practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and unique attributes of every person" (p. 1). During his March 2008 visit to Uganda to promote his Purpose Driven program in Uganda, Warren told Orombi and other Ugandan religious leaders that Homosexuality is not a natural way of life and thus not a human right. According to its website, AI informally links 30,000 advocates and jurists in 156 nations through 100 national Christian lawyer groups linked by six regional networks. (see: http://www.advocatesinternational.org/content/brief-overview-advocacy-1991-2010). 2003 4,000 2008 4,500 Traditional Values Coalition 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). opportunity to develop spiritually, emotionally, physically and economically. 2009 16,500 . A representative of Advocates International,26 challenged the resolution on the basis that there was no consensus on the issue. (see: http://agi.ac.za/sites/agi.ac.za/files/2_case_study_sibongile_ndashe.pdf). 2003 0 2004 5,850 The homosexual rights ordinance was overturned by an 81 to 19 percent margin. It is a violent, family-destroying sin, which, if tolerated, will devour a generation of young men and women.. 2008 2,000 2007 15,100 While some organizations on the Christian right have over the past several years moderated their anti-gay rhetoric, the AFAs anti-gay speech has become, if anything, even more extreme. Privacy Statement and Conditions of Use political freedom. 2012 230,615, Officers Christian Fellowship (EIN 38-1415401), ( see: http://www.ocfusa.org/static/uploads/bible-studies/genesis19.pdf ), 2001 3,000 2007 6,000 2002 0 2012 1,500 800-336-7676 University of Michigan. Consider the NCFs startling rate of growth over the last 6 years in 2009, the National Christian Foundation gave out $328 million in grants; NCFs 2015 ministry report states that its preliminary (un-audited) grant total for FY 2014 was $875 million. What does the Bible call homosexuality? In our country today, there is tremendous pressure on Christians, churches, and Christian organizations to lower our moral standards. 2011 6,700 2008 2,097,372 (see: http://jimdaly.focusonthefamily.com/are-some-christians-really-supporting-homosexual-jim-crow-laws/). 2011 71,000 [18], In 2013, a primary research report in the Journal of Political Economy provided evidence in support of the conclusion that child sponsorship via Compassion International resulted in significant positive outcomes for the children in the study set. Wrote Gentry, the family must align itself with God and His Law, rather than with blood ties or emotional attachment, as is so often the case. Compassion International Colorado Springs CO 80997 800-336-7676 Colorado Spgs CO | IRS ruling year: 2014 | EIN: 36-2423707 Compassion International is a Christian child development organization working to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. In. 2012 0 Can I write my sponsored child a letter online? 2010 300 2007 472,812 More recently, the Alliance Defense Fund / Alliance Defending Freedom has become a leader in the American Christian rights international export and encouragement of anti-LGBT legislation. In May 2010 TheCall held a rally in Kampala, Uganda attended by top leaders in Ugandas anti-LGBT crusade including Julius Oyet, David Bahati, and Nsaba Buturo. In early 2014 Gothard resigned from the IBLP following accusations over sexual harassment from over 30 different women. As Katherine Stewarts book The Good News Club describes, Child Evangelism Fellowship promotes a fundamentalist, Christian nationalist, supremacist form of Christianity suffused with anti-LGBT hostility. I want you to know that all you did made a difference, and it was all worth it. Disclosure Statement. 2004 13,000 2008 53,100 Representing Eschliman in the case is the The Liberty Institute. Paul Cameron has repeatedly campaigned for the abrogation of the civil rights of lesbians and gay men, substantiating his call on the basis of his distorted interpretation of this research.. Bring Biblical solutions to contemporary social problems In Touch Mission International is a sister ministry of Front Line Ministries, headed by Peter Hammond a leading Christian Reconstructionist and current Coalition on Revival Steering Committee member. 2008 26,400 2009 247 Ahmanson was a key financial supporter, up to 1995, of the Christian Reconstructionist Chalcedon Foundation and up to 1995 served on the Chalcedon board of directors. 2013 27,000, Total 140,600 (The NCF has also given $721,211 to In Touch Mission International, sister ministry of Frontline Fellowship), As one description put it, The Georgia Family Council is your typical anti-gay organization: supporting legislation to ban gay marriage and calling the legalization of gay marriage regression. (see: http://www.policymic.com/articles/12219/all-the-anti-gay-companies-you-fund-when-you-spend-5-25-on-a-chick-fil-a-sandwich), 2001 44,200 2007 0 Releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name. Master architect of that plan Herbert Schlossberg has close ties to leaders of the Christian Reconstructionism movement including Gary North and the late Howard Phillips. 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. Why does Compassion focus on individual child development rather than broader community development work? He knew he had to do something. 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. 2013 16,935, Total 1,575,599 (plus 2013 141,770 to IHOP Forerunner Christian Fellowship EIN 45-2262183 ), Iowa Family Policy Center (EIN 42-1461169). The ultimate goal of their agenda is to use the force of law to silence sincerely held religious beliefs in opposition to same-sex marriage. 2012 10,065,276 Kennedys many projects included the Center For Reclaiming America, known for its patronage and promotion of leading Christian Reconstructionists. 2007 275,053 Rushdoony, and leading Christian Reconstructionists such as Gary North, have advocated the imposition of biblical law, substantial parts of the pre-Talmudic Mosaic code, in all spheres of society. 2009 171,100 2011 0 Reese is author of the book Freedom Tools For Overcoming Lifes Tough Problems (2008, Chosen Books/Baker Publishing Group). 2010 9,500 2009 6,800 2007 27,800 I would have either gotten into crime and drugs, which were always available around me. 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. 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. 2005 5,250 Ellel promotes the doctrine that homosexuality can be caused by demon possession and teaches methods for exorcising such demons. 2001 10,000 Recoiling from women because of his domineering, controlling mother Despising being taken as a surrogate husband by his lonely mother. 2006 994,520 2007 2,500 I was told that homosexuality was a demon that needed to be cast out of my life. One of E&PPCs current fellows, Herbert Schlossberg, was the intellectual architect of a master plan to fight organized homosexuality, announced at The Gathering in 1997, that commenced in 1998 with the mammoth 1998 Truth in Love national advertising advertsing cmpaign that promoted ex-gay leaders such as John and Anne Paulk. Is Compassion a good organization? If only you knew how much all you did impacted me, you'd be so proud of who I have become. As detailed in journalist Katherine Stewarts book The Good News Club: The Christian Rights Stealth Assault on Americas Children (2012, Public Affairs, a member of the Perseus Book Group), in its 2001 ruling in the case Good News Club v. Milford Central School, the United States Supreme Court that public schools could not exclude religious groups from establishing after-school activities in those schools because religion, the majority opinion argued, is essentially a form of free speech protected by the First Amendment. Recently the California legislature decided that homosexual history in American will be taught to kindergartners Its shameful that the homosexuals can get a curriculum in the public school and the children of God cannot The church was not put here to whine. 2003 0 5. 2005 155,635 2013 180,000. 2006 2,400 2010 49,800 Discipling Nations states the laws of the state are to be founded on the law of God and declares, We are Gods soldiers claiming territory for our King.. Reese publicity for the book has included distributing a photo of Reese standing alongside former National Fellowship of Born Again Pentecostal Churches overseer Alex Mitala, who is holding Reese book. Thats what Jesus said., Jeff Sharlet, who lived for several months at one of The Familys group homes near Washington, D.C. told NBC, We ere being taught the leadership lessons of Hitler, Lenin, and Mao And Id say, Isnt there a problem with that?. 2011 1,000 2010 26,875 2013 10,345,242, Campus Crusade sub-ministries, 2001-2012 20,622,853 (see appended at end of alphabetized list). 2012 0, Christian Embassy EIN 95-6006173 ( CCC ministry, evangelizes on Capital Hill and in the Pentagon ), 2001 5,000 In 2008, at a California rally against same sex marriage, Pacific Justice Institute head Brad Dacus compared stopping same-sex marriage to stopping Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6ddOODw9Rg). 2007 15,000 The Cornwall Alliance asserts (http://www.cornwallalliance.org/alert/cornwall-alliance-releases-an-evangelical-declaration-on-global-warming/) that the Earths biological and climate systems are controlled and regulated by divine provenance: We believe Earth and its ecosystemscreated by Gods intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory. 2007 6,000 Affirm the authority of Scripture as objective Truth (2 Timothy 3:16) An Iowa newspaper editor fired after publishing his views on homosexuals is claiming he was the victim of religious discrimination by his former employer. It's a If only you knew that one day I'd become a soldier. 2006 226,500 2007 118,532 More broadly, at the State Department, Abrams helped steer the Reagan Administration towards its support for Central American nations such as Guatemala and El Salvador that during the the early to mid-1980s, under the banner of anticommunism, were mounting genocidal counterinsurgency campaigns against their civilian populations. 2001 5,000 Dobson, Eldridge told the group, and those of us at Focus on the Family in the public policy fight, see this issue as one of the key issues of our time. This change impacts Compassions rating negatively because we choose to send dollars to the Implementing Church Partners every month for our programs that impact children. 2011 300 Faith 2 Action 2010 130,600 In 2006, Ssempa received an honorary degree from PBU in 2006 for his ministry of compassion to HIV/AIDS victims in his native land. MLM is the ministry of Os Hillman, a friend of Julius Oyet. NCF funding to the AFM reflects the peak period of this effort, from 2004-2007. One of the adjunct faculty of WLI has been Julius Oyet, who claims to have co-authored Ugandas Anti Homosexuality Bill. 2002 5,000 2005 4,600,955 2007 4,587,858 2013 60,050, California School Project (EIN 20-3226605). 2010 457,779 While Advocates International states that The goal of AI is justice with compassion in Christ, it also promotes an anti-LGBT agenda and is developing a close working collaboration with related groups, such as the (NCF-funded) Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly Alliance Defense Fund) that are emerging in the forefront of the mounting international war on gay rights (see: http://www.advocatesinternational.org/webfm_send/260). Regeneration is billed as one of the oldest ex-gay ministries. 2011 3,000 I have never met a former white, former black, or a former hispanic In contrast, the homosexual lifestyle is immoral, and a matter of personal choice, not unalterable destiny. Henry Orombi, former Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, served as Chancellor of Uganda Christian University from 2004-1012. Its website links to the Restored Hope Network, PFOX, NARTH, and Andy Comisleys Desert Stream Ministries. During his talk, Ventrella mentioned giving presentations around the world on the homosexual agenda, including in Ethiopia in an apparent reference to his talk at the 2009 Advocates International Ethiopia conference. 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. 2003 663,000 transform my life is one of those mysteries., Child Protection Officer, CNP membership has included the Koch brothers, many The Gathering funders including Howard Ahmsanson and members of the DeVos, Coors, and Friess clans, and also overtly secular funders such as Richard Mellon Scaife. As the Southern Poverty Law Center puts it, Paul Cameron is an infamous anti-gay propagandist whose one-man statistical chop shop, the Family Research Institute, churns out hate literature masquerading as legitimate science. A lock () or https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely. death, and separation from God is the result of mans rebellion against God, which 2013 54,100. 2002 0 2013 0. There are two changes that had the most impact on Compassions rating. Syria and Iraq) and boundaries created by that Agreement created states inherently unstable, argued Scruton, because they encompassed tribal, ethnic and religious factions inherently at odds and not cemented by any secular national ethos. 2011 50,500 That paradigm, Spiritual Warfare/Spiritual Mapping, was not native to Africa. The people who have come into institutions are primarily termites. 2010 0 (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/obama-not-christian-because-bible-very-clear-about-homosexual-acts-being-very-evil-thing), 2009 400 The South Tampa Fellowship Church presents a textbook quality case study in how the ex-gay industry has gone underground. 2003 1,000 New Hope has acquired, as a co-leader, Anne Paulk who was a co-star in the 1998 Love Won Out campaign that showcased ex-gay couples in full-page ads which ran in leading print media venues such as the New York Times. [4] The name of the association changed to Compassion, Inc., in 1963, inspired by Jesus' words "I have compassion on the multitude. Teen Mania Ministries 2004 15,000 2003 21,000 2005 50,000 Suggested Approaches for Integrating Inclusive Development Across the Program Cycle and in Mission Operations, 2014 LGBT Vision for Action Policy Implementation Assessment, Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of LGBTQI People Around the World. According Martin Selbrede, to one of the current leaders of the Christian Reconstructionist Chalcedon Foundaiton, a possible deal between Gothard and R. J. Rushdoony in which Gothard would have published and promoted Rushdoonys books fell through because Gothard demanded, as a condition of the deal, that Rushdoony cut from his books Rushdoonys support for divorce in the case of marital infidelity. Along with Purpose Driven Life book author Rick Warren, Stafford was a featured speaker at The Gathering 2007. 2009 100 2001 0 3012 32,900, Illinois Family Institute (EIN 37-126588), The Illinois Family Institute is one of twelve organizations funded by the National Christian Foundation since 2001 that is on a Southern Poverty Law Center list of groups which pump out demonizing propaganda aimed at homosexuals and other sexual minorities according to a 2010 SPLC report ( http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/winter/the-hard-liners ), 2001 4,600 Posted on . LGBTQI+ people are often not represented in political parties or among elected officials. 2011 109,300 Founded in 1952, Compassion partners with more than 8,000 local churches in 25 program countries to deliver spiritual, economic, social, and physical care to over two million babies, children, and young adults in poverty. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions, that we have. A 2010 talk2action.org story ( http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/11/1/175127/415 ) features video footage of former Teen Challenge center pastor Nancy Alcorn, who runs the National Christian Foundation-funded Mercy Ministries, telling a church audience why her ministry relies on exorcism, rather than medication, to cure mental health problems allegedly caused by demons that attach themselves to their victims because of lust, pornography, and promiscuous sexual activity. | Reset password Create An Account Creating an account allows you to track your sponsorships, donations, and more. 2005 1,194,145 2004 104,200 2006 4,233,159 NCF is the biggest philanthropy represented at The Gathering, which as an event was conceived at a mid-1980s meeting at The Fellowships The Cedars Arlington, VA Mansion retreat center overlooking the Potomac River. It feels hopeless and unchangeable. 2011 320,951 2007 2,171,275 2005 46,650 2012 0 The ranks of Faith Angle Forum featured authorities informing Americas media elites at the conference are heavily populated with speakers who have been featured at The Gathering. Luis even led to Christ the president of one nation. (pp. Founder of ex-gay Regeneration Ministries was Alan Medinger, was the original executive director of Exodus International. 2012 51,040, Mission America Coalition (EIN 23-7317473), National Organization For Marriage (EIN 20-7472471). Treat any marriage, domestic partnership, civil union or similar arrangement as valid. (see: http://kslegislature.org/li/b2013_14/measures/documents/hb2453_00_0000.pdf). 2007 66,500 2009 1,145,916 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. Ed Silvosos Harvest Evangelism ministry works directly with Ugandan First Lady Janet Museveni rumored in Uganda to be the most important driving political force behind the Anti Homosexuality Bill and also includes, in its International Transformation Network team Ugandan evangelist Julius Oyet, who claims to have been part of a committee that conceived the bill and picked MP David Bahati to introduce it in Ugandas parliament. 2008 2010 0 The agenda must: Change public perception about gay rights I continued, however, to struggle with denial and a growing temptation to drink (see: http://www.crtampa.com/2013/celebrate-recovery-connection-july-312013/ ), 2008 3,000 2010 8,800 On a recent Friday night, several hundred suburbanites gathered in Fairfax, Virginia, to sing battle songs. 2005 12,191 on their communities' needs. 2011 104,600 The congregation vowed in song that they would fight until every nation is on its knees before Jesus Christ. 2010 7,400 see: http://transform-world.net/newsletters/2010/Ethiopia.pdf). 2012 106,250. How does Compassion choose which countries to work in? Food For The Hungry 2012 408,808 The existence of gay demons is taken for granted within Andersons oeuvre (note: Anderson sits on the board of advisers of Mastering Life Ministries, which is run by ex-gay leader David Kyle Foster. Many of these children grow up to become positive influences in their own communities. 2013 36,000. An entire literature, from Miller and other evangelical aid and development theorists, now spells out exactly how the Villars Statement vision is to be, in quite practical terms, applied in the field; and, major evangelical aid and relief organizations are now integrating this approach into their international programs. 2011 5,000 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. 2003 55,000 2006 17,300 2011 373,373 2004 67,500 The Explosive Power of the New Apostolic Reformation, http://www.twocare.org/gathering-greens-etc/, Marco Rubio Attends a Radical Anti-Gay Mega-Church With Extreme Beliefs, Anti-Gay Policy, Exorcisms, and Creationism At Marco Rubios Miami Church, Truth Wins Out Commends Former Ex-Gay Leader Randy Thomas For Coming Out As Gay, Truth Wins Out Dismayed By TLC Special Promoting False Ex-Gay Identity, PFOX Humiliated After Billboard Twin Turns Out to be Gay and Not a Twin, Pence, Sessions, Price, Pompeo, Conaway Sponsor Antigay, Anti-Islam, Creationist Bible Study Network, One Half of Freedom 2015 Cosponsors Funded By National Christian Foundation, Twocare.org Investigation Reveals, The Biggest Anti-LGBT Rights Funder In America: Case Study #1 The Alliance Defending Freedom, From U.S. to S. Korea to Africa, Christian Anti-Gay Activism Led By The NAR, Embattled Homophobic President of Burundi Tied To Anti-Gay New Apostolic Reformation. empowers a local church to individually and holistically meet their needs in a loving, American Values is headed by Gary Bauer. 2009 32,000 2009 19,900 Summit Ministries ideological proximity to Christian Reconstruction is manifest is its long partnership with South African Christian Reconstructionist pastor Peter Hammond, who serves on the current Coalition on Revival Steering Committee. MDentistry Core Values: Compassion, Leadership, Excellence, Responsibility, Trust, Creativity, Inclusion The mission of the University of Michigan is to serve the people of Michigan . 2010 5,000 800-336-7676 But demons can also can infest humans, and territorial spirits can also express themselves through individual human beings, sometimes referred to as strongmen. 2003 0 But a search on the same website for the term same-sex leads to this: After two years of being a part of this support group, my struggles with same-sex attraction subsided. 2010 0 Daystar Church 2009 612,500 2002 12,978 Probe Ministries International Jones two presentations for the Resisting the Green Dragon series are titled Rescuing People from the Cult of the Green Dragon and Go Therefore and Make Disciples: Advancing the Gospel in a World Permeated by Environmentalism. Wrote the author, through His lovethat one-of-a-kind, unconditional, sacrificial love like no otherI was delivered from homosexuality. The yearly conference known as The Gathering was conceived during a mid-1980s meeting at The Cedars, The Familys Arlington, Virginia mansion used as a retreat and prayer center. 2008 167,200 Like the Christian And Missionary Alliance, as it has grown and developed AIM has quietly drifted towards beliefs and practices associated with the New Apostolic Reformation movement and its outlier movements in charismatic evangelicalism, as well as towards the wider church growth movement from which many of the key NAR ideas and practices emerged. So much hinges on what happens with the full agenda of the militant gay movement.. [14], Compassion International is a charter member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability[15] in the US, holds a grade of "A" from CharityWatch,[16][17] and has met the "20 Standards for Charity Accountability" from the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance. 2006 10,000 2002 1,000 Marketplace Leaders Ministries 2005 378,480 Another of Howard Ahmansons projects has been the funding of efforts to promote schisms within mainline Protestant denominations, over divisive wedge issues such as same sex marriage and the ordination of gay clergy. 2006 155,000 Daly noted that orthodox Christian were both for and against the bill. 2011 73,800 2013 5,000, Rutherford Institute lawyers successfully argued, before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the (NCF-funded) Good News Club ministry which specifically targets young children in its evangelism efforts and promotes religious supremacist and eliminationist ideology the Good News Club v. Milford Central School (2001) Supreme Court case. (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpRV0spflIE#t=1m). 2007 113,760 Fred Hartley III has held prominent leadership roles in the Christian and Missionary Alliance, including serving as the CMAs prayer and worship leader at the Christian and Missionary Alliance 2011 General Council meeting.
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