Career
Paulk became involved with Focus on the Family, where he was manager of the organization's Homosexuality and Gender Division. In August 1995, Paulk was elected Chairman of the board of Exodus International North America for a three-year term. He was subsequently re-elected to a second three-year term in 1998. As an employee of Focus on the Family, Paulk toured the United States, speaking of his conversions in what was named Love Won Out conferences. Paulk and his wife became the faces promoting Exodus ministries in major daily newspaper full page ads. The couple appeared on the cover of Newsweek (August 1998) when the publication covered Exodus and the ex-gay movement.
Paulk left Exodus International in 2003 and now lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and family. The couple started a catering business in 2005, and he appears regularly in cooking segments on Portland television, as well as his own regular segment on Christian radio station KPDQ called "Food Talk with Chef John".
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