DISCLAIMER: New York City has well-earned the byword "Preacher's Graveyard." New York Theological Seminary is gone! Alliance Theological Seminary has closed its doors! The American Bible Society left! New York Bible Society's office on Lexington Ave now has other occupants! The Bible store on 43rd Street is shuttered! The mega church of the 40's, Glad Tidings Tabernacle, is now a Mormon hotel! The tombstones of this "Preacher's Graveyard" are too many to count! This website is, in many ways, a place holder substituting for all of them! And we of Artists for Israel International are determined to create an endowment securing the Word of God forever to stand vigil in the City That Never Sleeps! AFII's founder Dr Phil Goble is from Oakland City, Indiana. And Oakland City University closed its doors this year because it had no endowment. A colossial tragedy! Hurting countless people! Dr Onis Chapman was Dr Goble's childhood pastor and a former president of this 140 year old institution. Do we want a similar institutional death to happen to Artists for Israel International (founded 1980) too? Or have we genuinely made up our minds that there have been ENOUGH tombstones already in the "Preacher's Graveyard"? Should we (or anyone looking at this website) hang on to a $10 endowment offering and take the chance Oakland City University took--the no endowment gamble? The American Bible Society left New York City with a $300,000,000 endowment it raised here. We take no salary and live a sacrificial life style with a frugal operating budget but Oakland City University has proved that even a 140 year old institution that has blessed thousands of lower-income students may have a fiduciary crisis and collapse because it cannot survive without an endowment. Shall we say, AFII doesn't need an endowment? Never. We are speaking about the greatest city in the world! Where, you say? Where we are. In the midst of the United Nations, in the midst of Wall Street, and the New York Stock Exchange, and Broadway, and the Met, and the Museum of Modern Art, and ABC CBS NBC Mainstream Media, and hundreds of multinational corporations, and Times Square, and One World Trade Center Freedom Tower, and the Statue of Liberty — in short, your donation, however small, will build the endowment that will declare that this city is not the "Preacher's Graveyard"; it is in fact the Scripture-rich and Bible-supplying Capital of the whole World.

We have a nightly prayer meeting that has been going on since Mother's Day 2021. Please pray this extremely important prayer with us. (The Heavenly Provider hears and is able!): "I petition the Most High...O please make this city, this rich New York City, a source of enrichment to the entire world, that is, with the living and abiding Word of God, the medium of the new birth, Heaven's divine womb making the dead alive, making souls never more in the domain of a "Preacher's Graveyard," instead making them eternally alive and exceedingly grateful with hearts touched to contribute even a small amount, so that an endowment will grow to sustain AFII to upload free digital Bibles to be globally downloaded through the riches of modern technology to every tribe and tongue, every island and coastal territory, every nation, every soul, even to the ends of the earth. According to my faith, let it be done (Matthew 9:29). Amen."