2013 15,060, Council For Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (EIN 36-3635678). 2003 0 During the same time period, Lwere traveled to the United States for megachurch speaking appearances during which he characterized homosexuality as one in a number of demonic strongholds that can oppress cities and geographic territories. At The Gathering 1997, under the auspices of Howard Ahmansons Fieldstead Institute, Ahmansons private unincorporated funding vehicle, one current and one former (Herb Schlossberg) Fieldstead program director gave a presentation outlining a master strategy for combating organized homosexuality. In 2012 the Liberty Counsel agreed to represent evangelist Scott Lively in a lawsuit filed by the NYC-based Center For Constitutional Rights, on behalf of the Ugandan gay rights group SMUG (Sexual Minorities Uganda). To go to the entry for any given organization, clink on the links below. Job in Ann Arbor - Washtenaw County - MI Michigan - USA , 48103. The agenda must: Change public perception about gay rights We did not eat up to four days a week sometimes. Feelings dont validate a homosexual lifestyle any more than they validate a murderers desire to kill. Anderson has come to occupy an increasingly prominent position among those in the anti-LGBT rights movement attempting to establish intellectually defensible arguments against same-sex marriage and in April 2014 made the claim that same-sex marriage is an elite luxury good bought for on the backs of the poor. (see Heritage Foundation entry), The same 2014 Ivy League Christian Observer features a sympathetic, in-depth portrait of Kyle Duncan, who is the lead attorney for the Hobby Lobby stores in a case that challenges provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and which is due to be decided by U.S. Supreme Court in Summer 2014. No. structures, the Bible consistently denounced those who perpetuated such The NCF provided over 25% of the ADFs annual budget in 2012. 2009 247 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. 2008 146,300 2002 21,500 Fieldstead and Company program director Herbert Schlossberg has served as president of one of the major Renewal groups within the Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Action which is a project of the Ahmanson-funded Institute on Religion and Democracy. 2005 2,898,640 2007 11,500 Natalya Yakunina is a major leader in Russias anti-LGBT rights Christian conservative, nationalist backlash. Describing his time in Uganda, Hartley stated, in a November 27, 2009 appearance on a colleagues radio show, just two weeks ago I was with the members of parliament and had a marvelous time, these are dear brothers and sisters in Christ and they are in earnest about righteousness and the cause of Christ and the amazing thing is they are standing for righteousness in areas that where we have long ago sold ourselves down the river but theyre looking to us for spiritual mentoring to, that they as kings and queens so to speak can stand in kingdom alignment and operate according to Biblical principles in their spheres of influence. This substantial increase in NCF funding to Becket presents strong evidence for the central role played by both NCF and the Alliance Defending Freedom (NCFs heaviest funded legal organization, which received $11,341,187 from NCF in 2013) in the Hobby Lobby case and the dozens of similar cases across American that ADF argued and supported in the lead-up to the Hobby Lobby decision including the Conestoga Woods v. Sebelius case that was folded into the Hobby Lobby case. model is culturally appropriate and relevant. That place, or those places, may be inhabited by the demonica base of operations. (Freedom Tools, pages 76-77). Patient- and Family-Centered Care for the LGBT Community (2011), . Sexual abnormalities are a deep cancerous tumor in the entire society. 2012 427,694 ( 419,617 to AFA Radio) They shall surely be put to death. "This is not an endorsement of same-sex marriage. Its website links to the Restored Hope Network, PFOX, NARTH, and Andy Comisleys Desert Stream Ministries. In the video Alcorn states, Jesus did not say to medicate a demon, he said to cast them out.. Certified Nursing Assistant /CNA + PT. Preach boldly about moral issues from the pulpit then, is an unavoidable dimension of relief and development worknot only for 2010 1,900 2009 106,000 Set up your online account. 2007 5,200 The Disciple Nations Alliances 2008 IRS 990 tax form lists a DNA grant to Samaritan Strategy Africa of $144,500. 2007 192,000 (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 Summit Ministries is closely aligned both with the John Birch Society and the Christian Reconstructionism movement, and focuses on the indoctrination of youth through the creation of worldview curriculum and by running a summer youth camp program that teaches Summits worldview to attendees. 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. Campus Crusade For Christ Founded in 1952, Compassion International is a Christian child sponsorship organization dedicated to the long-term development of children living in poverty around the world. 2005 5,0 29), Ed Silvoso has been credited with convening the 1999 Singapore meeting that led to the formation of one of the NARs most important apostolic networks, the International Coalition of Apostles. 2004 100 Advocates International Ethics and Public Policy Center 2004 700 Portland Fellowship (EIN 93-0958183) FRC president Tony Perkins also serves as the head of the Council For National Policy. Wrote journalist David Corn, for The Nation magazine, in 1991. 2005 195,441 2006 99,800 Often we lead the person to speak the commands. 2004 1,000 2001 5,000 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. In 2013, Campus Crusade hosted a pan-African conference (see: http://www.truthwinsout.org/news/2013/05/35215/ ), titled Pamoja 3 that was attended by several thousand young evangelical leaders from across Africa, during which top-billed speaker Dr. Seyoum Antonios, who leads an effort in Ethiopia to legislate capital punishment for homosexuality, vowed before cheering conference attendees that, Africa will become a graveyard for homosexuality!, In his speech, which was introduced by Campus Crusade for Christ Vice President Bekele Shanko (originally from Ethiopia), Antonios claimed 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.. ADFs supportive function was expressly intended, by its founders, to give ADF leverage to corral existing Christian right legal groups and attorneys away from previously antagonistic legal strategies and towards complementary, mutually reinforcing approaches. 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. 2006 1,517,669 Im not suggesting that you ask for your role back, Im urging you to take it back. (see: http://www.publiceye.org/eyes/promkeep.html). 2010 656,976 For all practical purposes, The Family and The Gathering can be considered the same, conjoined entity. 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. This is the work of God, this is the work of Jesus. The prior year, in 2012, LaBarbera was a participant in the 2012 World Congress of Families, in Madrid. In 2009, during his visit to Uganda for an anti-homosexuality conference, Scott Lively gave a special presentation at the Watoto Church. Many critics doubted journalist Sharlets dark depictions of The Family a subject especially hard to research given that it functions through informal relational networks and because, following publication of Sharlets first book on The Family, the Billy Graham center restricted access to its extensive archive of Family-related documents that had formed the research backbone of Sharlets book. 2006 500,000 Elements of this strategy would later resurface at The Gathering in 1997, when Fieldstead & Co. program director (and The Navigators member) Don Schmierer and former Fieldstead & Co. program director Herb Schlossberg would present, to The Gatherings deep-pocketed investors, a strategic plan for fighting organized homosexuality. Youthbuilders, Advocates International bills itself as the worlds biggest faith-based legal association, with thousands of legal professionals around the globe. 2012 0 While National Christian Foundation direct funding of CFCV has been modest, heavy NCF funding has flowed, indirectly, to CFCV through the Alliance Defense Fund/Alliance Defending Freedom. 2005 534,992 Franais | | Espaol. 2004 62,000 It is an abomination. I want to invite you to declare no to sodomy, every one of you. Within the books therapeutic paradigm, homosexuality is a coping mechanism to deal with emotional wounding: Some behaviors are are designed to protect the person from his pain or provide a solution to it: addictions, ritualized actions, anorexia, homosexuality, etc. 2001 6,250 2003 180,000 The children Compassion serves receive, among other things: the opportunity to hear the gospel and learn about Jesus; regular Christian training; educational opportunities and help; health care, hygiene training and supplementary food if necessary; a caring and safe Christian environment to grow in self-confidence and social skills; personal attention, guidance and love. Fosters ministry has produced lines of his ex-gay speaker videos that have been over-dubbed for speakers of Russian, Bulgarian, Japanese, Farsi, Spanish, French, and German. 2005 0 2010 171,149 2009 945,497 We condemn homosexuality because it is written in this holy book the Bible tells us, according to Leviticus, chapter 18, verse 22, You shall not lie with a man as a man lies with a woman. While Chick-Fil-As funding of anti-LGBT organizations, at least through its Winshape Foundation, appears to have ceased following scrutiny and pressure from LGBT rights organizations, Chick-Fil-As Senior Vice President and CFO James B. My heart was filled with joy. 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. We want our program to be effective, so we monitor the child development centers to make sure they are making a difference in the lives of the children we serve. 2006 15,700 The devastating reality of sin and evil, hunger, oppression, deprivation, disease, 2002 21,643 2006 281,500 (see: http://www.ifapray.org/prayertopics.php?id=5), 2001 20,000 2007 538,399 2002 10,180 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. 2004 27,500 (see http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/6/29/94224/1951). Its not completed yet, we just stole it from the printer, this week, and it was faxed to us in a hurry, just to get it here so we at least could have something to show you. 2012 94,340 2013 8,200. 2013 0, Disciple Nations Alliance (EIN 95-0682390). On your first letter, you told me the phrase, "We love you." 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). contact Regeneration to see how your church can be equipped to help people break free from these cycles of sin and despair.. 2009 0 2010 6,000 A sponsor is someone who has made the decision to personally invest in the life of a child in need. 2007 2,250 2009 512,200 primarily through child sponsorship and is Christ-centered, church-driven and child-focused. 2012 28,500 In Asia, Compassion works in Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The Alliance Defending Freedom, a heavy recipient of NCF funding, in turn provides substantial grants to the Liberty Counsel. Remember me Forgot username? 2010 17,450 By: Naomi Leak Categories: Child Sponsorship, Youth Development. 2008 56,150 (see: http://www.americanpastorsnetwork.net/resource/resist-the-green-dragon/). Citizens For Community Values was a top financial sponsor of the wave of 2004 state ballot amendments banning same-sex marriage. 2006 5,500 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. 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. 2012 0 2009 13,300 2007 to 2008 0 2012 35,450 Headed by current Council for National Policy board member L. Brent Bozell III, the Media Research Center in 2006 launched, as a sub-project, Robert H. Knights Culture and Media Institute. 2009 5,350 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 California School Project co-partners with the Pacific Justice Institute to evangelize in California schools. 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. Husbands are to provide loving, sacrificial leadership for the family. 2005 0 2011 320,951 2007 0 2009 90,000 2002 50,000 2010 88,550 2003 23,280 2005 0 Dr. Baehr is on the Board of Advisers of (NCF-funded) Mastering Life Ministries, headed by David Kyle Foster, which promotes videos of ex-gay ministry leaders. 2006 0 2010 970,150 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. 2009 974,130 Every day, our global church partners see how the food crisis devastates impoverished communities. 2013 54,100. Bob Eschliman, former editor of the Newton Daily News, filed a complaint this week with the U.S. Children who participate in Compassion's programs are, more likely to finish secondary All Rights Reserved. 2006 1,000 [T]he Bible is very clear about homosexual acts being a very evil thing, wrote Cass. American Values will respond to the attack on marriage. 2007 236,000 What is the mission of Compassion International? In a 2011 op-ed, longtime Summit Ministries head Dr. David Noebel (who stepped down from heading Summit that year) claimed, 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), James Dobson has been an enthusiastic promoter of Summit Ministries since 1987, when Dobsons son Ryan attended one of Summits worldview programs and reportedly underwent a massive change. Citizens For Community Values 2009 12,750 2009 0 2010 3,550 2003 10,000 As the Southern Poverty Law Center puts it, Paul Cameron is an infamous anti-gay propagandist whose one-man statistical chop shop, the Family Research Institute, churns out hate literature masquerading as legitimate science. mysterious ways to fulfill the plan. 2006 26,500 Jones two presentations for the Resisting the Green Dragon series are titled Rescuing People from the Cult of the Green Dragon and Go Therefore and Make Disciples: Advancing the Gospel in a World Permeated by Environmentalism. When the Father tells you to do something, Cox says, you dont argue with HimYou dont need to know why. During a 1987 sermon at his church, according to two people who were there, Cox preached that the goal of the charismatics is to establish the Kingdom of God on Earth, adding, The Kingdom of God is not a Democracy. After that sermon, he embraced a member of his flock, Oliver North, Who knows why Thomas attends services at Truro. 2011 55,000 If I made it past sickness, I would have succumbed the typical narrative of every young boy in these lands. 2002 114,125 If the dispute isnt resolved to Eschlimans satisfaction, he could sue in federal court to seek financial damages. 2012 1,850 Compassion's goal is to provide a trip to each country every other year. Dr. Antonios worked the crowd into a frenzy, shouting that Africa will become a graveyard for homosexuality! multiple times. (see: http://www.truthwinsout.org/news/2013/05/35215/). The failure to operate from a distinctively Biblical perspective in both methods and goals. And we speak out for children in poverty informing, motivating and equipping others to become advocates for children. 2008 147,980 2007 4,299,990 [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, 2004 1,200 Per the Villars Statement. 2010 23,500 2011 47,000 2002 1,000 Internal and independent audits are regularly conducted for our country offices and our Global Ministry Center in Colorado Springs. Along with Purpose Driven Life book author Rick Warren, Stafford was a featured speaker at The Gathering 2007. Community development is important work that addresses the external circumstances of poverty and is an important complement to our work. 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. 2013 1,000. 2011 785,243 Pacific Justice Institute On page 171 Reese writes, Most of the time when we know we have dealt with lies and are ready to cast out, we simply call the demon by the name of its apparent function within the person and command it to leave, all without incident of resistance. Teen Challenge centers receive public funding. In a 1999 book, NAR leader C. Peter Wagner described one of the key three moral nonnegotiables of New Apostolic churches: Homosexuality is a sin against God [from page 7 of his book Church Quake! 2012 0 After being convicted and sentenced to prison for his Watergate scandal crimes, Colson converted to born-again Christianity and was subsequently personally groomed as a top Fellowship leader by longtime Fellowship head Doug Coe (note: along with Cromartie, Colson has been one of the most frequently featured speakers at The Gathering, which functions as a private philanthropic funding adjunct of The Fellowship.). NCF is the biggest philanthropy represented at The Gathering, which as an event was conceived at a mid-1980s meeting at The Fellowships The Cedars Arlington, VA Mansion retreat center overlooking the Potomac River. We were placed here to win. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bvHkgcUkmc), In 2005, John Hagee broadcast a sermon, that was also marketed in video format by Hagees ministry, in which Hagee claimed that God had sent Adolf Hitler and his Nazis to persecute Europes Jews and so drive them towards Palestine, the only land where Jews were meant by God to live according to Hagee. 2002 $5,000 The ranks of Faith Angle Forum featured authorities informing Americas media elites at the conference are heavily populated with speakers who have been featured at The Gathering. Writing for Freedom Writer, journalist Mike Shaver described (see: http://www.publiceye.org/ifas/fw/9408/gleneyrie.html) the presentation of Focus on the Family leader John Eldredge who outlined a stealth strategy in which national-level organizations such as Focus on The Family would operate through state and local proxy groups: John Eldridge, the first speaker, brought greetings and warm regards from Dr. Dobson of Focus on the Family. Dr. 2006 500,000 2012 3,381,000 (The Christian Union) Truth In Action New Hope has acquired, as a co-leader, Anne Paulk who was a co-star in the 1998 Love Won Out campaign that showcased ex-gay couples in full-page ads which ran in leading print media venues such as the New York Times. The International Association of Healing Rooms miracle healing franchise is run by one one of the apostles in the International Coalition of Apostolic Leaders (formerly the International Coalition of Apostles, led for the decade of the 2000s by church growth guru C. Peter Wagner). 2004 15,000 We offer pre-planned group sponsor trips and unique custom visits. 2003 55,000 Oyets address was listed as a Post Office Box in Lilburn, GA where Revival Prayer Institute head Fred Hartley IIIs Lilburn Alliance church is located. In a very real sense, for Howard F. Ahmanson whose Fieldstead and Company philanthropic group cosponsored (with Food for the Hungry, an enterprise Fieldstead has heavily funded) the Villars Consultation Villars was the logical extension of Ahmansons funding of the theocratic Christian Reconstructionism movement (Ahmanson had, up into the early 1990s, bankrolled its leading think tank, the Chalcedon Foundation.). Gender confusion, according to Eldredge, results when young boys are not allowed to fully express their innate aggressive, even violent, urges. 2008 18,750 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). 2013 245,000, Head of Hope For The Heart is June Hunt, heiress to the Hunt oil fortune. Compassion International has 3,000 employees, of which 39 are in a leadership position. 2003 506,103 2008 1,094,120 It's a relationship more powerful than poverty changing their life and yours! 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. Why? One of the primary roles of future government leaders will be to instruct in righteousness. Schmierers ex-gay book line appears to have been the fruition of one of the components of the plan to combat organized homosexuality that Schmierer and Schlossberg laid out at The Gathering in 1997. Robertsons vilification extends to eliminationist hate speech targeting entire societal groups. 2008 7,200 WCF conference speakers have included Scott Lively, Don Schmierer, and Judith Reisman. Pennsylvania Family Institute 2001 100 2012 3,000 2004 4,500 Since the primary purpose of marriage is the procreation and nurturing of children, marriage can only be the union of a man and a woman. 2008 5,200 2012 1,017,175. (see: http://vimeo.com/purepassion/videos/ ) 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. The project is headed by Campus Crusade For Christs Warren Willis, who first brought anti-LGBT rights agitator Scott Lively to Uganda, in March 2002. 2007 30,000 2009 2,099,144 His national group, he noted, is like an 800-pound giant compared to Colorado for Family Values, which has a half dozen people in a one-room office. I did not know love and Jesus. By 2006, when the National Christian Foundation gave $12,000 to Paul Camerons Family Research Institute, over two decades had passed since Cameron had been disavowed by two of Americas most important relevant professional associations. 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). 2002 18,600 Americans For Truth About Homosexuality And you noticed the qualification to the extent we can control our public image. 2009 1,005,100 2002 5,000 2011 2,000 2007 36,000 Why does Compassion focus on individual child development rather than broader community development work? The World Congress of Families whose conferences have featured anti-gay rights agitators such as Scott Lively, Judith Reisman, and ex-gay consigliere Don Schmierer of Fieldstead and Co. has been designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-gay hate group. frontline church partners, we provide children with the opportunity to rise above their 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/).
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