trade name, "The International Foundation." Also known as the Fellowship Foundation, Inc. (its original incorporation name-1942), the International Christian Leadership, ICL, Fellowship House, and "the Family."
Although only a few lawmakers actually live(d) in the House:
"Prominent evangelical Christians have described the organization as one of the most, or the most, politically well-connected ministries in the world.
D. Michael Lindsay, a Rice University sociologist who studies the evangelical movement, said “there is no other organization like the Fellowship, especially among religious groups, in terms of its access or clout among the country’s leadership.”<2> He also reported that lawmakers mentioned the Fellowship more than any other organization when asked to name a ministry with the most influence on their faith.<1>
In 1977, four years after he had converted to Christianity, Fellowship member and Watergate conspirator Charles Colson described the group as a “veritable underground of Christ’s men all through the U.S. government.”<3>
The Reverend Robert Schenck, founder of the Washington, D.C. ministry Faith and Action in the Nation’s Capital, described the Family's influence as "off the charts" in comparison with other fundamentalist groups, specifically compared to Focus on the Family, Pat Robertson, Gary Bauer, Traditional Values Coalition, and Prison Fellowship.<5> (These last two are associated with the Family: Traditional Values Coalition uses their C Street House<5> and Prison Fellowship was founded by Charles Colson.) Schenck also says that "the mystique of the Fellowship" has helped it "gain entree into almost impossible places in the capital."<13>"
Read the rest of the wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_(Christian_organization) See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove and (re the Carlyle Group)
http://www.bainvestor.com/The-Iron-Triangle.htmlWhich international organizations has the American left started? Anyone? Anyone?