$16 Million End-of-Year Matching Campaign Will Equip “Daniels” to Stand Firm

It’s time to cast another big vision to advance the Word of God and the saving gospel.

Why? Because there is no other answer, no other hope, and nothing else in which we can ultimately trust.

With so much emphasis on politics and presidents in our culture, we would do well to constantly remind ourselves of this truth. We spend so much anxiety and worry on such things. We place so much hope in political outcomes that our peace and joy are left in tatters when it doesn’t work out like we hoped.

But should we be consumed and ruled by politics?

Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation” (Psalm 146:3).

“Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation” (Mark 16:15).

At Answers in Genesis, we advance the true hope of America and the world: the gospel.

We want to reach more people with the most important message, and we want to equip more people to stand firm on God’s Word, no matter who is in power.

That is why we are always planning, always casting vision, and never sitting still. We want to reach more people with the most important message, and we want to equip more people to stand firm on God’s Word, no matter who is in power.

Let me explain the difference this will make in the future.

Last month, I introduced you to Martyn Iles (originally from Australia), who has joined me in our executive department as chief ministry officer. This is all part of God raising up leadership for the future of AiG.

Martyn is currently preparing a range of new programs under the title “Living in Babylon.”

He has a burden to equip a new generation to know how to stand firm on God’s Word in a pagan culture, like Daniel and his friends did in Babylon. See, our culture has become like Babylon; our younger generations need to be equipped to be “Daniels” so that God’s Word and the saving gospel can continue to advance through them, come what may.

That is what will make the difference in the next generation. How many Daniels will be found standing firm, even as the culture turns against God?

At Answers in Genesis, we want to equip these “Daniels,” and we believe we already are.

For AiG’s end-of-year campaign, we have a great opportunity to fund many exciting projects that will help us accomplish this.

But before I tell you about those things, I want to summarize what happened last year.

Because of the Lord’s blessing through your incredible support and a significant matching gift, we were able to raise the entire amount needed to construct a new building to house the model of first-century Jerusalem and the Welcome Center at the Ark Encounter. This building will house a massive indoor model of first-century Jerusalem that will powerfully present the life of Christ and the gospel to thousands of guests every day.

As we turn to this year, we want to advance a whole range of projects which will help raise up godly generations equipped to defend the Christian faith and stand firm on God’s Word like Daniel did in Babylon.

So let me outline these for you.

Technology and Cloud Center

Sadly, the trend of “deplatforming” is only increasing. This refers to the practice of companies refusing to provide services, or suddenly removing services, from organizations who stand firm on Christian or conservative beliefs. Whether it be social media companies, financial institutions, software companies, suppliers, contractors, or others, this problem is very serious. Indeed, we have had to face several of our own battles where crucial service providers have informed us that they simply won’t work with us anymore.

This rising trend is alarming, and time is short to protect ourselves from the very serious consequences of losing key services in the technology area.

This rising trend is alarming, and time is short to protect ourselves from the very serious consequences of losing key services in the technology area.

Answers in Genesis recently acquired the former Toyota headquarters office building to serve as AiG’s new headquarters and Answers Academy school. It is equipped with a world-class data center which will enable us to move our technological infrastructure to internal, self-managed resources that are much more “cancel proof.”

This data center will host and run our websites, Answers TV streaming platform, POS and ticketing systems, and enterprise systems without reliance on servers owned by big-tech companies that have shown increasing hostility toward Christian organizations that take a stand on God’s Word like we do.

But even more than that, this data center will allow us to offer similar services and space to like-minded Christian ministries and organizations, which will generate revenue for AiG while providing them crucial “cancel proof” infrastructure.

The fact that God has provided us this opportunity is truly amazing—a miracle!

Media Productions

A growing number of families are telling us they no longer want to support the Disney parks or streaming platform because of increasing attempts to impose woke worldviews on their children. As such, they have asked if we can produce more kids’ programs for Answers TV and for the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter.

So we are developing three new media programs, each designed to capture the imagination of young audiences and equip them with biblical truth.

The first is a new presentation in the Creation Museum’s 4D theater. It will allow families to be immersed in a world full of dragons and dinosaurs.

Second, in an animated show on Answers TV, kids can join Buddy Davis on the trip of a lifetime to discover Noah’s ark.

Third, the Jenkins family from Abba’s Wildlife Sanctuary will teach about the Creator, his amazing creatures, and various life lessons in their very own show.

Answers TV is really growing, but we need more programming to bring it up to a world-class standard.

Biblical Identity Exhibit

A powerful new exhibit in the Creation Museum will be designed to answer the questions facing a new generation regarding identity, gender, self, and more. Secular education, politics, and pop culture are leveraging the identity issue and questions like “Who am I?” to teach ungodly worldviews which lead young people astray.

With this new exhibit, guests will see how God, the designer of humanity, has the answer to these questions and can bring purpose and redemption to every aspect of who they are, ultimately making each of us a radiant reflection of God’s glory.

Of course, the way he does that is through the saving gospel of Jesus Christ, which restores our fallen, sinful condition, transforming us into the image of Jesus himself.

Just as we saw the need to build a world-class exhibit dealing with the sanctity of life (the Fearfully & Wonderfully Made exhibit at the Creation Museum), we see the great need to build a world-class exhibit on biblical identity.

Biblical Worldview School Curriculum

A robust, creationist biblical worldview curriculum for Christian schools simply doesn’t exist. Most Bible curricula are what we would call “Bible story based”—they are not foundational, and they don’t construct a biblical way of thinking from the ground up.

Our curriculum department alongside the Answers Academy Christian school have the talent to resolve this problem.

Therefore, we have begun creating a biblical worldview curriculum for Christian schools across all grade levels. Grades K–2 have been written, and 3–12 are currently in development. We hope to have all of K–10 done by 2026 and 11–12 completed the following year.

But this timeline depends on receiving the necessary funding for writers, editors, graphic designers, video producers, publishing, and more.

The lessons will be packed with high-quality visuals, multimedia resources, hands-on activities, and meaningful connections to other academic subjects.

This is because we want to equip teachers with high-quality resources that help children believe, defend, and proclaim God’s Word, even as our culture becomes more like the Babylon of Daniel’s day.

Answers Bible Curriculum for Churches (ABC)

Over 10,000 churches have used our four-year Answers Bible Curriculum to impact families for Christ. Designed for pre-K through adults, ABC is a powerful, chronological overview of God’s Word—complete with apologetics, doctrine, theology, the gospel, and evangelism teaching.

We receive rave reviews and testimonies from churches saying that using this curriculum has helped to reduce the number of young people leaving the church.

But with new technology emerging and various requests from churches using the curriculum, we are facing the need to take the curriculum to the next level by producing video content and translating ABC into other languages—especially Spanish.

The projects described above involve a lot of work, but we are ready to advance them all once funding is available.

Because our supporters have been so faithful in meeting previous matching gift challenges, the same foundation that contributed most of the matching gift last year has agreed to match up to $8 million again this year! In other words, every dollar you give to this campaign will be matched 100%—up to $8 million through the end of the 2023 year.

That would mean we have the potential to raise $16 million for the projects listed above—here is a summary of how the funds will be utilized, Lord willing:

2023 End-of-Year Campaign

As I said (and you know this), we are not short on vision. And note that the above projects have two main functions: (1) protect the ministry and help other ministries for the future, and (2) provide more resources to reach the younger generations that have been impacted by the secularization of the culture and many lukewarm and compromising churches.

We need to do all we can in the business of the King until Christ returns.

But we need to do all we can in the business of the King (Luke 19:13) until Christ returns.

With our culture becoming more like Babylon every day, there is an urgency to equip the younger generations to be those “Daniels” of tomorrow.

That’s why I’m asking you to send a generous gift today to help us take full advantage of the incredible end-of-year matching gift opportunity. You may donate at AnswersDonate.com. And remember, your gift of any size to this end-of-year campaign will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $8 million through the end of the year!

I’m so grateful for your prayers and support—they are so important in enabling us to impact coming generations with the truth of God’s Word and the saving gospel.

P.S. Thank you in advance for prayerfully considering how you can help in this great opportunity through the end-of-year matching gift challenge. Your gift of any size will be matched 100% and will help us equip the younger generations to stand firm on God’s Word and proclaim the saving gospel to a world that desperately needs it.