The company running Israel’s geofencing-and-VR-trailer campaign aimed at American churches filed a sworn expense report where nearly every transaction appears twice, and the doubled math is the official total. It also says it isn’t doing the thing its own registration describes. It did not answer my questions. Receipts below.
On May 1, 2026, Chad Schnitger signed a federal disclosure under penalty of perjury swearing that his company, Show Faith by Works, LLC, foreign agent of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, disbursed $3,333,191.86 over six months.
Open the itemized appendix behind that number and count. Below are just a couple of the 23 pages in this appendix… every entry is duplicated.
A $366.71 promotional item: listed twice. The $305 fee for registering as a foreign agent: twice. A $190,000 trailer build: twice. A payment of $45,641.38, a figure too specific to repeat by accident: twice. Line after line, page after page, nearly every transaction in the schedule appears two times, and the sworn total appears to be the sum of the duplicates.
Take the sworn total at face value instead, and the company spent a million dollars more than it ever received, which its own books cannot explain.
Maybe someone pasted a transaction export twice and hit sum. That is the innocent explanation. It is also not much of a defense: the central financial figure in a federal foreign-agent filing appears to be off by roughly a factor of two, the registrant paid more than $65,000 to two law firms for FARA compliance inside this very ledger, Holtzman Vogel and the Dhillon Law Group, and neither they, nor Schnitger, nor the Justice Department unit that accepted the filing, appears to have noticed.
I sent Show Faith by Works a detailed list of questions, including whether the total is accurate and whether an amendment will be filed, with a stated deadline before publication. No response.
What Israel’s money bought, per the sworn lines
Read the appendix (once, not twice) and the campaign’s actual texture emerges, because every line is charged against the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ engagement. Israel’s account absorbed the $305 DOJ fee to register the company as Israel’s agent. It absorbed $60,010 to the IRS and payments to California’s tax board. It absorbed a $15,000 payment to Bank of America labeled, in full, “Debt Repayment,” with no word on whose debt or from when.
It absorbed gas stations, parking, Amazon, Walmart, Dollar Tree, a 97 Cent Store, a $77.58 Christianity Today subscription, $80 admission to a Calvary Chapel event, and $14 of decor from CUFI.org. It absorbed body armor: $748 to a company called Bulletproof Everyone and purchases from Byrna, a less-lethal weapons maker. It absorbed a $45,020 Israel tour through a company called Uncharted Adventures, plus EL AL flights, gas at PAZ OIL stations, and lodging on the Sea of Galilee.
And it absorbed the trailer: more than $350,000 to Griggs Home Service, a home services outfit, for building and outfitting the October 7th Experience, the 41-foot virtual reality rig now touring church parking lots, Oculus subscriptions included.
All itemized twice.
Then there is the loop. Throughout the period, Show Faith made repeated staffing and payroll payments, $21,862 here, $38,734 there, over and over, to Graystone Public Affairs, which is Schnitger’s own consulting firm, run from the Beaumont, California address where he lives.
The owner approving the vendor is the vendor. Add his own draws, two $12,500 employee payments and a $25,000 payroll line, against a contract that reportedly budgets him a $150,000 salary, and the picture is a family-office operation running a foreign ministry’s outreach to American Christians, expensing it all to Jerusalem, twice.
“We are not doing geofencing”
Rewind to what this company told the government it would do. Its sworn registration of September 27, 2025 described the largest Christian church geofencing campaign in United States history: digital fences around more than 900 churches, 303 of them megachurches, across California, Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado, so the phones inside could be served the ministry’s advertising. The named terrain included Bethel Church in Redding, California, whose leaders claim they learned about it from reporters.
Then the coverage hit, and the story started changing. In late November, Schnitger told Christianity Today the geofencing had been scrapped, blaming the filing’s wording on cautious attorneys.
This month, he went further, telling the Daily Caller News Foundation flatly: “We are not doing geofencing.” In the same interview, paraphrasing him: the original coverage was sensationalized for clicks; the original FARA disclosure was essentially a pitch deck, and the real activities are far less controversial; what actually exists is a 3,000-square-foot mobile museum offering churches education and travel opportunities.
Here is the problem with the pitch-deck defense… FARA has a mechanism for registrations that overstate your activities: you amend them. Registrants do it constantly; Brad Parscale’s shop amended its own registration in this same pipeline within weeks.
The public docket for Show Faith by Works contains no amendment revising its described activities. What it does contain, however, is the money flowing straight through the denial window, the trailer touring four states, a brand-new consumer brand, Hear From Us, filed as informational material on June 15, 2026, and a supplemental statement, signed six months after the scrapping claim, that attests the company filed all its materials while the docket shows three such filings in ten months.
The company’s sworn paper and the company’s press statements describe two different enterprises. Only one of them carries a perjury clause.
The man signing the forms
Everything above is signed by one person, so know who he is. Chad Schnitger is a Riverside County political consultant, a former San Bernardino County public policy director, and a presenter of election-integrity trainings for the county GOP.
His firm Graystone has operated from his home since 2016; the same address houses the Faith and Freedom Coalition of California, where he is president, an organization the national Faith and Freedom Coalition publicly disavowed in October, saying it had no role in or knowledge of the Israel project and describing him as acting as a private citizen.
The chapter’s own secretary, pastor Tye McClain, appears in the FARA filings as a paid consultant to the foreign-agent company simultaneously. Reporting indicates Schnitger was recruited personally by Eran Shayovich, the Israeli official running the whole campaign.
And one file to handle with caution: a 2023 Los Angeles Times report on a criminal complaint in a Buena Park case described a Graystone employee identified as “Chad S.” allegedly enlisted in a false certification scheme; the complaint did not further identify the employee, no public record confirms it refers to Schnitger, and he declined comment at the time. Just a little nugget of information to tuck away.
I include it because the documents in this story keep raising the same theme, sworn paper that says one thing while its authors say another, and because his answer to a direct question about it would have appeared right here. The questions were asked. The deadline passed. My reporting persists.
Learn more about this story from Feral America:
Project 545
Clock Tower X
This is all part of what I believe to be an election influence campaign designed to sway the 2026 election. Call your representatives and ask them to look into Project 545, Clock Tower X, and Show Faith by Works.
Receipts
Show Faith by Works, LLC, Supplemental Statement, executed May 1, 2026, FARA #7653 (sworn $3,333,191.86 disbursement total; itemized appendix with duplicated entries; receipts of $2,313,791.50; Graystone, Schnitger, legal, travel, security, and trailer line items; informational materials attestation): https://efile.fara.gov/docs/7653-Supplemental-Statement-20260501-1.pdf
Show Faith by Works, LLC, Registration Statement and Exhibit AB, September 27, 2025, FARA #7653 (geofencing program description and scope; target states; personnel; pre-registration receipts and spending): https://efile.fara.gov/docs/7653-Registration-Statement-20250927-1.pdf
Full public docket, FARA Registration #7653 (three informational materials filings; no amendment revising described activities as of this writing): https://efile.fara.gov/
Daily Caller News Foundation, July 7, 2026 (Schnitger denial; pitch-deck characterization; mobile museum description; Hear From Us; Apffel remarks): https://dailycaller.com/
Washington Spectator, January 2026 (the November Christianity Today walk-back; trailer tour; target list): https://washingtonspectator.org/israeli-government-is-spending-millions-to-court-american-evangelicals-amid-plummeting-public-support/
Responsible Statecraft, October 2025 (geofencing exposé; Redding churches unaware): https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-geofencing-churches/
Times of Israel / JTA, October 2025 (contract structure; Graystone and Schnitger background): https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-spend-up-to-4-1m-in-bid-to-bolster-support-among-christians-in-western-us/ and https://www.jta.org/2025/10/03/israel/israel-to-spend-up-to-4-1m-on-christian-pr-campaign-in-western-u-s-filings-show
Fox 10 Phoenix, October 2025 ($150,000 salary; Arizona campaign mechanics): https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/how-3-2-million-israeli-campaign-will-digitally-target-arizona-christians-anti-palestinian-ads
Christian Post, October 2025 (national Faith and Freedom Coalition disavowal): https://www.christianpost.com/
Los Angeles Times, February 2023 (Buena Park recall criminal complaint; “Chad S.” description; Schnitger declining comment: https://www.latimes.com/
Thank you for your research. No words for the corruption that is never ending with these folks.
Definitely doesn’t look like money laundering or anything illegal going on here….