The Disciple Nations Alliances 2008 IRS 990 tax form lists a DNA grant to Samaritan Strategy Africa of $144,500. 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. Jones also inveighs against the practice of yoga, writing, The god of gay marriage and yoga is not the transcendent personal Creator of Scripture, but the divine self within, who creates its own reality and the laws to go with it. 2007 83,400 (combined, all AoG entities/missions) In 2013, PJI issued a baseless press release with misinformation claiming that at a Colorado public school a teenage boy was entering girls bathrooms and, according to some students, even making sexually harassing comments toward girls he was encountering. Gods opinion of homosexuality has not changed.. 2023 Compassion International. 2007 118,532 2010 7,925 2005 16,000 2009 1,371, Youthbuilders (formerly National Institute of Youth Ministry. Voice of the Martyrs 2010 421,600 By 2011, one survey found weekend churches had been established in roughly twenty percent of all public schools in New York City. 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. 2006 75,000 2007 2,400 The Conservative Caucus 2008 10,000 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. 2007 2,000 I was told that homosexuality was a demon that needed to be cast out of my life. Compassion International alumni, now adults, thank sponsors for their impact in emotional letters. education, more likely to have salaried 2003 500 2005 1,500 2005 0 2007 5,000 2006 100 GLAAD is collaborating with the St. Paul's Foundation for International Reconciliation, the Unitarian Universalist UN Office, Soulforce, and several other partners to present Compass to Compassion a consultation to present a common strategy to deal with the global impact of American Christian fundamentalism on rising LGBT global persecution. A brief history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender social movements/Bonnie J. Morris, PhD. That state department position went to future E&PPC president Elliott Abrams (who took the E&PPC helm in 1996). Also participating was Hugh O. Maclellan of the Maclellan Foundation one of the most important funders of the NCF and an attendee at The Gathering. Rwanda. 2008 56,150 Compassion International, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. 2004 15,000 TruthXchange claims that all belief systems cleave into two grand patterns, one-ist and two-ist with two-ist systems representing the correct fundamentalist Christian viewpoint and one-ist belief systems representing pagan belief systems. His family didn't have beds and slept on cardboard. 2010 4,576.272 2009 19,900 2006 37,838 The mission is to redefine the family, to replace the Biblical meaning of manhood, and to remove all vestiges of Biblical patriarchy from society. 2005 0 As of January2019[update] the cost to sponsor a child through Compassion was US$38 per month, and globally there were over two million babies, children, and young adults in its programs. 2002 159,000 2003 53,000 Lilburn Alliance Church Encourage informed Christian thinking about contemporary social issues ), 2001 25,000 2013 2,410,707. 2008 2,444,840 Dr. Steven F. Hotze learned this in Houston. Stated Mitala, Some Ugandans are praising homosexuality and some believe it is their right but you should stand not to allow this moral decay in this country. (see: http://chimpreports.com/index.php/news/10456-bishop-lwere-urged-to-fight-homosexuality-pornography.html). figures include NCF funding for numerous Teen Challenge centers with different IRS EIN numbers). Council For National Policy Fellowship of Christian Athletes (EIN 44-0610626). Patient- and Family-Centered Care for the LGBT Community (2011), . account. 2012 0 2008 5,000 2012 31,550 Since the primary purpose of marriage is the procreation and nurturing of children, marriage can only be the union of a man and a woman. 2004 2,000 2012 1,223,550 2007 4,000 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. Up to 1995, Ahmanson was one of the top funders of the Chalcedon Institute, the leading think tank of the Christian Reconstructionism movement, whose leaders propose mandating the death penalty for a range of offenses including adultery, blasphemy, childhood rebelliousness, female unchastity (sex before marriage), homosexuality, and witchcraft. self-respect. 2011 1,500 Patrick Henry College 2005 0 You might have thought I would be afraid of you, look down on you, judge you, or consider you unworthy of friendship. 2006 37,700 Sponsor a Child", "Major Christian Charity Is Closing India Operations Amid a Crackdown", "No 'Ideological' Reason Behind Compassion International Ban: MEA", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Compassion_International&oldid=1135278905, This page was last edited on 23 January 2023, at 18:13. 2009 0 2012 77,600 Leviticus 20:13 states: If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. Giving a special un-recorded presentation was Alan Sears, Alliance Defending Freedoms president. 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. [T]he Bible is very clear about homosexual acts being a very evil thing, wrote Cass. . Sponsoring a child costs $38 a month. TheCall head and co-founder Lou Engle has claimed that homosexuality can be caused by demon possession and be cured by exorcism of those demon spirits. Exodus International Compassion International is publisher of Bushs 2009 book The 4/14 Window: Raising Up a New Generation to Transform The World, and Vice President of Compassion International Bambang Budijanto serves on the Transform-World steering committee. 2011 77,200 2009 2,099,144 Testimonies on the IHR website claim miracle healings of brain, bone, and lung cancer and also deliverance from the homosexual lifestyle. 2003 (ORU MIssion) $150 2001-2004 0 States prominent Christian Reconstructionist David Chilton, The Christian goal for the world, is the universal development of Biblical theocratic republics.. 2010 23,500 churches in Africa, Asia, Central America and South America. 2002 25,700 The day will come when they will have children, and there wont be a thing they will be able to do to stop predators from taking advantage of their children because it will be against the law to discriminate. , 2001 5,000 2011 10,000 2004 62,000 2005 157,956 2003 1,000 I would have either gotten into crime and drugs, which were always available around me. 2007 2,100 2004 1,200 13. 2003 41,590 How can a man know he is one when his highest aim is minding his manners., Eldredge also writes, Aggression is part of the masculine design; we are hardwired for it. Brian Cox, associate rector of a sister church, the Church of the Apostles, exhorts Truros congregants to obey unquestioningly Gods commands. 2009 9,500 2012 45,000 The concept of an alternative definition that includes same-sex couples is fundamentally flawed. 2003 66,500 2011 50,000 In our country today, there is tremendous pressure on Christians, churches, and Christian organizations to lower our moral standards. 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. We must never APPEAR to be attempting to rob anyone of their rights, of their constitutional rights, I think the gay agenda, and I would not say this as frankly as I will now in other cultural contexts, I think the gay agenda has all the elements of that which is truly evil. I did not know love and Jesus. It's a National Christian Foundation funding of the Bethel Redding, CA church can only be positively determined for one year, 2009, but Bethel Redding is by far the most prominent of any of the several churches named Bethel in the U.S., so the likelihood is that some of the vastly increased NCF funding going to Bethel churches is going to Bethel Redding. 2009 37,850 2012 0 (also see entry for the Revival Prayer Alliance), 2001 2,000 Daly noted that orthodox Christian were both for and against the bill. 2011 0 Christian and Missionary Alliance leaders have played a significant role in organizing and inspiring Ugandan religious and political leaders in the vanguard of Ugandas anti-LGBT crusade, through their organization of the Atlanta-area based international College of Prayer. Adoption is a potent issue in. Definitely! We believe in God. Not blood, but faith should rule us. 2012 247,299, The Family Foundation of Virginia (EIN 52-1425355), 2008 1,300 2004 75,500 2013 1,950, Mercy Ministries of America (EIN 72-0973419). Hitlers genocide wasnt really an issue for them. 2005 427,500 2002 7,500 2006 58,200 2011 149,998 As UK academics Gregory Deacon and Gabriel Lynch describe in their monograph Allowing Satan in? Compassion strives to protect children from all forms of abuse. 2010 1,471,706 2008 9,452 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. 2011 142,500 a quiet but significant role in exporting the anti-LGBT ideology of the American evangelical right, especially through its material and leadership support of evangelist Luis Bushs Transform World initiative. 2005 5,250 But in recent years, Sheldon has diversified, ramping up his assaults on church-state separation, public education and the federal judiciary.. AIM is among a class of Anglo-American pseudo-denominations (such as the Christian And Missionary Alliance and Serving in Mission), launched in the 19th Century, that are nominally non-denominational, heavily missions oriented, and aimed at evangelizing the worlds thousands of unreached people groups categorized by such mammoth evangelical global intelligence gathering projects as the Joshua Project, which makes its detailed ethnographic data on thousands of world people groups available to various missionary efforts and organizations. In early 2015, leading up the oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the constitutionality of same-sex marriage, the Liberty Counsel organized a Defend Marriage Pledge, who signatories wanted to warn the Court not to cross the redline of natural marriage (see: http://www.lc.org/index.cfm?PID=14102&AlertID=1917 ), 2004 15,000 As legal fights over religious convictions on family and LGBT rights have continued to make their way through the courts and Congress, Bethany Christian decided to incorporate the move toward. 2003 29,300 2001 5,260 In the forward to Luis Bushs book, then-Compassion International President Wess Stafford stated, Every major movement in history has grasped the need to target the next generation in order to advance its agenda and secure its legacy into the future. [26] Compassion refused to do so as it would be a misuse of funds entrusted to them by donors all around the world. I was enrolled in school. 2012 507,372 2002 0 2005 0 2013 0, American Center For Law and Justice (EIN 54-1586817), Started by televangelist Pat Robertson, the ACLJ has an active relationship with Robertsons Regent University. 2010 5,600 Growing up, I looked up to you and wanted to be just like you. 2013 613,815, The Becket Fund For Religious Liberty (EIN 52-1858532). 2011 9,606,281 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 Recent global warming is one of many natural cycles of warming and cooling in geologic history., Domestic Policy, and the battle against LGBT rights. I want you to know that I am forever grateful to you for releasing me from poverty in Jesus' name. Violence, discrimination, stigma, and criminalization negatively impact the lives of millions of LGBTQI+ people around the world and contribute to poverty and social instability. In his 1986 book Kingdoms At War: Tactics For Victory In Nine Spiritual War Zones, Bright openly endorsed both the theocratic Coalition on Revival (see: http://www.reformation.net/) and the writings of top Christian Reconstructionists including R. J. Rushdoony. 2008 817,000 2006 233,900 To bring down the wrath of God to bear on all those who practice evil! (see: http://www.politicalresearch.org/1994/03/). Use lay people to keep the anti-gay movement going 235), Kennedys now-defunct Center For Reclaiming America was known for, 2001 16,600 2003 11,200 2009 250 2001 0 2004 10,500 You can write your child a letter at write.compassion.com. 10. [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. Key Results (see: http://www.hrc.org/blog/entry/nom-exposed-exclusive-key-nom-figures-scheming-behind-the-scenes-action-pla). 2012 42,700 Though strenuous efforts to allow the citizens of Massachusetts to vote on the definition of marriage have failed for now, MFI is dedicated to restoring marriage to its natural definition. 2008 277,750 Christian and Missionary Alliance We believe that the relationship that develops between sponsors and children is instrumental in a child's growth and development. 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. Alliance Defense Fund / Alliance Defending Freedom, Association of Christian Schools International, Council For Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Church Quake! Thus, the ADF is in effect a spinoff from the elite networks of conservative evangelicals associated with The Fellowship and its offspring The Gathering, a fact which provides strong corroborating evidence for journalist Jeff Sharlets case (as outlined in several chapters his 2009 book C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat To American Democracy [2009, HarperCollins] see: http://harpers.org/blog/2010/09/inside-c-street-six-questions-for-jeff-sharlet/ ) that The Fellowship has played a major role in inspiring Ugandan religious and political leaders to create and promote the infamous Uganda Anti Homosexuality Bill. 2009 500 Whitehead credits Rushdoony with providing the outline for his first book, which he researched in Rushdoonys library. The need to reaffirm the Biblical support for the family as the basic social and economic unit and its right to own and control property, and to stand against any ideology that would diminish the familys proper role in any of these areas. An Iowa newspaper editor fired after publishing his views on homosexuals is claiming he was the victim of religious discrimination by his former employer. We condemn homosexuality because it is written in this holy book the Bible tells us, according to Leviticus, chapter 18, verse 22, You shall not lie with a man as a man lies with a woman. Since 1980, Compassion International's headquarters have been located in Colorado Springs, CO. You can call Compassion at (800) 336-7676, Monday through Friday, 7a.m. Releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name. It has been 11 years since I graduated the Compassion Program. At a Spring 2010 Kampala, Uganda rally, Oyet told his audience, It is not Uganda putting a death penalty on homosexuals, it is God and his word! Now, listen to me the sodomy people, the homosexuals, are even more foolish than dogs. 2005 714,581 In 2013, Mitala passed leadership of the National Fellowship of Born-Again Churches on to Joshua Lwere, in a ceremony in which Mitala called upon Lwere to fight homosexuality and pornography in Uganda as a Uganda news service characterized it. ADA is a Michigan spinoff of Donald Wildmons American Family Association. 2013 0. 2002 700 Theres no female dog that mates with a female dog, theres no male dog that lusts after a male dog. 2009 178,000 Jack Klenk serves on the UCUP board of directors. ) After talks back and forth, in 2017 the BJP-led Indian government barred Compassion from transferring funds into India, forcing the group to close its operations in that country. 2008 1,999,900 No products in the cart. 2009 12,882 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. 2011 1,600 The Neo-Evangelical movement, proposed Ockenga, would in the manner of the Nazi Blitzkrieg simply bypass secular areas of strength, to encircle and starve them into submission. 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.. oppression and demanded obedience to Gods law. For more information about Compassion, visit compassion.com . We must never appear to be mean-spirited or bigoted. American Family Association One of the primary roles of future government leaders will be to instruct in righteousness. (see: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/5/15/141520/281), 2001 200 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. 2007 50,000 2010 147,300 2005 937,818 . About Compassion InternationalCompassion Internationalis a Christian child development organization working to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. 2008 924,456 Coral Ridge Ministries However, once children graduate from the program and the sponsorship relationship comes to a close, the letters stop. 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. 2012 60,069 2008 170,430 2011 3,600 With at least 49 dead and another 50 injured, this hate crime is being called the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Campus Crusade founder Bill Brights efforts to political mobilize conservative evangelicals began in the 1970s and Brights ties to far-right business elites enabled him to play a major role in recruiting financiers to bankroll the emergent religious right that burst into national consciousness in the late 1970s to early 1980s. Christian Broadcast Network 2004 1,000 Do we think we can escape such persecution if we refuse to fight for what is right?, 2001 13,000 Howard Ahmanson, who uses his unincorporated Fieldstead and Company to finance his philanthropic and political causes, has long been one of the most significant and strategic funders of anti-LGBT rights causes in America. The failure to operate from a distinctively Biblical perspective in both methods and goals. You served in the military and loved God. Silvoso was also one of a small group (that included C. Peter Wagner and Cindy Jacobs) who helped pioneer the practice of Spiritual Mapping (in the late 1980s in the Argentine city of Resistencia.). One of the most effective Christian movements in the late 60s and early 70s was the Christian World Liberation Front at the University of California, Berkeley. 2004 877,650 Desert Stream Ministries 2009 267,250 2005 0 Since 1952, Compassion's ministry model has proved to provide immense stability in the face of various economic situations. As reported by the Des Moines Register in a July 23, 2104 story. Compassions strong commitment to financial transparency, integrity, and our core purpose of releasing children from poverty in Jesus name is and will continue to be unwavering. 2012 688,176 2003 949,485 AIM International supports the Africa Inland Mission (AIM) network of Africa Inland Churches that are, in effect, their own continent-wide denomination. 2001 14,000 Amidst the campaign, Anne and John Paulk were featured in a 1998 cover story in Newsweek which in 2014 would run a de-facto apology for its glowing 1998 story on allegedly successful examples of reparative therapy (see: http://www.newsweek.com/ex-ex-gay-pride-249282). Pepperdine University has established close ties to the Ugandan justice system (see: http://law.pepperdine.edu/news-events/news/2010/05/judiciary.htm), through its Global Justice Program. God is clear in His Word, and His standards never change. Global Mobilization Ministries For practical reasons, the encyclopedia covers only a handful of the myriad anti-LGBT groups that NCF funds the most prominent or especially noteworthy organizations in terms of their anti-LGBT rights activities out of the over-17,000 entities funded by the National Christian Foundation as detailed in NCFs 2013 990 tax form filed with the Internal Revenue Service. That was a covenant, a pledge. 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. Morally corrupt films and television An increasingly perverted music industry The pornographic invasion of the Internet Civil initiatives promoting gay marriage. That place, or those places, may be inhabited by the demonica base of operations. (Freedom Tools, pages 76-77). 2001 2,500 [3] Swanson had traveled there to preach the gospel to the US Army troops, but during his visit he was deeply moved by the plight of the scores of abandoned children he saw. 2002 0 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. Later in the year, on October 14, 2009, Ugandan MP David Bahati tabled the bill. First time logging in? This education session was hosted by the AMA LGBT Advisory Committee. 2009 23,461 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. 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.