Our congregation encompasses the concept of family and community that we are building into. We like to call ourselves a “mishpocha” which in Hebrew means “family.” This means that we don’t just meet once a week and then go our way. We are a community of disciples and thus we practice discipleship between the men and among the women.

Our Mishpocha 

We strive to love each other, serve each other and be open to each other as much as we can. This means we often see each other outside of our weekly meetings, as we pray together and serve each other’s needs. Even during our Shabbat meetings, we stay together almost the whole day, having a fellowship meal and then edifying each other and growing as a community.

To restore the discipleship of Yeshua. To reach the remnant of Israel by building a community within a community.

We believe in the Holy Scriptures as originally given by God, divinely inspired, infallible, and entirely truthful; and the only absolute authority in all issues of faith and behaviour. We believe in One God, eternally existing in a Compound Unity (Echad) as Father, Son (Yeshua, Jesus) and Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit).

We believe in Messiah Yeshua, God manifest in the flesh, His virgin birth, His sinless human life, His divine miracles, His atoning death and resurrection, His ascension to glory, His intercession on behalf of the believer and His personal return in power and glory to reign from Jerusalem on the Throne of David in the millennium kingdom.

We believe in the salvation of lost and sinful man through the shed blood of the Messiah Yeshua as our sin offering, by faith apart from works, and rebirth by the Ruach HaKodesh through the Gospel message which is to the Jew first (protos) and the Greek.

We believe it is through the indwelling of the Ruach HaKodesh that the individual believer is enabled to live a holy life to witness and work for Messiah Yeshua. We believe it is in Messiah’s Assembly (the Church), His Body, wherein we find the unity of all true believers in the Ruach HaKodesh.

We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of eternal life, and they that are lost unto the resurrection of eternal separation from God.

Rabbi Don Meecha had been leading monthly Bible studies in London for a number of years. Eugene Banak, who was a Messianic Jew in the London area, felt a need for a Messianic congregation in the city. Between the years of 2004-2005, Eugene started to become acquainted with Rabbi Don and Light of Messiah Ministries International through Rabbi Don’s monthly Bible studies. Eugene and his family visited Light of Messiah Congregation in Toronto, and Eugene expressed to Rabbi Don the burden that he felt for a congregation in London. Eugene was hoping that someone could start a congregation in the near future. He was surprised when Rabbi Don suggested that Eugene could start working towards that. This was a new idea, and Eugene wondered if the Lord was leading him this way.

The Messianic Calling 

After struggling with it, and praying about, he received confirmation from God and was willing to accept the calling. In 2005, he started his seminary education to prepare for this ministry position. After some prayer, in February of 2006, with the support of LOMMI, Eugene, together with a small group of people in London who were united in their vision for a Messianic congregation began meeting together at each other’s houses, with the goal of planting a Messianic congregation.

They were meeting every other week, and praying and talking about the time when they can have a congregation. They did not know how long that would take. Surprisingly, they were only meeting like this for five months, when in July 2006, they had our first Shabbat service as a congregation at the Salvation Army Centre of Hope, in London, Ontario.

The Meeting Place 

The way that this meeting place was provided for them is a testimony. Dorota Banak, Eugene’s wife, was getting a tour of the Centre of Hope as part of her job as a case worker. While there, she saw the chapel in the building and she was impressed to later talk with the Major Lewis, together with Eugene, to share with him about how our group of Messianic believers was looking for a place to worship.

Amazingly, Major Lewis expressed to Eugene and Dorota that he and his wife had felt a burden on their hearts for the Jewish people, and were praying for an opportunity to reach out to them. They were happy to allow our fellowship to meet in the chapel for services free of charge. It was so exciting, and an answer to prayer!

While meeting at the Centre of Hope, we had a unique opportunity to be a light to the people who were living there, during their worship services.

In late 2007, it was time to move on, as the Centre of Hope was expanding, and so in December of 2007 they started meeting in the basement of RidgeView Community Church, where they currently meet.