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. 2008 5,920 The failure to operate from a distinctively Biblical perspective in both methods and goals. You are just like mea fellow human being [], In seeking to help you understand the theological and spiritual implications of your homosexual life style, I must square with you. Wrote journalist David Corn, for The Nation magazine, in 1991. 2010 $6,735,669 (ORU Alumni Foundation $25,000) 2004 15,000 Along with Cromartie, other Villars participants included Howard and Roberta Ahmanson, and top Fieldstead Institute leaders, Coalition on Revival steering committee member Ted Baehr, Christian Reconstructionist theorists George Grant and David Chilton, World Vision Vice President Evon Hedley, multiple leaders of Food For The Hungry International including Darrow Miller, conservative evangelical strategist Herbert Schlossberg, and journalist Marvin Olasky one of the leading intellectual architects of George W. Bushs Faith Based Initiative. I was told that homosexuality was a demon that needed to be cast out of my life. Humanly speaking, the San Francisco Bay Areahome to six million peopleseems to be beyond hope. About Compassion International The extensive foundational ties of the Rutherford Institute to Christian Reconstructionism are outlined by journalist and researcher Frederick Clarkson, in a chapter of Eyes Right: Challenging the Rightwing Backlash (1995, South End Press, edited by Chip Berlet) : The Rutherford Institutes John Whitehead was a student of both Schaeffer and Rushdoony, and credits them as the two major influences on his thought. Compassion's goal is to provide a trip to each country every other year. 25 Feb/23. It's a 2009 7,920 This is a God-fearing nation and we will be firm on what is right.. 2006 1,466,920 Through sponsorship, children are able to participate in a church-based program that offers life-changing benefits that range from educational opportunities to health care. Christian Legal Society 2004 4,000 2010 5,000 Mercy Ministries has come under heavy criticism for allegedly abusive practices ( see: http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/02/21/dark-side-mercy-ministries/ ). That team included Don Schmierer and Herb Schlossberg who have both served as program directors for Fieldstead & Co., and ex-gay ministry head Jim Johnson. The World Congress of Families has been identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBT Hate group. 2011 3,640 2001 0 2011 3,404,496 2006 0 2009 248,935 By: Naomi Leak Categories: Child Sponsorship, Youth Development. 2013 1,239,850, Christian Anti-Communism Crusade (EIN 95-1921156). Ed Silvosos Harvest Evangelism ministry works directly with Ugandan First Lady Janet Museveni rumored in Uganda to be the most important driving political force behind the Anti Homosexuality Bill and also includes, in its International Transformation Network team Ugandan evangelist Julius Oyet, who claims to have been part of a committee that conceived the bill and picked MP David Bahati to introduce it in Ugandas parliament. There are already 4,400 Bible-believing congregations in the San Francisco Bay Area, The Church in the Bay Area is already strategically positioned to strike at the enemy. (pp. 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/ .). In his capacity as a leader at Focus on the Family (from 1988 to 2000) Eldredge helped shape the Christian rights strategy on combating LGBT rights. 2004 20,000 2012 230,615, Officers Christian Fellowship (EIN 38-1415401), ( see: http://www.ocfusa.org/static/uploads/bible-studies/genesis19.pdf ), 2001 3,000 2006 15,700 2006 6,500 In a 1993 speech, prominent Christian Reconstructionist Joseph Morecraft exclaimed that the role of civil government should be to terrorize evil doers to be an avenger! Theocratic libertarianism has become a foundational philosophy for some of the Religious Right, but it is also surprisingly seductive to Tea Partiers and young people, some of whom may not fully understand what is supposed to happen after the federal government is stripped of its regulatory powers. (see: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/1/6/14215/07913/). 2010 300 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. 2009 1,667,448 2002 17,500 2013 89,500, Florida Family Policy Council (EIN 53-2436800). 2007 5,500 While Advocates International states that The goal of AI is justice with compassion in Christ, it also promotes an anti-LGBT agenda and is developing a close working collaboration with related groups, such as the (NCF-funded) Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly Alliance Defense Fund) that are emerging in the forefront of the mounting international war on gay rights (see: http://www.advocatesinternational.org/webfm_send/260). The NCFs core beliefs include the statement, the entire Bible is the inspired and inerrant Word of God; the only infallible rule of faith and practice. (see: https://www.nationalchristian.com/vision), NCFs founders have helped create and lead the elite anti-gay evangelical right NCF co-founder and current board member Ron Blue has swerved on the Campus Crusade for Christ board and NCF co-founder (the late) Larry Burkett worked as a financial manager for CCC; Burkett was also a founding member of the Alliance Defense Fund (now renamed Alliance Defending Freedom); NCF co-founder and current NCF board member Terry Parker has served on the board of the Family Research Council (see encyclopedia entries for these three organizations.). You should be very proud for all that you did. Noebels anti-gay writing includes his 1977 book The Homosexual Revolution: End Time Abomination (dedicated to Anita Bryant) which characterized homosexuality as a kind of national death wish that sought to change the natural order created by God himself and the 1996 book AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, (co-authored with Wayne C. Lutton and Paul Cameron). 2004 1,389,832 In addition, many of the ADFs other substantial funders, including the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation and the Edgar and Ellen Prince Foundation, are represented at The Gathering along with the National Christian Foundation. 2011 3,600 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.. 2013 1,000. Food For the Hungry leaders were signatories to the 1980s umbrella group Coalition on Revival, whose members pledged to give their lives if necessary to rebuild society along biblical lines and impose biblical law. Compassion International - Wikipedia In 1994 the Glenn Eyrie castle headquarters of The Navigators hosted a secret anti-LGBT rights conference which included representatives from Focus on The Family, the Family Research Council, the American Family Association, the Christian Coalition, Concerned Women of America, and the Christian Reconstructionism-linked U.S. Taxpayers Party. 2006 37,500 2002 4,200 2006 22,200 Mercy Ministries of America It feels hopeless and unchangeable. 2004 3,000 The Alliance Defending Freedom, a heavy recipient of NCF funding, in turn provides substantial grants to the Liberty Counsel. 2008 2,674,708 2010 5,100 The attempt to synthesize Marxist categories and Christian concepts, to equate 2011 $28,496,200 (ORU Alumni Foundation $250,000), 2012 14,036,350 (Oral Roberts Missions and Outreach 73-0739626), Pacific Justice Institute (EIN 91-1823641). 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 2004 22,000 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). 2008 867,138 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. 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. significance, and moral discernment. 2003 37,000 As described in the World Evangelical Alliance book Doing Member Care Well: Perspectives and practices From Around the World (page 153, edited by Kelly ODonnell, 2002, World Evangelical Alliance Missions Commission), AIM has focused especially on building missions infrastructure, including a partnership with the Wycliffe Bible Translators/SIL (also heavily funded by the National Christian Foundation): Africa Inland Mission has historically had a vision to provide services for the broader missions community of like- minded mission agencies in East Africa. Summit Ministries was until 2011 headed by David Noebel whose long participation in the American far right has included teaching at a school associated with Billy James Hargis Christian Crusade, running the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade (founded by Fred C. Schwarz), membership in the John Birch Society and the Council For National Policy and through Summit Ministries training youth in the biblical worldview, a Summit curriculum firmly rooted in Christian Reconstructionist doctrine. It mattered, and it was enough. 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. Your donation provides Health Care Age-Appropriate Christian Teaching Hygiene Training Education & Vocational Training [T]he endgame of homosexual activists is not simply to upend duly enacted laws defining marriage. Under Orombis leadership, the Uganda Anglican Church has served (along with the Nigerian Anglican Church under the leadership of Peter Akinola) as a harbor for American Episcopal churches which have broken away from ECUSA over divise culture war issues such as same-sex marriage and the ordination of gay clergy, abortion, and other reproductive rights issues. 2005 10,800 Compassion International Process Improvement Analyst III- Global Programs Remote 7d $84K-$105K Per Year (Employer est.) 2006 2,950 contact Regeneration to see how your church can be equipped to help people break free from these cycles of sin and despair.. 2007 44,560 Palau is also linked to top NAR leadership by marriage, to Louis Palaus sister Ruth Noemi Palau (now Ruth Silvoso.) 2009 500 2011 50,500 The familial relationship has both helped to establish New Apostolic Reformation leader Silvoso as a superstar in the firmament of international right-wing evangelism, and also tapped Silvoso into the avante-gaurd of evolving missions strategy: Silvosos career began as a member of the Luis Palau Evangelistic Association ministry team. The Fall resulted in Gods curse on creation and in destructive patterns of thought, culture, and 2008 0 In 2009, the year the Uganda Anti Homosexuality Bill was introduced in Ugandas parliament by MP David Bahati, Stephen Langa was a featured speaker at the 2009 Transform World conference held by Bush in New York City, as a leader of the family and religion track. I vividly remember the day I received that yellow letter notifying me that you have chosen me to be your sponsored child. CNA, Nursing Home, Caregiver. By 2011, one survey found weekend churches had been established in roughly twenty percent of all public schools in New York City. Eternal Perspective Ministries 2009 3,300 Another data point in AIs pattern of anti-LGBT rights activism came in 2008 at the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights when, At the 44th session in Abuja, Nigeria in November 2008, a further draft resolution was proposed at the NGO forum condemning violence and the culture of impunity of violations of human rights of LGBTI people. While NCF funding of LaBarbera/AFTAH has been minor, it is nonetheless surprising given LaBarberas long history of inflammatory anti-LGBT rhetoric (see extensive Truth Wins Out coverage at http://www.truthwinsout.org/tag/peter-labarbera/ ). Along with Ugandan Martin Ssempa another Ugandan who has been both in the forefront of Ugandas state-supported anti-gay rights crusade and also a leader in promoting sexual abstinence over the previously successful ABC approach to HIV/AIDS mitigation Stephen Langa was a co-author of the 2004 Uganda National Abstinence and Being Faithful Policy and Strategy on Prevention and Transmission of HIV. 2002 0 Such thinking goes to the very top of the elite evangelical right, as evidenced by The Fellowship head Douglas Coes insistence, captured on video in 1989, that Christians should follow Jesus with the same level of fanatical devotion shown by the followers of Hitler, Lenin, and Mao whose young Red Guard were willing, during the Cultural Revolution, to cut off the heads of their own parents for the good of the state (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYeGR7O1lKI ), 2007 0 2008 2,423 AIM was conceived from the efforts of Scottish missionary Peter Cameron Scott, and launched its missions and church-planting work with an 1895 expedition to Kenya, where AIM is particularly well established in Africa. 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? 2003 15,000 The site of this religious pep rallythe Truro Churchis where Judge Clarence Thomas worships. Beside his work with DNA, Langa also has been a speaker at the conferences of Transform-World, a global Transformation franchise run by evangelist and missiologist Luis Bush (no relation to family of Presidents George W. Bush and George Herbert Walker Bush) which operates from locations in Asia, to Ethiopia, to Brazil. 2011 8,660 2009 7,500 2005 16,000 Master architect of that plan Herbert Schlossberg has close ties to leaders of the Christian Reconstructionism movement including Gary North and the late Howard Phillips. All Rights Reserved. 2013 2,410,707. 2005 6,000 Methods: Participants ( N = 558; Mage = 22.4, SD = 5.4) were recruited for the study through online-based . 2005 8,000 2005 500 2002 4,000 In 2001, Howard Ahmanson was at R.J. Rushdoonys dying bedside. 2004 0 2010 125,650 Compassion strives to protect children from all forms of abuse. Beyond the amounts listed below, it also receives substantial funding through the NCF-funded Alliance Defending Freedom. 2009 1,005,100 . 2010 1,818,940 2006 500 2007 1,000 At the presentation, a program director for the Maclellan Founbdation solicited funds (through an anonymizing mechanism, likely a donor-advised fund) to implement the plan. More recently, ADF joined a number of major US-based (and NCF funded) Christian right groups such as the Family Research Council and Focus on The Family at planning sessions for the 2015 World Congress of Families event in Salt lake City, Utah (see: http://worldcongress.org/files/1114/4483/3500/WCF_News_November_2014.pdf ). GLAAD is collaborating with the St. Paul's Foundation for International Reconciliation, the Unitarian Universalist UN Office, Soulforce, and several other partners to present Compass to Compassion a consultation to present a common strategy to deal with the global impact of American Christian fundamentalism on rising LGBT global persecution. The Christian Film and Television Commission produces Movieguide, which assesses the suitability of movie and television programming for conservative Christian audiences. Children who participate in Compassion's programs are, more likely to finish secondary However, the Compassion International President and CEO Santiago . education, more likely to have salaried The problem, according to Eldredge, is an emasculating overemphasis on manners: Where are all the real men? is regular fare for talk shows and new books. Whitehead credits Rushdoony with providing the outline for his first book, which he researched in Rushdoonys library. 2002 141,948 Since 1980, Compassion International's headquarters have been located in Colorado Springs, CO. You can call Compassion at (800) 336-7676, Monday through Friday, 7a.m. Stephen F. Noll, former associate pastor at the Truro Church, was the first president of Uganda Christian University, Ugandas first private chartered university, founded by the Ugandan Anglican Church in 1997. 2005 5,0 (see: http://www.americanpastorsnetwork.net/resource/resist-the-green-dragon/). Were working on a second book, that would be stand-alone, and the area that well be addressing is prevention. (also see entry for the Revival Prayer Alliance), 2001 2,000 The FRC is one of the highest profile Christian right organizations working against LGBT rights, both within the United States and internationally. However, once children graduate from the program and the sponsorship relationship comes to a close, the letters stop. From the start, E&PPCs applicaton of Judeo Christian morality was highly selective. To bring down the wrath of God to bear on all those who practice evil! (see: http://www.politicalresearch.org/1994/03/).
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