2005 27,840 2009 3,000 I was told that it was the devil trying to control me and lie to me. ( see: http://thetruthaboutmercy.wordpress.com/tag/nancy-alcorn/ ), 2001 200 Ranked No. Elements of that strategy which included the dual approach of demonizing LGBT people and promoting ex-gay therapy have since been implemented in Russia, Uganda, and elsewhere around the globe. Evidence of homosexual behaviors among animals is just another reminder that we live in a fallen world one in which every dimension of creation bears evidence of the Fall. Certified Nursing Assistant /CNA + PT. Endorsed by Focus on the Family founder and longtime head James Dobson, Summit is one of the notable points of intersection between the mainstream, populist Christian right, as represented by Dobsons Focus on the Family, and the farther reaches of the hard evangelical right. Patient- and Family-Centered Care for the LGBT Community (2011), . Citizens For Community Values 2006 37,700 The core ideas are derived from Christian Reconstructionism. 2003 10,500 2012 1,442,180 2010 1,471,706 235), Kennedys now-defunct Center For Reclaiming America was known for, 2001 16,600 Over the last decade ADF lawyers emerged in the forefront of legal efforts to block same-sex marriage in states across the nation. Classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBT hate group, American Vision is an openly Christian Reconstructionist ministry. exists to further the following objectives: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. 65% of the management team is White. This would include Old Testament scriptural mandates on capital punishment for a range of offenses including adultery, homosexuality, witchcraft, blasphemy, idolatry, female unchastity (sex before marriage), and incorrigible rebelliousness among children. Compassion International began in 1952 in Chicago, IL, as the Everett Swanson Evangelistic Association. 2013 14,900, Intercessors For America (EIN 04-2576811), John Beckett, IFA founder and head, was an original Coalition on Revival signatory. 2008 717,690 2002 1,929,607 He is the fifth president in Compassion's history and has been president since 2013. 2006 17,300 2011 91,195 Nazario had made Eldredges book required reading for La Familia Michoacana members and, according to a report from the Mexican Justice Department, had paid Mexican rural teachers to distribute Wild At Heart through the Michoacan countryside. It is been my great privilege to be able to be their representative (see: http://www.frontline.org.za/index.php?option=com_djcatalog2&view=item&id=36:tribute-to-brent-noebel&cid=2:memorials&Itemid=171), Hammond holds Africa biblical worldview conferences patterned after those held by Summit (see: http://www.christianaction.org.za/index.php/articles/biblical-worldview/258-why-we-all-need-a-biblical-worldview), Both Hammonds ministries and Summit Ministries are heavily funded by the National Christian Foundation (see respective entries on those ministries. Desert Stream Ministries Is Compassion a good organization? 2011 9,606,281 2012 42,325 Sign up in seconds. 2002 76,500 2003 0 He is friends with people in high places and the members of parliament came to the College of Prayer and enjoyed the time so much they invited me to speak at their parliamentary prayer breakfast this year. ( see: http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2014/april/bill-gothard-breaks-silence-on-harassment-claims-by-30-wome.html ), 2001 0 But the Christian Broadcast Networks global reach enables it to disseminate content in countries where such claims, from Pat Robertson and other CBN figures, may go unchallenged. 2005 6,000 2008 81,400 In September 2009, AIs Africa affiliate Advocates Africa hosted a conference (see: http://www.advocatesinternational.org/content/advocates-africa-0), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at which ADF Senior Vice President Jeffery Ventrella led a plenary session with the title Religious Freedom, the Homosexual Agenda and Advocacy. 2005 15,900 I want you to know that not only did you give me a chance at being free, but you inspired me to be a guardian of freedom. 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. 2012 9,000, Philadelphia Biblical University (EIN 23-0973290). 2004 100 2003 37,000 Watoto was also host of the first Vision Conference held in Uganda by the American team, Darrow Miller and Bob Moffitt, who would later form the Disciple Nations Allliance, which gives Christian Reconstructionism-derived worldview trainings across Africa. The IRD, which historically received heavy funding from Howard Ahmansons Fieldstead & Co., has aggressively worked to provoke schisms in mainline Protestant denominations over wedge issues such as the ordination of gay clergy, same sex marriage, and abortion. 2009 1,667,448 About Compassion InternationalCompassion Internationalis a Christian child development organization working to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. 2009 78,000 2006 15,700 Click here to create an account if you live outside of the USA. Hollywood serves up a steady diet of irresponsible sex and violence. 2004 5,000 2010 55,800 A Christian school in Kansas is at the centre of mounting controversy after it emerged that it reserved the right to expel students if any of their family members were gay or transgender. Another vector for the widespread diffusion of Christian Reconstructionist ideas has been the Coalition on Revival: COR was an initiative launched in the mid-1980s under the intellectual shepherding and guidance of top Christian Reconstructionists such as R. J. Rushdoony, Gary North, Gary DeMar, and David Chilton, that helped move previously apolitical fundamentalist and charismatic Christians towards political engagement and activism. 2008 0 The CFC played an important organizing role in the successful effort to pass Californias anti-same sex marriage Proposition 8. [26] The Ministry of External Affairs later stated that the ban had nothing to do with the ideology of Compassion International.[27]. 2009 5,000 The fortune of the narrowly-targeted Alliance for Marriage has risen and fallen with the religious rights efforts to prevent the legalization of same-sex marriage. 2001 0 World religions have done the same with the systematic indoctrination of their youngeven the Taliban places great emphasis on recruiting children. The Christian Legal Society also filed an amicus brief (see: http://www.clsnet.org/page.aspx?pid=534) in the The Bronx Household of Faith v. Board of Education of the City of New York court case which concerns the right of religious entities to rent worship space in public schools. 2003 (ORU MIssion) $150 12. The former head of late TV preacher D James Kennedys now defunct dominionist Center For Reclaiming America For Christ, Gary Cass has been a featured speaker at Christian Reconstructionist conferences (see: http://www.alternet.org/story/55717/). In many parts of the world, intersex people suffer from irreversible, harmful, and medically unnecessary medical interventions, often without fully informed consent. Advocates International In the same year, Christian Unions Doxa Conference series featured Ugandan evangelist John Mulinde, who helped organize a May 2010 TheCall rally in Kampala, Uganda a rally which featured both Lou Engle and top Ugandan leaders in the forefront of Ugandas anti-gay crusade and the push to pass Ugandas Anti Homosexuality Bill. 2005 10,000 2005 2,500 2008 2010 0 2003 27,000 2005 0 On page 35 of the American Values 2012 990 tax form, the American Values Statement of Values declares, The liberal culture has targeted our kids. 2010 3,089,389 2009 18,861 We would sing, dance, and eat a lot. 2006 231,000 2002 1,647 That paradigm, Spiritual Warfare/Spiritual Mapping, was not native to Africa. Through Cromartie come close ties between E&PCC and the elite Washington, DC evanglelical network known as The Fellowship which hosts the National Prayer Breakfast and has been accused, by jourbalst Jeff Sharlet, of having inspired Ugandas festering national anti-LGBT rights crusade. 2013 299,886, Foundation For Moral Law (Judge Roy Moore) (EIN 03-0502850), Alabama Chief Justice Judge Roy Moore is widely known for installing a two and a half ton Ten Commandments monument at the Alabama State Courthouse in 2001. 2008 1,094,120 2009 280,290 All three Janet Museveni, Joshua Lwere, and Alex Mitala have traveled to the Argentina nation transformation conferences of New Apostolic Reformation leader Ed Silvoso, who helped launch what is perhaps the NARs biggest apostolic association, the International Coalition of Apostles. [25], Compassion operated in India for 48 years, with $45million in transfers annually, making it India's largest single foreign donor. 1:27), witchcraft, dissension, and cheating. (see: http://www.thefirstacademy.org/files/Admissions%20Images/StudentApplication.pdf). But the very existence of the movement serves to move the Overton Window, by making positions that might otherwise seem extreme look moderate by comparison. 2011 236,250 AIM was conceived from the efforts of Scottish missionary Peter Cameron Scott, and launched its missions and church-planting work with an 1895 expedition to Kenya, where AIM is particularly well established in Africa. 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. Howard Ahmanson is a frequent attendee at The Gathering who has been one of the most significant funders of anti-LGBT rights activism on the evangelical right. 2005 174,000 2002 32,500 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 229,761 2003 -15,000 (Conservative Caucus Research, a separate Howard Phillips-run 501(c)(3)) It presupposes complementary but distinct roles for men and women. Even during difficult financial times in the economy, God has blessed Compassion with dedicated sponsors and donors who care deeply about impacting children around the world, allowing our ministry to continue to grow year over year. 2012 11,760. 2009 1,600 2012 5,740 2009 370,090 E&PPC Vice President Michael Cromartie serves (along with Marvin Olasky and E&PPC fellow Herbert Schlossberg) on the advisory board of the Cornwall Alliance, which in recent years has depicted concern over global warming as part of a vast satanic conspiracy referred to as the green dragon. 2007 315,000 2011 142,500 2008 817,000 At Compassion, one of our highest goals is to help children grow to reach their full, God-given potential. The need to oppose a false understanding of poverty which makes poverty itself a International House of Prayer You can write your child a letter at write.compassion.com. One of the most prominent members of the Fellowship (according to the Billy Graham Archives at Wheaton College) was the late Nixon Administration lawyer and hatchet man Charles Colson. 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. TheCall held a major stadium rally prior to the 2008 election, but also maintained eight California field offices for turning out the pro-Proposition 8 evangelical church vote. 2008 88,350 Bethel Church 2011 334,825 Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team: The Compassion International executive team is 36% female and 64% male. 2011 184,065 The Biblical family is predicated on Gods created order and His dominion mandate for men and women to be fruitful and multiply and to steward the earth. Christian Union also promotes the religious rights typical slate of positions opposition to legal abortion and stem cell research and support of sexual abstinence and Intelligent Design. The ex-gay New Hope Ministries is run by Frank Worthen, one of the original board members of Exodus International North America when it was founded in 1976. When you become a sponsor, you are personally connected with a child who will know your Frontline Fellowship (also see entry on sister ministry In Touch Missions International) is a ministry of Peter Hammond, listed as a current Coalition on Revival Steering Committee member. Within the Spiritual Warfare/Spiritual Mapping paradigm,demon powers oppress humanity and all creation, and individual demon, territorial spirits, hold sway over particular cities, towns, and geographic territories. 2012 313,651 spiritual needs. (see: http://www.ifapray.org/prayertopics.php?id=5), 2001 20,000 No to sodomy!, In 2010, only a few months after Western media attention became fixated on the role that TheCall head (and NAR prophet) Lou Engle (with financial help from the National Christian Foundation) had played in inciting anti-gay hatred in Uganda by staging a May 2010 TheCall rally in Kampala, Luis Palaus son Andrew Palau held a series of Luis Palau Association rallies in Uganda with the help of Bishop Julius Oyet (see: http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2010/October/Evangelist-Palau-Spreads-Love-in-Uganda/ ). The FRC is one of the highest profile Christian right organizations working against LGBT rights, both within the United States and internationally. 2010 125,650 Portland Fellowship (EIN 93-0958183) 2013 10,345,242, Campus Crusade sub-ministries, 2001-2012 20,622,853 (see appended at end of alphabetized list). The faithful stood much of the time with arms lifted high, palms facing skyward, singing tributes to Jesus Christ. (see: http://www.kansas.com/2014/02/13/3287827/susan-wagle-bill-that-allows-service.html), William P. Mumma, President of the Becket Fund, serves on the ARFP advisory board (see: http://www.religiousfreedom.org/about_us/page/board-of-advisors), 2001 25,000 2013 0. Lead us into battle, they roared. 2005 101,640 2009 33,400 AIM International supports the Africa Inland Mission (AIM) network of Africa Inland Churches that are, in effect, their own continent-wide denomination. Bickle has preached that Apostle Paul preached that In the last days the homosexual agenda will become so intense that, before the Lord returns, marriage will be outlawed in various parts of the earth and stated that the gay marriage agenda is rooted in the depths of Hell. Deliverance is the frequently used shorthand for deliverance from demon spirits, otherwise known as exorcism. 2008 515,409 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. This encyclopedia documents the role of the National Christian Foundation as the leading domestic U.S. funding source for organizations and institutions involved in anti-LGBT rights activism and which are ideologically hostile to gay rights. 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. harmony with all of Gods creation, free from pain, suffering, and death. Africa Inland Mission International 2009 945,497 Coral Ridge Ministries Massachusetts Family Institute 2003 10,000 A fourth MLM board member is J.I. 2008 493,765 2002 5,000 Michael Cromartie, E&PCC ties to The Fellowship, and the Just War invasion of Iraq. 2010 9,357,128 Join the Compassion International team See Our Latest Jobs 5.0 Current Employee, more than 8 years Great mission & Great company Jan 26, 2023 - L&D Specialist Recommend CEO Approval Business Outlook Pros Many believed it helped defuse the radical leftist movement on that campus. 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. One of the primary roles of future government leaders will be to instruct in righteousness. Preliminary independent, secular research in the Journal of Political Economy studied the organization, concluding that it had large and statistically significant impacts on participants' years of school completion, the probability of later employment, and the quality of that employment, in part as a consequence of improved self-esteem and expectations in participating children. 2004 0 2007 25,900 Were so accepting that its just fine if you want to marry your canary, as Christian apologist Greg Koukl says. 2010 2,195,647 2009 12,882 But another speaker at the conference was even more significant, for having helped create the broader anti-LGBT rights strategy in which Lively has played an aggressive role. No to sodomy! 2011 6,343 2011 10,000 Frank Worthen and Anne Paulk are founding members of the Restored Hope Network that formed in 2012 amidst the move of Exodus International away from the claim that reparative therapy works. 2003 234,392 2007 2,344,941 2013 8,200. 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. 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.). 2008 35,000 2004 271,525 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. 2009 171,100 2003 10,000 In 2010, Desert Stream Ministries head Comiskey admitted (see: http://www.truthwinsout.org/pressrelease/2010/03/7561/) that Desert Stream had been cast out of our home church, the Vineyard Anaheim church, because a longstanding staff person from Desert Stream had sexually abused at least one teenager who had sought help from us., 2003 0 Warren also met with First Lady Janet Museveni and spoke at Uganda Christian University. 2002 1,000 2006 0 2002 17,500 In 2012 Christian Union held an eight-school conference on faith healing featuring the New Apostolic Reformations Che Ahn, co-founder with Lou Engle of the virulently anti-gay group TheCall. 2010 40,000 American Values will respond to the attack on marriage. 2004 10,000 In 2003, ADF filed a brief in a support of now-overturned sodomy laws in the Lawrence v. Texas case, and in 2008 ADF defended Californias ban on same sex marriage in Hollingsworth v. Perry. 2012 19,500, The First Academy (of Central Florida) (EIN 59-0696287). While Michael Cromartie served to connect Chuck Colson with elite mentors in the emerging Neo-evangelical movement who imparted a level of intellectual sophistication to Colsons fervent neophyte born-again faith, Colson may well have influenced Michael Cromartie in ways just as profound Cromarties next career move would be to join the recently launched Ethics and Public Policy Center that, among its various projects, has served as an indefatigable cheerleader for American military adventurism. As described in the World Evangelical Alliance book Doing Member Care Well: Perspectives and practices From Around the World (page 153, edited by Kelly ODonnell, 2002, World Evangelical Alliance Missions Commission), AIM has focused especially on building missions infrastructure, including a partnership with the Wycliffe Bible Translators/SIL (also heavily funded by the National Christian Foundation): Africa Inland Mission has historically had a vision to provide services for the broader missions community of like- minded mission agencies in East Africa.