Our Mission
Yachad BeYeshua (Together in Yeshua)
A Global Fellowship of Jewish Disciples of Jesus.
Antoine Lévy, Mark Kinzer, David Rudolph
Our Mission
The purpose of Yachad BeYeshua is to to encourage Jewish disciples of Yeshua throughout the world, and in diverse church and synagogue contexts, to forge a common global identity. We believe that such a common identity can empower Jewish disciples of Yeshua to live as a corporate expression of the people of Israel within the body of the Messiah.
We also believe that Yachad BeYeshua can empower us to live as a corporate expression of the body of the Messiah within the Jewish people. A global and inter-confessional fellowship of Jewish disciples of Yeshua can give voice to the prophetic message which these disciples corporately embody, and open up new ways for that voice to be heard in both the Christian and Jewish worlds.
While empowering Jewish Christians and Messianic Jews to fulfil their calling as Jewish disciples of Yeshua, this global identity can also meet needs which some Jewish disciples of Jesus feel deeply. Yachad BeYeshua can enable Jews in the churches to overcome the existential loneliness which sometimes affects Jews living as an isolated minority among Gentiles. Yachad BeYeshua can likewise enable Messianic Jews to overcome the communal marginalization which some experience as part of a community whose legitimacy is regularly called into question in both the Jewish and Christian worlds.
Yachad BeYeshua seeks to foster and deepen communion among Jewish disciples of Yeshua through prayer, study, and discussion. The fellowship also provides new opportunities for Jewish disciples of Yeshua to partner together in witness to the wider Christian and Jewish worlds, in the development of spiritual formation programs and materials, in combatting anti-Semitism, and in scholarly research relevant to its common goals.
“I am delighted that Yachad BeYeshua brings together Jewish disciples from so many different backgrounds, traditions and experiences. Our unity in the Messiah is a powerful expression of the purposes of God for Israel, the Church and all nations!”
— Richard Harvey