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 HaMashiach. We meet in a homestyle environment. We are designed to foster the inclusion of be'chol lashon (in every in tongue) and kulanu (all of us) in the Messianic community of Messiah's All Israel, which includes those who may or may not look/be Jewish, women & their children, husbands and wives, the widow & the orphan, and the lost, and the poor of Messiah. In other words we will endeavor to continue with the work of Messiah. We are  those who are gleaning the corners of Messiah’s field and following His Torah Way of Living. We also come together in Synagogue worship services and study in our Bayit Midrash called Kulanu -Kulanu Berean Bible Institute for Biblical Studies and Messianic Missiology & Israelology Studies . 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 because we love Adonai and want and endeavor to obey His commandments and keep His covenant. We study in class sessions in Kulanu - Women's Ministry & Kulanu Berean Bible Institute for Messianic Missiology & Israelology for believers in Yeshua). 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.

Through trusting in Messiah, we are counted as children of Abraham (Romans 4:1-25). Also, because we have accepted Messiah as our Lord, our Rabbi, our Teacher, our Shepherd, we must continue to follow Him. “Let your roots grow down into Him, and let your lives be built on Him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught and you will overflow with thankfulness” Colossians 2:6-7. “It is read that Ruth once gleaned the corners of Boaz’s field." We glean from Messiah's field and do Teshuvah by a circumcised heart, as a spiritual child of Abraham, and through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit”.

As spiritual children of Abraham and talmidim of Messiah, we acknowledge and understand that salvation only comes through faith and trust in Messiah Yeshua alone. We do not let anyone condemn us for what we eat or drink, or for celebrating certain holy days or new moon ceremonies (Colossians 2:16). We also understand that the word "condemn" is defined as: to declare to be reprehensible, wrong, or evil, or to be judged unfit for use (Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 239). “Vayikra (Leviticus) 19:30 is fascinating because we know from history that other religions from the ancient Near East also had sacred days, even Sabbaths. God wanted Israel to observe only His holy days, not the Sabbaths of the Canannites” (FFOZ, Torah Club vol. 1 Kedoshim, p. 646). Therefore, we do not let anyone condemn us for “choosing and endeavoring” to learn about and embrace our Hebraic Roots of our Faith, or for learning and applying lessons brought forth through the observance of Adonai’s Holy days, new moon ceremonies, or Sabbaths.

We believe that “by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast (Ephesians 2:8-9). (We) do not believe in keeping the law in order to be saved. (We) believe in keeping it because (We are) saved” (D. Thomas Lancaster, Restoration: Returning the Torah of God to the Disciples of Jesus, p. 10-11). Messiah says, if you love Me, keep My commandments.