How We Found the Messianic Congregation God Was Leading Us To

We were going through the Starting Point class, and even though my husband had already received the word that we were meant to go to a Messianic synagogue, I started looking at churches nearby. The one we had been attending was about 30 minutes away, and I found one just five minutes from home. I thought, Why not try it?

I started attending their Bible studies here and there, and my husband came with me a couple of times. The people were kind and loved God, but it wasn’t the right fit. Over the two months that we were facilitating Starting Point, I visited a few other churches, but none felt like home.

As we got closer to the end of Starting Point, my husband looked up Messianic congregations in our area. Two came up. One of them, it turned out, was the same one our friend had invited us to years earlier, though we didn’t realize it at the time because they had since moved closer to our home.

He visited, and when he came back, he said he felt a deep peace and sensed he was just supposed to be there. Still, he decided to visit the second one, just to be sure. But while he was there, he said the Lord spoke to him clearly: “What are you doing here? I already told you where I want you to go.”

That was it. We had our what, our when, and now, finally, our where. Starting Point ended, our pastors blessed us and prayed over our next steps. Our season at that church had come to a close.

But stepping into something new—especially something unfamiliar—wasn’t as simple as just showing up.