History

Mike Davis and I met in 1974 in Fullerton, California. A Jewish Believer shared the Good News to each of us separately. In time, when we both believed, he brought us together. Mike’s parents and his 83-year old  grandmother became believers shortly after. Two doors down on Flatbush Avenue in Norwalk, California, lived a non-Jewish family that loved the Lord. They gently discipled Mike's parents and grandmother by having informal Bible studies on Friday evenings.

This Bible study was opened to all and it grew. Within a year, we became one of the very first Messianic Jewish congregations in the country and the world. Being Jews, we began to understand the concept that we can still believe in Yeshua and remain and practice as Jews. Mike  became the founding Messianic Rabbi and I became the cantor. The first item on the agenda was to obtain a Kosher Torah and an ark. We were not only blessed with one Torah, but with two! In our thirty years, we moved from Norwalk, California, La Mirada, La Palma, and Orange, Yorba Linda, and back to Orange. In our thirty years, we have been a steady witness for Jewish Messiah Yeshua! 

I met my wife Hilary and we were married at Temple Aviv Judea in 1979. The congregation has celebrated many life cycles such as weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs and funerals. Mike Davis went home to the Lord in August 2004 and I was licensed and ordained as the Messianic Rabbi. 

Since 2004, TAJ has been growing and diligently fulfilling its mission to reach out to the Lost Sheep of Israel and to open its doors to the Jews and to the nations. We truly are a place where the walls of partition have been broken down.

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