We did see nay cities open up to the gospel for the first time. (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) This U.S. and international chain of Assemblies of God addiction recovery centers uses non-medical, unscientific methods, including exorcism, for treatment of addiction and attempts to change sexual orientation. 2008-2010 0 2008 0 The Disciple Nations Alliances 2008 IRS 990 tax form lists a DNA grant to Samaritan Strategy Africa of $144,500. Noebels book characterized homosexuality as a kind of national death wish which sought to change the natural order created by God himself.. 2009 0 Sheldon declared, A dangerous Marxist/Leftist/Homosexual/Islamic coalition has formed and wed better be willing to fight it with everything in our power. Their blood guiltiness is upon them., The document also makes the strange argument, Not only is homosexuality and same sex marriage voided by God in His Word, but Biology as well condemns homosexuality and same sex marriage: One cannot be a homosexual evolutionist., (see: http://capmin.org/site/resources/bible-studies/5-28-12.html). 2005 0 Various iterations of the First Academy student handbook contain similar provisions (see: http://www.thefirstacademy.org/files/tfa_community/Parent-Student_Handbook_2014-2015.pdf). 3. 2002 100 2012 15,404, Ein 44-0577787 Chloe (Yeon Seo) Choi - Student Resolution Panelist - LinkedIn a quiet but significant role in exporting the anti-LGBT ideology of the American evangelical right, especially through its material and leadership support of evangelist Luis Bushs Transform World initiative. 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. 2008 2,800 It is an abomination. I want to invite you to declare no to sodomy, every one of you. Family Research Institute Our Where We Work section contains general information about each country we work in, along with more specific information about major regions of each country. 2012 703,132, Probe Ministries International (EIN 75-1416858), Probe Ministries is an apologetics ministry that promotes 2008 2,423 In an interview for Marvin Olaskys World magazine, in the June 14, 2014 issue, Palau told Olasky that Our openly gay mayor would now say, Nobody has helped the city of Portland more than the evangelical community. His understanding of what Christians are like has totally turned around. (see: http://www.worldmag.com/2014/05/pioneering_palaus), The initiative was launched in 2008, described in an in-depth 2009 story in Willamette Week, as a five-month volunteer effort by 26,000 Portland parishioners, logging more than 100,000 hours refurbishing 50 school campuses, giving haircuts to the homeless and donating 45,000 pounds of canned goods to food banks.. 2012 1,062,527 2012 51,040, Mission America Coalition (EIN 23-7317473), National Organization For Marriage (EIN 20-7472471). 2011 10,000 It is also the worst possible thing we can do for homosexuals, who need to hear about the way out of bondage, not be encouraged to plunge deeper into it., 2001 5,000 2009 3,000 2003 37,000 U.S. to Question India About Ban on Christian Charity 2006 197,000 2012 26,800 To do so is morally wrong. 2010 55,800 2004 2,700 If only you knew that I'd become the dad I am today. 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. Abandoned by her father and trapped in poverty, Yanelly had no hope for her future until her sponsor and center believed in her. 2009 4,032,927 2012 5,740 2003 13,100 2001 141,548 During that 2006 ADF briefing to The Gathering, Family Research Council head Tony Perkins gave a special presentation in which Perkins declared the LGBT rights movement to be the second most dire threat to America next to militant Islam. Other members of the Princeton Group include key players in the fight against same-sex marriage and LGBT rights including the following leaders whose respective organizations have received National Christian Foundation funding: Brian Brown, President of the National Organization for Marriage, Maggie Gallagher, Co-founder of the National Organization for Marriage, Luiz Tellez, President of the Witherspoon Institute, Alan Sears, President of the Alliance Defending Freedom, and William Mumma, President of the Becket Fund. 2003 0 Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod affirms traditional stance on LGBT The arbitrary new nations (e.g. 2010 23,500 Until its recent demise, with the statement from Exodus president Alan Chambers that ex-gay therapy does not work, Exodus was the leading reparative therapy organization. 2004 4,000 2013 54,100. A third MLM board member of is British evangelist Peter Horrobin, one of the worlds leading experts, among Protestant charismatic Christians, in the practice of exorcism. 2009 297,229 2004 143,810 2007 21,000 Husbands are to provide loving, sacrificial leadership for the family. They shall surely be put to death. 2007 5,350 (Bethel Church no EIN provided) 2011 6,700 Promotes conferences that seek to change gay people, Admits: I believe homosexuality is harmful to all, including society, and is against the teachings of the God of the Bible, Equates homosexuality with bestiality and adultery: The Judeo-Christian worldview at the heart of Western culture and so our legal and governmental systems (Ten Commandments, an eye for an eye, the very concepts of mercy, justice and rehabilitation) promotes marriage and family while decrying other modes of sexuality homosexuality, bestiality, adultery, etc, Uses skewed research from activists who share his view to claim that gay men can change from homosexual to heterosexual orientation and that homosexual orientation is not an immutable fact of nature or Creation., IFI President Smith has testified before the Indiana House in favor of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage (see: http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/01/22/3195191/indiana-house-committee-advances-constitutional-amendment-banning-sex-marriage/). 2009 156,650 2007 0 2002 26,500 2009 -193,765 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. 2009 0 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.). The AFA is classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBT hate group (see: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/american-family-association). In a March 27, 2014 statement, Samaritans Purse President and CEO Franklin Graham praised World Vision U.S.A. for receiving a decision to employ individuals in same-sex marriages: World Vision has reversed their decision to employ individuals who are in same-sex marriages, after an onslaught of negative reaction. The attempt to synthesize Marxist categories and Christian concepts, to equate 2011 5,100 As the SPLC describes, the Liberty Counsel is affiliated with Liberty University Law School in Lynchburg, Va., a legacy of the late conservative icon Jerry Falwell. Dacus subsequently apologized for the comparison. 2007 781,054 2001 0 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). ) 2013 185,000. Our goal is that the children in our program follow Jesus Christ in faith and deed, support themselves and share with others in need, are responsible members of their families, churches, communities and nations; and maintain their own physical well-being by the time they complete our Child Sponsorship Program. 2002 4,000 Thank you for helping with the medical bills when I almost lost my eyesight. Packer, who is widely regarded as one of the leading theologians in North American Protestant conservative evangelicalism. 2013 0, Child Evangelism Fellowship (EIN 95-1502345), The Child Evangelism Fellowship has established its Good News Clubs, that target young school children for evangelizing, in thousands of public schools across America. The International Foundation 2013 14,900, Intercessors For America (EIN 04-2576811), John Beckett, IFA founder and head, was an original Coalition on Revival signatory. 2004 68,140 encourage them through prayer, letter writing and financial support. (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. MT., or send mail to Compassion International, Colorado Springs, CO 80997. The Florida Family Policy Council resource page (see: http://flfamily.org/issues-research/marriage-family/gay-marriage/) on gay marriage links to an extensive list of opinion pieces by authors such as Maggie Gallagher of the National Association for Marriage, Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council, and the Southern Baptist Conventions Al Mohler, who in an article titled Can Animals Be Gay makes the following case: those pushing for the normalization of homosexuality want to be able to point to research that would prove the normality of homosexuality in nature. account. 2004 15,000 2012 11,200 Weve been working weve had to work on this, our team had to work on this personally to get this material done. frontline church partners, we provide children with the opportunity to rise above their NEW DELHI The United States and India were at loggerheads on Thursday over Compassion International, a Colorado-based Christian charity that was . Baehr has established a personal friendship with Natalya Yakunina, wife of Vladimir Yakunin, member of Russian President Vladimir Putins inner circles. 2006 50,400 A person then either tries to arrange their life in reaction to, or avoidance of, these painful areas It is deceptive at every turnit is destroying the souls and the lives of those who embrace it, and it has a corrosive effect on the society which endorses it, either explicitly or even implicitly., 2003 0 [26] Compassion refused to do so as it would be a misuse of funds entrusted to them by donors all around the world. Controversy subsequently arose when media noticed a passage in the pledge that, as characterized by CNN, contained a controversial preamble suggesting black children born into slavery had better family structures than black children now. (see: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/11/gop-candidates-caught-in-slavery-controversy/). It was the safest place to be. 2010 100 2002 1,500 2004 7,300 2012 57,150 2002 76,500 These people are playing for keeps. Focusing on external causes of poverty in exploitation and oppression without (see: http://www.mafamily.org/event-items/banquet2014/), 2001 0 The World Congress of Families has been identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBT Hate group. 2004 67,500 2003 11,000 By contrast, the activities of the foundations whose heads attend the yearly conference known as The Gathering can be readily traced through funding patterns in the 990 tax forms that those foundations file yearly with the Internal Revenue Service, and also through audio archives of sessions from the yearly The Gathering conference going back to 1996. As UK academics Gregory Deacon and Gabriel Lynch describe in their monograph Allowing Satan in? 2006 233,900 2005 70,029 Oyet, Lwere, Mitala, and Janet Museveni have all played major roles in Ugandas ongoing anti-gay crusade. How much does it cost to sponsor a child through Compassion? 2007 36,000 Donald Wildmon, an original signatory to the theocratic Coalition on Revival. 800-336-7676 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/ 2013 0, Global Mobilization Ministries (EIN 20-1030740). mysterious ways to fulfill the plan. 2007 70,500 2010 700 The costs to family, children and culture are too great to concede this battle to those who would see marriage and family redefined to the point of irrelevancy., (see: http://www.mafamily.org/issues/marriage-and-family/same-sex-marriage/), Eric Metaxas, a recently featured speaker at The Gathering, is the scheduled speaker at an upcoming Center For Arizona Policy We did not eat up to four days a week sometimes. 2006 17,300 Up until the death of its founder D. James Kennedy, Coral Ridge Ministries served as a leading force for Christian dominionism in America. In late April, Eschliman, 41, a member of Christian Reformed Church of Newton, wrote a personal blog post criticizing the Queen James Bible, a website that rewrites the Christian Bible to be friendlier to gays. 2010 300 Other founding members of the Restored Hope Network include Ron Smith of New Hope Ministries, Andy Comiskey of Desert Stream Ministries (NCF-funded, see entry), David Kyle Foster of Mastering Life Ministries (NCF-funded, see entrry), Dr. Robert Gagnon of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (NCF-funded), Stephen Black of First Stone Ministries, and Jason Thompson of Portland Fellowship (NCF-funded, see entry), 2012 3,600 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. Why does Compassion focus on individual child development rather than broader community development work? 2011 806,879 2006 500,000 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. Privacy Statement and Conditions of Use 2009 248,935 The Rev. 2009 5,285,042 (see: see http://www.lc.org/index.cfm?PID=14100&PRID=1165 ) The major 2012-2013 National Christian Foundation increase in funding to the liberty Counsel is suggestive in light of LCs legal representation of Lively. 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? 13. 2004 474,442 2010 34,350 2003 5,000 In Touch Mission International 2002 5,000 In his book C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat To American Democracy (Little, Brown, 2010), Jeff Sharlet charged that the international neo-fundamentalist, Washington D.C.-based network known as The Family had helped to inspire Ugandas Anti Homosexuality Bill. Kansas House Bill 2453 would have given private citizens, religious entities, and even government employees the legal right to discriminate against same-sex couples. The Cornwall Alliance asserts (http://www.cornwallalliance.org/alert/cornwall-alliance-releases-an-evangelical-declaration-on-global-warming/) that the Earths biological and climate systems are controlled and regulated by divine provenance: We believe Earth and its ecosystemscreated by Gods intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory. 2004 10,200 American Values will help empower your kids to stand against the liberal culture. Compassion follows an in-depth process of investigation, analysis and research for God's direction to expand into new countries and communities. The yearly conference known as The Gathering was conceived during a mid-1980s meeting at The Cedars, The Familys Arlington, Virginia mansion used as a retreat and prayer center. It was a project of the Chick-Fil-A led Marriage CoMission, a coalition of dozens of ministries and organizations dedicated to fighting the downward spiral of marriage and the traditional family in America., The project included the participation numerous anti-LGBT organizations and leaders including Exodus International, Citizens for Community Values, the Alliance For Marriage (a driving force behind state anti-same sex marriage amendments), leaders from Focus on the Family, leaders from The Navigators, Campus Crusade For Christ Military Ministry, Alan Carlson and Larry Jacobs of the Howard Center, members of the Georgia Family Council, and representatives from Campus Crusade For Christ (Family Life). 2013 37,250, The International Foundation/Fellowship Foundation (EIN 53-0204604), The main nonprofit foundation associated with The Family, AKA The Fellowship, which hosts the annual National Prayer Breakfast; The Family was the subject of the 2008 book The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by journalist Jeff Sharlet (2008, HarperCollins). 2010 438,951 MLM comes with high-level endorsements; its board of directors includes no less than C. Peter Wagner, one of the most important and influential leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation movement whose apostles and prophets have been in the forefront of anti-LGBT rights activism from the United States to Uganda, Burundi, Nigeria, and Kenya, to Russia. 2009 0 There were 248 who came, 50 members of parliament, and they invited me and the College of Prayer to come back twice a year for the next three years and mentor them.. For boys in Mathare, drugs and crime were so prevalent that making it to the age of 16 became a milestone because they had escaped prison or death. 2013 15,220. 2012 427,694 ( 419,617 to AFA Radio) At its height in the 1990s the Promise Keepers, which led the vanguard of the Christian mens movement, was able to pack football stadiums with crowds of 50,000 or more. 2010 1,080,234 2005 392,170 2012 310,415, Association of Christian Schools International (EIN 95-6072587 : also funded by The Gatherings Huston Foundation & Stewardship Foundation). 2002 2,284 In the early 1980s from his state department position, Abrams would become a key player in the Iran Contra affair in which US weapons were sold to Iran to finance the Contra insurgents that were mounting