2010 7,400 First time logging in? In that case, CLS and ADF argued that an officially recognized student CLS chapter at a public university could bar LGBT students and non-Christians from leadership positions. We were expecting maybe 25 members of parliament and 75 other city leaders. 2009 400 2004 14,000 2009 0 2012 25,500. We must be shrewd to get consensus for our position by appealing to shared values and concern, and issues of fairness and justice.. 2008 0 2008 717,690 2008 109,000 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. 2004 356,371 2009 18,000 2013 1,000, Bethel Church, Redding, CA (EIN 94-1514037), The Redding, CA Bethel Church has been the launching pad for a growing national network of the religious rights 2.0 ex-gay ministries, called Sozo (see: http://bethelsozo.com/sozo-network/) Sozo is a non-copyrighted, non-trademarked brand name for the Bethel Church style of spiritual healing. Why does Compassion focus on individual child development rather than broader community development work? 2008 65,000 (TVCs Web site includes a section titled Causes and Cures Of Homosexuality And Gender Identity Disorders.) In 1995, he even persuaded conservative members of the House of Representatives to hold hearings on the alleged gay infiltration of public schools. 2006 20,000 2006 15,700 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. 2008 2,000 2011 4,045,406 2002 15,300 Compassion International has 3,000 employees, of which 39 are in a leadership position. 2011 3,172,300 2008 69,640 To do so is morally wrong. 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. Our goal is that the children in our program follow Jesus Christ in faith and deed, support themselves and share with others in need, are responsible members of their families, churches, communities and nations; and maintain their own physical well-being by the time they complete our Child Sponsorship Program. 2004 3,332,936 According to Scott Lively, credited with helping inflame anti-LGBT hatred from Eastern Europe and Russia to Uganda, Bright and lively were friends (see:http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/newsarchives.php?id=8239619); and according to Lively it was Campus Crusade For Christ leader Warren Willis who initially brought Lively to Uganda, in March 2002, to speak along with Ugandan Stephen Langa at an anti-pornography conference (see: http://www.defendthefamily.com/_docs/resources/3038513.pdf). And for all the encouragement, prayers and support. 2003 500 2005 16,000 The South Tampa Fellowship Church presents a textbook quality case study in how the ex-gay industry has gone underground. 2002 0 2007 40,004 One of the adjunct faculty of WLI has been Julius Oyet, who claims to have co-authored Ugandas Anti Homosexuality Bill. Eldredge also stressed that the religious rights national anti-gay rights effort must be perceived as a genuine grass roots uprising. (see: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/2010/01/11/americanresponse/), 2001 1,000 Obediently pursue Jesus command to be salt and light to the culture 2005 82,800 2010 5,000 Buck: McCabe nonetheless serves on the board of directors of the National Christian Foundation, one of the top funders of anti-LGBT rights groups on earth. The costs to family, children and culture are too great to concede this battle to those who would see marriage and family redefined to the point of irrelevancy., (see: http://www.mafamily.org/issues/marriage-and-family/same-sex-marriage/), Eric Metaxas, a recently featured speaker at The Gathering, is the scheduled speaker at an upcoming 25 Feb/23. The Villars Statement on Relief and Development (see: https://disciplenations.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/the-villars-statement-on-relief-and-development1.pdf ), signed by the 40-odd evangelicals attending Villars, stressed 13 key points: [W]e raise our concerns over the following issues. Then, in 2013, NCF funding of Becket doubled, to $185,000. 2006 1,814,722 2005 4,500 National Organization For Marriage 7. 2012 6,000, Prison Fellowship Ministries (EIN numbers 62-0988294 and 51-0247185), 2001 631,200 A person then either tries to arrange their life in reaction to, or avoidance of, these painful areas In his 2008 book The Seven Mountain Prophecy: Unveiling The Coming Elijah Revolution, Enlow writes, on page 171, A mass homosexual parade and celebration that was to bring many millions of dollars to New Orleans was scheduled the week Katrina hit the city. 2012 885,955 2011 785,243 2006 42,725 2013 208,554, Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (EIN 541829289). 8 in Forbes' America's Top Charities List in 2020, Compassion is a founding member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability and an accredited charity with the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance. 2008 64,150 2010 130,600 economic liberation with salvation, and to use the Marxist critique, without recognizing the basic conflict between these views and the Biblical perspective. According to Bethel Sozo, Sozo ministry is a unique inner healing and deliverance ministry aimed to get to the root of things hindering your personal connection with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Nazario had made Eldredges book required reading for La Familia Michoacana members and, according to a report from the Mexican Justice Department, had paid Mexican rural teachers to distribute Wild At Heart through the Michoacan countryside. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission office in Milwaukee arguing that he was terminated May 5 because of his religious beliefs. Im not suggesting that you ask for your role back, Im urging you to take it back. (see: http://www.publiceye.org/eyes/promkeep.html). 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. 2011 7,500 2009 248,935 While The Voice of the Martyrs was founded, in 1967, to aid persecuted Christians worldwide, it has also collaborated with virulently anti-gay Christian Reconstructionist ministries, such as in its co-sponsorshp, along with the (NCF-funded) Chalcedon Foundation and the (NCF-funded) Vision Forum, of the annual Providential History Festival (see: http://www.providentialhistoryfestival.com/2014-fall-festival/). Targeting, intimidation and coercion are the tactics of regimes our nation has fought time and again over its history. The need to oppose a false understanding of poverty which makes poverty itself a 2006 6,400 During that 2006 ADF briefing to The Gathering, Family Research Council head Tony Perkins gave a special presentation in which Perkins declared the LGBT rights movement to be the second most dire threat to America next to militant Islam. 2003 122,700 MLM comes with high-level endorsements; its board of directors includes no less than C. Peter Wagner, one of the most important and influential leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation movement whose apostles and prophets have been in the forefront of anti-LGBT rights activism from the United States to Uganda, Burundi, Nigeria, and Kenya, to Russia. The Navigators 2009 1,318,726 The ideological bent of Christian Union shines through in its semi-annual publication the Ivy League Christian Observer: In the Winter 2014 issue, we find a glowing cover of an October 2013 appearance of Heritage Foundation fellow and Princeton alumnus Ryan P. Anderson at a Princeton University event sponsored by the Anscombe Society. How many countries does Compassion work in? Headed by current Council for National Policy board member L. Brent Bozell III, the Media Research Center in 2006 launched, as a sub-project, Robert H. Knights Culture and Media Institute. 2006 932,717 2006 33,250 2007 5,500 It is a travesty that a Massachusetts court decided to thrust a radical social experiment upon an unwilling populace by legalizing same-sex marriage. This government endorsement of motherless and fatherless families is both reckless and dangerous. Leading the Cornwall Alliance is E. Calvin Beisner, a participant along with Michael Cromartie at the Villars Consultation. poor. 2003 2,646,613 American Center For Law and Justice 2003 506,103 University of Michigan. 2013 2,350, Campus Crusade For Christ (EIN 95-2814920). Uganda says no to sodomy! 2012 269,715, Christian and Missionary Alliance (EIN 13-1623940). 2010 750 2009 1,955,276 Peter Hammond is co-author of the 2001 book The Pink Agenda: Sexual Revolution in South Africa and the Ruin of the Family. Every financial process undergoes intensive and continual scrutiny to ensure that funds are properly received, tracked, and managed. The Christian Film and Television Commission produces Movieguide, which assesses the suitability of movie and television programming for conservative Christian audiences. 2007 0 2012 0, Keynote EIN 33-1863088 2012 230,615, Officers Christian Fellowship (EIN 38-1415401), ( see: http://www.ocfusa.org/static/uploads/bible-studies/genesis19.pdf ), 2001 3,000 LGBTQI+ people face criminalization in nearly 70 countriesseveral of which can impose the death penalty. 2002 70,000 They shall surely be put to death. The main initiative of the Howard Center has been the World Congress of Families, a global initiative which has brought together family values-oriented social conservatives, both secular and religious, from different religious traditions, and across Christian denominational divides. 2002 65,000 2004 13,000 2003 -15,000 (Conservative Caucus Research, a separate Howard Phillips-run 501(c)(3)) In 1983, the American Psychological Association had dropped Cameron from its membership for a violation of the [APA] Preamble to the Ethical Principles of Psychologists; In 1985, the American Sociological Association adopted a resolution that stated, Dr. The work of Christian relief and development, therefore, must involve spiritual 2012 42,700 2004 104,200 The First Baptist Church runs a branch of the addiction recovery program Celebrate Recovery (launched by Rick Warrens Saddleback Church) that promotes a version of reparative therapy. 2008 432,000 relationship more powerful than poverty changing their life and yours! 2003 0 Compassion International, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Also attending were Dr. Judith Reisman, who promotes and endorses Scott Livelys book The Pink Swastika, Dr. Paul Cameron of the Family Research Institute, and Peter LaBarbera, now head of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, who in 2014 formed a new anti-gay group with Lively (see: http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/2214073680.html). Evidence of homosexual behaviors among animals is just another reminder that we live in a fallen world one in which every dimension of creation bears evidence of the Fall. 2009 1,676,090 2013 1,000. 2003 16,350 Truth In Action Beisner was also general editor for the worldview documents, on how to implement biblical law in all spheres of society, produced by the theocratic Coalition on Revival. 2008 29,400 It was pioneered in the late 1980s by a core group of New Apostolic Reformation leaders including Ed Silvoso, C. Peter Wagner, Cindy Jacobs, and others and subsequently exported to Africa and the developing world. The strategy of the homosexual rights movement is to use the courts and state referendum to redefine marriage And they intend to silence or destroy any group that opposes their political goals. Johnson enthusiastically endorses the Freedom Resource ministry of NCF-funded Andy Reese, whose book Freedom Tools explicitly describes homosexuality as linked to demon possession. 2003 1,000 2007 58,850 How does Compassion choose which countries to work in? Do nothing about them without them means that we thoughtfully consult with LGBTQI+ individuals and groups before and throughout any engagement designed to support them and their priorities. 2009 10,000 2009 247 Over the subsequent decades, key evangelical aid and development theorists who attended Villars, such as Darrow L. Miller little known in secular culture but whose ideas have exerted vast influence within the myriad U.S.-based evangelical aid and relief groups that sprang up after World War Two (some of which have annual budgets of over a billion dollars) have extensively fleshed out the initial vision embodied in the Villars Statement. [7], Compassion helps those in impoverished areas, using a holistic approach to child development. 2013 5,766,158, Citizens For Community Values (EIN 31-1075684). Promise Keepers 2006 0 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. 2012 0. 2008 2,800 2009 64,800 2009 525,418 2009 974,130 In 2008, Orombi spearheaded the launch of Rick Warrens Purpose Driven Living program in Uganda (see: http://www.christianpost.com/news/rick-warren-launches-purpose-driven-plan-in-uganda-31752/ and http://www.rickwarrennews.com/080329_uganda.htm). We might also start various front groups. 2003 1,000 (Eternal Perspectives) 2010 18,000 2013 1,239,850, Christian Anti-Communism Crusade (EIN 95-1921156). Access to essential . 2012 507,372 2012 1,850 2010 113,000 CU leader Matthew Bennett is one of 15 leaders in a secretive 2014 anti-LGBT rights initiative called the Princeton Group. Per the Villars Statement. The target salary range for this position is $43,000 - $50,000. 2006 26,500 2013 0, Christian Broadcasting Network (EIN 54-0678752), As exhaustively documented by Right Wing Watch (RWW), a project of People For the American Way, the Christian Broadcasting Network, founded by Pat Robertson, has been a major global vector for anti-LGBT propaganda and right-wing conspiracy theory (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/search/node/%22Christian%20Broadcasting%20Network%22), In 2013 on CBN, Robertson made the claim, as characterized by RWW, that gay people in San Francisco try to cut peoples fingers with special rings in order to infect them with AIDS (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gay-aids-ring-video-pat-robertson-doesnt-want-you-see). When you become a sponsor, you are personally connected with a child who will know your 2008 541,414 2002 3,125,85 2007 400 Today I am a free man, married, and a father of two, Gabriel and Malkia. 2010 88,550 2008 35,000 Mercy Ministries of America Lets look at Leviticus 18:22. 2004 10,000 Several Episcopal churches are closer to his home. (see: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-11085908.html). Through CBN offices in more than 20 countries, local Christians are equipped to produce quality media, provide discipleship, and facilitate humanitarian relief in their regions. (see: http://www.cbn.com/partners/about/our-ministries/project-globalreach.aspx), 2001 12,000 2005 195,441 2011 48,750 2012 48,000 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. Even during difficult financial times in the economy, God has blessed Compassion with dedicated sponsors and donors who care deeply about impacting children around the world, allowing our ministry to continue to grow year over year. God loves homosexuals so much that he will spare no expense in making it clear that homosexuality is an abomination to Him and that He can deliver someone from it.. 2005 22,000 2006 5,914,566 Kennedy grew up in a well-known slum outside of Nairobi, Kenya called Mathare. 2011 81,500 My boys chew their graham crackers into the shape of handguns at the breakfast table wrote Eldredge, in Wild At Heart. 2009 23,461 Until the unexpected demise of Vision Forum Ministries in the wake of a sex scandal that embroiled its head Doug Phillips, Vision Forum was one of the leading Christian Reconstructionist organizations in America. 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. 2010 3,089,389 the one thing that has been produced this year, and we had to get involved in producing it ourselves its the training material for Jim Burns National Institute of Youth Ministries, to go along with what theyve done, type of thing. 2003 15,000 The CFC played an important organizing role in the successful effort to pass Californias anti-same sex marriage Proposition 8. 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. He doesnt even have a secretary and hes making these big changes. 2005 242,775 Frequently Asked Questions About Compassion International 2007 7,000 2009 267,250 2006 38,000 2013 15,220. 2005 5,300 2011 10,000 As Don Schmierer explained to The Gathering, on the production of ex-gay training materials. Basic Page - U.S. Agency for International Development Methods: Participants ( N = 558; Mage = 22.4, SD = 5.4) were recruited for the study through online-based . The faithful stood much of the time with arms lifted high, palms facing skyward, singing tributes to Jesus Christ. Giglio had accepted an invitation to give the benediction at President Obamas second inaugural, but withdrew after a mid-1990s sermon surfaced in which the Atlanta pastor opposed homosexual conduct. In 1985 Howard Ahmanson told the Orange County Register that My purpose is total integration of biblical law into our lives. 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. The more Gods judgments are poured out on earth, the more explicitly will they be able to give that instruction., Desert Stream Ministries (EIN 95-3889820). All rights reserved. 2004 0 2003 400 6. John Hagee Ministries Christian Anti Defamation Commission 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.