1. 2009 306,780 2005 392,170 Teen Challenge centers receive public funding. Up to 1995 Ahmanson gave Chalcedon over $750,000 and sat on the Chalcedon Institutes board. 2009 1,676,090 Our frontline church partners across the world invest deeply in each individual, helping them discover their talents and use their skills to escape poverty, bless those . 2010 1,080,234 2003 16,350 2012 427,694 ( 419,617 to AFA Radio) That paradigm, Spiritual Warfare/Spiritual Mapping, was not native to Africa. 2011 17,200 2003 120,000 In a 1982 fundraising letter he proclaimed, The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. 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/ ). 2005 193,813 2009 12,000 2011 9,350 God and His Law Natural disaster. Chalcedon Foundation Summit Ministries was until 2011 headed by David Noebel whose long participation in the American far right has included teaching at a school associated with Billy James Hargis Christian Crusade, running the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade (founded by Fred C. Schwarz), membership in the John Birch Society and the Council For National Policy and through Summit Ministries training youth in the biblical worldview, a Summit curriculum firmly rooted in Christian Reconstructionist doctrine. It was founded and is still chaired by Mathew (Mat) Staver, who also serves as director of the Liberty Center for Law and Policy at Liberty University, and provides legal assistance with regard to religious liberty, abortion and the family.. 2012 0 Many leaders funded by the National Christian foundation and who are associated with The Gathering (including Wess Stafford and Rick Warren) have evinced sentiments very similar to Doug Coes, admiration of the dedication of the followers of Hitler, Lenin, and Mao. In short, the real and lasting answer was not food, knowledge of better farming techniques, schools, or medical care, or any other secular remedy. 2011 277,260 The causes of hunger and deprivation, therefore, are spiritual as well as material and After graduating from Covenant College, an elite fundamentalist Presbyterian school (We are a community committed to the Bible as the inerrant Word of God, and everything we do is grounded in our Reformed theology and worldview) which over the years has received heavy funding from the Maclellan Foundation, the young Michael Cromartie was chosen to serve as Charles Colsons special assistant for Prison Fellowship Ministries (see: http://www.ttf.org/mr-michael-cromartie ). 2012 0, Family Life EIN 95-6006173 According to the Center For Arizona Policy, which boasts that since 1995 130 CAP-supported bills have become law, There are many documented cases of homosexuals modifying their behavior and becoming heterosexual through Christian ministries and counseling. A new ex-gay umbrella organization, the Restored Hope Network, is positioned to fill the niche once occupied by Exodus. Scruton neatly elided the reality that American military adventurism had effectively obliterated what Iraqi nationalism had existed, and removed a dictator who, for all his brutality, had effectively held the nation together. 2003 0 Apr 2022 - Sep 20226 months. ACLJ has established satellite legal centers active in Europe, Russia, and Africa, which fight against LGBT rights and legal abortion, and the religious rights traditional panoply of culture war issues (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-freedom-and-liberty-group-aclj-backed-russian-gay-propaganda-and-blasphemy-b ). Not even animals can avoid the fiery passion of mans sexual lust. (see: http://www.eaec.org/bibleanswers/ake_green_sermon.htm). 2002 0 Leading those drives towards schism have been the so-called Renewal groups within the Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, and other traditionally centrist or liberal Protestant denominations. It is destroying the souls and lives of those who embrace it. , 2001 200,340 I looked forward to all your letters, as they were the only times I read the phrase, "We love you.". Writes Hammond, The Summit students and staff became the largest supporters of Frontline Fellowship, and the main sponsors of Bibles and film evangelism equipment for Sudan. Pennsylvania Family Institute 2008 10,300 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. 2007 275,053 During the conference, FoF representative John Eldredge, who brought greetings and warm regards from Dr. Dobson of Focus on the Family, told attendees among whom were representatives from the American Family Association, the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, the Christian Coalition, the Christian Reconstructionism movement-linked U.S. Taxpayers Party, and the Conservative Caucus, whose longtime head Howard Phillips called Christian Reconstructionism founder R.J. Rushdoony his spiritual mentor that 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. 2001-2004 0 In 2010 Christian Union organized rallies at Princeton, Dartmouth, U Penn, and Yale for the virulently anti-gay ministry the International House of Prayer, which was featured heavily in the 2013 award-winning documentary God Loves Uganda (see: http://www.godlovesuganda.com/). Throughout his career Palau has been close to Billy Graham and also tightly linked to The Family/Fellowship, which hosts the National Prayer Breakfast. Compounding these realities, LGBTQI+ people are often excluded from social benefits systems; lack explicit, unambiguous protections in anti-discrimination legislation; and are not afforded legal recognition of their relationships and families. 2006 160,100 2012 45,000 If I made it past sickness, I would have succumbed the typical narrative of every young boy in these lands. Leading the Cornwall Alliance is E. Calvin Beisner, a participant along with Michael Cromartie at the Villars Consultation. 2008 135,168 Ugandan Stephen Langa, on of the top lobbyists for the Uganda Anti Homosexuality Bill and a close ally of Livelys, is an elder at the Watoto Church. (see: http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/1273/fighting_demons__raising_the_dead__taking_over_the_world/), 2006 1,500 (Bethel Church no EIN provided) 2012 2,640 The ADF was a co-convener of the 2012 World Congress of Families conference in Madrid, and ADF chief counsel Benjamin Bull has traveled to Russia to meet with Russian legislator Yelena Mizulina, who has led legislative efforts in the Russian Duma to pass anti-LGBT and anti-reproductive rights legislation. 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. 2004 5,850 With more than three decades of research and experience, Portland Fellowship has gained recognition as a leading authority on healing for the homosexual. In March 2009, Don Schmierer, a program director at Ahmansons Fieldstead Institute (sometimes referred to as Fieldstead and Company) who co-led the 1997 presentation with Schlossberg, spoke at a Kampala, Uganda conference credited with dramatically escalating anti-gay hatred in Uganda. Hammond is also author of the book Biblical Principles for Africa, which presents a Christian Reconstructionist template for society, and his ministry gives Biblical worldview seminars throughout Africa, patterned after the Biblical Worldview trainings held by the James Dobson-endorsed Summit Ministries. And I tell you, I have experienced total freedom from poverty in Jesus' name. Focus on the Family The legal organizations supported by ADF (most of which are also funded by the National Christian Foundation) represent most of the anti-reproductive rights and anti-LGBT rights legal activism in America and are now playing, as well, a major role in mounting international efforts to restrict LGBT rights. A sponsor is someone who has made the decision to personally invest in the life of a child in need. In 2009, during his visit to Uganda for an anti-homosexuality conference, Scott Lively gave a special presentation at the Watoto Church. 2006 233,900 2004 3,000 2004 14,900 Since the Rev. 2007 2,000 2007 to 2008 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). 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). More recently, ADF joined a number of major US-based (and NCF funded) Christian right groups such as the Family Research Council and Focus on The Family at planning sessions for the 2015 World Congress of Families event in Salt lake City, Utah (see: http://worldcongress.org/files/1114/4483/3500/WCF_News_November_2014.pdf ). Eldredge also stressed that the religious rights national anti-gay rights effort must be perceived as a genuine grass roots uprising. Harvest Evangelism 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. 2023 Compassion International. 2011 1,500 2005 27,840 figures include NCF funding for numerous Teen Challenge centers with different IRS EIN numbers). 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. 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. 2003 1,000 Reese claims to have conducted mass trainings of Ugandan pastors, under the supervision of NAR leader Alex Mitala (Mitala has been a listed apostle in the U.S.-based International Coalition of Apostles, now called the International Coalition of Apostolic Leaders.). 2004 0 2007 27,800 2004 97,624 2009 1,667,448 2008 322,000 (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. 2010 23,700 2003 15,000 Head of Faith 2 Action Janet Porter, ne Janet Folger, fronted for the 1998 Truth In Love ex-gay promotion campaign that briefly helped establish ex-gay leaders such as John and Anne Paulk as household names across America. By contrast, the activities of the foundations whose heads attend the yearly conference known as The Gathering can be readily traced through funding patterns in the 990 tax forms that those foundations file yearly with the Internal Revenue Service, and also through audio archives of sessions from the yearly The Gathering conference going back to 1996. What makes Compassion stand out among other child development and/or sponsorship organizations? The NCFs core beliefs include the statement, the entire Bible is the inspired and inerrant Word of God; the only infallible rule of faith and practice. (see: https://www.nationalchristian.com/vision), NCFs founders have helped create and lead the elite anti-gay evangelical right NCF co-founder and current board member Ron Blue has swerved on the Campus Crusade for Christ board and NCF co-founder (the late) Larry Burkett worked as a financial manager for CCC; Burkett was also a founding member of the Alliance Defense Fund (now renamed Alliance Defending Freedom); NCF co-founder and current NCF board member Terry Parker has served on the board of the Family Research Council (see encyclopedia entries for these three organizations.). Described as the best junket in all of journalism, The Faith Angle Forum has established Michael Cromartie as one of the go-to sources on questions regarding religion and politics for many of the top journalists reporting on religion. Now, 11 years after Kennedy graduated from Compassion's program, he writes one final letter: Receive heartfelt greetings from me. 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. 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. compassion international lgbt compassion international lgbt (No Ratings Yet) . 2012 AIM International supports the Africa Inland Mission (AIM) network of Africa Inland Churches that are, in effect, their own continent-wide denomination. 2005 5,300 2007 472,812 2002 0 But is it hopeless? 2013 177,877 (South Tampa Fellowship). In 2005, Julius Oyet who has held top leadership roles in Ugandas two born-again umbrella associations traveled to Ed Silvosos yearly Nation transformation conference near Buenos Aires, Argentina. Portland Fellowship (EIN 93-0958183) The Becket Fund For Religious Liberty It is deceptive at every turnit is destroying the souls and the lives of those who embrace it, and it has a corrosive effect on the society which endorses it, either explicitly or even implicitly., 2003 0 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. Under the guidance of Rushdoonys Reconstructionists, evangelicals in COR drafted a series or documents that mapped out how biblically-derived principles could be applied in all spheres of society. 2008 29,400 Violence, discrimination, stigma, and criminalization negatively impact the lives of millions of LGBTQI+ people around the world and contribute to poverty and social instability. 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. Transgender people face high barriers to legally change their name and/or gender marker, and are somtimes required to undergo forced sterilization or compulsory psychological treatment. 13. . We did see nay cities open up to the gospel for the first time. We want children to have the opportunity to see living faith in action, hear the gospel and be discipled in the ways of Christ. 2012 31,550 For boys in Mathare, drugs and crime were so prevalent that making it to the age of 16 became a milestone because they had escaped prison or death. 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. 2010 0 Compassion's goal is to provide a trip to each country every other year. 2008 0 Then, in 2013, NCF funding of Becket doubled, to $185,000. 2008 293,300 Founded in 1952, Compassion partners . 2008 57,485 2013 13,000. 2008 817,000 2012 230,615, Officers Christian Fellowship (EIN 38-1415401), ( see: http://www.ocfusa.org/static/uploads/bible-studies/genesis19.pdf ), 2001 3,000 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. 2005 534,992 Thus, either individuals or corporations might legally be able to discriminate, in what Clarkson calls the sacralization of bigotry (see: http://www.politicalresearch.org/2014/06/03/video-fred-clarkson-explains-the-fight-for-religious-freedom/). In 2012 the Liberty Counsel agreed to represent evangelist Scott Lively in a lawsuit filed by the NYC-based Center For Constitutional Rights, on behalf of the Ugandan gay rights group SMUG (Sexual Minorities Uganda). 2013 15,220. One of the foremost intellectuals of the dominionist Protestant right, Noebel has helped shape the political outlook of entire generations of American evangelicals through such tropes as his claim, as outlined in his 1965 pamphlet Communism, Hypnotism, and The Beatles, that the Beatles were part of a Soviet plot to brainwash American through rock music. The arbitrary new nations (e.g. 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. 2008 2,800 5. As Christians, Compassion is called to be good stewards of the resources God has given us, and we are very passionate about ensuring we are. FRC president Tony Perkins also serves as the head of the Council For National Policy. From the start, E&PPCs applicaton of Judeo Christian morality was highly selective. Franais | | Espaol. 2009 37,850 2006 500 Tjey are pain-management coping mechanisms. 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. 2009 19,900 2002 6,600 2005 5,0 Northern Virginia director for Regeneration Bob Ragan was the Exodus International board chairman in 2009 when his fellow Exodus board member Don Schmierer (also then working as a program director for Howard Ahmansons Fieldstead & Co.) attended the March 5-6 2009 Kampala, Uganda anti-LGBT rights Seminar on Exposing the Homosexuals Agenda credited with dramatically escalating anti-gay persecution in Uganda. Ellis and ter Haar (1998) discuss this particular tract in terms of its reference to evil and therefore as an implicit critique of power and corruption. church. 2003 10,500 2010 850,892 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. It is an abomination. I want to invite you to declare no to sodomy, every one of you. It kills (as we have been reminded by the AIDS crisis). Compassion's criteria for opening a new country include: Compassion is distinct from other organizations because we are: On June 1, 2016, Charity Navigator introduced a revised method of calculation for the charities they review. 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. 2006 424,316 By 2013, based on its $603 million in grants in FY 2012, the National Christian Foundation was judged by the Chronicle of Philanthropy to be Americas 12th biggest private foundation. Spavia provides a family culture with respect, compassion and work/life balance where both our guests and team can relax, escape and thrive. Schlossbergs ministry, the NCF-funded His Servants, sells a line of ex-gay reparative therapy books translated into multiple languages including Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, and Hindi. Compassion International Church Partnerships Specialist I Remote 2d $54K-$67K Per Year (Employer est.) Self-compassion involves extending kindness toward the self, especially during times of difficulty. 2006 22,500 (Conservative Caucus Research) Advocates International . Releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name. Everett Swanson was on a successful preaching tour in South Korea when he encountered the bitter poverty of Korea's unwanted children. Fellowship of Christian Athletes (EIN 44-0610626). 2006 0 If a community perceives that an outside, national group is behind local activism, the community will rebel against it. Hillman has organized conferences which have featured the participation of both Ugandan evangelist Julius Oyet, who claims to have co-authored the Uganda Anti Homosexuality Bill, Fred Hartley, Jr. III, whose College of Prayer Internationals Uganda branch is headed by Oyet and includes Ugandan MP David Bahati, who introduced the bill in Ugandas parliament, and Atlanta pastor Johnny Enlow, perhaps the first pastor to blame Hurricane Katrina on a New Orleans gay parade and who suggests criminalizing homosexuality. 2010 111,600 2010 3,000 2004 0 For all practical purposes, The Family and The Gathering can be considered the same, conjoined entity. It mattered, and it was enough. 2009 $7,572,475 (ORU missions $2,000, ORU Evangelistic Association $100) and instead of helping them we are papering over their problems . 2002 3,125,85 Christian Union promotes the leadership and the demon-obsessed doctrines of the New Apostolic Reformation, including the practice of exorcism, and has held conferences promoting some of the most extreme ex-gay ministries in America such as Ellel Ministries USA, and some of the most extreme leaders such as Che Ahn, who now heads the NARs Wagner Leadership Institute (WLI). 2004 10,500 I want you to know that I am forever grateful to you for releasing me from poverty in Jesus' name. They didn't have children when they sponsored him, and they told Kennedy he was their first son. 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. We are an army of salvation, they chorused. 2011 67,850 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. 2009 248,935 2006 30,823 2010 25,000 Compassion International, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. 2006 5,500 Among his other roles, Cromartie serves on the advisory board of an evangelical coalition called the Cornwall Alliance that opposes action to address climate change, depicting concern over global warming as part of a vast satanic conspiracy referred to as the green dragon. Can I write my sponsored child a letter online? It reads,: You shall not lie with a male as with a woman.It is an abomination. Children who participate in Compassion's programs are, more likely to finish secondary 2011 7,900 2011 146,100 11. One key concept is the idea that underdevelopment and poverty stem from a lack of a Christian (fundamentalist) worldview. Shocked by rising crime, teen pregnancy, and divorce throughout the 1970s and 1980s, top leaders of the emergent Christian right, such as Bill Bright, had turned to the radical solutions outlined by the overtly theocratic Christian Reconstructionism movement. 2006 540,305 So much hinges on what happens with the full agenda of the militant gay movement.. 2006 100 Along with Purpose Driven Life book author Rick Warren, Stafford was a featured speaker at The Gathering 2007. His national group, he noted, is like an 800-pound giant compared to Colorado for Family Values, which has a half dozen people in a one-room office. 2007 40,004 2007 35,000 2012 7,500 2005 10,300 2005 378,480 2001 15,450 Your support gives a child life-changing opportunity to develop spiritually, emotionally, physically and economically. 2012 48,000 Preach boldly about moral issues from the pulpit As the Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union Donna Lieberman testified in 2012 in the ongoing court case, the Bronx Household of Faith rejects New York State law recognizing same-sex marriages because it fails to recognize the authority of God, creator and sovereign of the universe, as the authority above the state. (see: http://www.nyclu.org/content/testimony-new-york-city-council-regarding-churches-worshipping-schools), 2001 1,000 2008 [p.69], 2001 1,000 2005 195,441 [25], Compassion operated in India for 48 years, with $45million in transfers annually, making it India's largest single foreign donor. It's a relationship more powerful than poverty changing their life and yours! 2006 224,650 In its Fall 2011 issue, the Ivy League Observer featured an article by one of the leaders of the Princeton Group initiative, venture capitalist Chuck Stetson, a co-founder of the National Organization for Marriage and the CEO of the (anti-gay) National Marriage Week. 2007 2,500 (see: http://jimdaly.focusonthefamily.com/are-some-christians-really-supporting-homosexual-jim-crow-laws/). 2010 26,875 One of the most prominent Sozo entities is Andy Reese The Freedom Resource ministry (see: http://www.thefreedomresource.org/). 2013 245,000, Head of Hope For The Heart is June Hunt, heiress to the Hunt oil fortune. MT., or send mail to Compassion International, Colorado Springs, CO 80997. 2002 657,165 Campus Crusade For Christ Giving a special un-recorded presentation was Alan Sears, Alliance Defending Freedoms president. 2007 2,171,275 (see: http://vimeo.com/purepassion/videos/ ) 2005 1,194,145 Family Research Institute 2010 970,150 2011 19,383. 2012 10,000, The Family Foundation of Kentucky (EIN 61-1167112). Alliance For Marriage 2007 0 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.