‘C Street’ group tied to Ensign is linked to yet another secretive group

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/11/c-street-group-tied-to-ensign-is-linked-to-yet-another-secretive-group/

By Muriel Kane

Published: July 11, 2009
Updated 38 minutes ago

The powerful and secretive group known as the Fellowship Foundation or the “Family” is quickly gaining notoriety, due to its links to two scandal-plagued Republicans, Senator John Ensign of Nevada and Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina.

According to the Washington Post, however, the Fellowship Foundation is itself linked to an even more secretive religious organization — Youth With a Mission (YWAM), whose Washington, DC branch owns the “C Street House” where Ensign has lived and where Sanford has participated in Bible study.

[Mari333]

1. ooooooooooo the plot thickens , quick

lets do some more research

http://www.ywam.org/Default.asp?bhcp=1


YWAM's Global Leadership Team

NEW!! You may read recent letters and articles by members of "Team 3" by clicking on the YWAM Leaders link in the "Inside YWAM" section of the homepage, or by clicking the above link.

YWAM International is led by "Team 3," with Lynn Green serving as the International Chairman; John Dawson, as the International President, and Iain Muir as the International Director. The Founders of the Mission, Loren and Darlene Cunningham, are active members of the GLT and serve as advisers and work closely with "Team 3."

In addition to "Team 3," YWAM has leaders who serve in many capacities and locations, whether they lead a YWAM Center or ministry in a particular city, or have leadership over a nation, a region, or a field. YWAM's top leadership group is called the Global Leadership Team (GLT). Made up of about 45 members, all of whom are active YWAM staff, the composition of this group is a mix of leaders of international YWAM ministries and leaders of YWAM regions. There are both men and women in the GLT, of many different citizenships, working in virtually every region of the world. The GLT meets once a year, in a different part of the world each year, to pray, discuss vision and address major trends and issues. GLT task forces, formed around each of the GLT's six major functions, meet year-round. An Executive Committee of the GLT meets prior to the annual GLT meeting.


the founders:

http://www.ywam.org/contents/abo_wha_founder.htm


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Cunningham

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_With_A_Mission

check this out:

Values and philosophy

YWAM leaders assert that “the unique family characteristics of YWAM—our ‘DNA’”<26> are represented in a document titled, "The Foundational Values of Youth With A Mission." According to this document, “These shared beliefs and values are the guiding principles for both the past and future growth of our mission ... They are values we hold in high regard which determine who we are, how we live and how we make decisions.”<26> In February 2004, the Global Leadership Team released a revised statement of YWAM’s Foundational Values. A summary of these is as follows:

1) Know God, 2) Make God Known, 3) Hear God's Voice, 4) Practice Worship and Intercessory Prayer, 5) Be Visionary, 6) Champion Young People, 7) Be Broad-Structured and Decentralized, 8) Be International and Interdenominational, 9) Have a Biblical Worldview 10) Function in Teams, 11) Exhibit Servant Leadership, 12) Do First, Then Teach, 13) Be Relationship-Oriented, 14) Value The Individual, 15) Value Families 16) Rely on Relationship-based Support, 17) Practice Hospitality<26>

Sara Diamond, citing an interview with Gary North, states that YWAM "sees its role as an on-the-ground combat force against liberation theology."<27> Lynn Green, speaking on behalf of YWAM, disagreed that post-modernism is detrimental to youth, because of its oppositions to scientific materialism.<9[br />
Gary North:(Christian Reconstructionist)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_North_(Christian_Reconstructionist)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Reconstructionism

and more: the founder's son
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Loren_Cunningham
Born in Switzerland (February 24, 1971) and raised in Kailua-Kona, Hawai'i, David Loren Cunningham is an international filmmaker. Besides his documentary credits in more than 40 countries, Cunningham has also directed several feature films including To End All Wars (2001) and the TV miniseries The Path to 9/11 (2006). Cunningham is represented by the United Talent Agency.<1>

The Path to 9/11 film (which falsely tried to claim that the Clinton admin caused 9/11)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Path_to_9/11

and the screenplay was written by:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Nowrasteh

Nowrastech has been a featured speaker and columnist for the Liberty Film Festival<1><5> <6>- a conservative film festival<7> which merged in 2006 with David Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture (now the David Horowitz Freedom Center) to form a joint conservative film organization.<8>
The project aired under much controversy. Critics said it fictionalized the lead-up to the September 11, 2001 attacks in order to direct blame to the Clinton administration.<14>. Although Nowrasteh's screenplay for The Path to 9/11 was billed by the ABC network as having been "based on the 9/11 Commission Report", there were multiple accusations that the screenplay evidenced political bias because of its contrafactual portrayal of events.<15>


and more!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_the_Nations
YWAM founders University in Hawaii (Its unaccredited)

here are 2 of their 'visiting faculty'

Visiting faculty

* David Aikman, Author and former senior correspondent for Time Magazine
* Forrest Mims, Electronics author and atmospheric scientist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Mims
http://www.davidaikman.com/ a crazy intelligent design guy and check out Aikman's webpage!!

omg more!
YWAM is working with BENNY HINN!!

YWAM and Benny Hinn agree to work together!

Benny Hinn’s new target audience is the youth; and who has been involved with the youth more than the missionary organization YWAM. They have done a good job in evangelizing in the past but something very different is now taking place.

On Jan. 10, 2002 here in Hawaii Hinn speaking of a prayer meeting of youth in Pasadena California “Joy you were there, Joy Dawson who is with YWAM is here.” Joy Dawson went up on stage and endorsed Hinn’s former outreach to the youth in California and his desire to have a youth service in Hawaii. Hinn stated that in the first service 20,000 youth showed up (he only expected 3,000). “Joy I want to let you know I'm going to come back to Honolulu and hold a youth service, I will announce it to ya” ( as of this day there has been no plan materialized).

A few days prior to Hinn’s crusade Joy Dawson appeared on LeSea broadcasting with Mike Murdock on one side and Hinn in the middle of them both. The week after Hinn was here in Hawaii both Joy Dawson and Loren Cunningham were on Hinn’s program with clips of the YWAM base (Christ for all Nations) here on the big Island of Hawaii.

http://www.letusreason.org/Curren29.htm


have fun

[mod mom]

8. 12) Do First, Then Teach/ great the infidelity of this group will be taught to the young

followers-such excellent role models!

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. I wish there were a modern-day Woodward and Bernstein

out there. This is the place where a few true reporters - not the plastic monkeys and stenographers currently posing as "journalists" - could change the world. Or at least our country.

Too bad Woodstein never chose to mentor any young reporters and teach them the tricks of the trade. Too bad they were too caught up in their own celebrity. Too bad for all of us ..........................

[patrice]

3. Didn't Senator Brownback also live in the C Street House? nt

[napi21]

11. Yes. He's been associated witht he group for a number of years,

member when he was elected and went to DC.

[kestrel91316]

13. And also Mark Foley, IIRC.

[Shallah Kali]

26. yes - see Rolling Stone's 'God's Senator'

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9178374/gods_senator/print

Brownback was placed in a weekly prayer cell by "the shadow Billy Graham" -- Doug Coe, Vereide's successor as head of the Fellowship. The group was all male and all Republican. It was a "safe relationship," Brownback says. Conversation tended toward the personal. Brownback and the other men revealed the most intimate details of their desires, failings, ambitions. They talked about lust, anger and infidelities, the more shameful the better -- since the goal was to break one's own will. The abolition of self; to become nothing but a vessel so that one could be used by God.

snip

In 1999, Brownback worked with Rep. Joe Pitts, a Fellowship brother, to pass the Silk Road Strategy Act, designed to block the growth of Islam in Central Asian nations by bribing them with lucrative trade deals. That same year, he teamed up with two Fellowship associates -- former Sen. Don Nickles and the late Sen. Strom Thurmond -- to demand a criminal investigation of a liberal group called Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Last year, several Fellowship brothers, including Sen. John Ensign, another resident of the C Street house, supported Brownback's broadcast decency bill. And Pitts and Coburn joined Brownback in stumping for the Houses of Worship Act to allow tax-free churches to endorse candidates.

The most bluntly theocratic effort, however, is the Constitution Restoration Act, which Brownback co-sponsored with Jim DeMint, another former C Streeter who was then a congressman from South Carolina. If passed, it will strip the Supreme Court of the ability to even hear cases in which citizens protest faith-based abuses of power. Say the mayor of your town decides to declare Jesus lord and fire anyone who refuses to do so; or the principal of your local high school decides to read a fundamentalist prayer over the PA every morning; or the president declares the United States a Christian nation. Under the Constitution Restoration Act, that'll all be just fine.

Brownback points to his friend Ed Meese, who served as attorney general under Reagan, as an example of a man who wields power through backroom Fellowship connections. Meese has not held a government job for nearly two decades, but through the Fellowship he's more influential than ever, credited with brokering the recent nomination of John Roberts to head the Supreme Court. "As a behind-the-scenes networker," Brownback says, "he's important." In the senator's view, such hidden power is sanctioned by the Bible. "Everybody knows Moses," Brownback says. "But who were the leaders of the Jewish people once they got to the promised land? It's a lot of people who are unknown."

[sam sarrha]

4. i think this is where it all started.. Christian Mafia ..Link>>>

http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm
"snip...After several months of in-depth research and, at first, seemingly unrelated conversations with former high-level intelligence officials, lawyers, politicians, religious figures, other investigative journalists, and researchers, I can now report on a criminal conspiracy so vast and monstrous it defies imagination. Using “Christian” groups as tax-exempt and cleverly camouflaged covers, wealthy right-wing businessmen and “clergy” have now assumed firm control over the biggest prize of all – the government of the United States of America. First, some housekeeping is in order. My use of the term “Christian” is merely to clearly identify the criminal conspirators who have chosen to misuse their self-avowed devotion to Jesus Christ to advance a very un-Christian agenda. The term “Christian Mafia” is what several Washington politicians have termed the major conspirators and it is not intended to debase Christians or infer that they are criminals . I will also use the term Nazi – not for shock value – but to properly tag the political affiliations of the early founders of the so-called “Christian” power cult called the Fellowship. The most important element of this story is that a destructive religious movement has now achieved almost total control over the machinery of government of the United States – its executive, its legislature, several state governments, and soon, the federal judiciary, including the U.S. Supreme Court...snip"

[imdjh]

7. Is President Obama tied to this group yet?

[Tx4obama]

29. Obama....

President Barack Obama spoke at National Prayer Breakfast in February 2009
but I would not say that that tied him to the group.
Every American president has spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast according to articles that I have read.
You can Google it.

[sellitman]

17. Wayne Madson hasn't got a very good reputation

Here and other places. I won't call him names but this guy's got a rep of s very, very sloppy investigator. (I am being kind)

[patrice]

37. The Family = The Beast, without whose mark one cannot buy, sell, or trade.

[Kingofalldems]

5. Looks like we need a Special Prosecutor

[imdjh]

6. This is the proper application of the internet- a collective brain

Not too long ago I was trying to figure out the connection between John Stemberger (anti-gay protestant), Melvin Sembler (supposedly Jewish but with ties to the Vatican), and Carl Anderson (Grand Imperial Wizard of the Knights of Columbus) as well as a daisy chain of people more or less tied to one another and/or the Reagan administration and the Vatican. Everything seemed to be related, all being Republicans not being a strong enough commonality for what they appear to be up to. It wouldn't surprise me if the deeper one digs into all of this, the more likely one is to find at least circumstantial evidence of a much larger conspiracy.

[liberal N proud]

9. The Family is one scary group

[VAliberal]

10. YWAM is a cult

pure and simple

[Buzz Clik]

12. Gawd. I love conspiracy theories. The knuckledraggers have ACORN, we have The Family.

Run for the hills! Jeebus is coming to take over the country.

[Fuzz]

14. Here's something I found

http://www.factnet.org/discus/messages/3/4570.html

[Mari333]

15. WOW

[Fuzz]

30. Yeah, I had only gotten about 1/3 through that thread when I posted this.

It's a doozy with a lot of other links too.

[annabanana]

33. interesting... . . from the link:

"I was with YWAM in 1988 and did my DTS in Cimmaron,CO, some of, well most of the people were great but they were hyper-pentecostal to the point that some in leadership questioned my salvation because I had never spoken in tongues.
They are set up on moral government theology, the leadership calls ALL the shots and you better go along or else."

[Third Doctor]

16. If Ensign,

resigns Nevada's repub governor will a apppoint another repub. The Dems have a chance to take this seat when it is up for elecion again. It's 50/50 since the other senator (Reid) is a democrat.

[Shallah Kali]

18. Talk2Action has covered Youth with a Mission and other coersive domionionist groups - link

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22youth+with+a+mission%22+site%3Atalk2action.org&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

[Mari333]

19. wow! tons of stuff!

[Shallah Kali]

20. talk2action is my go-to site for fundies wanting to take over the USA/world news

all the hidden connections and techniques they use such as to take over mainstream Christian churches and turn them radical called Steeplejacking.

[Mari333]

21. bookmarked

http://www.talk2action.org/

fantastic site

[Shallah Kali]

25. YW :)

some of their stuff is cross posted at kos & huffpost but I just go there as the site loads faster for me in dialup. I believe it was the folks at talk2action who first put up that video showing Sarah Palin's exorcism and witch-proofing :rolleyes: by Muthee that youtube banned.

[and-justice-for-all]

22. the “Family”?? Holy shit terds batman...

not "the family"...The first thing that comes to mind is Charles Manson.

[annabanana]

34. Manson was a piker... THESE guys mean business. . . . n/t

[Mari333]

23. heres more Rachel on it

http://thepoliticsofjamiesanderson.blogspot.com/2009/07/c-street-house-republican-house-run-by.html

[and-justice-for-all]

24. Domestic terrorist Group?

Considering that their goal is world domination and the destruction of all those not like them. By that I mean, if your not with them your against them...

[Swede]

27. You lift up a rock and there all kinds of things scurrying to get out of the light.

This is getting interesting.

[bvar22]

28. Does anyone have a list of Democrats who belong to "The Family"?

I know Hillary is a long time member, so surely there are other Democrats.

Between The Family, Skull and Bones, and Opus Dei, I think we are all fucked.

5 of the Supreme Court are Catholic, Sotomayor will make 6.

[Mari333]

31. kick and yes i want a list of Dems too nt

[glowing]

32. I know Nelson FL-D is (he's my Sen.. so I know.. worthless fool)

[earth mom]

35. The fundie nutcases are controlling the government.

How can anyone be surprised?

Obama has an unconstitutional faith based office.

Just like * did.

Let's not kid ourselves here.

[patrice]

36. a cashless society in which you can't buy, sell, or trade without the mark of The Beast.

The Family = The Beast