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North Point Pastor Recommends Struggling Christians Attend ‘Queer Parent Summit’

The Q Christian Fellowship is the world’s most prominent gay-affirming Christian activist and advocacy group. Founded by Justin Lee as the Gay Christian Network in 2001, its mission is to cultivate radical belonging for LGBTQ+ Christians and allies. They are perhaps best known for their Q Christian Fellowship Conferences, also widely considered the largest annual LGBTQ+ Christian event in the world.

Past speakers have included fetishist Sam Britton, the non-binary government official that Biden appointed to the Department of Energy that was also into “puppy play” and wearing leather dog masks, mystic Richard Rohr, and Danny Cortez, the gay-affirming pastor who was famously disfellowshipped from the SBC after his son came out as a homosexual.

Other speakers have included Candice Czubernat, who founded a counseling collective of all-LGBTQ therapists that North Point church pastors recommend for struggling gay kids, UMC Bishop Karen Oliveto, and an assortment of random feminist clergy from dying mainline denominations.

They are joined by North Point Community Church pastors and leaders. 

Debbie Causey, the gay-affirming pastor and Director of North Point’s Care Network has spoken there, along with Amy Blakselee, the gay-affirming Director of Parent Connect, which is North Points’ ministry to parents with gay kids. Other speakers have included Greg and Lynn McDonald, Parent Connect leaders and founders of Embracing the Journey, a gay-affirming organization North Point church uses and recommends.

During one of their breakout talks at the QFC, Causey and Blakeslee recommended a slew of gay-affirming resources including Embracing the Journey, Harbor, and the QCF’s own Parents’ Summit.


The Q Christian Fellowship Parent’s Summit is being held this year at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago, IL, one of the largest congregations of the apostate PCUSA denomination. The conference’s mission is to “encourage, equip, and connect parents of LGBTQ+ children” through a series of Q &A, breakout sessions, panels, and workshops. The thrust of the messaging is simple: your child cannot and will not change, and so you need to love and affirm them, lest they kill themselves or cut off all contact with you.

Speakers at the upcoming sessions will include the aforementioned Danny Cortez, Linda Robertson, author of Just Because he Breathes and QFC board member, and some other gay-affirming ministers. North Point church’s Amy Blakeslee was the panel facilitator last year, and it’s unclear if she will again serve as moderator this year. 

One thing that is clear, however, is that North Point Church is thoroughly corrupt and compromised. Parents coming for help with their struggling and questioning gay children will not be given hope, but rather pointed to a pathway to hell and hopelessness paved with rainbows and gay-affirming resources. 

From Embracing the Journey to Harbor, the Christian Closet to Q Christian Conferences, is there no one that will point children and parents towards sound biblical orthodoxy rather than capitulation to confusion?

None that we have encountered. 

Those North Point kids are goners. 

For more resources detailing Andy Stanley’s LGBTQ+ affirmations:

Gay Man with a ‘Husband’ Scheduled to Speak with Andy Stanley At His Church’s Family Conference
ALMOST ALL Speakers at Andy Stanley’s Upcoming ‘Christian’ Conference are LGBTQ+ Affirming!
Celebrating Transgenderism?! North Point Church Staffers Rejoice After Man Comes Out as Woman

Audio: Gay North Point Church Leader Says Andy Stanley Affirmed Him in His Homosexuality
Dr. Michael Brown Says He’s Spent 8 Years Exchanging Texts and Emails with Andy Stanley, Who Has REFUSED to Condemn Homosexuality

Did a Pastor at Andy Stanley’s Church Just Out Him as Gay-Affirming?! Read the Excerpts
North Point Leader Recommends All-LGBTQ+ Queer Counselling Collective For Struggling Gay Kids
Contemporaneous Text Messages from 2019 Support Gay-Affirming Charges Against Andy Stanley 

Andy Stanley’s Children Ministry Overrun and Led by Pro-LBGTQ+ Activists
North Point Pastor Praises Gay Man’s Affirming Org. ‘Lord, Let Him Create More Allies for the LGBTQ Community’
Andy Stanley’s Church Hosts and Promotes Pro-LBGTQ+ Ministry
Surprise Surprise, Another North Point Church Leader is Gay-Affirming and Wildly Liberal

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North Point Pastor Tells People Not to Attend Her Church Because It’s Not Affirming and ‘Safe’ Enough

In recent weeks Protestia has uncovered that not only is Stanley gay-affirming, but rather several ministry heads are as well. We wrote how when parents come to them with concerns and counseling regarding their struggling LGBTQ+ children, North Point recommends an affirming ministry for the parents, and affirming ministries and counselors for the children. Furthermore, in a few months, North Point Community Church is hosting a conference for a gay-affirming ministry where one of the main speakers will be Justin Lee, the founder of the world’s largest LGBTQ Christian advocacy organization that is dedicated to advancing the acceptance and celebration of homosexuality in the church.

In a message at the 2022 Q Christian Fellowship conference, the aforementioned largest gay advocacy organization, Debbie Causey, an affirming pastrix who is the Director of Care ministries for North Point, and Amy Blakeless, an affirming ministry leader and head of Parent Connect, offer cautions for why parents of LBGTQ+ children should avoid their church.

Rather than framing their church as a place where those feelings and attractions can be mortified with the power of the Holy Spirit, encouraging them to get involved in a ministry where their children are not affirmed but instead will hear the truth that seeks to see them sanctified and delivered, Causey warns them away from the church and the gospel that might transform them. 

Amy: My name is Amy Blakeslee and I’m very excited to be here. And my pronouns are she/her and I identify as gay. I live in Atlanta, Georgia, and love coffee. So I have background working with parents and family of LGBTQ+ individuals and love them. And so I’m looking forward to having this conversation tonight.

Debbie: And I’m Debbie Causey, my pronouns are she/her. I identify as straight, I guess. I am a parent of a gay son that’s 25. And Amy and I led a ministry together called Parent Connect, where we met with and -not dealt with- but interacted with lots of parents whose kids were coming out…and so, you know, my reason for being here is just my love for my son, and just the LGBTQ+ community that I’ve gotten to know, through the years, so yeah, that’s us.

Debbie: Here comes Jen’s question…how do you advise someone to navigate around others in their church who are not supportive of parents of an LGBTQ+ plus child?

Amy.. because my personal experience in a non-affirming church has been that it takes a lot of, it’s a long journey for a lot of religious leaders to- or even just people in the church- to, you know it was long for me, you know.

I had a very different belief system based on what I was taught when I was growing up, and it probably took me about four years to come to be somebody who is safe. So not to say to give up on them, but I would focus more on the parents themselves than on the church member members who are not supportive. But Debbie if you have any more helpful thoughts for the church members.

Debbie: Well, it says ‘navigate around others’, and this is something that made, you know, Jen very angry, and we get that all the time.

I think it’s to encourage those parents to have that inner circle. You know, you’re gonna grow a pretty tough skin, and unfortunately, that’s through micro-aggressions and hard things that you’ll experience as parents as well.

But they need to have an inner circle, and then sometimes I just tell them, ‘hey, our church might not be a safe place for you….I want you to be in a safe spot.’

So it just depends on those parents and how much they’re willing to kind of take on. But if they’re in a situation where it’s constant, I would want to get them out of there. Or at least have an inner circle that can be supportive of them, including you being part of that inner circle.

But yeah, we can’t protect others, unfortunately, I wish I could. We can’t protect our LGBTQ+ community. I wish we could. I work for a very large church so I’m in this all the time in this situation, and you’re right, it’s not fun.”

For those who need support and resources, Causey concludes by recommending Embracing the Journey, the pro-LGBTQ+ organization and ministry partner of North Point Community Church.