2012 1,017,175. How much does it cost to sponsor a child through Compassion? 2012 2,100 2004 0, North Carolina Family Policy Council (EIN 56-1751596), 2002 2,500 All of the above have been funded by the National Christian Foundation. MLM videos have been re-dubbed in a range of major world languages. 2012 15,800 Treat any marriage, domestic partnership, civil union or similar arrangement as valid. (see: http://kslegislature.org/li/b2013_14/measures/documents/hb2453_00_0000.pdf). 2010 171,149 2005 937,818 And you noticed the qualification to the extent we can control our public image. The First Academy is run by the Orlando First Baptist Church a fact which is only mentioned on the First Baptist Church website inside several biographies of church leaders who run the First Academy (see: http://www.firstorlando.com/about/meet_our_leadership/pastors_and_ministry_leaders_bios/articletype/articleview/articleid/13). The Everett Swanson Evangelistic Association was founded in 1952 by the Rev. 2001 700 (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 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. 2012 6,500 2008 293,300 2010 7,400 2008 4,500 While liberal activist groups such as Thinkprogress ( http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/05/01/3429448/alliance-defending-freedom/ ) have provided in-depth coverage of ADF activism, existing reports (excepting the work of Twocare.org ) have failed to identify what is by far the biggest source of ADF funding, the National Christian Foundation. Stemberger has stated that Florida LGBT activists working for a Jacksonville sexual nondiscrimination ordinance are a radical group of political operatives who want to force their aberrant views on human sexuality upon the rest of society by the mandate and penalty of law. (see: http://www.glaad.org/blog/who-john-stemberger-and-whats-really-driving-his-boy-scouts-crusade). 2007 21,000 Oyet claims to have helped conceive the Ugandan Anti Homosexuality Bill and has forthrightly stated that the Bible mandates the death penalty for homosexuality. 2007 9,000 As UK academics Gregory Deacon and Gabriel Lynch describe in their monograph Allowing Satan in? 2013 184,000, Eternal Perspective Ministries (EIN 94-3125475), EPMs Randy Alcorn is one of the most prolific authors on the Christian Right (see: http://www.epm.org/books/). A crucial earliest hotbed for the neoconservative movement, E&PCC, The Center boasts an array of leading Catholic, Protestant and Jewish intellectual social conservatives and has played a substantial, if stealthy, role in Americas ongoing culture wars including fighting LGBT rights. As USA Today reported in a an August 3, 2014 story, The broadest attack yet on states gay marriage bans will be Wednesday in a packed courtroom in downtown Cincinnati, where lawyers challenging four states prohibitions will stand shoulder to shoulder in hopes of convincing a three-judge panel that the bans are unconstitutional.. The decision comes amid a high-stakes cultural and legal battle that features questions about sexuality, religious freedom, parenthood, family structure and theology. relationship more powerful than poverty changing their life and yours! Christian Anti-Communism Crusade My community celebrated my sponsorship because they believed I was one child rescued from the normal societal script and there was going to be greatness in our community from me. and instead of helping them we are papering over their problems . States prominent Christian Reconstructionist David Chilton, The Christian goal for the world, is the universal development of Biblical theocratic republics.. And we speak out for children in poverty informing, motivating and equipping others to become advocates for children. 2007 1,450,424 It was pioneered in the late 1980s by a core group of New Apostolic Reformation leaders including Ed Silvoso, C. Peter Wagner, Cindy Jacobs, and others and subsequently exported to Africa and the developing world. 2012 48,678 2004 104,200 2012 1,123,200, The Heritage Foundation maintains an extensive website subsection devoted to arguments against LGBT rights, especially same sex marriage (see: http://www.heritage.org/issues/family-and-marriage/protecting-the-institution-of-marriage), Heritage fellow Ryan T. Anderson has come to occupy an increasingly prominent role among the opposition to marriage equality (see: http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/05/21/2040851/the-arguments-against-marriage-equality-apparently-have-nothing-to-do-with-gay-people/), In April 2014 Anderson made the claim that same-sex marriage is an elite luxury good bought for on the backs of the poor. (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/heritage-foundations-ryan-anderson-calls-gay-marriage-elite-luxury-good-bought-backs-poor), 2001 10,000 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 It's a significant commitment, but the incredible difference it makes in the life of a child is invaluable. 2008 227,000 2005 44,750 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. But in all cases, we provide love, education, Orombi also served as head of the Uganda Christian University (see Truro Church entry), another vector for the U.S.-funded export of anti-LGBTI religious ideology to Uganda. 2010 17,450 Compassion's program, however, is unapologetically Christian and every Compassioncenter is connected to a Christian church or ministry. In 2013, PJI issued a baseless press release with misinformation claiming that at a Colorado public school a teenage boy was entering girls bathrooms and, according to some students, even making sexually harassing comments toward girls he was encountering. MDentistry Core Values: Compassion, Leadership, Excellence, Responsibility, Trust, Creativity, Inclusion The mission of the University of Michigan is to serve the people of Michigan . Alcorns ministry focuses on young women with addictions and behavioral problems. health care, nutrition and opportunities to hear the gospel. 2012 5,100 2008 17,100 One of the most prominent members of the Fellowship (according to the Billy Graham Archives at Wheaton College) was the late Nixon Administration lawyer and hatchet man Charles Colson, who was personally groomed as a Fellowship leader by longtime Fellowship head Doug Coe (Colson has also been one of the most frequnetly featured speakers at The Gathering.). 2007 0 King was their man and nothing was allowed to get in their way.. Compassion International, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. 2008 9,000 2007 6,000 Up to 1995, Ahmanson was one of the top funders of the Chalcedon Institute, the leading think tank of the Christian Reconstructionism movement, whose leaders propose mandating the death penalty for a range of offenses including adultery, blasphemy, childhood rebelliousness, female unchastity (sex before marriage), homosexuality, and witchcraft. That was based on the Bible, by the way. During the sermon he also predicted, It wont be long until well be calling pedophiles happy people. (see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/rick-scarborough-gay-use-sodomites-_n_2733482.html), In a late 2013 radio appearance with (NCF funded) anti-gay activist Peter LaBarbera, Scarborough discussed the possibility of filing a class action lawsuit against homosexuality on the grounds that homosexuality much more likely leads to AIDS than smoking leads to cancer. (see: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/scarborough-we-need-class-action-lawsuit-against-homosexuality), 2005 0 2002 65,000 2004 245,445 ( 50K AFA Radio ) Advocates International Portland Fellowship (EIN 93-0958183) The National Christian Foundations biggest grant to RPI, in 2009, corresponds with heavy College of Prayer organizing in Uganda. 2008 400 2009 280,290 Compassion International Church Partnerships Specialist I Remote 2d $54K-$67K Per Year (Employer est.) 2004 1,100 CU leader Matthew Bennett is one of 15 leaders in a secretive 2014 anti-LGBT rights initiative called the Princeton Group. The core ideas are derived from Christian Reconstructionism. 2008 190,400 However, in Kenya these ideas fed into Mois portrayals of the countrys socioeconomic woes as resulting not from poor leadership but from individual sin that had allowed Satan to enter the nation. 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). Hobby Lobby is a co-plaintiff in a case now before the U.S. Supreme Court (http://www.npr.org/2014/03/25/293956170/hobby-lobby-contraceptive-case-goes-before-supreme-court) which challenges provisions of the Affordable Care Act which require for-profit corporations to provide contraceptive services in employee health plans. 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.). 2010 1,600 Northern Virginia director for Regeneration Bob Ragan was the Exodus International board chairman in 2009 when his fellow Exodus board member Don Schmierer (also then working as a program director for Howard Ahmansons Fieldstead & Co.) attended the March 5-6 2009 Kampala, Uganda anti-LGBT rights Seminar on Exposing the Homosexuals Agenda credited with dramatically escalating anti-gay persecution in Uganda. 2009 90,000 They wrote Jeremiah 29:11 in their letters (which became his favorite verse) and told him he was destined for greatness, he was handsome, and he was enough. 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. 2007 5,000 Our program is run entirely by local Christian God is clear in His Word, and His standards never change. In 2009, during his visit to Uganda for an anti-homosexuality conference, Scott Lively gave a special presentation at the Watoto Church. 2008 135,168 2009 106,000 . Describes People For The American Way (see: https://www.au.org/resources/religious-right/traditional-values-coalition), For many years, Sheldon carved out a niche for TVC by engaging in unrelenting gay bashing. Summit Ministries Natural disaster. Syria and Iraq) and boundaries created by that Agreement created states inherently unstable, argued Scruton, because they encompassed tribal, ethnic and religious factions inherently at odds and not cemented by any secular national ethos. The agenda must: Change public perception about gay rights Voice of the Martyrs Your support gives a child life-changing opportunity to develop spiritually, emotionally, physically and economically. 2002 $5,000 2007 25,900 2002 32,500 Suggested Approaches for Integrating Inclusive Development Across the Program Cycle and in Mission Operations, 2014 LGBT Vision for Action Policy Implementation Assessment, Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of LGBTQI People Around the World. suffering and injustice. 2009 0 Brad Phillips, brother of Christian Reconstructionist and former head of the now-defunct Vision Forum Doug Phillips, is head of the Voice of the Martyrs effort in Southern Sudan. Massachusetts Family Institute fundraising banquet in October 2014. Palau is also linked to top NAR leadership by marriage, to Louis Palaus sister Ruth Noemi Palau (now Ruth Silvoso.) Create the impression that the anti-gay movement is a grass-roots movement 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 2007 148,000 You asked them be women, I want to say. self-respect. Bob Eschliman, former editor of the Newton Daily News, filed a complaint this week with the U.S. 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. 2008 167,200 2012 0 A sponsor is someone who has made the decision to personally invest in the life of a child in need. 2002 1,000 2007 0 So, losing the God of Scripture is not merely a religious event. The aim of the current study is to explore self-compassion as a factor that may be related to coping with the effects of minority stress. My life is true confirmation that God has a plan for each one of us and has Compassion International is a Christian child development organization dedicated to releasing children from poverty. ), 2001 820,133 Beisners book drew heavily on the ideas of famed economist Julian Simon (who, along with prominent conservative Catholic philosopher Michael Novak, endorsed the book) and argued that environmentalist concerns which arose in the 1970s were hyperbolic and stood in the way of economic development that could lift the worlds poor up from destitution. 2007 64,300 2012 35,062, The Great Commission Foundation 95-2814120 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). Packer, who is widely regarded as one of the leading theologians in North American Protestant conservative evangelicalism. Henry Orombi has, in turn, worked closely with prominent (and frequent) The Gathering speaker Rick Warren, who has helped provoke schisms within the Episcopal Church (see: http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/12/22/7590) and even offered schismatic groups worship space at his Saddleback Church (see: http://www.episcopalcafe.com/lead/news_reports/rick_warren_offers_safe_harbor.html). 2007 315,000 In a dissenting opinion, Justice Souter wrote that this case would stand for the remarkable proposition that any public school opened for civic meetings must be opened for use as a church, synagogue, or mosque.. 2005 4,500 2012 35,450 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 2005 500 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). 2003 50,000 2003 40,705 2001 2,500 2005 378,480 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 . We believe that the relationship that develops between sponsors and children is instrumental in a child's growth and development. 2009 38,100 2013 109,250. LGBTQI+ people may also experience rejection from families, religious communities, and other social networks. 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. Wives are to follow their husbands in the Lord. The likely content of Ventrellas speech at the session can be inferred from a June 18, 2010 talk Ventrella gave at the ministry of (NCF-funded) TruthXchange, during which Ventrella approvingly quoted TruthXchange head Dr. Peter Jones (whom Ventrella referred to as a friend), Whether Christians realize it or not, we are part of a human history that is destined for confrontation and conflict with pagan spirituality and that spirituality is driven, in our times, by a militant homosexual agenda. (see: http://vimeo.com/26365697). Regeneration is billed as one of the oldest ex-gay ministries. Thus, at the root the wretched of the developing world were suffering because they possessed the wrong ideas, the wrong beliefs, the wrong culture. 2004 4,500 Michael Cromartie has brought to E&PPC his close ties to the elite Washington, DC evangelical network known as The Fellowship which hosts the National Prayer Breakfast and has been accused, by journalist Jeff Sharlet, of having inspired Ugandas festering national anti-LGBT rights crusade. When people were held in bondage to hunger and deprivation by unjust social 2008 35,000 2008 493,765 2005 7,000 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. 2007 to 2008 0 primarily through child sponsorship and is Christ-centered, church-driven and child-focused. 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/ ). 2002 0 TruthXchange The telephone number is (800) 336-7676. Compassion follows an in-depth process of investigation, analysis and research for God's direction to expand into new countries and communities. At its height in the 1990s the Promise Keepers, which led the vanguard of the Christian mens movement, was able to pack football stadiums with crowds of 50,000 or more. 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. 2007 58,800 2013 2,168,986 (does not include local FCA branches), Fidelis Center For Law and Policy (EIN 20-2787890). 2002 26,250 2010 26,750 2003 2,500 2005 44,410 In a taped lecture series on Spiritual Warfare, Tom Tarrants reveals that the Devil and evil spirits carry on a relentless battle behind the scenes to affect world events. Lecturer Beth Whitnah averts that Satan is behind the pollution of the whole entertainment industry., Charismatics are instructed to heed orders. 2004 229,761 MT., or send mail to Compassion International, Colorado Springs, CO 80997. 2010 23,700 In 2008, money (cycled through the NCF) from the Green family, the owners of Hobby Lobby, a national chain of arts and crafts supply stores, almost single-handedly rescued financially troubled Oral Roberts University from bankruptcy.