Kennedy's family had 10 children, and they often joked that each family member had one square foot to live in. The Becket Fund For Religious Liberty, which bills itself as the premier religious liberty law firm in the United States ( http://www.hobbylobbycase.com/about-the-becket-fund/ ) represented the Green family, owners of the Hobby Lobby craft supplies store chain, in the 2014 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby case that was decided in favor of the Greens and Hobby Lobby by the U.S. Supreme Court. 2011 9,606,281 2010 171,149 Your donation to the Where Most Needed Fund will help support the mission of releasing children from poverty in Jesus name. In 2009 Coe was featured (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYeGR7O1lKI) in an NBC segment that showcased a 1989 speech Coe gave at the Glenn Eyrie headquarters of the (NCF-funded) organization The Navigators, during which Coe claimed that young Chinese Red Guard who were willing to chop off the heads of their own parents to advance the interests of the state drew inspiration from the teachings of Jesus. And the literal term Mathare means "to struggle" or "to fight for" because people from Mathare have to fight for everything. 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. Daly then referred readers to an op-ed at Citizenlink, Focus on the Familys public policy partner, which was strongly in support of the bill. 2003 20,000 Theres no female dog that mates with a female dog, theres no male dog that lusts after a male dog. 2013 0, Global Mobilization Ministries (EIN 20-1030740). Focusing on external causes of poverty in exploitation and oppression without 2011 5,000 So, the perception of grass-roots organizing, or home rule, is critical. 2012 60,069 2012 8,950 Bethany Christian Services Will Now Help LGBTQ Parents Adopt Children 2008 5,300 2002 26,500 Ranked No. I looked forward to all your letters, as they were the only times I read the phrase, "We love you.". Hammond writes, concerning the late Martin Luther King, Jr., King was not a legitimate reverend, he was not a bona fide PhD, and his name was not really Martin Luther King, Jr. What is left? 2012 57,500 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 Acknowledge God as the Creator and Governor over His creation (Genesis 1:1) An Iowa newspaper editor fired after publishing his views on homosexuals is claiming he was the victim of religious discrimination by his former employer. 2009 4,032,927 Concerned Women For America has been one of the active U.S. participants in the World Congress of Families, and along with two other NCF-funded World Congress of Families participants, Focus on the Family and Family Research Council, has led the American Christian rights establishment as a presence at the United Nations. Hillman has organized conferences which have featured the participation of both Ugandan evangelist Julius Oyet, who claims to have co-authored the Uganda Anti Homosexuality Bill, Fred Hartley, Jr. III, whose College of Prayer Internationals Uganda branch is headed by Oyet and includes Ugandan MP David Bahati, who introduced the bill in Ugandas parliament, and Atlanta pastor Johnny Enlow, perhaps the first pastor to blame Hurricane Katrina on a New Orleans gay parade and who suggests criminalizing homosexuality. Our program is run entirely by local Christian One of the most effective Christian movements in the late 60s and early 70s was the Christian World Liberation Front at the University of California, Berkeley. As Ockenga conceived, the Neo-Evangelicals would not, like the fundamentalists had done in the 1920s and 1930s, flee modernity or separate themselves from secular society; they would instead infiltrate (Ockenga used this term) the secular realm, placing their operatives in key positions from which to advance their cause which was the divine redemption of the world, the evangelization of all its peoples, and the establishment of Gods dominion over all sectors of society. During a 2006 three and a half hour presentation at The Gathering, Alliance Defense Fund leaders recalled how Bright co-led, along with the late D. James Kennedy, the initial conference call, of several dozen evangelical organizational leaders, that led to the formation of the ADF. 2008 8,300 Some Teen Challenge centers practice reparative therapy and attempt to change sexual orientation through exorcism. Other major ministries on the evangelical right, such as the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, are now looking towards Kevin Palaus model as a possible way to rebrand conservative evangelicalism, to move past the stigma of the divisive culture wars especially the perception that the movement is anti-gay. 2006 43,134 Natural disaster. 2010 158,000 2013 281,431 ( AoG World Missions ), Assembly of God Phillipsburg, KS 2001 40,000 [19][20] The research, by Bruce Wydick, Paul Glewwe, and Laine Rutledge, evaluated Compassion efforts in six countries, with 10,144 children studied, reporting "large, statistically significant impacts on years of schooling; primary, secondary, and tertiary school completion; and the probability and quality of employment." By: Naomi Leak Categories: Child Sponsorship, Youth Development. Where is Compassion International's headquarters? 2010 8,600 Do we think we can escape such persecution if we refuse to fight for what is right?, 2001 13,000 Compassion International, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The homosexual rights ordinance was overturned by an 81 to 19 percent margin. However, once children graduate from the program and the sponsorship relationship comes to a close, the letters stop. Lead us into battle, they roared. Our ministry to children is twofold: We work through local churches to provide child development programs to deliver children from economic, physical, social and spiritual poverty, enabling them to become responsible, fulfilled Christian adults. 2012 0 2004 0 Founded in 1952 and headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Compassion International is a child-sponsoring charitable organization that was originally known as the Everett Swanson Evangelistic Association. 90-91), 2001 120,900 2010 300 Schmierers ministry His Servants sells a line of high-production value ex-gay reparative therapy books including Schmierers 1998 book An Ounce of Prevention: Preventing the Homosexual Condition in Todays Youth, which cites now-discredited research from Stanton Jones and Mark Yarhouse claiming a 33-60 percent success rate in therapy aimed at the conversion from heterosexual to homosexual orientation. Schmierers line of reparative therapy book have been translated into almost two dozen world languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Russian, and Hindi. 2010 37,299 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. Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod affirms traditional stance on LGBT In 1985 Howard Ahmanson told the Orange County Register that My purpose is total integration of biblical law into our lives. 2007 56,717 The Massachusetts Family Institute statement on Marriage and the Family reads. In 2013, American Vision head Gary DeMar stated, Im sure that people who have jumped ship to embrace pro-homosexual marriage have not thought through the consequences of their decisions, especially young people who are almost always in an affirming mood. 2011 212,425 I would have either gotten into crime and drugs, which were always available around me. Testimonies on the IHR website claim miracle healings of brain, bone, and lung cancer and also deliverance from the homosexual lifestyle. 2009 38,100 2011 58,000 The Bible is clear in teaching on sexual sin including sex outside of marriage and homosexual acts. However, the Compassion International President and CEO Santiago . Children who participate in Compassion's programs are, more likely to finish secondary 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. And they would even seem perplexed by the question. [T]he Bible is very clear about homosexual acts being a very evil thing, wrote Cass. 2009 328,918 2008 5,000 Compassion International alumni, now adults, thank sponsors for their impact in emotional letters. 2011 5,005,293 2004 85,500 In the Christian Reconstructionist vision, biblically mandated capital punishment via stoning, crucifixion, or burning at the stake (all forms of capital punishment mentioned in scripture) would be only rarely necessary exactly because of the severity of the punishment. 2012 10,000, The Family Foundation of Kentucky (EIN 61-1167112). 2005 1,500 2003 500 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. In Asia, Compassion works in Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. On page 172, Ware and Ham wonder how same-sex marriage will not lead to legalized bestiality: If homosexual relationships are legitimized based upon personal desires, where does society draw the line with other deviant and destructive behaviors that some find despicable? 2008 100 To do so is morally wrong. 2009 100,000 We have it both in English and Spanish. compassion international lgbt compassion international lgbt 2009 250 2011 33,900 2011 0 LGBTQI+ people face criminalization in nearly 70 countriesseveral of which can impose the death penalty. While The Gathering is almost exclusively an affair of the dominionist Protestant evangelical right, The Council for National Policy brings together top funders of both the secular and theocratic far-right with movement activists and strategists. 2010 0 2007 323,766 Bright co-authored the book with Coalition on Revival signatory Ron Jenson. 2013 245,000, Head of Hope For The Heart is June Hunt, heiress to the Hunt oil fortune. 2011 10,000 2009 30,000 2008 167,000 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. Hurricanes Wilma and Rita also each brought judgment on cities that were about to host major gay eventsKey West and Cancunthus seriously curtailing the celebration of gay acceptance. 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). 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. 2013 451,740, Christian Film and Television Commission (EIN 13-2961538). And 50,000 of those children have been waiting for more than a year, a much higher number due to the pandemic. Transform-World promotes doctrines from the theocratic Coalition on Revival. Another prominent endorser of Freedom Tools has been Rich Stearns, president of World Vision U.S.A. Freedom Tools presents demon deliverance as an integral part of the process of psychological and spiritual healing. 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. 2003 41,590 Bauer served as President of the Family Research Council from 1988-1999. 2012 247,299, The Family Foundation of Virginia (EIN 52-1425355), 2008 1,300 The ADF was a co-convener of the 2012 World Congress of Families conference in Madrid, and ADF chief counsel Benjamin Bull has traveled to Russia to meet with Russian legislator Yelena Mizulina, who has led legislative efforts in the Russian Duma to pass anti-LGBT and anti-reproductive rights legislation. the one thing that has been produced this year, and we had to get involved in producing it ourselves its the training material for Jim Burns National Institute of Youth Ministries, to go along with what theyve done, type of thing. 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. 2003 3,000 2008 293,300 virtue, or which sanctifies those who are poor on the basis of their poverty.. It was organized to counteract the radical movement on campus. [26] The Ministry of External Affairs later stated that the ban had nothing to do with the ideology of Compassion International.[27]. 2007 34,400 Your support gives a child life-changing opportunity to develop spiritually, emotionally, physically and economically. 2010 700 These two scholars have shaped a theoretical development perspective which posits that Western cultural values rooted in Christianity and in the case of Harrison, especially Protestant Christianity, have played an indispensable role in the economic and political success of the European and North American West. By contrast, too often Christans broadcast all they do There are times we need to keep quiet. As described by Equality Matters, a project of Media Matters for America, the New Jersey Family Policy Council claims Homosexuality Is Unhealthy, Can Be Cured, Linked To Pedophilia (see: http://equalitymatters.org/blog/201202090002), 2012 8,500 Each child has only one sponsor, which is why the sponsor's prayers, letters and support mean so much to a child. It was the strength that he emulated.. In an attempt to defeat proposed legislation favorable to homosexuals, he organized a low-profile, grass roots campaign. Box 22429, Robinsdale, MN 55422-0429 (www.outpostministries.org), To give special status or rights to those choosing the personally and socially destructive homosexual lifestyle is to approve and endorse that behavior, and inevitably to spread it. 2010 401,000 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. Not at all! People are hurting . 3. 2012 200,300, Pennsylvania Family Institute (EIN 23-2569197), 2009 5,000 2001 24,250 In 2007 Ellel Ministries co-head Jill Southern stated, [Homosexuality] is usually a result of homosexual abuse in very early childhood when they were wrongly touched but there are other possible causes such as gender confusion and rejection by a peer group as a weakling So this spirit of homosexuality has an appetite for homosexual acts, and is using your body for its own appetite. In 2009, an anti-gay rights conference held in Kampala, Uganda came to the widespread attention of American liberal media and LGBT rights groups, which subsequently highlighted the participation of anti-LGBT rights agitator Scott Lively. If we believe that man is made in the image of God, then we would do well to remember that the Lord is a warrior (Exodus 15:3).. Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning), Machine Tools, Metalworking and Metallurgy, Aboriginal, First Nations & Native American, 'Poverty stopped with us': Compassion International celebrates 70 years of ministry, World Food Day 2022: 'Many go hungry, the lucky eat once a day'. 2010 111,600 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. 2009 55,100 Rwanda. I am serving as one of 100 orientation leaders to represent the University of Michigan . It feels hopeless and unchangeable. 2001 18,588 Compassion International Blog 2010 55,800 2003 16,350 2006 160,100 Disciple Nations Alliance teaches Biblical Worldview principles outlined in DNA leader Darrow Millers book (co-authored with Stan Guthrie) Discipling Nations: The Power of Truth To Transform Cultures (1998, Youth With a Mission Publishing). You served in the military and loved God. Another board member of MLM is Ted Baehr, on the current board of the theocratic Coalition on Revival, whose members are pledge to give their lives, if necessary, to impose biblical law in all sectors of society. In his 2008 book The Seven Mountain Prophecy: Unveiling The Coming Elijah Revolution, Enlow writes, on page 171, A mass homosexual parade and celebration that was to bring many millions of dollars to New Orleans was scheduled the week Katrina hit the city. 2005 0, [Campus Crusade For Christ sub-ministries funding by NCF], Athletes in Action EIN 95-6006173 (plus other EIN number CCC AIC entities), 2001 6,345 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. 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.). 2010 17,450 2011 6,700 Nothing could be further from the truth. 2006 11,200 2004 143,810 A sponsor is someone who has made the decision to personally invest in the life of a child in need. 2004 330,000 The pro-abortion crowd gives them condoms and birth control pills. World Outreach Ministries (EIN 58-1387722), Grove City professor Warren Throckmorton identified World Outreach Ministries as having processed American funds going to the ministry of Ugandan anti-gay crusader martin Ssempa. A brief history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender social movements/Bonnie J. Morris, PhD. 2012 15,404, Ein 44-0577787 Summit Ministries 2008 57,485 Were working on a second book, that would be stand-alone, and the area that well be addressing is prevention. 2008 103,500 California Family Council 2011 118,120 2004 9,500 This project, launched in 1999, has born dramatic fruit. 2008 129,000 Neither heterosexual sex outside of marriage nor any homosexual act constitute an alternative lifestyle acceptable to God., The statement also stipulates, I understand that if I am found being involved in a lifestyle that does not conform to the FCAs Sexual Purity Statement I will need to step down from my leadership position with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes., (see: http://image.teamfca.net/siteuploadfiles/FCA/2700706F-CF38-4FCD-B9E09BAEB17A3C29/8D77B8C2-29AE-4056-9AC3104B94D755FD.pdf). 2008 7,200 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. 2005 16,000 2010 550 2011 10,000 2007 781,054 Political movements (like Nazism and Communism) trained legions of children with the goal of carrying their agenda beyond the lifetimes of their founders. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqjW6jmoXZM), 2004 100,000 [p.69], 2001 1,000 2010 26,875 2012 350,000 2011 0 2012 0. 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 493,765 The IFA website showcases numerous anti-gay articles re-titled by IFA was inflammatory headlines such as US embassy raises flag in support of homosexual deviants and Limbaugh Right, OReilly Wrong: Homosexuals Molest Kids. In 2001, Howard Ahmanson was at R.J. Rushdoonys dying bedside. Elements of that strategy which included the dual approach of demonizing LGBT people and promoting ex-gay therapy have since been implemented in Russia, Uganda, and elsewhere around the globe. I want you to know that I am forever grateful to you for releasing me from poverty in Jesus' name. [T]he endgame of homosexual activists is not simply to upend duly enacted laws defining marriage. We would sing, dance, and eat a lot. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions, that we have. Besides funding from the National Christian Foundation, E&PPC also receives substantial funding from other The Gathering foundations. On your first letter, you told me the phrase, "We love you."
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