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2007 0 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. 800-336-7676 2002 76,500 2008 4,000 He knew he had to do something. Another of Howard Ahmansons projects has been the funding of efforts to promote schisms within mainline Protestant denominations, over divisive wedge issues such as same sex marriage and the ordination of gay clergy. EPMs website features a major resource section on homosexuality (http://www.epm.org/resources/tag/homosexuality/) and in that section, in a March 29, 2010 op-ed titled Is The Homosexual Lifestyle Worthy Of Minority Status?, Alcorn writes. 2006 281,500 The legal organizations supported by ADF (most of which are also funded by the National Christian Foundation) represent most of the anti-reproductive rights and anti-LGBT rights legal activism in America and are now playing, as well, a major role in mounting international efforts to restrict LGBT rights. 2004 0 significance, and moral discernment. 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. 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. 2007 11,116 2007 212,500 One of the Assemblies of God official websites features ( http://agtv.ag.org/gtc-demon-possession ) a video presentation, given at the 1996 Teen Challenge National Conference, in which late pastor Herb Meppelink describes the nuances of demon-deliverance, otherwise known as exorcism. According to a poll of top development economists, 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. 2002 114,125 States Burns, Celebrating Gods Design is a unique new curriculum series that takes a balanced and biblical look at important youth issues including gender confusion, tolerance, and challenging family dynamics., 2001 156,000 Liberty Counsel Oyet claims to have helped conceive the Ugandan Anti Homosexuality Bill and has forthrightly stated that the Bible mandates the death penalty for homosexuality. 2009 156,920 2006 17,300 During his March 2008 visit to Uganda to promote his Purpose Driven program in Uganda, Warren told Orombi and other Ugandan religious leaders that Homosexuality is not a natural way of life and thus not a human right. The main initiative of the Howard Center has been the World Congress of Families, a global initiative which has brought together family values-oriented social conservatives, both secular and religious, from different religious traditions, and across Christian denominational divides. 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. Southeast Christian Church The most common ethnicity at Compassion International is White (63%). Adoption is a potent issue in. 2009 106,000 2003 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. MLM videos have been re-dubbed in a range of major world languages. 2007 1,450,424 Top Christian Reconstructionists such as R.J. Rushdoony (widely considered the movements founder) have advocated imposing capital punishment (via such biblical methods of execution as stoning, crucifixion or burning at the stake) for violations of mosaic law such as adultery, homosexuality, female un-chastity (sex before marriage), witchcraft, idolatry, and blasphemy. By contrast, the activities of the foundations whose heads attend the yearly conference known as The Gathering can be readily traced through funding patterns in the 990 tax forms that those foundations file yearly with the Internal Revenue Service, and also through audio archives of sessions from the yearly The Gathering conference going back to 1996. 2011 212,425 I was enrolled in school. 2004 20,000 Here are a few you can contact: Restored Hope Network, PO Box 22281, Milwaukie, OR 97269 (www.restoredhopenetwork.com); Outpost, P.O. spiritual needs. [25], Compassion operated in India for 48 years, with $45million in transfers annually, making it India's largest single foreign donor. 2013 515,783, Exodus International, North America (EIN 26-0785505). In its support of WCF, E&PPC has been joined by Fieldstead and Company, the major philanthropic vehicle for anti-LGBT rights funder Howard Ahmanson. 2006 217,500 2010 850,892 2010 5,000 Methods: Participants ( N = 558; Mage = 22.4, SD = 5.4) were recruited for the study through online-based . As AP News noted on the occasion of the death of the founder of the two drug gangs, Nazario Moreno, La Familia reportedly took its inspiration from an odd source: the book Wild at Heart . 2007 $1,000 Cromartie took over as acting director for E&PPC in 2001, with the departure of E&PPC president Elliott Abrams, who had served since 1996. Set up your online account. 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. Javascript is required on this website, please Enable Javascript in your browser, Christian Child Sponsorship - Compassion - Child Charity Organization. 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/ ). It kills (as we have been reminded by the AIDS crisis). But our relativistic everything-goes age does have one iron-clad rule: DO NOT apply biblical morality to social issues. 2003 200 2008 84,820 2006 2,500 One major initiative of EPP&C has been the Faith Angle Forum a semi-annual all-expenses paid forum, usually held in Southern Florida, which brings together a select group of nationally respected journalists and distinguished scholars for in-depth discussions of cutting-edge issues at the intersection of religion and public life.. 2003 51,115 ( Trinity Academy, no EIN given ) Christian Union events and magazine coverage have showcased numerous leaders who have been featured speakers at The Gathering including Eric Metaxas, the late Charles Colson, and Marvin Olasky. MLM is the ministry of Os Hillman, a friend of Julius Oyet. 2001 4,000 Im thankful that Christians across the country urged World Vision to reverse their decision, and prayed fervently that they would do so. 2004 139,200 The sponsorship model was launched in 1953 and the organization officially became Compassion International in 1963. 2002 1,000 2004 67,500 TruthXchange Headed by longtime ex-gay leader David Kyle Foster, Mastering Life Ministries (MLM) is currently producing (as its main organizational project) the Pure Passion video series which features videos of ex-gay leaders, and alleged experts who purport to describe long-discredited cures for same-sex attraction. 2012 14,200, Dominionist Vision America pastor Rick Scarborough has called upon Christians to get involved in politics and take back America for Christ (see: http://vimeo.com/12082232), In an early 2013 sermon, Scarborough declared, Twenty years ago, who called a sodomite gay? The fortune of the narrowly-targeted Alliance for Marriage has risen and fallen with the religious rights efforts to prevent the legalization of same-sex marriage. Featured speakers at the 2009 AI Ethiopia conference included Campus Crusade for Christ (now rebranded as Cru) Vice Presidents Bekele Shanko and Delah Adadevoh who in 2013 were two of the three featured speakers at Campus Crusade For Christs Pamoja III conference held from late December 2012 into early January 2013 near Lagos, Nigeria a conference which drew upwards of two thousand young evangelical leaders from across Africa. 2008 150,680 Organizations like the members of the Restored Hope Network continue to show that there is help and potential for overcoming sexual sin in any form. (see: http://azpolicypages.com/marriage-family/homosexuality/), 2001 36,000 At Compassion, one of our highest goals is to help children grow to reach their full, God-given potential. Minnesota Family Institute and Council Stephen F. Noll, a longtime associate pastor at the Truro Church (formerly the Truro Episcopal Church before Truro broke away form the Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. [ECUSA]), is in agreement with C. Peter Wagner on the need for believers to engage in Spiritual Warfare/Spiritual Mapping. It means we lose the objective source of law. (see: http://truthxchange.com/articles/2013/07/02/laying-down-the-law-on-yoga-mats-and-marriage/), Jeff Ventrella, head of Blackstone Legal Fellowship for the Alliance Defense Fund, has appeared on the TruthXChange radio broadcast (see: http://truthxchange.com/media/2012/02/14/jeffery-ventrella-esquire-two-ism-and-the-law/), E. Calvin Beisner, who heads the climate change denialist religious coalition called the Cornwall Alliance (see: http://www.cornwallalliance.org/) has also appeared on the TruthXchange radio broadcast (http://truthxchange.com/media/2012/02/16/dr-cal-beisner-two-ism-and-politics/), Dr Peter Jones is one of the featured speakers on the Cornwall Alliances Resiting the Green Dragon video series, which paints efforrts to curb man-made climate change as in reality a conspiracy to create a satanic one-world government. A sponsor's $38 a month connects a child living in poverty with a loving, church-based program, medical checkups, nutritious food, health and hygiene training, educational assistance, access to special services like surgeries or disaster relief, mentoring, and the opportunity to hear about Jesus. 2012 48,000 Classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBT hate group, American Vision is an openly Christian Reconstructionist ministry. It is an abomination. I want to invite you to declare no to sodomy, every one of you. 2009 12,882 90-91), 2001 120,900 2012 51,040, Mission America Coalition (EIN 23-7317473), National Organization For Marriage (EIN 20-7472471). Founder of ex-gay Regeneration Ministries was Alan Medinger, was the original executive director of Exodus International. 2013 0 ( 83,981 to John Hagee Ministries, EIN 74-1764843 ), The Liberty Counsel is a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated anti-gay hate group. The causes of hunger and deprivation, therefore, are spiritual as well as material and 2002 0 Until his death, the Conservative Caucus was headed by Howard Phillips, founder of the Christian Reconstructionism-linked Constitution Party (originally the U.S. Taxpayers Party). 2011 319,879 California School Project 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. 2005 101,640 2003 16,350 It's a Stephen Langa has been widely recognized as one of the leading Ugandan figures lobbying for passage of the Anti Homosexuality Bill. (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpRV0spflIE#t=1m). 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. If only you knew how much all you did impacted me, you'd be so proud of who I have become. 2011 17,200 2013 1,950, Mercy Ministries of America (EIN 72-0973419). 2011 32,300 MDentistry Core Values: Compassion, Leadership, Excellence, Responsibility, Trust, Creativity, Inclusion The mission of the University of Michigan is to serve the people of Michigan . 2002 0 2006 35,000 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). 2007 18,000 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. But demons can also can infest humans, and territorial spirits can also express themselves through individual human beings, sometimes referred to as strongmen. Ugandan Stephen Langa, on of the top lobbyists for the Uganda Anti Homosexuality Bill and a close ally of Livelys, is an elder at the Watoto Church. LGBTQI+ people are often not represented in political parties or among elected officials. 2013 180,000. And we speak out for children in poverty informing, motivating and equipping others to become advocates for children. But even if it isnt, anyone can choose to refrain from homosexual (or heterosexual) sexual practices. 2012 688,176 2012 25,500. Targeting, intimidation and coercion are the tactics of regimes our nation has fought time and again over its history. 2009 5,000 In this paradigm, Homosexuality is generally understood as, variously, caused by or association with demon possession or demonization; homosexual acts open the door to those conditions. transformation, setting people free from destructive attitudes, beliefs, values, and 2009 2,500 Up into 2014, the website of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes featured a testimony from an athlete who claims to have been miraculously delivered from homosexuality through her conversion to Christianity. 2011 12,200 2007 2,250 Do nothing about them without them means that we thoughtfully consult with LGBTQI+ individuals and groups before and throughout any engagement designed to support them and their priorities. As detailed in a Twocare.org investigative report, CEF was one of the leading ministries engaged in the 1992-1997 program under which American evangelicals indoctrinated millions of school children in former Soviet Union countries (see: http://www.twocare.org/how-antigay-american-fundamentalists-indoctrinated-russias-school-children-1992-1997/). 2007 6,200 2008 7,200 In that case, CLS and ADF argued that an officially recognized student CLS chapter at a public university could bar LGBT students and non-Christians from leadership positions. Bauer served as President of the Family Research Council from 1988-1999. When working to advance the human rights of LGBTQI+ people, USAID abides by two foundational principles: do no harm and do nothing about them without them. Do no harm means that we take measures to ensure that our efforts do not put LGBTQI+ individuals or groups at increased risk of harm or raise their public profile in a way that could lead to backlash. 2008 53,100 2002 0 2004 15,500 Joining the presentation, Family Research Council head Tony Perkins declared the gay rights movement to be the second greatest America faced, second only to militant Islam. 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. The Disciple Nations Alliances 2008 IRS 990 tax form lists a DNA grant to Samaritan Strategy Africa of $144,500. 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. My family also got a mattress, and we graduated from sleeping on dirt floors on cardboards to a comfortable mattress. 2001 7,600 2012 5,100 2005 44,410 In a March 27, 2014 statement, Samaritans Purse President and CEO Franklin Graham praised World Vision U.S.A. for receiving a decision to employ individuals in same-sex marriages: World Vision has reversed their decision to employ individuals who are in same-sex marriages, after an onslaught of negative reaction. But Daly is in fact the President and CEO of Citizenlink (formerly called Focus on the Family Action), FoFs 501(c)(4) lobbying and political action wing which gives several million dollars a year to fund the constellation of family policy organizations that promote the evangelical rights social policy agenda at the state level including bills such as Kansas House Bill 2453 (note: HB 2453 was the creation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center see E&PPC section.). Jim Burns Youthbuilders was one of the outlets for training materials created under the auspices of a team brought together by Howard Ahmansons unincorporated Fieldstead & Co. to form a strategy for combating organized homosexuality. According to Bethel Sozo, Sozo ministry is a unique inner healing and deliverance ministry aimed to get to the root of things hindering your personal connection with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Under the guidance of Rushdoonys Reconstructionists, evangelicals in COR drafted a series or documents that mapped out how biblically-derived principles could be applied in all spheres of society. Probe Ministries International Frank Worthen and Anne Paulk are founding members of the Restored Hope Network that formed in 2012 amidst the move of Exodus International away from the claim that reparative therapy works. In a May 27, 2010 AFA column (see: http://www.afa.net/blogs/blogpost.aspx?id=2147494882) Fischer wrote, Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews. McCartney, who served on the advisory board of Colorado for Family Values, a group which in the early 1990s attempted to pass a Colorado constitution ban on gay rights, has declared that homosexuals are a group of people who dont reproduce yet want to be compared to people who do. (see: http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/15/us/boulder-journal-coach-s-anti-gay-stand-ignites-rage.html ), The Promise Keepers official statement on homosexuality reads, We believe that the Bible clearly teaches that homosexuality violates Gods creative design for a husband and a wife and that it is a sin (Matthew 19:4-5; Romans 1:24-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10)., 2001 48,750 Uganda Christian University has been one of the vectors through which New Apostolic Reformation ideology has infiltrated the Ugandan Anglican Church. 2007 64,300 The Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod overwhelmingly passed a resolution reaffirming its traditional, biblical stance on gender identity and sexual orientation, while also calling for churches to "minister compassionately" to people who identify as LGBT. 2007 16,824 2012 150 2012 2,100 Reese ministry is promoted by the NCF-funded Mastering Life Ministries. not on sinful structures, but rather on sinful human choices that perpetuate 2010 15,480 2010 296,490 (1,500 to AFA radio ) Releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name. No. 2003 4,000 2013 53,732, 2005 0 2005 5,000 [7], Compassion helps those in impoverished areas, using a holistic approach to child development. 2005 1,000 For example, in early 2014 Focus on the Family president Jim Daly weighed in on controversial Kansas House Bill 2453, that would have legalized discrimination, by individuals or religious entities, on the basis of gender of sexual preference.