Profile: D.L. Foster, pastor (plus podcast)



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  • Editor’s note: A special treat for you! This week’s profilee, Pastor D.L. Foster, was kind enough to stop by our office for a podcast interview. CL Online Producer Alejandro Leal recorded the interview and edited it with the author of the profile, Tammy Vinson.





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Pastor D.L. Foster ministers at Forest Park’s Praise Power Ministries, where he counsels people struggling with their sexuality. He credits Christ with turning him away from homosexuality, “reactivating” his feelings for women and helping him find his wife.

Foster is often labeled as “ex-gay,” but he prefers to use biblical terms such as “transformed” or “healed” to reflect his spiritual change.

Living as a homosexual, he says, was like “chasing a ghost” because he thought a stable, perfect relationship with “Mr. Right” was not going to happen for him.

On the difficult process of turning away from homosexuality: “I would say, ‘I’m not going to go to the club again,’ ‘I’m not going to see Johnny again,’ ‘I’m just not going to feel this way again.’ It would last two or three weeks until, you know, my white knuckles would release themselves and I would go back to it.”

“I had to look to a power that was greater than myself.”

On his wife: “When I met her, the feelings that I had toward her were feelings I’d never felt before and it wasn’t a passing thing.”

Don’t forget to listen to our podcast interview with Pastor D.L. Foster.