It has been 11 years since I graduated the Compassion Program. 2010 82,788 Until the unexpected demise of Vision Forum Ministries in the wake of a sex scandal that embroiled its head Doug Phillips, Vision Forum was one of the leading Christian Reconstructionist organizations in America. 2006 231,000 The faithful stood much of the time with arms lifted high, palms facing skyward, singing tributes to Jesus Christ. 2005 0 2011 9,606,281 2008 154,750 American Values will respond to the attack on marriage. 2005 20,000 (Conservative Caucus Research) 2002 1,500 You asked them be women, I want to say. 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. At a Spring 2010 Kampala, Uganda rally, Oyet told his audience, It is not Uganda putting a death penalty on homosexuals, it is God and his word! Now, listen to me the sodomy people, the homosexuals, are even more foolish than dogs. 2005 17,550 25 Feb/23. 2012 1,442,180 2011 1,500 2013 200, Compassion International (EIN 36-2423707). And we need your help. The sponsorship model was launched in 1953 and the organization officially became Compassion International in 1963. 2007 1,250 2007 323,766 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. 2002 106,000 2006 5,500 In 2012, when the Becket Fund began to represent the Greens in the case, National Christian Foundation grant money to Becket suddenly increased over ninefold, from $10,000 in 2011 to $94,340 in 2012. According to a poll of top development economists, 2010 503,150 2002 17,500 2008 924,456 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/). 2013 1,500, Mastering Life Ministries (EIN 62-1542382). 2006 37,700 2002 0 2. 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. 2008 167,000 Alliance Defending Freedom lawyers have been the chief litigants for the Bronx Household of Faith in the case. 2008 19,250 2008 103,500 And for all the encouragement, prayers and support. 2006 48,852 The umbrella coalition known as the ADF plays a preeminent coordinating and funding role for legal organizations of the Christian and religious right. 2012 9,651,178, Josh McDowell Ministries ( CCC ) 2005 4,600,955 Robertsons seemingly endless propagation of anti-gay tropes includes suggestions that homosexuality is caused by sexual molestation (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-ask-your-gay-son-if-his-coach-molested-him). John Hagee Ministries 2009 90,000 2006 211,500 Palau has spoken at The Fellowship associated events such as The Gathering and was a featured speaker at a 2012 Atlanta, GA event commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the founding of the National Christian Foundation (see: https://vimeo.com/54365578 ). 2003 (ORU MIssion) $150 National Christian Foundation funding of NOM begins just as religious right efforts to prevent the legalization of same sex marriage were faltering in the United States. While some organizations on the Christian right have over the past several years moderated their anti-gay rhetoric, the AFAs anti-gay speech has become, if anything, even more extreme. 2006 100,100 All pupils and parents are required to sign the document. (source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christian-school-in-kansas-threatens-to-expel-students-if-they-have-a-gay-family-member-a7040371.html ), 2003 75,000 ( Trinity Academy, no EIN given ) compassion international lgbt. Focus on the Family (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 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against the Christian Legal Society, that a CLS chapter at a public law school could only be recognized by the school if it allowed non-Christians and gays to become chapter leaders. 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). 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. 2004 700 You can also get information about your child's community and child development center from the My Sponsorships page in My Account. 2010 2,000 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. Phillip Monk, who claims he was relieved of duty for disagreeing with a lesbian commander over the issue of gay marriage (as reported by Right Wing Watch). 2001 5,000, New Jersey Family Policy Council (EIN 22-3388998), Another in the Focus on the Family-linked network of state family policy councils. This year, for the first time ever, several Compassion alumni returned to write one last letter to their former sponsors in this inspiring video. Another board member of MLM is Ted Baehr, on the current board of the theocratic Coalition on Revival, whose members are pledge to give their lives, if necessary, to impose biblical law in all sectors of society. I did not know love and Jesus. In the forward to the 2009 Luis Bush/Transform-World book The 4/14 Window: Raising Up A New Generation To Transform The World, which is published by Compassion International, Wess Stafford, longtime head of the Compassion International aid and development charity, describes the need to target children 4-14 years old for indoctrination as 20th Century political movements such as Nazism and communism have done. 2006 22,500 (Conservative Caucus Research) 2005 150 A so-called Statement of Understanding sent to parents who wish to send their children to the private school located in Wichita, requires them to agree that a student who attends can he asked to leave if their home life promotes anything counter to the schools understanding of a biblical lifestyle. 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. Pennsylvania Family Institute ), Louis Palau also has been an honorary co-chair of the National Day of Prayer Task Force, an organization dominated by NAR apostles from the International Coalition of Apostles (according to the NDPTFs 990 tax forms, which list multiple ICA apostles on the NDPTF board.). There is no scientific evidence to support this claim., It also cites long-debunked research: In a study of the median age of death for heterosexuals and homosexuals, less than 2 per cent of homosexuals survived to age 65.. 2006 4,000 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. transform my life is one of those mysteries., Child Protection Officer, The Fall resulted in Gods curse on creation and in destructive patterns of thought, culture, and We are with you. and according to New Vision Mitala said homosexuality was one way of making the world extinct.. 2003 99,901 One close colleague of David Noebel has been Christian Reconstructionist Peter Hammond who might be characterized as South Africas Scott Lively. Community development is important work that addresses the external circumstances of poverty and is an important complement to our work. 2003 4,000 How does Compassion choose which countries to work in? 2009 175,300 ( 50K to AFA radio ) The day will come when they will have children, and there wont be a thing they will be able to do to stop predators from taking advantage of their children because it will be against the law to discriminate. , 2001 5,000 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. 2004 33,000 2009 5,800 The CFC played an important organizing role in the successful effort to pass Californias anti-same sex marriage Proposition 8. 2008 123,495 In a 2005 interview, seminal architect of the religious right and new right Paul Weyrich stated that the Council for National Policy was an organization that, in the words of Rich DeVos, brings together the doers with the donors. (see: http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1016). 2008 5,200 2010 2,500 2005 534,992 2002 26,500 20:13, Rom. ), 2001 25,000 2010 200,000 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. 2011 146,100 If the dispute isnt resolved to Eschlimans satisfaction, he could sue in federal court to seek financial damages. 2005 110,749 Their blood shall be upon them. 2002 0 It is a violent, family-destroying sin, which, if tolerated, will devour a generation of young men and women.. 2004 5,850 Javascript is required on this website, please Enable Javascript in your browser. 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. The yearly season of service was pioneered by Luis Palaus son Kevin Palau, who has led an effort in which churches under Palaus aegis are partnering with Portland public schools, to mentor students in the Portland public school system. 2010 5,000 Staff members have appeared throughout local and national media on such programs as The 700 Club, The Oprah Winfrey Show, ABCs World News Tonight, Good Morning America, MTV, The Sally Show, Geraldo, TBN, local and national radio programs. (see: https://www.portlandfellowship.com/history.php), 2007 37,500 2006 88,650 Listing for: Regency at Bluffs Park. The Rev. 2005 20,740 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. 2008 29,400 2009 612,500 The battle to protect basic freedoms never ends and all freedom-loving people must engage or those freedoms will soon be lost., 2001 22,500 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. Besides his ongoing hostility to LGBT rights, Florida Family Council head Stemberger has been accused, by the National Black Justice Coalition, of making racist public comments for seeming to suggest, on a Florida talk radio show, that August 2014 riots in Ferguson, Missouri riots that followed the fatal police shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager were not really about the police shooting but were, rather, manifestations of a barbarian society caused by a decline in traditional marriage. AIM is among a class of Anglo-American pseudo-denominations (such as the Christian And Missionary Alliance and Serving in Mission), launched in the 19th Century, that are nominally non-denominational, heavily missions oriented, and aimed at evangelizing the worlds thousands of unreached people groups categorized by such mammoth evangelical global intelligence gathering projects as the Joshua Project, which makes its detailed ethnographic data on thousands of world people groups available to various missionary efforts and organizations. 2004 356,371 2010 1,000 Amidst the campaign, Anne and John Paulk were featured in a 1998 cover story in Newsweek which in 2014 would run a de-facto apology for its glowing 1998 story on allegedly successful examples of reparative therapy (see: http://www.newsweek.com/ex-ex-gay-pride-249282). Baehr has participated and spoken at World Congress of Families events and is personal friend to Natalya Yakunina, wife of Vladimir Yakunin (a close ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin) who heads Russias vast and strategically critical rail system. 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. CSP gives school presentations and promotes the establishment of Bible clubs in schools. Lilburn Alliance Church As legal fights over religious convictions on family and LGBT rights have continued to make their way through the courts and Congress, Bethany Christian decided to incorporate the move toward. the one thing that has been produced this year, and we had to get involved in producing it ourselves its the training material for Jim Burns National Institute of Youth Ministries, to go along with what theyve done, type of thing. 2012 0, Global Aid Network EIN 95-4578963 2005 378,480 2003 949,485 Dobson, Eldridge told the group, and 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. 2010 25,000 Christian Child Sponsorship - Compassion - Child Charity Organization. 2005 897,800 2011 16,860 Your support gives a child life-changing opportunity to develop spiritually, emotionally, physically and economically. Both scientific research and the personal experience of thousands of people show that a homosexual orientation can usually be unlearned. 2009 1,955,276 Knight, who co-authored the anti-same sex marriage Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), has also endorsed Peter Hammonds 2001 anti-gay book The Pink Agenda. In the Christian Reconstructionist vision, biblically mandated capital punishment via stoning, crucifixion, or burning at the stake (all forms of capital punishment mentioned in scripture) would be only rarely necessary exactly because of the severity of the punishment. 2007 853,284 One of the adjunct faculty of WLI has been Julius Oyet, who claims to have co-authored Ugandas Anti Homosexuality Bill. 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. 2013 29,350, Minnesota Family Institute and Council (EIN 41-1439560), 2001 6,000 Compassion International is publisher of Bushs 2009 book The 4/14 Window: Raising Up a New Generation to Transform The World, and Vice President of Compassion International Bambang Budijanto serves on the Transform-World steering committee. 2008 7,800 2002 15,300 The official ORU student pledge includes, I will not engage in or attempt to engage in any illicit, unscriptural sexual acts, which include any homosexual activity and sexual intercourse with one who is not my spouse through traditional marriage of one man and one woman. (see:http://www.oru.edu/admissions/undergraduate/pdfdocs/honor_code.pdf), U.S. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is an alumnus of the defunct Oral Roberts University Law School, where she studied under law professor John Eidsmoe, who is listed as a current steering committee member of the theocratic Coalition on Revival. Prison Fellowship Ministries 2002 0 2010 147,300 Assemblies of God 2009 18,000 2008 4,500 Leaders in the non-denominational Fellowship of Christian Athletes are required to sign a Sexual Purity Statement which includes the following: God desires His children to lead pure lives of holiness. 2008 22,500 2004 53,500 ( Trinity Academy, no EIN given ) 2013 5,000, Rutherford Institute lawyers successfully argued, before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the (NCF-funded) Good News Club ministry which specifically targets young children in its evangelism efforts and promotes religious supremacist and eliminationist ideology the Good News Club v. Milford Central School (2001) Supreme Court case. Compassion International began in 1952 in Chicago, IL, as the Everett Swanson Evangelistic Association. 2007 23,850 ) 2009 370,090 2009 -193,765 2005 16,000 2002 0 What is the mission of Compassion International? The ADF in turn works with state-level family policy organizations created under the aegis of (NCF-funded) Focus on The Family and which interface closely with the (NCF-funded) Family Research Council. 2007 1,453,751` 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. See Wydick, Glewwe & Rutledge (2013), Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, ONG "Compassion international": Soutenir 22 000 enfants dfavoriss, Aprs 20 ans, Compassion International roriente son programme de formation en leadership, 45 ans auprs des plus vulnrables d'Hati, Compassion International seeking donations to support ongoing relief in Haiti, "Two Million Now Registered in Ministry's Child Development Program", "Ratings and Metrics: Compassion International at", "Want to Change the World? My family was definitely at the heart of poverty. 2009 4,400 (EIN of Bethel, Redding, CA provided) 2006 90,500 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). Founder and director of mission at Global Mobilization Ministries is Alison Barfoot, who is described as a key actor directing the Uganda Anglican Church towards an oppositional stance towards homosexuality in the book American Culture Warriors in Africa: A Guide To The Exporters of Homophibia and Sexism ( 2014, Political Research Associates). As characterized in 2009 by the Washington Post, E&PPC studies the link between Judeo-Christian morality and national and foreign policy., Founded in 1976 by Ernst LeFever, E&PPC was one of the original incubators for the neoconservative movement; its leaders and fellows have over the years supported the Reagan Administrations Star Wars missile defense initiative (which, charged critics, would have dramatically increased chances for all-out nuclear war between the US and the former Soviet Union), launched PNAC the Project For a New America Century (accused by critics of laying a template for the 2003 US invasion and occupation of Iraq) and argued for a US preemptive attack on Iran, to prevent that nation from acquiring nuclear weapons (see: http://eppc.org/publications/our-fallout-shelter-future/ .). 2012 2,800 Compassion strives to protect children from all forms of abuse. 2011 5,000 Palau is also linked to top NAR leadership by marriage, to Louis Palaus sister Ruth Noemi Palau (now Ruth Silvoso.) A Director of Opposition Research for the Republican National Committee while in law school, Bauer served, from 1982-1987, as President Ronald Reagans Deputy Under Secretary for Planning and Budget in the Department of Education. 2003 62,113 Also participating was Hugh O. Maclellan of the Maclellan Foundation one of the most important funders of the NCF and an attendee at The Gathering. Soon after that, I got my first ever gift, which was my first pair of shoes. 2010 79,325 Thank you for giving me a chance to be introduced to Jesus. 2008 0 My boys chew their graham crackers into the shape of handguns at the breakfast table wrote Eldredge, in Wild At Heart. California School Project and instead of helping them we are papering over their problems . 2002 114,125 2001 0 has a history of hyperbolic claims, such as concerning the U.S. Air Forces firing of Senior Master Sgt. About Compassion International What is Compassion International? Some U.S. 2001 14,000 2001 2,500 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. The AoG statement also suggests that AIDS may be a punishment from God and states, Former homosexuals describe a disgusting lifestyle of perversion and sexual obsession., According to the AoG statement One of the myths propounded by pro-homosexual advocates is that homosexual orientation is genetically determined and that people have no choice in the matter. 2010 174,550 2007 5,350 (Bethel Church no EIN provided) 2006 1,346,868 CharityWatch's rating of Compassion International also includes the financial activities of its international affiliates, which are consolidated in the Compassion International audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018. 2012 11,200 2013 0, Faith 2 Action (Janet Porter/Janet Folger) (EIN 74-3068193). 2007 10,000 (More) Rating Information Great 2005 4,250 2008 Mercy Ministries is headed by Nancy Alcorn, who (along with her husband Randy Alcorn) moves in circles of apostles and prophets associated with the NAR movement. Representing Eschliman in the case is the The Liberty Institute. We would sing, dance, and eat a lot. 2006 2,400 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. 2011 0 2003 11,200 2009 0 [3] Swanson had traveled there to preach the gospel to the US Army troops, but during his visit he was deeply moved by the plight of the scores of abandoned children he saw. One project of the Indiana Family Institute has been the Indiana Pastors Alliance (see: http://www.hoosierfamily.org/indiana-pastors-alliance) which, Orombi also served as head of the Uganda Christian University (see Truro Church entry), another vector for the U.S.-funded export of anti-LGBTI religious ideology to Uganda. 2010 18,000 In the mid-1990s, Bright was one of the co-founders (along with James Dobson, Larry Burkett, D. James Kennedy, Donald Wildmon, and Marlin Maddoux) of the Alliance Defense Fund (now Alliance Defending Freedom) that according to Human Rights Campaign Vice President Fred Sainz is easily the most active antigay legal group ( see: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/12/us/legal-alliance-gains-host-of-court-victories-for-conservative-christian-movement.html ) and which has emerged as a significant force in the World Congress of Families that internationally has rallied social conservatives worldwide against gay rights, and reproductive and womens rights. 2005 7,000 transformation, setting people free from destructive attitudes, beliefs, values, and It mattered, and it was enough. 2010 10,000 2011 0 Ahmanson also provided heavy funding for Californias 2000 election anti-same sex marriage Proposition 22 and also the 2008 election anti-same sex marriage Proposition 8. 2011 4,000 Per the Villars Statement. 2011 1,023,800 2007 40,004 ex-gay apologetics (see: http://www.probe.org/site/c.fdKEIMNsEoG/b.4465835/k.9241/Homosexuality.htm), 2002 5,000 poor. The Navigators is among an elite core of evangelism and discipleship-focused ministries closely associated with The Fellowship which hosts the annual National Prayer Breakfast. The congregation vowed in song that they would fight until every nation is on its knees before Jesus Christ.
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