2011 58,000 2001 21,000 In Africa, Compassion works in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Togo and Uganda. 2008 2,862,715 On a recent Friday night, several hundred suburbanites gathered in Fairfax, Virginia, to sing battle songs. As reported in Kenyan media (see: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/mobile/?articleID=2000168074&story_title=DP+William+Ruto%3A+homosexuals+have+no+place+in+Kenya ) on July 6, 2015 Ruto declared, in a speech at the Ziwani Church, The other day you heard that in America the court has ruled about homosexuality but in this country we will defend what is right and what our faith states., Ruto continued, God did not create man and woman for a man to come and marry another man. 2006 45,000 The International Association of Healing Rooms miracle healing franchise is run by one one of the apostles in the International Coalition of Apostolic Leaders (formerly the International Coalition of Apostles, led for the decade of the 2000s by church growth guru C. Peter Wagner). Tjey are pain-management coping mechanisms. 2011 91,195 2010 111,600 It was the first time I ever heard that. In a 1999 book, NAR leader C. Peter Wagner described one of the key three moral nonnegotiables of New Apostolic churches: Homosexuality is a sin against God [from page 7 of his book Church Quake! Leading those drives towards schism have been the so-called Renewal groups within the Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, and other traditionally centrist or liberal Protestant denominations. Summit Ministries was until 2011 headed by David Noebel whose long participation in the American far right has included teaching at a school associated with Billy James Hargis Christian Crusade, running the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade (founded by Fred C. Schwarz), membership in the John Birch Society and the Council For National Policy and through Summit Ministries training youth in the biblical worldview, a Summit curriculum firmly rooted in Christian Reconstructionist doctrine. 2011 1,000 2008 500 2007 58,800 2009 370,090 Dacus subsequently apologized for the comparison. Hobby Lobby is a co-plaintiff in a case now before the U.S. Supreme Court (http://www.npr.org/2014/03/25/293956170/hobby-lobby-contraceptive-case-goes-before-supreme-court) which challenges provisions of the Affordable Care Act which require for-profit corporations to provide contraceptive services in employee health plans. There was a sense of life and hope. 2005 82,800 2008 123,495 2006 22,200 2010 200,000 2013 450. 2003 2,500 2007 1,450,424 One of the Assemblies of God official websites features ( http://agtv.ag.org/gtc-demon-possession ) a video presentation, given at the 1996 Teen Challenge National Conference, in which late pastor Herb Meppelink describes the nuances of demon-deliverance, otherwise known as exorcism. Mercy Ministries is headed by Nancy Alcorn, who (along with her husband Randy Alcorn) moves in circles of apostles and prophets associated with the NAR movement. Uganda Christian University has been one of the vectors through which New Apostolic Reformation ideology has infiltrated the Ugandan Anglican Church. In 2007 Ellel Ministries co-head Jill Southern stated, [Homosexuality] is usually a result of homosexual abuse in very early childhood when they were wrongly touched but there are other possible causes such as gender confusion and rejection by a peer group as a weakling So this spirit of homosexuality has an appetite for homosexual acts, and is using your body for its own appetite. 2006 152,080 2009 1,005,100 I would not say this in other cultural contexts, Eldridge explained, but the gay agenda has all the elements of that which is truly evil. Around the world, so-called conversion therapy and other efforts to change sexual orientation and gender expression subject LGBTQI+ people to psychological, physical, and verbal abuse. Campus Crusade has played a significant, if little-noticed, role in exporting the religious rights anti-LGBT rights agenda. There [were] not any positive people to look up to or to mentor me. Kicked off with the 1987 publication of the TURNING POINT Christian Worldview series book Turning Point: A Christian Worldview Declaration (1987, Crossway Books) by Herbert Schlossberg and Marvin Olasky, the series was designed to advance lines of argument that would appeal both to conservative Protestant and Catholic intellectuals alike and featured such little-known but deeply influential (within certain religious right circles) books as E. Calvin Beisners Prospects For Growth: A Biblical View of Population, Resources, and the Future (1990, Crossway Books.). 2009 280,290 The bill would have allowed private citizens, religious entities, or government employees the right to refuse to: - Provide any services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods, or privileges; provide counseling, adoption, foster care and other social services; or provide employment or employment benefits, related to, or related to the celebration of, any marriage, domestic partnership, civil union or similar arrangement. 2007 25,900 Campus Crusade For Christ 2006 994,520 2013 1,478,858, In Touch Mission International (EIN 94-2783852). Schmierers Celebrating Gods Design: A Balanced and Biblical Perspective on Todays Toughest Youth Problems, co-written with Lela Gilbert (Promise Publishing, 2002) was endorsed by Jim Burns. No to sodomy! 2002 1,000 2005 4,500 Sign up in seconds. Compassion International Church Partnerships Specialist I Remote 2d $54K-$67K Per Year (Employer est.) Internal and independent audits are regularly conducted for our country offices and our Global Ministry Center in Colorado Springs. Founded in 1952 and headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Compassion International is a child-sponsoring charitable organization that was originally known as the Everett Swanson Evangelistic Association. While National Christian Foundation funding of the Chalcedon Foundation has been small, a frequent attendee at The Gathering (the NCF is the biggest foundation represented at The Gathering) has been Howard Ahmanson, one of Chalcedons main sources of financial support up into the mid-1990s. 2011 9,606,281 The former head of late TV preacher D James Kennedys now defunct dominionist Center For Reclaiming America For Christ, Gary Cass has been a featured speaker at Christian Reconstructionist conferences (see: http://www.alternet.org/story/55717/). The Institute On Religion and Democracy As AP News noted on the occasion of the death of the founder of the two drug gangs, Nazario Moreno, La Familia reportedly took its inspiration from an odd source: the book Wild at Heart . Vision Forum has published writers such as William O. Einwechter, who not only argues for the criminalization of homosexuality but also for the execution, per Old Testament scripture, of disobedient children. In March 2002, during the time of his first trip to Uganda, anti-LGBT agitator Scott Lively was serving as Director of AFA California. From April 16-18, 2009, less than a week before the draft of Ugandas Anti Homosexuality Bill was introduced in Ugandas Parliament, the Atlanta-based College of Prayer held two major events in Kampala, including a Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast that was broadcast on Ugandan national radio. 2007 5,000 2012 408,808 on their communities' needs. In an April 2014 CBN commentary bemoaning the impact of the Obama administration and their allies, Pat Robertson stated, Something has got to be done, we have to get free of these people because its like a mass of termites that is eating away at the structure of this great edifice we call the United States of America and theyre burrowing in and theyre getting paid to destroy us. (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-lambasts-obama-administration-termites-destroying-america), Robertsons use of the term termites was not new. Under the guidance of Rushdoonys Reconstructionists, evangelicals in COR drafted a series or documents that mapped out how biblically-derived principles could be applied in all spheres of society. On its 2007 IRS 990 tax form, RPI lists two grants to Bishop Julius Oyet, totaling $11,350, as scholarships for travel to US from Uganda. In our country today, there is tremendous pressure on Christians, churches, and Christian organizations to lower our moral standards. 2003 16,350 2007 27,800 2009 0 Fieldstead and Company program director Herbert Schlossberg has served as president of one of the major Renewal groups within the Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Action which is a project of the Ahmanson-funded Institute on Religion and Democracy. 2007 538,399 Global Mobilization Ministries This education session was hosted by the AMA LGBT Advisory Committee. He explained that this is why Focus on the Family is staying in the background. The National Christian Foundations biggest grant to RPI, in 2009, corresponds with heavy College of Prayer organizing in Uganda. I was not free. 2006 2,400 2004 21,000 (see: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/2010/01/11/americanresponse/), 2001 1,000 2009 32,000 opportunity to develop spiritually, emotionally, physically and economically. without recognizing the value of incentive, opportunity, creativity, and economic and 2005 7,400 Ahmanson also provided heavy funding for Californias 2000 election anti-same sex marriage Proposition 22 and also the 2008 election anti-same sex marriage Proposition 8. COP Uganda includes as a member Ugandan MP David Bahati who introduced a draft of the Uganda Anti Homosexuality Bill to Ugandas parliament in early 2009. Yakunin runs the Russian rail system. 1:27), witchcraft, dissension, and cheating. (see: http://www.thefirstacademy.org/files/Admissions%20Images/StudentApplication.pdf). 2003 5,500 2005 534,992 2012 0 Focus on the Family 2006 11,200 Their blood guiltiness is upon them., The document also makes the strange argument, Not only is homosexuality and same sex marriage voided by God in His Word, but Biology as well condemns homosexuality and same sex marriage: One cannot be a homosexual evolutionist., (see: http://capmin.org/site/resources/bible-studies/5-28-12.html). 2006 211,500 2010 457,779 The late Howard Phillips, Doug Phillips father and founder of the Christian Reconstructionism-linked Taxpayers Party, later renamed the Constitution Party, served as a co-director of Vision Forum Ministries. 2011 9,350 The Mayflower Institutes Marshall Foster was an original Coalition on Revival signatory. With sponsorship numbers north of 3.2 million (World Vision) and 1.6 million (Compassion), the ministries are the heavyweights in a . 2010 30,100 Fellowship of Christian Athletes (EIN 44-0610626). The Disciple Nations Alliances 2008 IRS 990 tax form lists a DNA grant to Samaritan Strategy Africa of $144,500. The ADF is currently representing a group of plaintiffs challenging a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires employee health plans from for-profit employers to provide contraceptive coverage. , The Bible clearly teaches about these abnormalities. By 2006, when the National Christian Foundation gave $12,000 to Paul Camerons Family Research Institute, over two decades had passed since Cameron had been disavowed by two of Americas most important relevant professional associations. 2007 2,100 Now I must reclaim that role. Dont misunderstand what Im saying here. 2012 3,000 Citizens For Community Values was a top financial sponsor of the wave of 2004 state ballot amendments banning same-sex marriage. 2001 18,588 2010 581,750 2005 1,000 Rather, the ADF provides not only legal assistance but also targeted financing to support specific litigation. With its close ideological ties to the virulently anti-LGBT rights, theocratic Christian Reconstructionism movement (explored later in this article) it is hardly surprising that the ADF is as evidenced by its involvement in planning meetings of the World Congress of Families, one of the main vectors by which American conservative evangelicals are exporting their culture war agenda including hostility to reproductive and LGBT rights in the vanguard of rapidly globalizing culture wars. 2008 515,409 2005 0 Three cheers., (see:http://www.samaritanspurse.org/article/franklin-graham-statement/ ), 2001 57,560 An official website of the United States government. Liberty Counsel 2003 37,000 If a community perceives that an outside, national group is behind local activism, the community will rebel against it. According to the Compassion International consolidated audit of June 30, 2018 (Note 1, Affiliates): 2005 55,800 2005 897,800 I am serving as one of 100 orientation leaders to represent the University of Michigan . Explained Palau to Olasky, Our school superintendent, who happens to be a very prominent member of the gay and lesbian community, came and said, We want you to find a church partner for every school in Portland public schools. So we now have 252 public schools with an evangelical church partner simply asking the question, How can we serve? Its been a revolution in relationships.. 2010 1,818,940 2007 2,171,275 When people were held in bondage to hunger and deprivation by unjust social World Outreach Ministries (EIN 58-1387722), Grove City professor Warren Throckmorton identified World Outreach Ministries as having processed American funds going to the ministry of Ugandan anti-gay crusader martin Ssempa. One of those, What Does The Bible Say About Homosexuality: Answering Revisionist Gay Theology, showcases, in a section titled The Holiness Code, Leviticus 20:13 If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. (see: https://focusonthefamily.webconnex.com/co-tvsexuality?refcd=209501). ), 2001 25,000 Compassion International Wields Data to Protect and Care for Children in Poverty Key Challenges To serve and protect nearly 2 million children around the world, Compassion International needed a way to ensure system uptime, secure financial data and screen sponsors faster and more effectively. 2006 6,500 In Central America and the Caribbean, Compassion works in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua and Mexico. 2010 2,195,647 2009 6,800 When the scandal of the American use of torture at Iraqs Abu Ghraib prison broke, Weigel unfurled a July 13, 2004 E&PCC op-ed (Abu Ghraib and Just War in Iraq) that argued the American public revulsion at the scandal underscored the underlying morality of the American people as well as the Just War credentials of the American invasion and occupation an enterprise which has led to the devastation of most of the previously affluent, modern, well-educated, and secular nation of Iraq. 2004 75,500 We are to exercise godly dominion and influence (pp. 2003 10,500 (see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/10/noahs-flood-caused-by-wedding-songs-homosexuals-scott-lively_n_2450404.html). Compassion International is a Christian child development organization dedicated to releasing children from poverty. 9. 2012 13,957 Organizations like the members of the Restored Hope Network continue to show that there is help and potential for overcoming sexual sin in any form. (see: http://azpolicypages.com/marriage-family/homosexuality/), 2001 36,000 2011 11,200 2008 2,097,372 Our holistic child development model is delivered 2008 103,500 How do I contact Compassion International? Certified Nursing Assistant /CNA + PT. 2012 48,678 Kennedys many projects included the Center For Reclaiming America, known for its patronage and promotion of leading Christian Reconstructionists. Activists in states that allow gay marriage have been targeting bakeries and photography studios owned by citizens who oppose gay marriage based on deeply-held religious beliefs. It's a significant commitment, but the incredible difference it makes in the life of a child is invaluable. education, more likely to have salaried 2011 17,200 2003 85,750 2004 15,500 The First Academy (of Central Florida) 2002 0 So, the perception of grass-roots organizing, or home rule, is critical. 2013 12,050, Ethics and Public Policy Center (EIN 52-1162185), The Ethics and Public Policy Center advertises itself as dedicated to applying the Judeo-Christian moral tradition to critical issues of public policy. Apr 2022 - Sep 20226 months. Truro Anglican Church patterns of culture. Promise Keepers founder Bill McCartney, who helped build the University of Colorado football team into a powerhouse on the college football circuit, has called homosexuality an abomination of Almighty God and called gay people curable. 2004 1,000 Husbands are to provide loving, sacrificial leadership for the family. And they would even seem perplexed by the question. A crucial earliest hotbed for the neoconservative movement, E&PCC, The Center boasts an array of leading Catholic, Protestant and Jewish intellectual social conservatives and has played a substantial, if stealthy, role in Americas ongoing culture wars including fighting LGBT rights. 2006 155,000 Adadevohs International Leadership Foundation website ( note: Adadevohs ILF is to be distinguished from another, more prominent US-based entity with the same name http://http://www.ileader.org ) currently advertises upcoming ILF seminars to be hld in the African nations of Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Ghana, Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, Nigeria, and South Africa. First of all thank you for your confidence. The AoG statement also suggests that AIDS may be a punishment from God and states, Former homosexuals describe a disgusting lifestyle of perversion and sexual obsession., According to the AoG statement One of the myths propounded by pro-homosexual advocates is that homosexual orientation is genetically determined and that people have no choice in the matter. 2004 27,500 Mans rebellion against God affects every aspect of human existence. This is where the Church of Satan was founded; where witches and warlocks have legal status; where homosexuals and lesbians heavily influence government; where selfisness rules. Founded in 1952, Compassion partners . 2007 400 The yearly season of service was pioneered by Luis Palaus son Kevin Palau, who has led an effort in which churches under Palaus aegis are partnering with Portland public schools, to mentor students in the Portland public school system. If only you knew that one day I'd become a soldier. That program was, and remains, the foundation and core of Compassion. frontline church partners, we provide children with the opportunity to rise above their 2002 385 (Regeneration, Inc.) implications for relief and development: 1. 2011 3,000 Fidelis Center For Law and Policy 2009 1,955,276 Local churches are experts (see http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/6/29/94224/1951). American Values is headed by Gary Bauer. 2006 26,500 2004 3,332,936 within a given culture. If only you knew how much all you did impacted me, you'd be so proud of who I have become. 2007 2,078,944 When the parents confronted school officials, they were stunned to be told the boys rights as a self-proclaimed transgender trumped their daughters privacy rights. That press release earned PJI the LGBT Misinformer Of The Year award from the liberal activist think tank Media Matters For America (see: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/12/29/lgbt-misinformer-of-the-year-the-pacific-justic/197371), Pacific Justice Institute head Brad Dacus has claimed (http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/2012/05/29564/) that theres overwhelming evidence that reparative therapy actually works. While the leaders of Disciple Nations Alliance claim no official legal or financial connection to Langas activities, DNAs own statements and tax forms tell a different story. It is a violent, family-destroying sin, which, if tolerated, will devour a generation of young men and women.. 2010 65,000 The Lord knows that sexually twisted people will rape the animals. 2009 12,750 According to critic Tom Barry, writing for Counterpunch, E&PPC helped forge a working alliance between secular neoconservatives, Christian conservatives, and the broader religious right. 2003 277,613 2003 0 2013 984,914, Marketplace Leaders Ministries (EIN 20-5399884). The Navigators is among an elite core of evangelism and discipleship-focused ministries closely associated with The Fellowship which hosts the annual National Prayer Breakfast. 2012 777,763 World Outreach Ministries 2005 937,818 Compassion International 2012 9,000, Philadelphia Biblical University (EIN 23-0973290). In a very real sense, for Howard F. Ahmanson whose Fieldstead and Company philanthropic group cosponsored (with Food for the Hungry, an enterprise Fieldstead has heavily funded) the Villars Consultation Villars was the logical extension of Ahmansons funding of the theocratic Christian Reconstructionism movement (Ahmanson had, up into the early 1990s, bankrolled its leading think tank, the Chalcedon Foundation.). 2007 781,054 2012 10,065,276 That place, or those places, may be inhabited by the demonica base of operations. (Freedom Tools, pages 76-77). Founder of ex-gay Regeneration Ministries was Alan Medinger, was the original executive director of Exodus International. That team included Don Schmierer and Herb Schlossberg who have both served as program directors for Fieldstead & Co., and ex-gay ministry head Jim Johnson. During the presentation, one ADF speaker declared that (the principle of) separation of church and state was not in the Constitution. In the 2008 election, under the leadership of President John Stemberger, the Florida Family Policy Council helped organize the successful push for an anti-same sex marriage state constitutional amendment. 2013 0. 2010 5,600 Noebels book characterized homosexuality as a kind of national death wish which sought to change the natural order created by God himself.. 2008 166,366 2009 1,500 2012 60,069 2001 0 25 Feb/23. 2006 1,814,722 2002 100 then, is an unavoidable dimension of relief and development worknot only for 12. Luis Bushs book The 4/14 Window presents Ugandan Stephen Langa as having helped reverse Ugandas rising HIV infection rate. No. 2006 300 3. That support 2013 54,100. 2005 1,000 2008 19,250 The legal organizations supported by ADF (most of which are also funded by the National Christian Foundation) represent most of the anti-reproductive rights and anti-LGBT rights legal activism in America and are now playing, as well, a major role in mounting international efforts to restrict LGBT rights. 2013 55,490, The Lilburn Alliance Church is the Lilburn, Georgia home church of College of Prayer leader Fred Hartley, III. 2013 245,000, Head of Hope For The Heart is June Hunt, heiress to the Hunt oil fortune. In addition, this one-to-one relationship provides children with the message that they matter, that they are valuable and that someone outside of their family cares about them and their future. However, our primary focus is individual child developmentan inside-out, bottom-up approach that recognizes the God-given value and potential of each individual child. Noebels anti-gay writing includes his 1977 book The Homosexual Revolution: End Time Abomination (dedicated to Anita Bryant) which characterized homosexuality as a kind of national death wish that sought to change the natural order created by God himself and the 1996 book AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, (co-authored with Wayne C. Lutton and Paul Cameron). Ethics and Public Policy Center 2013 25,300, (EIN 64-0607275 note: the AFA has also received substantial funding from The Gathering attendee Ken Eldred, through his Living Stones Charitable Trust [EIN 52-7038921] which from 2009 to 2011 gave the American Family Association $800,000), The American Family Association is headed by the Rev. I was told that homosexuality was a demon that needed to be cast out of my life. 2002 988,954 As characterized in 2009 by the Washington Post, E&PPC studies the link between Judeo-Christian morality and national and foreign policy., Founded in 1976 by Ernst LeFever, E&PPC was one of the original incubators for the neoconservative movement; its leaders and fellows have over the years supported the Reagan Administrations Star Wars missile defense initiative (which, charged critics, would have dramatically increased chances for all-out nuclear war between the US and the former Soviet Union), launched PNAC the Project For a New America Century (accused by critics of laying a template for the 2003 US invasion and occupation of Iraq) and argued for a US preemptive attack on Iran, to prevent that nation from acquiring nuclear weapons (see: http://eppc.org/publications/our-fallout-shelter-future/ .). Luis even led to Christ the president of one nation. (pp. 2005 16,000 The College of Prayer works to establish local prayer and worship groups of anti-gay Christian leaders and politicians across Africa and the developing world. 2010 1,471,706 Ranked No. TheCall 2005 155,635 Before sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal government site. The Christian Legal Society has partnered with the (NCF-funded) Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly Alliance Defense Fund) in the Christian Legal Society v. Martinez case which came before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010. 2009 64,800 Rushdoony, introducing Whitehead at a Reconstructionist conference, called him a man chosen by God. Rushdoony then spoke of our plans, through Rutherford, to fight the battle against statism and the freedom of Christs Kingdom. The Rutherford Institute was founded as a legal project of R. J. Rushdoonys Chalcedon Foundation, with Rushdoony and fellow Chalcedon director Howard Ahmanson on its original board of directors. I vividly remember the day I received that yellow letter notifying me that you have chosen me to be your sponsored child. And just like Darrell and Denise's encouraging letters did for Kennedy, a sponsor's love brings hope to a child that will last a lifetime. Within the books therapeutic paradigm, homosexuality is a coping mechanism to deal with emotional wounding: Some behaviors are are designed to protect the person from his pain or provide a solution to it: addictions, ritualized actions, anorexia, homosexuality, etc. 800-336-7676 The NCFs core beliefs include the statement, the entire Bible is the inspired and inerrant Word of God; the only infallible rule of faith and practice. (see: https://www.nationalchristian.com/vision), NCFs founders have helped create and lead the elite anti-gay evangelical right NCF co-founder and current board member Ron Blue has swerved on the Campus Crusade for Christ board and NCF co-founder (the late) Larry Burkett worked as a financial manager for CCC; Burkett was also a founding member of the Alliance Defense Fund (now renamed Alliance Defending Freedom); NCF co-founder and current NCF board member Terry Parker has served on the board of the Family Research Council (see encyclopedia entries for these three organizations.). 2013 800, Widely known as the Latin Billy Graham, Louis Palau established his name and career through nation-hopping evangelistic crusades (though Palau now eschews the term crusade, as divisive.). 2010 88,550 encourage them through prayer, letter writing and financial support. He knew he had to do something. 2011 131,100 2002 2,284 2007 2,344,941 2003 1,000 2011 7,900 2010 18,000 2007 30,000 2002 7,500 2004 1,200 2006 0 2009 -193,765 2011 118,280 The Family Foundation of Kentucky 2006 0 2013 180,000. What specific benefits does a child receive through sponsorship?
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