2008 10,300 suffering and injustice. Many CMA churches are now fully New Apostolic, in their beliefs and practices. 2005 2,500 2010 1,078,278 Thomas, once a practicing Catholic, has been attending Truro, a charismatic Episcopal church, for about a year, The Friday evening ceremony was a jubilant occasion. 2011 67,850 One of the primary roles of future government leaders will be to instruct in righteousness. 2005 15,700 Baal was doubling up in the city by adding homosexual decadence to his existing active altar there. 2001 21,000 2004 3,754,238 Harvest Evangelism The Biblical emphasis, then, is IBLP founder and head Bill Gothard, can be considered an ultra-Christian Reconstructionist. 2008 50,000 These people are playing for keeps. Set up your online account. 2005 0 2008 9,000 2011 42,000 Whitehead credits Rushdoony with providing the outline for his first book, which he researched in Rushdoonys library. The hallmark of Compassion's work is one-to-one child sponsorship. FoF support of evangelical right state-level family policy organizations that oppose LGBT rights and reproductive rights conforms with a strategy laid out during a key 1994 anti-gay rights strategy conference held at the Colorado Glenn Eyrie castle headquarters of The Navigators. 2011 3,404,496 2013 613,815, The Becket Fund For Religious Liberty (EIN 52-1858532). 2009 7,300 2006 37,700 2010 49,800 So, the perception of grass-roots organizing, or home rule, is critical. 2007 3,000 2006 45,000 Job in Ann Arbor - Washtenaw County - MI Michigan - USA , 48103. In Touch Mission International is a sister ministry of Front Line Ministries, headed by Peter Hammond a leading Christian Reconstructionist and current Coalition on Revival Steering Committee member. 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. Philadelphia Biblical University 2004 85,500 On the international front, Focus on The Familys more recent active participation in the World Congress of Families which has included the participation of top Focus on the Family leaders in WCF planning sessions further underlines the fact that the softening of FoFs anti-LGBT rhetoric has been mainly a public relations ploy. In a 2011 op-ed, Dr. David Noebel (who stepped down from heading Summit Ministries that year) railed against Obama and his radical homosexual mafia plan to sodomize the world and make such perversion seem as wholesome as apple pie and vanilla ice cream. (see: http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-times/article.php?articleid=7843). 15% of Compassion International employees are Hispanic or Latino. 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. The Bible is clear in teaching on sexual sin including sex outside of marriage and homosexual acts. We are an army of salvation, they chorused. 2002 3,000 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. Community development is important work that addresses the external circumstances of poverty and is an important complement to our work. Bob Eschliman, former editor of the Newton Daily News, filed a complaint this week with the U.S. One of the adjunct faculty of WLI has been Julius Oyet, who claims to have co-authored Ugandas Anti Homosexuality Bill. 2002 18,600 2007 2,171,275 2006 226,500 2005 500 Like Luis Palau, Ed Silvoso has also targeted a chosen liberal, gay-friendly enclave, San Francisco. My community celebrated my sponsorship because they believed I was one child rescued from the normal societal script and there was going to be greatness in our community from me. During the conference, FoF representative John Eldredge, who brought greetings and warm regards from Dr. Dobson of Focus on the Family, told attendees among whom were representatives from the American Family Association, the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, the Christian Coalition, the Christian Reconstructionism movement-linked U.S. Taxpayers Party, and the Conservative Caucus, whose longtime head Howard Phillips called Christian Reconstructionism founder R.J. Rushdoony his spiritual mentor that 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. The Villars Statement on Relief and Development (see: https://disciplenations.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/the-villars-statement-on-relief-and-development1.pdf ), signed by the 40-odd evangelicals attending Villars, stressed 13 key points: [W]e raise our concerns over the following issues. Children are to honor their parents. CFTC founder and head Ted Baehr is a current Steering Committee member of the theocratic Coalition on Revival (see: http://www.reformation.net/ )whose members pledge to give their lives if necessary to impose biblical law, and a biblical template, in all sectors of society. 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.. Teen Challenge has officially endorsed exorcism as a therapy since 1996 (see main Teen Challenge entry), 2001 5,000 The ADF is currently representing a group of plaintiffs challenging a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires employee health plans from for-profit employers to provide contraceptive coverage. 2004 10,500 [note: these two paradigms are not mutually exclusive. 2003 55,000 Oyet himself claims to have helped co-author Ugandas Anti Homosexuality Bill, and First Lady Janet Museveni is widely rumored to be the biggest political force behind the bill. 2013 15,060, Council For Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (EIN 36-3635678). 2007 56,717 2009 12,275 2009 248,935 In 2015, income tax officials also conducted raids seeking evidence that this money was being used to convert Indian families. 2008 867,138 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. 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. circumstances and become all God has created them to be. 2004 242,350 Bethel Church 2009 20,000 In his book That None Should Perish: How To Reach Entire Cities For Christ Through Prayer Evangelism(Regal Books/Gospel Light 1994) Silvoso enthused, Because of my association with Luis Palau and his team, I knew that we were on the cutting edge of Gods movement in Latin America. That program was, and remains, the foundation and core of Compassion. An Iowa newspaper editor fired after publishing his views on homosexuals is claiming he was the victim of religious discrimination by his former employer. 2001 22,487 These kids are in desperate need of the basics like food, water and medicine. 2001 102,750 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission office in Milwaukee arguing that he was terminated May 5 because of his religious beliefs. 2012 51,040, Mission America Coalition (EIN 23-7317473), National Organization For Marriage (EIN 20-7472471). And we speak out for children in poverty informing, motivating and equipping others to become advocates for children. 2011 17,200 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). 2012 14,500 International House of Prayer 2012 1,223,550 The Family Foundation of Virginia 2007 103,800 2010 37,299 2011 30,400 2002 12,978 2008 717,690 Subsequent legal decisions which built upon that decision established that religious groups can rent out public school facilities on the weekends. 2012 200 Growing up, I looked up to you and wanted to be just like you. This seminar focuses on teaching useful tools for setting people free: the healing of past wounds in order to break strongholds; replacing lies with truth; and closing doors to spiritual opposition., The course description linked directly to the bethelsozo.com website of NAR leader Bill Johnsons NCF-funded Bethel Church (see Bethel Church section). Fellowship of Christian Athletes (EIN 44-0610626). 2001 35,000 2010 273,700 2004 1,131,750 2001-2005 0 2012 247,299, The Family Foundation of Virginia (EIN 52-1425355), 2008 1,300 Children are welcome to participate in a Compassion-assisted child development center regardless of their faith. 2010 15,480 2009 3,000 The Institute On Religion and Democracy (EIN 52-1265221). Kansas House Bill 2453 would have given private citizens, religious entities, and even government employees the legal right to discriminate against same-sex couples. MLM repackages discredited ex-gay propaganda, especially video, for international audiences. 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. While Christian Reconstructionisms punitive legal agenda has gained the movement moderate notoriety, often overlooked is its wider vision for government and society a type of theocratic libertarianism (see: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/1/6/14215/07913/) which envisions dramatic reductions in the size of federal and state government, whose functions would be limited to little more than providing for national defense and meting out the draconian punishments required under Reconstructionism interpretation of biblical law. 2004 15,000 2003 50,000 The .gov means its official. 2003 0 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. 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. Oyet claims to have helped conceive the Ugandan Anti Homosexuality Bill and has forthrightly stated that the Bible mandates the death penalty for homosexuality. Over the years we have counseled thousands of men and women and continue to provide on-going services to over 100 people monthly. 2011 87,300 (Bethel Church, no EIN provided) 2006 540,305 2006 $11,226 2005 215,200 2004 474,442 In 2008, at a California rally against same sex marriage, Pacific Justice Institute head Brad Dacus compared stopping same-sex marriage to stopping Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6ddOODw9Rg). In his book Angels of Light, Powers of Darkness: Thinking Biblically About Satan, Angels & Principalities (Intervarsity Press, 1998), Stephen F. Noll writes, on page 12, Pentecostal teaching gained a considerable boost among mainstream evangelicals when C. Peter Wagner of the U.S. Center For World Missions began to speak of a battle with territorial spirits as a necessary part of Christian mission. Noll concurs with Wagner: hedging out the demons is a particular responsibility of the church in its mission strategy and its inner discipline. (pp. Luis Palau was an honorary co-chair (along with Bill Bright and Billy Graham) of the AD2000 And Beyond movement that served as a major vector for the globalization of the New Apostolic Reformation movement and its characteristic ideas and practices (such as Spiritual Mapping. Palau was an original signatory to the theocratic Coalition on Revival, an evangelical front of fundamentalists, conservative evangelicals, and charismatics that was shepherded by Christian Reconstructionist leaders such as Gary North, Gary DeMar and, in the initial phase of COR, R. J. Rushdoony. Second, the revenue growth metric was replaced by a debt to asset ratio. This ratio measures the assets a charity holds on its financial statements. 2012 885,955 2011 334,825 TheCall head and co-founder Lou Engle has claimed that homosexuality can be caused by demon possession and be cured by exorcism of those demon spirits. 2009 113,948 Because of the unique, unusual role the Iowa caucuses play in the American election primary system, the Iowa Family Policy Center wields great influence over Republican presidential hopefuls. 2012 5,000 2008 33,000 Packer, who is widely regarded as one of the leading theologians in North American Protestant conservative evangelicalism. We cannot derive our sexual morality from a laboratory much less from observations of an albatross colony., 2005 5,000 Up until the death of its founder D. James Kennedy, Coral Ridge Ministries served as a leading force for Christian dominionism in America. 2002 1,500 Camerons discredited research has established many of the tropes used to demonize the LGBT community which are now being deployed in Africa and elsewhere beyond U.S. shores, including claims that homosexuals have vastly reduced life expectancy, and the [debunked] statistical association of same-sex orientation with pedophilia. 2010 3,640 Compassion tackles global poverty one child at a time, serving more than 2 million babies, children and young adults in 25 of the world's poorest countries. About Compassion InternationalCompassion Internationalis a Christian child development organization working to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. 2001 5,000 2006 30,000 Intercessors For America But, like Graham, Luis Palau also has ties to radically sectarian, dominionist streams of evangelicalism such as the New Apostolic Reformation, whose leaders urge their followers to burn or destroy all objects and scripture associated with competing faiths (and even with different sectarian forms of Christianity.). 2003 0 2010 1,581 (Bethel Church, no EIN provided) It's a significant commitment, but the incredible difference it makes in the life of a child is invaluable. 2001 7,600 2001 18,588 2010 1,529,263 Remember me Forgot username? 2008 2,674,708 2011 109,300 2013 16,935, Total 1,575,599 (plus 2013 141,770 to IHOP Forerunner Christian Fellowship EIN 45-2262183 ), Iowa Family Policy Center (EIN 42-1461169). De-facto head of the Ethics and Public Policy Center is Vice President Michael Cromartie, a frequently featured speaker at The Gathering. 2002 1,000 In 2005, Julius Oyet who has held top leadership roles in Ugandas two born-again umbrella associations traveled to Ed Silvosos yearly Nation transformation conference near Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2012 117,400, New Hope Charitable Foundation (DBA New Hope Ministries EIN 68-0335100). 2003 2,678,900 Gods opinion of homosexuality has not changed.. Recoiling from women because of his domineering, controlling mother Despising being taken as a surrogate husband by his lonely mother. American Decency Association 2010 0 2009 7,000 The planned book that Schmierer referred to was published the following year, in 1998, as An Ounce of Prevention: Preventing The Homosexual Condition in Todays Youth (1998, Word Publishing). 2008 2,862,715 2012 84,628 2012 0 According to DNA, Stephen Langa is the East Africa Coordinator (see: https://www.disciplenations.org/samaritan-strategy-budding-in-sudan/) for Samaritan Strategy Africa, a trans-African network, with at least six regional offices, that provides Christian worldview training. 2003 297,000 Cameron dresses up his studies with copious footnotes, graphs and charts, and then pays to publish them in certain journals. ( http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/paul-cameron ), 2006 12,000 I have never met a former white, former black, or a former hispanic In contrast, the homosexual lifestyle is immoral, and a matter of personal choice, not unalterable destiny. Since 1952, Compassion's ministry model has proved to provide immense stability in the face of various economic situations. [14], Compassion International is a charter member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability[15] in the US, holds a grade of "A" from CharityWatch,[16][17] and has met the "20 Standards for Charity Accountability" from the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance. 2007 148,000 2008 11,700 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. An official website of the United States government. 2007 113,200 Food For the Hungry leadership participated in the 1987 Villars Consultation, which helped map out a Christian Reconstructionism-inspired vision for evangelical aid and economic development efforts that grew and flourished (with the help of US government funding) over the subsequent three decades. GENEVA (14 May 2021) - UN and regional human rights experts today urged Governments, faith-based institutions and religious leaders to respectfully and compassionately embrace the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and gender diverse (LGBT) community, and to reject policies, laws and practices that discriminate or fuel prejudice. Oyet, Lwere, Mitala, and Janet Museveni have all played major roles in Ugandas ongoing anti-gay crusade. 2005 1,400 Michael Cromartie, E&PCC ties to The Fellowship, and the Just War invasion of Iraq. 2007 1,453,751` Over the decades since its 1976 launch, E&PPC has functioned as the cutting edge of the neoconservative-driven culture war against progressive theology and secularism (see: http://www.counterpunch.org/2005/02/09/elliott-abrams-the-neocon-s-neocon/ ). 2005 4,250 2005 0 2013 55,490, The Lilburn Alliance Church is the Lilburn, Georgia home church of College of Prayer leader Fred Hartley, III. 2003 51,115 ( Trinity Academy, no EIN given ) Warren also met with First Lady Janet Museveni and spoke at Uganda Christian University. 2012 6,500 2009 1,145,916 Activists in states that allow gay marriage have been targeting bakeries and photography studios owned by citizens who oppose gay marriage based on deeply-held religious beliefs. 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. 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 2011 10,000 By 2013, based on its $603 million in grants in FY 2012, the National Christian Foundation was judged by the Chronicle of Philanthropy to be Americas 12th biggest private foundation. Key Results Recent global warming is one of many natural cycles of warming and cooling in geologic history., Domestic Policy, and the battle against LGBT rights. 2008 432,000 Lead us into battle, they roared. In 2008, Mitala presented Ugandan Martin Ssempa with an award for what the Ugandan government-controlled New Vision news service termed Ssempas anti-gay crusade (see: http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/649677). 2008 1,999,900 2013 1,000, Bethel Church, Redding, CA (EIN 94-1514037), The Redding, CA Bethel Church has been the launching pad for a growing national network of the religious rights 2.0 ex-gay ministries, called Sozo (see: http://bethelsozo.com/sozo-network/) Sozo is a non-copyrighted, non-trademarked brand name for the Bethel Church style of spiritual healing. 2007 7,960 2011 91,195 Earths climate system is no exception. AIM International supports the Africa Inland Mission (AIM) network of Africa Inland Churches that are, in effect, their own continent-wide denomination. My boys chew their graham crackers into the shape of handguns at the breakfast table wrote Eldredge, in Wild At Heart. Reese claims to have conducted mass trainings of Ugandan pastors, under the supervision of NAR leader Alex Mitala (Mitala has been a listed apostle in the U.S.-based International Coalition of Apostles, now called the International Coalition of Apostolic Leaders.). 2010 $6,735,669 (ORU Alumni Foundation $25,000) What makes marriage to children, multiple parties, deceased individuals, or animals wrong?(p. 172), 2001 83,500 This education session was hosted by the AMA LGBT Advisory Committee. Through partnerships with local churches, we empower The Christian Legal Society has partnered with the (NCF-funded) Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly Alliance Defense Fund) in the Christian Legal Society v. Martinez case which came before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010. In a 2009 interview with Think magazine (Current Issues From A Distinctly Christian View) published in the April 2009 issue of Think, Phillips stated, The homosexual agenda has targeted the family for destruction. 2002 14,000 The answer was moral and spiritual uplift, through Jesus. 2010 2,500 In her book, Stewart describes attending (see: 2006 0 2008 4,500 2012 0, Faculty Commons EIN 95-6006173 One of the most flamboyantly anti-gay groups on the Christian Right, AFTAH is classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBT hate group. Illinois Family Institute 2004 5,000 The late Howard Phillips, Doug Phillips father and founder of the Christian Reconstructionism-linked Taxpayers Party, later renamed the Constitution Party, served as a co-director of Vision Forum Ministries. 2007 6,200 Not even animals can avoid the fiery passion of mans sexual lust. (see: http://www.eaec.org/bibleanswers/ake_green_sermon.htm). Compassion, Compassion International, Compassion Sunday, the Compassion Logo and the FILL THE STADIUM Logo are registered trademarks of Compassion International, Inc. All donations in the United States are tax deductible in full or part. 2009 5,000 2002 25,700 His Servants 2002 141,948 So much hinges on what happens with the full agenda of the militant gay movement., Emphasizing the importance of keeping up a smooth public relations front, Eldredge told attendees, We must never appear to be attempting to rob anyone of their rights their constitutional rights. Rwanda. Ernest LeFever was president Ronald Reagans first choice, in 1981, for the State Department assistant secretary of human rights but was rejected by the US Senate amid controversy over his stance that abuses of human rights by right wing authoritarian regimes should be addressed via quiet diplomacy; by contrast, LeFever held that the United States should directly confront human rights abuses by communist or socialist regimes.