2008 103,500 In a 2011 op-ed, Dr. David Noebel (who stepped down from heading Summit Ministries that year) railed against Obama and his radical homosexual mafia plan to sodomize the world and make such perversion seem as wholesome as apple pie and vanilla ice cream. (see: http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-times/article.php?articleid=7843). 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. The tendency to focus on meeting material needs without sufficient emphasis on 2008 147,980 2009 550 Alex Mitala who has served as an apostle in the U.S.-based International Coalition of Apostles (now renamed the International Coalition of Apostolic Leaders) has been a quiet but steady force in the mounting anti-gay crusade in Uganda. 2012 1,300. 2009 194,750 2007 194,545 ( 101K to AFA radio ) 2003 0 This is a God-fearing nation and we will be firm on what is right.. 2006 46,350 The Howard Center 2002 1,000 (see: see http://www.lc.org/index.cfm?PID=14100&PRID=1165 ) The major 2012-2013 National Christian Foundation increase in funding to the liberty Counsel is suggestive in light of LCs legal representation of Lively. (EIN 65-496702) Truth In Action is the working name of Coral Ridge Ministries Media, Inc. As chronicled by RightWingWatch, in 2012, the same year that Truth In Action was funded by the National Christian Foundation, the ministry showcased activists who likened homosexuality to slavery and called for its criminalization. 2007 56,717 2009 4,000 2009 113,948 Every day, our global church partners see how the food crisis devastates impoverished communities. 2008 0 2004 271,525 2012 15,800 2010 3,000 Hope For The Heart Healing Rooms Ministries 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. The Explosive Power of the New Apostolic Reformation (Regal Books, 1999)]. We cannot derive our sexual morality from a laboratory much less from observations of an albatross colony., 2005 5,000 While The Gathering is almost exclusively an affair of the dominionist Protestant evangelical right, The Council for National Policy brings together top funders of both the secular and theocratic far-right with movement activists and strategists. Other Pure Passion experts present same-sex attraction as resulting from brokenness or wounds sustained in childhood. When you sponsor a child, you care for and The Becket Fund For Religious Liberty Focus on The Family currently provides three publications concerning the issue of homosexuality. 2002 10,180 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. In Africa, Compassion works in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Togo and Uganda. 2011 109,300 Compassion International is a Christian child development organization dedicated to releasing children from poverty. 2003 40,705 Recent global warming is one of many natural cycles of warming and cooling in geologic history., Domestic Policy, and the battle against LGBT rights. 2008 5,000 2012 -1,800,186, Traditional Values Coalition (EIN 33-0625188). 2006 742,245 2008 4,248 2008 50,000 EPMs website features a major resource section on homosexuality (http://www.epm.org/resources/tag/homosexuality/) and in that section, in a March 29, 2010 op-ed titled Is The Homosexual Lifestyle Worthy Of Minority Status?, Alcorn writes. 10% of Compassion International employees are Black or African American. 2012 13,957 Global Mobilization Ministries 2012 123,469 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 site of this religious pep rallythe Truro Churchis where Judge Clarence Thomas worships. 2005 81,393 2007 0 How do I contact Compassion International? This new research points all the way back to Genesis 3. 2005 12,191 In effect, Villars began a process that re-conceived evangelical aid and relief work as a holistic enterprise in which evangelism and pro-capitalist free market solutions were fused; in the new Villars paradigm, spreading the gospel and teaching the biblical worldview were integrated into Christian aid and relief work and became regarded, moreover, as indispensable to successful economic develop and the reconstruction of healthy societies. 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. Beyond the purview of LGBT rights, Shackleford has depicted health care reform as an attack on religious freedom that indicates a government that is totalitarian. 2008 31,800 2007 2,078,944 safe community where they can learn, grow, play and dream. 2011 -7,387, The Jesus Film Project (Campus Crusade For Christ International) EIN 95-6006173 2007 3,000 The College of Prayer Uganda includes MPs David Bahati, Benson Obua-Ogwal, and Nsaba Buturo all of whom have played a part in the promotion of the bill, which Oyet has himself enthusiastically promoted (including working with Martin Ssempa, in gathering several million signatures for a petition calling on Ugandas parliament to pass the Uganda Anti Homosexuality Bill. 2005 15,700 Philadelphia Biblical University 2004 7,300 While NCF funding of LaBarbera/AFTAH has been minor, it is nonetheless surprising given LaBarberas long history of inflammatory anti-LGBT rhetoric (see extensive Truth Wins Out coverage at http://www.truthwinsout.org/tag/peter-labarbera/ ). 2007 10,000 2009 12,882 2010 10,000 2006 30,000 2008 541,414 2009 400 Your donation helps children when they need it most.. For information regarding COVID-19 and how Compassion is working through it, please visit our COVID-19 FAQ page. 2007 4,587,858 2010 37,299 2001 2,345,482 2009 13,300 2012 222,600, Ransomed Heart Ministries (EIN 84-1535770), Former Focus on The Family leader and Ransomed Heart Ministries head John Eldredge is author of the bestselling book Wild At Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Mans Soul (2001, Thomas Nelson. Former Dean of Pepperdine University and now-President and Chancellor of Baylor University Kenneth Starr serves on the Advocates International board (see: http://www.advocatesinternational.org/node/697). ], Some of David Kyle Fosters newer videos are filmed at Mike Bickles International House of Prayer (IHOP see IHOP entry in this encyclopedia.). 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. 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. King was their man and nothing was allowed to get in their way.. 2011 118,280 Our program is run entirely by local Christian AIM has also been involved in developing and manag- ing institutions such as Rift Valley Academy and Kijabe Medical Center.. 2003 23,280 2009 248,935 [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. Uganda Christian University has been one of the vectors through which New Apostolic Reformation ideology has infiltrated the Ugandan Anglican Church. 2010 23,700 2010 52,344 2012 3,381,000 (The Christian Union) Baal was doubling up in the city by adding homosexual decadence to his existing active altar there. 2005 195,441 2004 3,754,238 We were placed here to win. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bvHkgcUkmc), In 2005, John Hagee broadcast a sermon, that was also marketed in video format by Hagees ministry, in which Hagee claimed that God had sent Adolf Hitler and his Nazis to persecute Europes Jews and so drive them towards Palestine, the only land where Jews were meant by God to live according to Hagee. 2002 1,000 2012 507,372 Donald Wildmon, an original signatory to the theocratic Coalition on Revival. What follows is a summary of the information contained in Livelys book, Scott Lively has made repeated appearances on AFA Radio, including a 2013 appearance with the AFAs Sandy Rios, during which Lively claimed that the biblical flood was Gods punishment for the writing of wedding songs to homosexual marriage. 2012 6,500 Cromartie took over as acting director for E&PPC in 2001, with the departure of E&PPC president Elliott Abrams, who had served since 1996. Don Schmierers long career of anti-gay activism ranges from his March 2009 participating, along with notorious anti-gay agitator Scott Lively, in the Kampala, Uganda anti-LGBT rights conference (Exposing the Truth behind Homosexuality and the Homosexual Agenda) widely credited with raising anti-gay hatred in Uganda to a fever pitch, to his presentation, to The Gathering in 1997, of a master strategy for combating organized homosexuality. 2011 27,450 One of the more significant of the U.S. evangelical international aid nonprofits, Food For The Hungry funded the development of former Food For The Hungry Vice President Darrow L. Millers Biblical worldview courses, based on Christian Reconstructionist concepts, that are being taught across Africa by the Food For The Hungry-funded spinoff nonprofit Disciple Nations Alliance. 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. This church runs a local Celebrate Recovery program a national addiction recovery program launched from The Saddleback Church of frequent speaker The Gathering speaker Rick Warren who has been noted for his encouragement of anti-LGBT animosity in Africa and, specifically, Uganda. In 2012, when the Becket Fund began to represent the Greens in the case, National Christian Foundation grant money to Becket suddenly increased over ninefold, from $10,000 in 2011 to $94,340 in 2012. 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. In a May 27, 2010 AFA column (see: http://www.afa.net/blogs/blogpost.aspx?id=2147494882) Fischer wrote, Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews. 2009 37,850 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 2006 932,717 One of the most flamboyantly anti-gay groups on the Christian Right, AFTAH is classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBT hate group. Officers Christian Fellowship This encyclopedia documents the role of the National Christian Foundation as the leading domestic U.S. funding source for organizations and institutions involved in anti-LGBT rights activism and which are ideologically hostile to gay rights. Box 22429, Robinsdale, MN 55422-0429 (www.outpostministries.org), To give special status or rights to those choosing the personally and socially destructive homosexual lifestyle is to approve and endorse that behavior, and inevitably to spread it. The core ideas are derived from Christian Reconstructionism. The official ORU student pledge includes, I will not engage in or attempt to engage in any illicit, unscriptural sexual acts, which include any homosexual activity and sexual intercourse with one who is not my spouse through traditional marriage of one man and one woman. (see:http://www.oru.edu/admissions/undergraduate/pdfdocs/honor_code.pdf), U.S. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is an alumnus of the defunct Oral Roberts University Law School, where she studied under law professor John Eidsmoe, who is listed as a current steering committee member of the theocratic Coalition on Revival. 2003 62,113 Your chosen sexuality is deeply tied to a pagan religious agenda that denies the Creator and sees no need for salvation. Orientation Leader. 2010 5,000 Evidence has emerged that Nazarios Knights Templar members proved their loyalty through an act of cannibalism. 2008 10,300 In a 2010 interview, Oyet told French video documentarist Domenic Mesmin that, it is not Uganda that is putting a death penalty on homosexuals, it is God and his word.. More recently, the Ethics and Public policy Center has been a partner with and financial sponsor of the World Congress of Families which, since the late 1990s, has rallied pro-family (and anti-LGBT rights) social conservatives on a global scale. 2002 1,000 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. Children who participate in Compassion's programs are, more likely to finish secondary 2009 16,850 2009 90,000 The NAR and its charismatic predecessor movements (often referred to under the umbrella term Neo-Pentecostalism) are especially committed to opposing LGBT rights, and their demon-obsessed theology a particularly potent weapon for attacking LGBT populations and other targeted societal groups has been promoted by AIC churches since the early 1990s (see footnote), when American evangelicals began heavily exporting their Neo-Pentecostal Spiritual Warfare/Spiritual Mapping ideas and practices, especially to to Africa. Compassion's goal is to provide a trip to each country every other year. 2002 4,200 2008 64,150 If only you knew that one day I would go on and sponsor another kid in my community and be a source of hope to others. 2009 16,500 In 2006, Ugandan First Lady Janet Museveni herself traveled, with an entourage that included her daughter Patience and top Ugandan government leaders and religious leaders including Ugandan evangelist and head of Ugandas National Fellowship of Born Again Pentecostal Churches Alex Mitala, to Silvosos yearly Argentina conference. suffering and injustice. 2001-2005 0 2011 17,200 Giving special presentations at the Advocates International / Advocates Africa Ethiopia conference in 2009 were the following National Christian Foundation-supported organizations: Prison Fellowship International, Campus Crusade for Christ, Alliance Defense Fund, International Justice Mission, and Pepperdine University, USA. [19][20] The research, by Bruce Wydick, Paul Glewwe, and Laine Rutledge, evaluated Compassion efforts in six countries, with 10,144 children studied, reporting "large, statistically significant impacts on years of schooling; primary, secondary, and tertiary school completion; and the probability and quality of employment." 2012 1,000 2007 15,100 ) 2003 11,200 2003 10,000 2003 51,115 ( Trinity Academy, no EIN given ) Of particular interest in terms of LGBT rights, this biblical worldview includes the vision of implementing some version of biblical (mosaic) law including laws against homosexuality. 2005 51,320 One alleged Mercy Ministries former client testifies, I was judged right from the start because of my sexuality and they continually told me that was wrong and I shouldnt have those thoughts. [T]he Bible is very clear about homosexual acts being a very evil thing, wrote Cass. 2008 29,220 As explained during a 2006 3 and 1/2 special briefing to The Gathering (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LYLMYvUhoQ ), The ADF was created expressly to aid existing legal organizations, and local attorneys, in their culture war legal battles; it does not compete with existing Christian right legal organizations, nor does it take over local Christian right legal fights. 2010 34,350 As USA Today reported in a an August 3, 2014 story, The broadest attack yet on states gay marriage bans will be Wednesday in a packed courtroom in downtown Cincinnati, where lawyers challenging four states prohibitions will stand shoulder to shoulder in hopes of convincing a three-judge panel that the bans are unconstitutional.. Compassion International is an American child sponsorship and Christian humanitarian aid organization headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that aims to positively influence the long-term development of children globally who live in poverty . 2007 1,390,833 [4] The name of the association changed to Compassion, Inc., in 1963, inspired by Jesus' words "I have compassion on the multitude. 2006 90,500 Children are welcome to participate in a Compassion-assisted child development center regardless of their faith. 2004 3,000 A third MLM board member of is British evangelist Peter Horrobin, one of the worlds leading experts, among Protestant charismatic Christians, in the practice of exorcism. Barfoot was co-rector of a Kansas Episcopal church which broke with the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA) over the 2003 ordination of openly gay Gene Robinson as ECUSAs bishop for the state of New Hampshire. 2005 20,740 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. 2011 19,383. 2008 2010 0 The First Academy is run by the Orlando First Baptist Church a fact which is only mentioned on the First Baptist Church website inside several biographies of church leaders who run the First Academy (see: http://www.firstorlando.com/about/meet_our_leadership/pastors_and_ministry_leaders_bios/articletype/articleview/articleid/13). 2006 217,500 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). 2008 1,999,900 On page 171 Reese writes, Most of the time when we know we have dealt with lies and are ready to cast out, we simply call the demon by the name of its apparent function within the person and command it to leave, all without incident of resistance. 10. 2012 0. 2004 293,700 States Burns, Celebrating Gods Design is a unique new curriculum series that takes a balanced and biblical look at important youth issues including gender confusion, tolerance, and challenging family dynamics., 2001 156,000 We must never appear to be mean-spirited or bigoted. My family was definitely at the heart of poverty. Evangelism Explosion 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. 2005 157,700 2006 0 2006 37,838 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. In response to these issues we draw attention to the following Biblical teaching and its So much hinges on what happens with the full agenda of the militant gay movement., Emphasizing the importance of keeping up a smooth public relations front, Eldredge told attendees, We must never appear to be attempting to rob anyone of their rights their constitutional rights. 2011 12,163 2003 0 2012 1,500 2008 867,138 2007 144,050 But, like Graham, Luis Palau also has ties to radically sectarian, dominionist streams of evangelicalism such as the New Apostolic Reformation, whose leaders urge their followers to burn or destroy all objects and scripture associated with competing faiths (and even with different sectarian forms of Christianity.). Dacus subsequently apologized for the comparison. 2011 0 2003 41,590 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. 2008 7,800 2005 17,550 2004 0 2004 4,250 Stemberger has stated that Florida LGBT activists working for a Jacksonville sexual nondiscrimination ordinance are a radical group of political operatives who want to force their aberrant views on human sexuality upon the rest of society by the mandate and penalty of law. (see: http://www.glaad.org/blog/who-john-stemberger-and-whats-really-driving-his-boy-scouts-crusade). But neither they nor their families are under any compulsion to become Christians. 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. (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpRV0spflIE#t=1m). 2008 26,400 The ceremony was presided over by Ugandan First Lady Janet Museveni. 2002 10,000 [10][11][12], Children in the child sponsorship program are provided food and clean water, medical care, education, life-skills training, and spiritual guidance through a direct sponsorship. 2009 23,461 2009 18,861 2009 77,000 Enlist our congregations to get involved in the political process, 2001 1,000 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Is Compassion International a nonprofit organization? 2010 15,480 2006 8,000 In a 2004 interview with the Orange County Register Ahmanson indicated that although it was not a necessary practice, the stoning of homosexuals, as a capital punishment, might be morally acceptable. Few Christian leaders, and vanishingly few politicians, are avowed Christian Reconstructionists. 2009 250 LGBTQI+ people are often not represented in political parties or among elected officials. 2009 267,250 Javascript is required on this website, please Enable Javascript in your browser. Ex-gay Desert Stream Ministries is currently housed at Mike Bickles International House of Prayer and is one of the member ministries in the Restored Hope Network that represents an attempt to rally the remaining ex-gay ministries still active after the collapse of Exodus International, in which Andy Comiskey once played a major leadership role.