Weekly Review
ECFA Membership Changes, MinistryWatch Database Changes, On This Date at MinistryWatch
On This Date at MinistryWatch
THREE YEARS AGO. On June 23, 2020, Robert Briggs was named president of the American Bible Society, one of the nation’s oldest and largest Christian ministries. Read more here. Two years later, Briggs departed from the Bible Society. You can read that story here. 
TWO YEARS AGO: The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) reached a settlement with the largest groups of sex-abuse victims. The deal will require the BSA to put $850 million in a fund that will compensate tens of thousands of victims. This figure is nearly three times the $300 million the BSA offered earlier this year, a figure victim lawyers called “woefully inadequate.” The deal also signs over all insurance rights to the trust fund, a number that could end up being in the billions of dollars. Since this announcement, the trust fund has announced other contributors that have taken the total to more than $1 billion. Read more here.
ONE YEAR AGO: The company that owns Newsweek magazine has filed suit against its former owners and the religious leader David Jang, seeking to recoup millions of dollars in losses incurred under previous leadership. Read more here.
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MinistryWatch Database Changes
MinistryWatch now has more than 1,000 ministries in its database. These ministries represent more than $41-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:
‘lolani School (Up 2 to 3 Stars, Transparency Grade: D, DCS: 65)
Administer Justice (Up 4 to 5 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: N/A)
Adult & Teen Challenge, USA (1 Star, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 74)
Africa Renewal Ministries (5 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 88)
Alliance Defending Freedom (1 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 92)
Alliance University, formerly Nyack College (Down 5 to -2 Stars, Transparency Grade: C, DCS: Down 51 to 47)
Answers in Genesis (1 Star, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 66)
Arizona Christian University (4 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 82)
Asbury Theological Seminary (3 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 90)
Asbury University (4 Stars, Transparency Grade: C, DCS: 73)
Asheville Christian Academy (Down 2 to 1 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: Down 92 to 88)
Asia Harvest (5 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 96)
Attack Poverty (Down 3 to 2 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 96)
Baptist Church Loan Corporation (2 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 82)
Belhaven University (Down 2 to 1 Star, Transparency Grade: C, DCS: Down 69 to 65)
Bethel University – Indiana (4 Stars, Transparency Grade: C, DCS: 63)
Biola University (Up 2 to 3 Stars, Transparency Grade: C, DCS: 63)
Bread of Life Mission (1 Star, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 96)
Breck School (1 Star, Transparency Grade: D, DCS: 61)
Brother Bryan Rescue Mission (2 Stars, Transparency Grade: D, DCS: 73)
Bryan College (3 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 82)
Bushnell University (Up 3 to 5 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 86)
Calvary University (1 Star, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 78)
Campbellsville University (5 Stars, Transparency Grade: C, DCS: 55)
Cedarville University (4 Stars, Transparency Grade: C, DCS: 77)
Central Ohio Youth for Christ (1 Star, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: N/A)
Chalmers Center for Economic Development at Covenant College (Down 3 to 2 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: N/A)
Charlotte Rescue Mission (Up 2 to 3 Stars, Transparency Grade: C, DCS: 73)
Child Bridge (Down 4 to 2 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: N/A)
Childcare Worldwide (1 Star, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 92)
China Outreach Ministries, Inc. (2 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 86)
Christian Blind Mission / CBM (Down 4 to 1 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: Down 88 to 84)
Christian Children’s Home of Ohio (Down 5 to 4 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 92)
Christian City Inc. (1 Star, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 74)
Christian Community Action (Down 4 to 3 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 86)
Christian Heritage Academy (Up 4 to 5 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 96)
Christian Motorcyclists Association (5 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 92)
Christianity Today International (3 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 78)
Citihope International (Down 5 to -2 Stars, Transparency Grade: D, DCS: Down 71 to 67)
CityTeam (Up 2 to 3 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 92)
Colorado Springs Christian Schools (Down 5 to 4 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 100)
Columbia International University (Up 1 to 2 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: Up 78 to 82)
Community Christian School of Tallahassee (Down 4 to 3 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 96)
Compassionate Hope Foundation (5 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: N/A)
Concordia University – Mequon, WI (3 Stars, Transparency Grade: C, DCS: 65)
Concordia University – Seward, NE (Down 4 to 2 Stars, Transparency Grade: C, DCS: 73)
Connie Maxwell Children’s Ministries (1 Star, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 78)
Corban University (Up 3 to 4 Stars, Transparency Grade: C, DCS: 77)
Cornerstone Christian Academy (4 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 82)
Cornerstone Schools of Washington, DC (5 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: N/A)
Corporate Chaplains of America (Down 5 to 4 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 92)
Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (Down 3 to 2 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 82)
Covenant College (2 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 90)
Covenant House (1 Star, Transparency Grade: C, DCS: 65)
Criswell College (1 Star, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: N/A)
Crown College (Up 2 to 3 Stars, Transparency Grade: C, DCS: N/A)
Desert Christian Academy (2 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 96)
Dordt University (Down 3 to 2 Stars, Transparency Grade: C, DCS: 63)
Downtown Rescue Mission, Inc. (Down 4 to 3 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 90)
Eastern University (4 Stars, Transparency Grade: C, DCS: 77)
Emmanuel College (1 Star, Transparency Grade: C, DCS: 61)
Emmaus Bible College (Down 5 to 4 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 90)
Entrust (Up 2 to 4 Stars, Transparency Grade: A, DCS: 82)
Erskine College (4 Stars, Transparency Grade: C, DCS: 65)
Eternal Perspective Ministries / Randy Alcorn (5 Stars, Transparency Grade: D, DCS: 75)
Eternal Word Television Network, Inc. (Down 3 to 2 Stars, Transparency Grade: D, DCS: 75)
MinistryWatch and Sex Crimes. We write a lot about pastors and ministry leaders involved in sex crimes. That’s why I thought it might be a good time to re-post this story, which explains why we think covering these crimes are necessary: Why MinistryWatch Reports on Sex Crimes. As always, your feedback is welcome.
Drop A Dime On Us. Do you have a story idea for MinistryWatch? If so, send us an email. A lot of the stories we do originate from our readers and listeners. They send us news tips, press releases, emails, questions, and links. So, if you have a story you’d like us to cover, or a ministry that you think needs a closer look, please email us. Our email is [email protected]. That will come directly to my desk, and we’ll take it from there.
Salary Data Now In MinistryWatch Database. We now have salary information for 4,000 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.
If you’d like to see who the highest paid executives are, take a look at our recently published lists of Highly Paid Ministry Executives and Highly Paid Christian College and University 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.
A Guide To Giving For Disaster Relief. When disaster hits, Christians give. But where they give can make a big difference? Which organizations are most effective in these post-disaster situations? MinistryWatch has published a list of organizations that are doing relief work and which have an “A” Transparency Grade and a 3-, 4-, or 5-star rating for Financial Efficiency. It’s a list of about 30 ministries, and you can find it on the front page of our website. I’ll also include a link in the show notes to this program. Link to list HERE.
Ukraine Giving. If you want to give specifically to ministries working in and near Ukraine, click here. We posted this link before, but we’ve added a few new ministries recently.
MinistryWatch In The News. MinistryWatch is often called upon by Christian and secular media to comment on what is going on in the evangelical world. You can find some of these news reports here.
ECFA Changes
The following organizations have had membership status changes in the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.
ADDITIONS: NONE. REMOVALS: NONE
