2011 10,000 2009 7,500 2008 11,700 2012 9,651,178, Josh McDowell Ministries ( CCC ) 2012 1,123,200, The Heritage Foundation maintains an extensive website subsection devoted to arguments against LGBT rights, especially same sex marriage (see: http://www.heritage.org/issues/family-and-marriage/protecting-the-institution-of-marriage), Heritage fellow Ryan T. Anderson has come to occupy an increasingly prominent role among the opposition to marriage equality (see: http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/05/21/2040851/the-arguments-against-marriage-equality-apparently-have-nothing-to-do-with-gay-people/), In April 2014 Anderson made the claim that same-sex marriage is an elite luxury good bought for on the backs of the poor. (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/heritage-foundations-ryan-anderson-calls-gay-marriage-elite-luxury-good-bought-backs-poor), 2001 10,000 And 50,000 of those children have been waiting for more than a year, a much higher number due to the pandemic. 2006 45,000 2009 4,400 (EIN of Bethel, Redding, CA provided) Packer, who is widely regarded as one of the leading theologians in North American Protestant conservative evangelicalism. American Values will respond to the attack on marriage. MT., or send mail to Compassion International, Colorado Springs, CO 80997. What makes marriage to children, multiple parties, deceased individuals, or animals wrong?(p. 172), 2001 83,500 According to Food For The Hungry/UK, Samaritan Strategy Africa is a team of African leaders who have banded together to execute an ambitious plan to take the DNA teaching across the continent. (see: http://www.uk.fhi.net/hopeforafrica.html). The First Academy (of Central Florida) 2006 211,500 2002 179,000 2007 2,344,941 Recently the California legislature decided that homosexual history in American will be taught to kindergartners Its shameful that the homosexuals can get a curriculum in the public school and the children of God cannot The church was not put here to whine. 2013 0, Disciple Nations Alliance (EIN 95-0682390). 2003 40,705 Teen Challenge 2012 8,950 2004 356,371 2008 81,400 Javascript is required on this website, please Enable Javascript in your browser. Please return soon, as entries will be added on an ongoing basis. 2008 109,000 2005 5,0 I wanted to tell you, thank you so much for helping us rebuild our house when we lost it to flames. Writes political scientist John R. Pottenger, in his book Reaping the Whirlwind: Liberal Democracy and the Religious Axis (2007, Georgetown University Press), As senior minister of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church and president of Coral Ridge Ministries, an international Christian broadcasting organization based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Kennedy preaches sermons reflecting the doctrines of theonomy and dominionism of Christian Reconstructionism. 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. American Family Association Daly noted that orthodox Christian were both for and against the bill. 2007 315,000 (see: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/5/15/141520/281), 2001 200 claimed, among other things, that seventy percent of gay men have fecal sex, which involves ingesting large amounts of feces; that thirty-three percent of gay men are pedophiles, and that gay couples are coming to Africa to steal their children and turn them into homosexuals; that homosexuality has come to Africa to kill us, and thus must be eradicated; that gays are fifteen times more likely to be murderers; and that Africans should reject aid from Western organizations that are trying to infiltrate their continent with the homosexual agenda. 2007 3,000 I vividly remember the day I received that yellow letter notifying me that you have chosen me to be your sponsored child. The world will come to learn, for example, that though God passionately loves every homosexual, remaining in that sin will cause someone to fall under the sword of His judgment. 2004 0 2008 90,135 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. As Ockenga conceived, the Neo-Evangelicals would not, like the fundamentalists had done in the 1920s and 1930s, flee modernity or separate themselves from secular society; they would instead infiltrate (Ockenga used this term) the secular realm, placing their operatives in key positions from which to advance their cause which was the divine redemption of the world, the evangelization of all its peoples, and the establishment of Gods dominion over all sectors of society. 2012 392,100 The Mayflower Institutes Marshall Foster was an original Coalition on Revival signatory. 2010 8,800 2001-2004 0 As UK academics Gregory Deacon and Gabriel Lynch describe in their monograph Allowing Satan in? The South Tampa Fellowship Church main website does not specify that its Celebrate Recovery program can cure same-sex attraction.That program maintains its own website, distinct from the churchs website, and a search for the word homosexual on the Celebrate Recovery South Tampa Fellowship Church website produces no results at all. 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. from 8 AM - 9 PM ET. 2009 1,500 We invite the whole city to come to our festival, our mayor gives a welcome, and the gospel is proclaimed.. 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. For example, in early 2014 Focus on the Family president Jim Daly weighed in on controversial Kansas House Bill 2453, that would have legalized discrimination, by individuals or religious entities, on the basis of gender of sexual preference. 2004 271,525 Medical emergencies. 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. Later in 2013, Joshua Lwere aggressively lobbied for passage of the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill. The core ideas are derived from Christian Reconstructionism. 2007 5,500 Community development is important work that addresses the external circumstances of poverty and is an important complement to our work. 2009 20,000 Tjey are pain-management coping mechanisms. 2004 143,810 2003 10,000 Moving Toward a Political Economy of Neo-Pentecostalism in Kenya (from the Journal of Religion in Africa #43 (2013) 108-130, published by Brill), [T]he AIC actively fostered neo-Pentecostal ideas, for example through the AIC press publication of Delivered from the Powers of Darkness by the influential Nigerian evangelist Emmanuel Eni, which gave a personal account of Enis time as a witch and his redemption through his acceptance of Jesus (Ogembo 2001). 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. Freedom Tools goes into considerable detail concerning the actual process of carrying out exorcisms, including providing specific language, chants or incantations, which are to be used in the process. 2011 81,500 It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians. (see: http://www.tv.com/m/shows/the-700-club/trivia/). 2010 1,818,940 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. The student application for First Academy contains a series of moral codes for applicants to agree to including, I will avoid cursing, sexual immorality (including professing to be a homosexual/bisexual or practicing homosexual/ In a very real sense, for Howard F. Ahmanson whose Fieldstead and Company philanthropic group cosponsored (with Food for the Hungry, an enterprise Fieldstead has heavily funded) the Villars Consultation Villars was the logical extension of Ahmansons funding of the theocratic Christian Reconstructionism movement (Ahmanson had, up into the early 1990s, bankrolled its leading think tank, the Chalcedon Foundation.). Theres no female dog that mates with a female dog, theres no male dog that lusts after a male dog. 2005 110,749 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. 2004 4,250 2007 2,171,275 2004 3,000 According to a poll of top development economists, 2012 310,415, Association of Christian Schools International (EIN 95-6072587 : also funded by The Gatherings Huston Foundation & Stewardship Foundation). 2007 83,400 (combined, all AoG entities/missions) 2002 88,000 2007 472,812 2003 29,300 Truro Anglican Church 2007 3,530 800-336-7676 2008 2,862,715 He doesnt even have a secretary and hes making these big changes. 2010 30,100 2006 224,650 2007 15,000 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. 2004 15,000 2013 10,345,242, Campus Crusade sub-ministries, 2001-2012 20,622,853 (see appended at end of alphabetized list). Traditional Values Coalition 2011 226,655 2009 248,935 2009 90,000 2005 20,740 (More) Rating Information Great American Values Targeting, intimidation and coercion are the tactics of regimes our nation has fought time and again over its history. Affirm the authority of Scripture as objective Truth (2 Timothy 3:16) Declared Advocates Guyana, While we defend the human rights of every individual, including homosexuals, we condemn the practice of homosexuality and its promotion through legislative amendments (see: http://www.guyanajesuits.org/cms-assets/documents/88691-264411.201238october-5catholic-standard.pdf). We must never appear to be attempting to rob anyone of their rights their constitutional rights. Schmierers ex-gay book line appears to have been the fruition of one of the components of the plan to combat organized homosexuality that Schmierer and Schlossberg laid out at The Gathering in 1997. 2007 18,000 He is the fifth president in Compassion's history and has been president since 2013. 2009 10,000 2006 226,500 American Values will oppose condom handouts and fight to keep the gay agenda out of the schools. 2006 10,800 In 2001, Howard Ahmanson was at R.J. Rushdoonys dying bedside. primarily through child sponsorship and is Christ-centered, church-driven and child-focused. With sponsorship numbers north of 3.2 million (World Vision) and 1.6 million (Compassion), the ministries are the heavyweights in a . 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. 2010 174,550 2004 2,200 You can also get information about your child's community and child development center from the My Sponsorships page in My Account. 2012 269,715, Christian and Missionary Alliance (EIN 13-1623940). 2010 232,563 2005 0 By 2006, when the National Christian Foundation gave $12,000 to Paul Camerons Family Research Institute, over two decades had passed since Cameron had been disavowed by two of Americas most important relevant professional associations. Visit the committee's Web page for several resources to help physicians, residents and fellows, and students develop strategies, programs and policy to better care for LGBT patients. 2010 401,000 2010 41,000 Watoto Child Care Ministry 11. Institute in Basic Life Principles 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. 2010 970,150 Thats what Jesus said., Jeff Sharlet, who lived for several months at one of The Familys group homes near Washington, D.C. told NBC, We ere being taught the leadership lessons of Hitler, Lenin, and Mao And Id say, Isnt there a problem with that?. The sudden near-cessation of NCF funding to Capitol Ministries correlates with rising negative publicity over Washington politicians associated with the The Family/Fellowship that followed in the wake of journalist Jeff Sharlets two books on The Family. 2003 0 2008 0 In a similar manner in which the 1980s-era Coalition on Revival created plans for how to impose biblical law and the biblical worldview in all sectors of society, The Villars Consultation launched a now-burgeoning school of thought on how to integrate the biblical worldview into Christian aid and relief work. In that case, CLS and ADF argued that an officially recognized student CLS chapter at a public university could bar LGBT students and non-Christians from leadership positions. 2011 73,800 Hammond is an unabashed Christian Reconstructionist and co-author of the stridently anti-gay 2001 book The Pink Agenda Sexual Revolution in South Africa and the Ruin of the Family (see encyclopedia entries for Hammonds Frontline Fellowship and In Touch Mission International.). Under Orombis leadership, the Uganda Anglican Church has served (along with the Nigerian Anglican Church under the leadership of Peter Akinola) as a harbor for American Episcopal churches which have broken away from ECUSA over divise culture war issues such as same-sex marriage and the ordination of gay clergy, abortion, and other reproductive rights issues. Stephen Langa has been widely recognized as one of the leading Ugandan figures lobbying for passage of the Anti Homosexuality Bill. States prominent Christian Reconstructionist David Chilton, The Christian goal for the world, is the universal development of Biblical theocratic republics.. 2012 102,021 2011 373,373 2002 100 With a healed connection, you can walk in the destiny to which you have been called.. 2006 500,000 2003 10,000 The FRC is one of the highest profile Christian right organizations working against LGBT rights, both within the United States and internationally. 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). 150). In 2006, Ssempa received an honorary degree from PBU in 2006 for his ministry of compassion to HIV/AIDS victims in his native land. 2008 166,366 2002 25,700 2002 18,600 Stephen F. Noll, former associate pastor at the Truro Church, was the first president of Uganda Christian University, Ugandas first private chartered university, founded by the Ugandan Anglican Church in 1997. Preach boldly about moral issues from the pulpit 2003 210,325 suffering and injustice. Bethel Church 2004 104,200 2006 1,814,722 Food For the Hungry leaders were signatories to the 1980s umbrella group Coalition on Revival, whose members pledged to give their lives if necessary to rebuild society along biblical lines and impose biblical law. 2007 35,000 But a search on the same website for the term same-sex leads to this: After two years of being a part of this support group, my struggles with same-sex attraction subsided. Current E&PPC fellow Herb Schlossberg who served as a Fieldsteads program director during the 1990s, conceived the master religious right plan for fighting organized homosexuality that was presented at The Gathering in 1997. 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. The attraction to centrally controlled economics and coercive solutions despite the 2012 7,500 2004 85,500 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. (TVCs Web site includes a section titled Causes and Cures Of Homosexuality And Gender Identity Disorders.) In 1995, he even persuaded conservative members of the House of Representatives to hold hearings on the alleged gay infiltration of public schools. Nothing could be further from the truth. My life is true confirmation that God has a plan for each one of us and has 2004 7,700 Compassion International Response Thank you for your feedback! 2. 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. Founded in 1952, Compassion partners . 2003 66,500 2008 2,800 2002 106,000 Christian Reconstructionisms founder R. J. Rushdoony declared Schlossbergs book Idols For Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture to be one of the most important books of the 20th Century. Liberty Counsel 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. 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 99,800 To help operationalize the inclusion of LGBTQI+ people into USAIDs development approach, USAID released the LGBTQI Vision for Action, a document that reflects USAIDs commitment to protect LGBTQI+ people from violence, discrimination, stigma, and criminalization and advance their human rights; and Suggested Approaches for Integrating Inclusive Development Across the Program Cycle and in Mission Operations, a document that identifies ways to include marginalized and vulnerable groups in USAIDs work. And we speak out for children in poverty informing, motivating and equipping others to become advocates for children. How many countries does Compassion work in? structures, the Bible consistently denounced those who perpetuated such 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. Director of TruthXChange Dr. Peter Jones is author of Letter To a Homosexual Friend, in which he writes (see: http://truthxchange.com/books/letter-to-a-homosexual-friend/). Bob Eschliman, former editor of the Newton Daily News, filed a complaint this week with the U.S. Morally corrupt films and television An increasingly perverted music industry The pornographic invasion of the Internet Civil initiatives promoting gay marriage. 2008 $47,440,500 (ORU missions $1,700) And they would even seem perplexed by the question. 2008 2,000 2001 0 Hope For The Heart 2011 142,500 2007 5,350 (Bethel Church no EIN provided) 2004 1,000 65% of the management team is White. The ex-gay ministry His Servants is run by Don Schmierer, a Program Director For Howard Ahmansons Fieldstead & Company from 1992-2011 (and maybe even more recently). 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/). 2002 0 Solemnize any marriage, domestic partnership, civil union or similar arrangement. Lead us into battle, they roared. 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 2009 23,461 2002 76,500 Continuing in this vein, Moi commissioned an inquiry into devil worship as an offficial response to a growing belief that devil worship was becoming prevalent in Kenyan edu- cational institutions (Ogembo 2001, 7)., Alabama Policy Institute (EIN 63-0809568), The Alabama Policy Institute is an example of the overlap of the State Policy Institute system (which promotes pro-business, anti-regulatory legislation authored by ALEC, the American Legislative Council) and the Family Policy Council network associated with Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council (which promotes pro-family legislation and issues, as those are typically defined by the religious right.). 2005 1,194,145 2002 3,125,85 Much of his talk seems to be lifted directly from anti-gay American researchers like Dr. Judith Reisman of Liberty University and the widely discredited Paul Cameron. 2010 5,700 Pennsylvania Family Institute 2006 22,500 (Conservative Caucus Research) 2011 50,000 2006 111,500 4. We must never appear to be mean-spirited or bigoted.. 2010 1,700 In his writing Ockenga, the first president of the National Association of Evangelicals, described the Neo-Evangelical project both as infiltration (a tactic that would soon be ascribed, during the coming McCarthyite Red Scare, to American communists, socialists, and even liberals accused of being fellow travelers) but also in terms of the strategy and tactics of actual warfare. compassion international lgbt. 2008 53,100 2007 400 2008 867,138 2004 1,000 I was not free. 2007 $1,000 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission office in Milwaukee arguing that he was terminated May 5 because of his religious beliefs. 2011 1,231,921 This effort which has neutralized, at least in a public relations sense, charges that participating churches are anti-gay, has helped ignite church growth in Portland according to Palau: Were beginning to see churches grow and new churches planted, because weve demolished that straw man argument of Oh, youre just anti-this and anti-that. South Lake, for example, has planted a church in the Roosevelt neighborhood with 150 people coming. (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/obama-not-christian-because-bible-very-clear-about-homosexual-acts-being-very-evil-thing), 2009 400 2008 1,000 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. 2004 38,942 . My Account - Compassion International Hammond writes, concerning the late Martin Luther King, Jr., King was not a legitimate reverend, he was not a bona fide PhD, and his name was not really Martin Luther King, Jr. What is left? Officers Christian Fellowship Concerned Women For America has been one of the active U.S. participants in the World Congress of Families, and along with two other NCF-funded World Congress of Families participants, Focus on the Family and Family Research Council, has led the American Christian rights establishment as a presence at the United Nations. Develop a long-term project to convince evangelical pastors to support the anti-gay movement. 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. 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. ( see: http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2014/april/bill-gothard-breaks-silence-on-harassment-claims-by-30-wome.html ), 2001 0 2003 13,100 Thank you for giving me a chance to be introduced to Jesus. Massachusetts Family Institute We have it both in English and Spanish. 2004 1,389,832 It seems that, historically, the Christian evangelical movement is one of the few that has allowed children to remain a second-rate mandatethe Great Omission in the Great Commission., Bushs book also states, Secular education does not enlighten; rather, it dims ones grasp of the real reality rooted in scripture Godless secular indoctrination is an age-old problem.. 2008 167,000 Eldredges paean to manly aggression has been unexpectedly popular among the former head of the ultra-violent Mexican drug cartels La Familia Michoacana and its successor the Knights Templar, which established their fearsome reputation by committing mass decapitations. 2013 177,877 (South Tampa Fellowship). 2005 157,956 2008 4,000 It kills (as we have been reminded by the AIDS crisis). One of E&PPCs current fellows, Herbert Schlossberg, was the intellectual architect of a master plan to fight organized homosexuality, announced at The Gathering in 1997, that commenced in 1998 with the mammoth 1998 Truth in Love national advertising advertsing cmpaign that promoted ex-gay leaders such as John and Anne Paulk. Sexual, gender, and bodily diversity are characteristics of every society, every culture, and every country around the world and across time. 2002 4,000 Self-Compassion as a Protective Factor Against Minority Stress for LGBT Africa Inland Mission International Remember me Forgot username?
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