Who are we?

Messiah Yeshua and His chaverim functioned as a brotherhood with a Torah Way of Living. Like Messiah, we are a small fellowship/friendship group (chaverim) of believers of Yeshua Ha Mashiach who are gleaning in Messiah’s field and following His Torah Way of Living. We also come together in Synagogue worship services and study in our Bayit Midrash. Yeshua Ha Mashiach is the Hebraic translation of Yeshua the Messiah (Jesus the Christ). When we assemble together as a holy community/assembly (kehillah kedoshah) of believers of Messiah we are following in the way of the sect of the Nazarenes/The Way. We assemble as believers in mishkan Yeshua haChaim Torah in Ruth Ephrathite Messianic Synagogue biTshuvah. This we do on Shabbat and Holy Days, etc. We study in class sessions in Messiah's "All Israel" Bayit Midrash. We like Ruth are invited and embrace gleaning in the field of our Kinsman-Redeemer. Therefore, we are Messianic believers who have a “Ruth Consciousness”. As believers in Messiah Yeshua, we know that we have not replaced Israel. We also know that we are counted among the members of Messiah’s ‘One New Man – the Olive Tree’ which is cultivated from the original Hebraic root of Jesse (Isaiah 11:1-10) and the Righteous Descendant/Branch in Isaiah 4:2, Jeremiah 23:5-6 and 33:15. We are not foreigners/strangers because we have undergone circumcision. “When you come to Messiah, you were “circumcised”, but not by a physical procedure. It was a spiritual procedure – the cutting away of your sinful nature. You were buried with Messiah when you were baptized. And with Him, you were raised to a new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Messiah from the dead” Colossians 2:11-12.