Does anyone know of any hospital or charity organization run by...

[demosincebirth]

Fundamentalist or Evangelical churches? excluding the Salvation Army.

I was asked this today and I counldn't think of any.

[eleny]

1. Falwell's org runs a home for unwed mothers

He mentioned this on tv some time ago. I don't have the particulars.

[Warpy]

2. I know of one

There's a fundy church here in central NM that has taken an Indian tribe devastated by drought in northern Mexico on as a project. They have dug wells, supplied seeds for crops as well as food, built a small school and (of course) repaired the church.

I think most of them at least collect money for causes, whether or not they send their members out to accomplish anything worthwhile.

[charlottelouise]

3. Baptist Hospital

The biggest hospital system in Memphis. Though by now any association between the hospital and any kind of faith or religion (fundamentalist or evangelical or anything) is tenuous at best, unless you count the search for profits as a spiritual journey. There are probably other Baptist-run hospitals in the south. BTW, the other big hospital system in Memphis is run by the Methodists (again, the connection is an old one), but I don't think the Methodists count as fundamentalists or evangelicals (at least the ones I've met didn't seem to be)

[demosincebirth]

5. Are Baptist considered fundamentalist?

[charlottelouise]

6. Around here they are...

definitely fundamentalist.

[demosincebirth]

7. where is "around here?"

[charlottelouise]

9. Sorry...

Tennessee. Specifically, Memphis, which is about as Bible Belt as you can get.

[lenidog]

4. Can't think of any

The closest I can get is from a book I was reading today. It was a history on the crusading knightly orders such as the Templars, Hospitalers, Knights of Malta, etc. The modern incarnations of these orders have returned to one of their original tasks and run hospitals in some European countries. They are the only religous groups besides some Catholic religous orders that I know run any hospitals.

[MileHiStealth]

10. Knights of Malta, the Maltese Cross ......

and medieval napalm .... interesting reading ...

http://www.lawrencefire.com/maltese_cross.asp

[pop goes the weasel]

8. yes

there are dozens, probably hundreds, of them. Group foster homes, nursing homes, juvie centers, food banks, very basic medical clinics abroad.... The quality and honesty varies wildly; some are worthwhile, some are exercises in brutality.

Gotta say this for them: When my daughter was working with severely brain damaged adults, the only church in a town of 30,000 who welcomed the presence of these men and women who had been able to progress to no more than maybe what you'd expect from a 4 year old, were one of the wing-nuttiest congregations that could be imagined. They didn't get any money out of it, or put money into it, but it was truly an act of charity.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

11. nope not a one