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. Following the Good News Club v. Milford Central School ruling, religious groups rushed to create after-school programs in public schools. 2002 7,500 2009 18,000 Over the last decade ADF lawyers emerged in the forefront of legal efforts to block same-sex marriage in states across the nation. However, our primary focus is individual child developmentan inside-out, bottom-up approach that recognizes the God-given value and potential of each individual child. 2002 26,250 With your support, local leaders can intervene in urgent situations like this to provide essential items and sustainable solutions for struggling children and families. health care, nutrition and opportunities to hear the gospel. 2011 77,200 2012 19,500, The First Academy (of Central Florida) (EIN 59-0696287). 2009 247 By 2011, one survey found weekend churches had been established in roughly twenty percent of all public schools in New York City. 2003 297,000 2009 2,099,144 2001 141,548 (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/truth-in-action-homosexuality-slavery-threat-freedom and http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/truth-in-action-moral-chaos-liberalism-gay-rights). easy jobs for autistic adults near bengaluru, karnataka compassion international lgbt. So much hinges on what happens with the full agenda of the militant gay movement.. 2004 1,131,750 2003 0 Fellowship of Christian Athletes (EIN 44-0610626). For more information about Compassion, visit compassion.com . 2004 1,400 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.. 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. 2009 466,914 Remember me Forgot username? One of the leading anti-gay agitators in Uganda, Martin Ssempa graduated from Philadelphia Biblical University in 1994. Center For Arizona Policy 2003 277,613 2005 27,500 account. 2002 6,900 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. Encourage informed Christian thinking about contemporary social issues 2004 6,000 (Conservative Caucus Research) Concerned Women For America 2006 43,500 2012 2,100 2006 540,305 2008 2,097,372 In the Winter 2005 quarterly newsletter of The Gathering, in an op-ed titled Thou Shalt Not Kill the Family, Christian Reconstructionist pastor Kenneth L. Gentry argued that, per Leviticus 20:9, disobedient and incorrigible children should be put to death (see: http://thegathering.com/newsletter/2005-Winter.pdf). Founded in 1952, Compassion partners with more than 8,000 local. Americans For Truth About Homosexuality 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). 2009 7,500 2008 9,000 2008 225,855 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). 2008 2,000 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. As Christians, Compassion is called to be good stewards of the resources God has given us, and we are very passionate about ensuring we are. 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. . Sozo is an exciting and growing prayer ministry that was birthed out of Bethel Church in Redding, California, helping people to receive salvation, healing and deliverance. Raising funds, from The Gatherings deep-pocketed investors, to implement that plan was a program manager for the Maclellan Foundation one of the most significant foundations at The Gathering and central to the creation of the National Christian Foundation. One of the most prominent Sozo entities is Andy Reese The Freedom Resource ministry (see: http://www.thefreedomresource.org/). [note: these two paradigms are not mutually exclusive. 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. What makes Compassion stand out among other child development and/or sponsorship organizations? 235), Kennedys now-defunct Center For Reclaiming America was known for, 2001 16,600 A lock () or https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely. 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 0 2005 5,250 2010 200,000 These factors limit their rights and access to essential services such as education, employment, and health care, and pervasive discrimination and exclusion prevent meaningful inclusion in broader development efforts. 2023 Compassion International. Yes. Jack Klenk serves on the UCUP board of directors. 2004 1,000 2006 160,100 2012 150 I am alive and healthy, educated, empowered, and out of the slums. 2013 8,200. Evidence has emerged that Nazarios Knights Templar members proved their loyalty through an act of cannibalism. Years 2002-2013 of those forms can be downloaded here, from the National Center For Charitable Statistics. 2011 7,900 But amidst the move of Exodus International away from its previous endorsement of reparative therapy, the Portland Fellowship was one of the ex-gay ministries which broke away from Exodus to form the hard-line Restored Hope Network of which Portland Fellowship head Jason Thompson was an original board member. 2011 1,000 God freely forgives those who repent of a godless lifestyle including materialism, adultery, prostitution or any homosexual or heterosexual sin, If you or a loved-one want help escaping from the gay misery, help is available from dozens of ex gay Christian ministries around the country. 2003 1,000 (Eternal Perspectives) And we need your help. Rushdoony, introducing Whitehead at a Reconstructionist conference, called him a man chosen by God. Rushdoony then spoke of our plans, through Rutherford, to fight the battle against statism and the freedom of Christs Kingdom. The Rutherford Institute was founded as a legal project of R. J. Rushdoonys Chalcedon Foundation, with Rushdoony and fellow Chalcedon director Howard Ahmanson on its original board of directors. 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. The Witherspoon Institute funded the now-notorious, discredited Regnerus Study (see: http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/03/04/mark_regnerus_testifies_in_michigan_same_sex_marriage_case_his_study_is.html), and similar studies by Witherspoon Fellow William H. Jeynes. 2009 -193,765 2006 65,050 Kennedy's family had 10 children, and they often joked that each family member had one square foot to live in. 2013 55,490, The Lilburn Alliance Church is the Lilburn, Georgia home church of College of Prayer leader Fred Hartley, III. Homelessness. The Fall resulted in Gods curse on creation and in destructive patterns of thought, culture, and 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. 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. 2008 64,150 This is where the Church of Satan was founded; where witches and warlocks have legal status; where homosexuals and lesbians heavily influence government; where selfisness rules. 2009 1,005,100 2009 5,000 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. 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. In 2008, the year of heaviest NCF funding for TheCall, Engles organization played a substantial role in lobbying for the passage of Californias anti-same sex marriage Proposition 8. 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). employment as an adult, more likely to become leaders Frontline Fellowship 2009 250 2002 100 On its 2007 IRS 990 tax form, RPI lists two grants to Bishop Julius Oyet, totaling $11,350, as scholarships for travel to US from Uganda. In 2010 Christian Union brought Intelligent Design expert Walter Bradley to Princeton and its Ivy League Christian Observer has showcased Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Michael Behe, author of the influential ID book Darwins Black Box. 2005 17,550 What number can I call if I need more information? Uganda says no to sodomy! IBLP founder and head Bill Gothard, can be considered an ultra-Christian Reconstructionist. 2005 378,480 The Institute On Religion and Democracy (EIN 52-1265221). 2004 877,650 As a young man, Peter Cameron Scott joined the Christian Alliance Training Institute in New York, run by Albert Benjamin Simpson who was the founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance denomination. As described in this encyclopedia, in the entries on the Revival Prayer Institute, the Lilburn Alliance Church, and the Christian and Missionary Alliance, CMA has emerged as a major force in the war on LGBT rights in sub-Saharan Africa. And just like Darrell and Denise's encouraging letters did for Kennedy, a sponsor's love brings hope to a child that will last a lifetime. 2009 4,000 From 2012-2014 the ADF played a major, if not the central, behind the scenes role in the Hobby Lobby v. Burwell Supreme Court case and the welter of similar religious liberty court cases that were being litigated across America (see entry on The Becket Fund.). 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. Ellel promotes the doctrine that homosexuality can be caused by demon possession and teaches methods for exorcising such demons. 2008 4,000 Ransomed Heart Ministries 2011 109,300 Indiana Family Institute Stephen Langa has been widely recognized as one of the leading Ugandan figures lobbying for passage of the Anti Homosexuality Bill. Compassion follows an in-depth process of investigation, analysis and research for God's direction to expand into new countries and communities. 2011 1,199,576 One of the current fellows at the Ethics and Public Policy Center is Herbert Schlossberg, who during the 1990s helped formulate a complex master strategy for combating organized homosexuality that was presented at The Gathering 1997 Co-presenting the anti-LGBT rights plan, at The Gathering, along with Schlossberg was Don Schmierer, then-serving as a program director for anti-gay funder Howard Ahmanson, one of the top funders of Californias anti-same sex marriage Proposition 8. Disciple Nations Alliance We want children to have the opportunity to see living faith in action, hear the gospel and be discipled in the ways of Christ. 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. It kills (as we have been reminded by the AIDS crisis). Lead us into battle, they roared. In 2013 Langa traveled to Arizona to meet with DNA leaders Darrow Miller and Bob Moffitt. 2002 1,000 Copyright 2017 - Truth Wins Out. 2012 507,372 2003 3,500 Dacus subsequently apologized for the comparison. My boys chew their graham crackers into the shape of handguns at the breakfast table wrote Eldredge, in Wild At Heart. 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. The ultimate goal of their agenda is to use the force of law to silence sincerely held religious beliefs in opposition to same-sex marriage. 2010 5,600 Meanwhile, NOM leaders such as Brian Brown has emerged as aggressive participants in the World Congress of Families that is credited with helping to inspire anti-LGBT and anti-reproductive rights legislation in Russia and Eastern Europe. 2002 4,200 2011 58,589 Yakunin runs the Russian rail system. Compassion coordinates every aspect of the trip, including travel, meals, tips and gratuities, fees related to the travel, and sightseeing fares. Marketplace Leaders Ministries political freedom. What specific benefits does a child receive through sponsorship? 2008 1,000 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. We must never appear to be mean-spirited or bigoted.. 2011 1,274,773 Palau is also linked to top NAR leadership by marriage, to Louis Palaus sister Ruth Noemi Palau (now Ruth Silvoso.) 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). CNP membership has included the Koch brothers, many The Gathering funders including Howard Ahmsanson and members of the DeVos, Coors, and Friess clans, and also overtly secular funders such as Richard Mellon Scaife. 2007 1,400,000 Sponsors are invited to write to their sponsored children, and children in Compassion's program write to their sponsors at least twice a year. 2004 0 2007 34,400 NEW DELHI The United States and India were at loggerheads on Thursday over Compassion International, a Colorado-based Christian charity that was . As detailed in journalist Katherine Stewarts book The Good News Club: The Christian Rights Stealth Assault on Americas Children (2012, Public Affairs, a member of the Perseus Book Group), in its 2001 ruling in the case Good News Club v. Milford Central School, the United States Supreme Court that public schools could not exclude religious groups from establishing after-school activities in those schools because religion, the majority opinion argued, is essentially a form of free speech protected by the First Amendment. Representing Eschliman in the case is the The Liberty Institute. 2003 2,500 2009 32,000 Stated Mitala, Some Ugandans are praising homosexuality and some believe it is their right but you should stand not to allow this moral decay in this country. (see: http://chimpreports.com/index.php/news/10456-bishop-lwere-urged-to-fight-homosexuality-pornography.html). Ethics and Public Policy Center 2006 38,000 One close colleague of David Noebel has been Christian Reconstructionist Peter Hammond who might be characterized as South Africas Scott Lively. Sheldon declared, A dangerous Marxist/Leftist/Homosexual/Islamic coalition has formed and wed better be willing to fight it with everything in our power. 2009 1,676,090 (More) Rating Information Great transform my life is one of those mysteries., Child Protection Officer, But even if it isnt, anyone can choose to refrain from homosexual (or heterosexual) sexual practices. 2004 356,371 Even if it could be proven that the homosexual orientation is inborn (some people are still desperately trying to prove this), the choice of homosexual behavior is still just that a choice To have desire toward something does not mean one is helpless to control his behavior. 2007 6,000 2012 20,000. 2013 12,050, Ethics and Public Policy Center (EIN 52-1162185), The Ethics and Public Policy Center advertises itself as dedicated to applying the Judeo-Christian moral tradition to critical issues of public policy. Christian and Missionary Alliance Barfoot was co-rector of a Kansas Episcopal church which broke with the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA) over the 2003 ordination of openly gay Gene Robinson as ECUSAs bishop for the state of New Hampshire. Violence, discrimination, stigma, and criminalization negatively impact the lives of millions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTQI+) people around the world and contribute to poverty. LGBTQI+ people are often not represented in political parties or among elected officials. In a 2004 interview with the Orange County Register Ahmanson indicated that although it was not a necessary practice, the stoning of homosexuals, as a capital punishment, might be morally acceptable. 2010 18,000 2001 10,000 Weve been working weve had to work on this, our team had to work on this personally to get this material done.