Preach boldly about moral issues from the pulpit 2002 50,000 Eschliman accused the LGBTQXYZ crowd and the Gaystapo of trying to make their sinful nature right with God. . [26] In 2015, Compassion affiliates' offices were raided by tax investigators seeking evidence on whether it was funding religious conversions. While Christian Reconstructionisms punitive legal agenda has gained the movement moderate notoriety, often overlooked is its wider vision for government and society a type of theocratic libertarianism (see: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/1/6/14215/07913/) which envisions dramatic reductions in the size of federal and state government, whose functions would be limited to little more than providing for national defense and meting out the draconian punishments required under Reconstructionism interpretation of biblical law. 2002 5,000 her sponsor and center believed in her. ADA is a Michigan spinoff of Donald Wildmons American Family Association. In. IBLP founder and head Bill Gothard, can be considered an ultra-Christian Reconstructionist. 2010 -182,625 2008 22,500 Headed by Georgia pastor Fred Hartley Jr. III, the Revival Prayer Institute has financed travel, by American evangelicals from the Christian and Missionary Alliance, to Africa and elsewhere to establish satellite branches of the College of Prayer. The attempt to synthesize Marxist categories and Christian concepts, to equate 2003 3,500 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. 2004 271,525 A crucial earliest hotbed for the neoconservative movement, E&PCC, The Center boasts an array of leading Catholic, Protestant and Jewish intellectual social conservatives and has played a substantial, if stealthy, role in Americas ongoing culture wars including fighting LGBT rights. 2002 106,000 2005 5,000 2005 70,029 20:13, Rom. Sponsor a child today through Compassion's Christian child sponsorship ministry. 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 The concept of an alternative definition that includes same-sex couples is fundamentally flawed. 2006 5,000 It was the strength that he emulated.. 2012 5,740 2009 23,461 2010 8,000 2005 4,250 As a young man, Peter Cameron Scott joined the Christian Alliance Training Institute in New York, run by Albert Benjamin Simpson who was the founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance denomination. As described in this encyclopedia, in the entries on the Revival Prayer Institute, the Lilburn Alliance Church, and the Christian and Missionary Alliance, CMA has emerged as a major force in the war on LGBT rights in sub-Saharan Africa. 2005 155,635 2005 51,000 In the interview, Doug Phillips also called for a return to Biblical patriarchythe loving and sacrificial leadership of families by fathers, men who lead their families with godliness and vision. Doug Phillips was perhaps the most prominent leader in the Quiverfull movement (see: http://quiverfull.wordpress.com/about/) that encourages women to submit to male authority, leave their jobs, and return to the task of bearing as many children as possible. NCF also funds several ministries of unabashed Christian Reconstructionists including current Coalition on Revival steering committee member, South African evangelist Peter Hammond. 2012 4,000 As the Southern Poverty Law Center puts it, Paul Cameron is an infamous anti-gay propagandist whose one-man statistical chop shop, the Family Research Institute, churns out hate literature masquerading as legitimate science. [26] Compassion refused to do so as it would be a misuse of funds entrusted to them by donors all around the world. Voice of the Martyrs COR helped disseminate Christian Reconstructionist and dominionist ideas widely within conservative evangelicalism. 2009 156,650 2011 7,900 2005 7,000 We must never appear to be attempting to rob anyone of their rights their constitutional rights. 2006 235,438 The College of Prayer works to establish local prayer and worship groups of anti-gay Christian leaders and politicians across Africa and the developing world. 2007 1,000 2010 1,000 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. When the news finally reached the media, it was too late. 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. 2005 55,800 This is the only way communities can truly heal and thrive. 2001 0 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. 2008 57,485 2010 171,149 2009 175,300 ( 50K to AFA radio ) 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. 2002 0 2008 30,000 It feels hopeless and unchangeable. An Ounce of Prevention was the first in a series of books and resources, on how to prevent homosexuality, produced and sold by Schmierers [NCF-funded] His Servants ministry, which has had offerings from the book, video, and curriculum line translated into multiple languages including Russian, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, and Portuguese. Also in 2012, as described in CUs publication the Ivy League Christian Observer, Christian Unions Winter staff conference featured Andy Taylor, national director of Ellel Ministries USA. 2005 50,000 Several Episcopal churches are closer to his home. (see: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-11085908.html). 2012 313,651 We must be shrewd to get consensus for our position by appealing to shared values and concern, and issues of fairness and justice.. 2011 9,350 oppression and demanded obedience to Gods law. 2007 11,116 The document specifies that all clergy, employees, and volunteers of the diocese, as well as students and parents in Catholic schools, are to "conduct themselves in accord . 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 . 2004 700 evaluators and watchdogs. Compassion International is a Christian child development organization dedicated to releasing children from poverty. 2007 236,000 2005 35,850 2002 10,000 2004 0 2010 500 American Values will help empower your kids to stand against the liberal culture. Food for the Hungry grants helped fund the creation of the Disciple Nations Alliance, which has worked directly with Ugandan Stephen Langa, one of the top lobbyists for the Uganda Anti Homosexuality Bill. 2011 8,900 If the dispute isnt resolved to Eschlimans satisfaction, he could sue in federal court to seek financial damages. One close colleague of David Noebel has been Christian Reconstructionist Peter Hammond who might be characterized as South Africas Scott Lively. 2013 185,000. Christian Legal Society 2002 1,000 2007 70,500 In 2007, Bishop Jackson partnered with Cindy Jacobs and Kimberly Daniels in leading opposition to the Hate Crimes Bill, later signed into law by President Barack Obama (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7VnSDRk5tU), 2001 590,105 2004 0 2007 7,960 In 2010 Christian Union brought Intelligent Design expert Walter Bradley to Princeton and its Ivy League Christian Observer has showcased Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Michael Behe, author of the influential ID book Darwins Black Box. At The Gathering 1997, under the auspices of Howard Ahmansons Fieldstead Institute, Ahmansons private unincorporated funding vehicle, one current and one former (Herb Schlossberg) Fieldstead program director gave a presentation outlining a master strategy for combating organized homosexuality. The Assemblies of God runs a network of hundreds of addiction recovery centers, both in the U.S. and internationally, called Teen Challenge. 2006 504,500 2011 100 [5] This strengthens the case that homosexuality is a behavior based on choice, not on genetic fate. 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. 2001 10,000 2004 68,140 Thomas, once a practicing Catholic, has been attending Truro, a charismatic Episcopal church, for about a year, The Friday evening ceremony was a jubilant occasion. AIM has also been involved in developing and manag- ing institutions such as Rift Valley Academy and Kijabe Medical Center.. 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. (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) 2008 1,500 (Bethel Church no EIN provided) The NCF-funded Food For The Hungry (also a USAID recipient) provided key seed money and leadership to found the nonprofit Disciple Nations Alliance. Eternal Perspective Ministries 2011 50,500 implications for relief and development: 1. 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. mysterious ways to fulfill the plan. Over the decades since its 1976 launch, E&PPC has functioned as the cutting edge of the neoconservative-driven culture war against progressive theology and secularism (see: http://www.counterpunch.org/2005/02/09/elliott-abrams-the-neocon-s-neocon/ ). 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. In 1986, Robertson stated, It is interesting, that termites dont build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. 2013 27,000, Total 140,600 (The NCF has also given $721,211 to In Touch Mission International, sister ministry of Frontline Fellowship), As one description put it, The Georgia Family Council is your typical anti-gay organization: supporting legislation to ban gay marriage and calling the legalization of gay marriage regression. (see: http://www.policymic.com/articles/12219/all-the-anti-gay-companies-you-fund-when-you-spend-5-25-on-a-chick-fil-a-sandwich), 2001 44,200 Now I must reclaim that role. Dont misunderstand what Im saying here. 2012 1,500 2007 472,812 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. 2004 0 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. Addressing a rally against same-sex marriage, according to USA Today was Family Foundation of Kentucky executive director Kent Ostrander, who in a statement that likened the legalization of same-sex marriage to martial law told his audience, Across the nation, it is tantamount to martial law on state marriage policies when relatively few federal judges are overturning marriage amendments that millions of people have voted upon and decided, 2001 4,000 Wrote journalist David Corn, for The Nation magazine, in 1991. [26] Compassion said that attempts were made to force the ministry to divert funding to non-Christian Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh groups. Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW, LCSW, ACSW Verified. Barfoots Kansas Christ Church subsequently joined the Anglican Church of Uganda under the leadership of Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi, who has openly supported the Uganda Anti Homosexuality Bill. 2012 1,000 During his March 2008 visit to Uganda to promote his Purpose Driven program in Uganda, Warren told Orombi and other Ugandan religious leaders that Homosexuality is not a natural way of life and thus not a human right. Specifically, the study concluded, "the Compassion child sponsorship program increases years of completed schooling by 1.031.46 years over a baseline of 10.19 years and increases the probability of primary school completion by 4.07.7 percentage points (baseline 88.7 percent), secondary school completion by 11.616.5 percentage points (baseline 44.9 percent), and university completion by 2.12.4 percentage points (baseline 4.3 percent) [and found] impacts of 5.16.3 percentage points on the probability of salaried employment in adulthood and a 6.56.7 percentage point increase in the probability of white-collar employment, as well as modest evidence for causal impacts on community and church leadership." 2006 14,100 It's a 2023 Compassion International. Consequently, it is not surprising that one of the most prominent AIC churches in Kenya, Nairobis Africa Inland Church Ziwani, has recently served as a launching point for Kenyan Vice President William Rutos mounting rhetorical attacks on LGBT rights and same-sex marriage. 2002 0 If we believe that man is made in the image of God, then we would do well to remember that the Lord is a warrior (Exodus 15:3).. 2006 13,200 ( see: http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2014/april/bill-gothard-breaks-silence-on-harassment-claims-by-30-wome.html ), 2001 0 Yes. coming from government sources. 2013 2,168,986 (does not include local FCA branches), Fidelis Center For Law and Policy (EIN 20-2787890). The arbitrary new nations (e.g. 2009 0 2008 6,000 Declares Dobson, I consider Summit Ministries to be one of the very best resources available, and I dont say that lightly. (see: http://www.summit.org/about/endorsements/). He told listeners in the sermon that homosexuality is sin in the eyes of God, and it is sin in the word of God and also issued a call to lovingly but firmly respond to the aggressive agenda of homosexual activists., The op-ed quotes the late D. James Kennedy, When you have an immoral society that has blatantly, proudly, violated all of the commandments of God, there is one last virtue they insist upon: tolerance for their immorality. (see: http://evangelismexplosion.org/tolerance-police-arrest-louie-giglio/), 2001 37,000 Reese is author of the book Freedom Tools For Overcoming Lifes Tough Problems (2008, Chosen Books/Baker Publishing Group). 2012 60,069 Noebels anti-gay writing includes his 1977 book The Homosexual Revolution: End Time Abomination (dedicated to Anita Bryant) which characterized homosexuality as a kind of national death wish that sought to change the natural order created by God himself and the 1996 book AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, (co-authored with Wayne C. Lutton and Paul Cameron). In South America, Compassion works in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. 2012 57,500 2008 154,750 2008 717,690 Morally corrupt films and television An increasingly perverted music industry The pornographic invasion of the Internet Civil initiatives promoting gay marriage. 2009 962,969 2002 22,450 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. 2011 700 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. New Hope Charitable Foundation 11. 2006 1,000 But even if it isnt, anyone can choose to refrain from homosexual (or heterosexual) sexual practices. 2004 7,300 World Outreach Ministries Another of Howard Ahmansons projects has been the funding of efforts to promote schisms within mainline Protestant denominations, over divisive wedge issues such as same sex marriage and the ordination of gay clergy. Children who participate in Compassion's programs are, more likely to finish secondary Alliance Defense Fund / Alliance Defending Freedom [6], As of November 2019, the board chair of the organization was Judy Golz, and the president and CEO was Santiago Mellado. 2006 231,000 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/). 2005 44,750 In 1994 the Glenn Eyrie castle headquarters of The Navigators hosted a secret anti-LGBT rights conference which included representatives from Focus on The Family, the Family Research Council, the American Family Association, the Christian Coalition, Concerned Women of America, and the Christian Reconstructionism-linked U.S. Taxpayers Party. in their community, *2008, Dr. Bruce Wydick, University of San Francisco. Among the fifty largest Christian ministries in the country who have made this election include: CRU/Campus Crusade for Christ, The Navigators, Gideons International, Willow Creek Association, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Joyce Meyer Ministries, and Ethnos360/New Tribes Mission. Set up your online account. 2010 300 2013 14,900, Intercessors For America (EIN 04-2576811), John Beckett, IFA founder and head, was an original Coalition on Revival signatory. It is deceptive at every turn. The Conservative Caucus 2006 48,852 2001 0 Founder of ex-gay Regeneration Ministries was Alan Medinger, was the original executive director of Exodus International. 2004 400 TheCall Sozo is an exciting and growing prayer ministry that was birthed out of Bethel Church in Redding, California, helping people to receive salvation, healing and deliverance. This revised system altered Compassion's 4-star rating to a 3, less than three months after awarding Compassion a 4-star rating for the exact same numbers. Over the past decade, Louis Palaus son Kevin Palau has taken his fathers ministry in a bold new direction, through a partnership with the secular, liberal city of Portland Oregon in which each year thousands of volunteers from hundreds of area churches volunteer in a civic improvement campaign. 2003 5,000 2011 5,000 relationship more powerful than poverty changing their life and yours! Until his death, the Conservative Caucus was headed by Howard Phillips, founder of the Christian Reconstructionism-linked Constitution Party (originally the U.S. Taxpayers Party). 2004 6,000 (Conservative Caucus Research) 2010 296,490 (1,500 to AFA radio ) The source data for funding listed in this reference work are 2001-2013 National Christian Foundation IRS 990 forms filed with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. In 2012, Cass presented, as one of several irrefutable proofs that Barack Obama is NOT a Christian, Obamas support for gay rights.