DISCLAIMER: I was a very young man and the NEB was a very red book, and on the back of the scarlet cover was the price, only $4.95 because it was 1970, a different era. I purchased it and walked out of the Readmore Bookstore and started walking down Hollywood Blvd. Around me, though I couldn’t see it, everything in Hollywood, California, was melting in time, like the Readmore Bookstore, which no longer exists, as impermanent as the world. But I held in my hands what would never pass away (Matthew 24:35). The Roadmap to Heaven is as permanent as Heaven itself, also called "my Father's House." Today it is 56 years later, and how likely is the Orthodox Jewish Bible to be extant many years from now? Very likely, if “extant” means copies survive and can be found. See the proof. The NEB I purchased that fateful day has been replaced. The Revised English Bible (REB) revision has shoved the NEB into the cobwebs of time. And just at this time, I’m looking at Linda’s hands, bruised by the needles of modern medicine. And I’m wondering how they can ever play the piano again. Many feel our ministry is over and they have turned the page. But how could they know what I know? They weren't with me in the Wishing Well Motel. If they had been with me in the Wishing Well Motel, looked at my two dimes and three pennies and my pocket version of the RSV, they might have concluded the same thing: he is finished! But what nobody knew in the Wishing Well Motel on Labor Day 1978, just 8 years since I purchased that NEB in the Readmore Bookstore, was this: in only eight more years I would film THE RABBI FROM TARSUS. When I took $4.95 to the cash register in the ReadMore Bookstore at Christmas time in 1970, I had no idea what a colossal move I was making, and neither do you when you pray for this ministry. Look at what a return I got on my $4.95 investment! What if I had been penny wise and pound foolish and kept the money? When I was born, the Jewish people were in the Death Camps whispering Yiddish, waiting for June 6, 1944. Look at what they were also waiting for! See why Ken Taylor liked the Rabbi from Tarsus when he published the stage play's book version keyed to THE LIVING BIBLE which was revised as THE NEW LIVING TRANSLATION. See this. The tombstones of this "Preacher's Graveyard" called New York City are too many to count! This website is, in many ways, a place holder for the congregations, Bible bookstores, seminaries, bible society etc that are no more. And we of Artists for Israel International with our $4.95 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 nearly 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 tragedy 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" New York City? Should we (or anyone looking at this website) hang on to a $4.95 endowment offering (remember the investment I made at Christmas time, 1970 in the Readmore Bookstore in Hollywood California and the return dividend that $4.95 investment garnered over the next 56 years? You don't think I was blessed for blessing the Jews? And you won't be either?) We cannot 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 in order to run the race 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 experience near 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 One World Trade Center Freedom Tower, and the Statue of Liberty — in short, your donation, however small, even $4.95, 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. Email your prayer requests to pgoble at gmail.com. Heaven is a Wishing Well Motel and God will hear you if you, hitch-hiking through life like me, cry out to Him. Dr Phil Goble