Weekly Review
ECFA Membership Changes, MinistryWatch Database Changes, What’s on the Podcast? On This Date at MinistryWatch
ECFA Changes. The following organizations have had membership status changes in the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability. ADDITIONS: NONE. REMOVALS: Kidstown International (Bellingham, Wash.), Brew City Church (Milwaukee, Wisc.), Church At The Gates (Missoula, Mont.), The Hope Venture (Lincoln, Neb.), Real Church (Largo, Fla.), Christ’s International Ministry (Fresno, Calif.), Eternal Anchor (Tacoma, Wash.)
On the Podcast: On today’s program, two Florida ministry leaders that we first reported on during the summer have been arrested and charged with defrauding taxpayers out of $8-million in Payroll Protection Program funds. And in Virginia, The Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes Christian values, was denied service at a restaurant in Richmond, this month on the basis of the group’s position on abortion and same-sex marriage. We’ll have the details on both these stories later in the program. We begin today with news that a Presbyterian church in the Chicago area is being investigated for firing an employee when she complained of gender discrimination. You can hear the podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and other podcast apps, or you can simply click here.
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MinistryWatch Database Changes. MinistryWatch now has more than 1,000 ministries in its database. These ministries represent more than $38-billion in total revenue, most of that donor revenue from evangelicals. The following ministries have their profiles updated with the most recent year’s financial data. The Financial Efficiency rating of each ministry is in parenthesis. If this rating represents a change from the previous year, that change is noted: Scripture Union USA (Down 4 to 2 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 92), Serge (formerly World Harvest Mission) (4 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 86), Servant Partners Inc (4 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 92), Show Hope (1 Star, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 88), Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission (1 Star, Transparency Grade: C, DCS: 79), Solid Rock International (Up 3 to 4 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 86), Springfield Victory Mission Inc (2 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 90), Stand to Reason (Up 3 to 4 Stars, Transparency Grade: D, DCS: 83), STEER, Inc. (1 Star, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 82), Stonecroft Ministries (Down 2 to 1 Star, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: Down 88 to 84), Taylor University (2 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 86), TeenPact Leadership School (5 Stars, Transparency Grade: C, DCS: 81), The 4.2.20 Foundation / Biblical Languages and Translation (5 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 96), The Anglican Relief and Development Fund (2 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 82), The Christian Academy (Down 3 to 2 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 92), The Luke Commission (Up 3 to 4 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 84), Third Millennium Ministries / Thirdmill (Up 2 to 3 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 88), Three Angels Broadcasting Network Inc (Up 3 to 4 Stars, Transparency Grade: D, DCS: 33), Toccoa Falls College (Up 4 to 5 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 90), Trinity Broadcasting Network / TBN / Paul & Jan Crouch (Down 5 to 1 Stars, Transparency Grade: D, DCS: Down 23 to 19), Turlock Gospel Mission (Up 4 to 5 Stars, Transparency Grade: D, DCS: 79), Uncharted Ministries (Up 2 to 5 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 92), University of the Nations Kona (5 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 70), Voice of Prophecy (5 Stars, Transparency Grade: D, DCS: 43), Washington City Mission (1 Star, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 88)
Salary Data Now In MinistryWatch Database. We now have salary information for 6,000 executives in our database posted in our profiles. So check out this new addition by clicking on the red button at the top of this page, or here. That takes you to our database. The search engine is right there, and you can type in the name of a ministry you’re interested in and our profile will pop right up – now, with compensation information for the top executives.
Audio Version of Faith-Based Fraud Now Available. Thanks to those of you who made my new book Faith-Based Fraud a best-seller in several Amazon categories this week. It’s now available in paperback and e-book versions. To get your copy, click here. This week, the new audio version released. You can get that from Audible by clicking here.
MinistryWatch Video. In closing, a reminder that we have created a new, short (3.5 minutes) video that explains what we do here at MinistryWatch, and why. If you’re new to MinistryWatch, I hope you’ll check it out. To find it, click here.
On This Date at MinistryWatch. THREE YEARs AGO: Former Harvest Bible Chapel pastor James MacDonald is suing Chicago radio personality Erich “Mancow” Muller for defamation after Muller used his radio show to — in the host’s words — “bring down the cult of MacDonald.” Read more here. FOUR YEARS AGO: MinistryWatch issues a Donor Alert regarding Food For The Poor because of deceptive donor solicitations. Read more here.
