSM, he has a passion to see the whole Church discover and walk in all of who She really is.

Web Development
Amy Crapson
Pastoral Care
Amy Crapson
Pastoral Care

Amy is a proud Kansas City native who moved to Redding in 2018 to attend Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry and to serve her mentor, Elizabeth Woning of Equipped to Love. Amy is a member of the original CHANGED team that formed in Sacramento. She left homosexuality and is passionate about mentoring women who want to find their identity as whole and restored gifts to those around them, as well as educating and equipping the church to minister to those coming out of the LGBT lifestyle.

Pastoral Care
Jessica Owens
Assistant to Elizabeth Woning
Jessica Owens
Assistant to Elizabeth Woning

Jessica had a radical encounter with the Lord in October of 2012, in which she was set free from a six and half year lifestyle of homosexuality. Immediately she began to experience a relationship with the Holy Spirit that transformed her life forever. Today, Jessica is free from same sex attraction. She moved to Redding in 2018 to attend Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry. With a passion to help others that are experiencing same sex attraction she connected with ETL and CHANGED. She now serves as a third year for Elizabeth Woning. She burns to see others experience an intimate relationship with Jesus, to know their identity in Him, and to enjoy healthy relationships.

Assistant to Elizabeth Woning