Yes. In March 2009, Schmierer who markets a line of ex-gay books translated into multiple languages including Russian, Chinese, and Hindi was a speaker, along with Scott Lively, at a Kampala, Uganda conference credited with dramatically escalating anti-LGBT hatred in Uganda. 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. 2011 128,650 2011 5,000 2010 581,750 Massachusetts Family Institute fundraising banquet in October 2014. 2008 0 2013 0. 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. Rather, the ADF provides not only legal assistance but also targeted financing to support specific litigation. 2004 2,000 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). Summit Ministries ideological proximity to Christian Reconstruction is manifest is its long partnership with South African Christian Reconstructionist pastor Peter Hammond, who serves on the current Coalition on Revival Steering Committee. 2002 1,000 Use ideas and language that appeal to the public 2002 700 Beisner who had served as the general secretary for the 1980s Coalition on Revival (and was also general editor for CORs worldview documents, on how to implement biblical law in all spheres of society) would go on to form the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance (later renamed the Cornwall Alliance) a petrochemical and fossil fuel industry funded front group that comprises the rump faction of U.S. religious right leaders opposed to action to curb anthropogenic climate change and who depict concern over the issue as part of an elaborate and sinister plot. Nominally Anglican, the Truro Church has in fact been a vector for the spread of the radical Spiritual Mapping/Spiritual Warfare paradigm created by New Apostolic Reformation leaders such as C. Peter Wagner, Cindy Jacobs, Ed Silvoso, and others (see: http://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/29340 Spiritual Mapping: The Turbulent Career of a Contested American Missionary Paradigm, 1989-2005). 2012 278,045, American Decency Association (EIN 38-2772745). Henry Orombi, former Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, served as Chancellor of Uganda Christian University from 2004-1012. in their community, *2008, Dr. Bruce Wydick, University of San Francisco. 2006 10,800 He told listeners in the sermon that homosexuality is sin in the eyes of God, and it is sin in the word of God and also issued a call to lovingly but firmly respond to the aggressive agenda of homosexual activists., The op-ed quotes the late D. James Kennedy, When you have an immoral society that has blatantly, proudly, violated all of the commandments of God, there is one last virtue they insist upon: tolerance for their immorality. (see: http://evangelismexplosion.org/tolerance-police-arrest-louie-giglio/), 2001 37,000 In an indication of how far the Truro Anglican Church has drifted towards New Apostolic Reformation movement, in January 2014 the church held a Sozo Prayer Training Seminar. Buck: McCabe nonetheless serves on the board of directors of the National Christian Foundation, one of the top funders of anti-LGBT rights groups on earth. 2012 10,065,276 2004 1,400 Compassion International is publisher of Bushs 2009 book The 4/14 Window: Raising Up a New Generation to Transform The World, and Vice President of Compassion International Bambang Budijanto serves on the Transform-World steering committee. 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. 2011 1,600 God freely forgives those who repent of a godless lifestyle including materialism, adultery, prostitution or any homosexual or heterosexual sin, If you or a loved-one want help escaping from the gay misery, help is available from dozens of ex gay Christian ministries around the country. The Greens are frequent attendees of The Gathering. 2013 166,250. 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. And they would even seem perplexed by the question. 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. Besides his ongoing hostility to LGBT rights, Florida Family Council head Stemberger has been accused, by the National Black Justice Coalition, of making racist public comments for seeming to suggest, on a Florida talk radio show, that August 2014 riots in Ferguson, Missouri riots that followed the fatal police shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager were not really about the police shooting but were, rather, manifestations of a barbarian society caused by a decline in traditional marriage. 2013 2,600, Indiana Family Institute (EIN 35-1790240). 2012 25,500. 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. Through Cromartie come close ties between E&PCC and the elite Washington, DC evanglelical network known as The Fellowship which hosts the National Prayer Breakfast and has been accused, by jourbalst Jeff Sharlet, of having inspired Ugandas festering national anti-LGBT rights crusade. 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. One of the listed members of the Luis Palau Associations Next Generation Alliance (see: https://web.archive.org/web/20150712152416/http://legacy.palau.org/alliance/next_generation_alliance/nga_evangelists/ltop/ ) has been Ugandan Evangelist Julius Peter Oyet, who is in turn a member of of the Uganda branch of Silvosos International Transformation Network. 2006 100,100 Traditional Values Coalition I wanted to let you know that the day you retired from service, I walked into a recruiter's office, and enlisted in the U.S. Army as an engineer. 2012 51,040, Mission America Coalition (EIN 23-7317473), National Organization For Marriage (EIN 20-7472471). They shall surely be put to death. With sponsorship numbers north of 3.2 million (World Vision) and 1.6 million (Compassion), the ministries are the heavyweights in a . 2007 190,316 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. In his writing Ockenga, the first president of the National Association of Evangelicals, described the Neo-Evangelical project both as infiltration (a tactic that would soon be ascribed, during the coming McCarthyite Red Scare, to American communists, socialists, and even liberals accused of being fellow travelers) but also in terms of the strategy and tactics of actual warfare. 2009 55,100 2006 37,500 2010 5,000 An official website of the United States government. 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).. 2013 1,000. 2004 75,500 How do I contact Compassion International? 2011 3,404,496 2011 0 Leading those drives towards schism have been the so-called Renewal groups within the Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, and other traditionally centrist or liberal Protestant denominations. 2006 5,500 2008 80,510 2006 1,436,033 2012 408,808 2011 104,600 2008 9,000 2012 1,017,175. For all practical purposes, The Family and The Gathering can be considered the same, conjoined entity. 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. Subsequent legal decisions which built upon that decision established that religious groups can rent out public school facilities on the weekends. 2007 35,000 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. Through CBN offices in more than 20 countries, local Christians are equipped to produce quality media, provide discipleship, and facilitate humanitarian relief in their regions. (see: http://www.cbn.com/partners/about/our-ministries/project-globalreach.aspx), 2001 12,000 Indiana Family Institute 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). 9. So, the perception of grass-roots organizing, or home rule, is critical. However, the Compassion International President and CEO Santiago . How many countries does Compassion work in? New Hope Charitable Foundation 2006 42,200 2006 26,500 Hollywood serves up a steady diet of irresponsible sex and violence. 2013 0, Disciple Nations Alliance (EIN 95-0682390). 2011 3,000 2013 89,500, Florida Family Policy Council (EIN 53-2436800). 2002 0 Sponsoring a child costs $38 a month. 2008 0 2004 0 An Iowa newspaper editor fired after publishing his views on homosexuals is claiming he was the victim of religious discrimination by his former employer. By 2013, based on its $603 million in grants in FY 2012, the National Christian Foundation was judged by the Chronicle of Philanthropy to be Americas 12th biggest private foundation. The most prolific of these has been Child Evangelism Fellowship, which has established its Good News Club Bible classes in over three thousand public schools across the nation. 2012 11,200 But the very existence of the movement serves to move the Overton Window, by making positions that might otherwise seem extreme look moderate by comparison. 2002 0 2005 17,550 Im thankful that Christians across the country urged World Vision to reverse their decision, and prayed fervently that they would do so. 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. 2012 19,500, The First Academy (of Central Florida) (EIN 59-0696287). Family Research Institute If only you knew how much food was given to our family, you'd understand what it meant. 2008 6,000 John Hagee Ministries 2001 102,750 2010 296,490 (1,500 to AFA radio ) 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. 2006 1,517,669 churches in Africa, Asia, Central America and South America. Nonetheless, major leaders associated with The Gathering such as the late Charles Colson led aggressive efforts to build co-belligerant working relationships between Protestant evangelical and Catholic groups. 2010 2,710 relief and development work, and to carry this out in conjunction with the local At the ceremony, Mitala told Ssempa, You are not fighting alone. 2008 867,138 Leviticus 20:13 states: If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. 2012 6,000, Prison Fellowship Ministries (EIN numbers 62-0988294 and 51-0247185), 2001 631,200 2006 500,000 (see: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/5/15/141520/281), 2001 200 We have it both in English and Spanish. encourage them through prayer, letter writing and financial support. The Institute On Religion and Democracy (EIN 52-1265221). 2010 4,576.272 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). The ex-gay New Hope Ministries is run by Frank Worthen, one of the original board members of Exodus International North America when it was founded in 1976. 2011 81,500 The student application for First Academy contains a series of moral codes for applicants to agree to including, I will avoid cursing, sexual immorality (including professing to be a homosexual/bisexual or practicing homosexual/ Wrote journalist David Corn, for The Nation magazine, in 1991. expanded to serve over 25 different countries and over four million children. In the Winter 2005 quarterly newsletter of The Gathering, in an op-ed titled Thou Shalt Not Kill the Family, Christian Reconstructionist pastor Kenneth L. Gentry argued that, per Leviticus 20:9, disobedient and incorrigible children should be put to death (see: http://thegathering.com/newsletter/2005-Winter.pdf). Weigel, then an E&PCC fellow, had earlier appeared on a January 1, 2003 PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly segment arguing the just war case for a US preemptive strike on Iraq, on the basis that Iraq had acquired weapons of mass destruction that posed on existential threat to its neighbors (see: http://video.pbs.org/video/2361761695/ ).