Several other prominent former members, including John Paulk, have made similar apologies. The following year, Chambers closed the organization and apologized for the 'pain and hurt' participants of their programs had experienced. In 2012, then president Alan Chambers renounced conversion therapy, saying it did not work and was harmful. Although Exodus was formally an interdenominational Christian entity, it was most closely associated with Protestant and evangelical denominations. In 2006, Exodus International had over 250 local ministries in the United States and Canada and over 150 ministries in 17 other countries.
Founded in 1976, Exodus International originally asserted that conversion therapy, the reorientation of same-sex attraction, was possible. Exodus International was a non-profit, interdenominational ex-gay Christian umbrella organization connecting organizations that sought to 'help people who wished to limit their homosexual desires'.
