About

Introduction

 

Since inception, Tikkun International has existed to foster growth of the Messianic Jewish community in the Land of Israel, the United States of America and across the globe with a value for leadership accountability and shared missional purpose. We foster growth by serving ministries, congregations, and ministers who have need for a base of relational, operational and financial support from the USA that they may concentrate their efforts on the ministerial and humanitarian functions for which they have been set apart by the Lord as witnessed by other recognized leaders.

 

Our History

 

Tikkun International was formed by necessity out of the work of a single congregation, Beth Messiah Congregation (BMC), in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Planted in 1973 by pioneers of the emerging Messianic Jewish Community, Manny Brotman, Paul Liberman and Sid Roth among them, BMC became an epicenter of Messianic Jewish vision and missional pursuit including being founding members of the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations (UMJC). In the latter part of the decade and into the 1980s, Dr Daniel Juster as the Senior Leader together with Eitan Shishkoff, Asher Intrater, Paul Wilbur, David Rudolph, Jerry Miller, Michael Rudolph, Moshe Morrison, Ron Cantor, Michael Brown and many others began to see the need for a broader network of congregations in the DC metroplex with common values for accountability and equipping. With so many gifted leaders inside of BMC and a missional drive to see more congregations planted, Beth Messiah Apostolic Ministries (BMAM) was born in 1984 to provide a hub of relationship, accountability and shared values to oversee the training of new leaders and the planting of new congregations and ministries in the region. The founding congregations of BMAM were BMC as the mother congregation, El Shaddai Congregation in Frederick, MD under Asher Intrater, Rosh Pina outside of Baltimore, MD under Moshe Morrison, and Ahavat Yeshua in Washington, DC under Michael Rudolph. Ohev Yisrael in Northern Virginia with David Chansky and Tikvat Israel in Richmond, VA with Jerry Miller & Jamie Cowen were added to the growing network in the immediate years that followed.  

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As the work of BMAM through flourishing congregations matured regionally, the leaders of the congregational network also began to grapple with how to support sending Messianic Jewish leaders to the Land of Israel and around the world in the early 1990s. With the support of the work of the local network of congregations in the DC area, the Intrater and Shishkoff families made aliyah to Israel to pioneer new Messianic Jewish ministries in the Land of Israel planting what became Revive Israel and Tents of Mercy, respectively. Additionally, other leaders from the BMAM network were sent out to strengthen evangelism and congregational efforts attracting and serving Jewish followers of Yeshua around the world, particularly in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in partnership with Jonathan Bernis and the work of Hear O Israel Ministries International and the formation of the Messianic Jewish Bible Institute (MJBI). The expansion of the network of relationships and the call to serve ministries and ministers with a hub of relationship, accountability, and shared values beyond the DC metro area led to the formal establishment of Tikkun International in 1994 as a network of national, international and Israeli congregations and ministries committed to the dual restoration of Israel and the Church.

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Throughout the 1990s and into the first two decades of the 2000s, Tikkun International served in a dual capacity to provide ministerial accountability, equipping and limited services to congregations in the United States of America and to congregations and ministries in Israel and internationally. The number of ministries & ministers in Israel multiplied from two to over twenty; the number of congregations in the USA increased from five to nearly thirty. As the ministries in Israel grew and the number of ministers and ministries multiplied, the complexity of the services needed from the office in America expanded commensurately. Additionally, the number of congregations and ministries in Israel born out of the work of Tents of Mercy and Revive Israel wanted to affiliate with one another in Israel and united together in an informal fellowship of congregation and ministry leaders as Tikkun Israel in 2018. Simultaneously, as the congregations in America multiplied and matured, the needs of the network exceeded the original scope of Tikkun International. In 2020 the American network of congregations, always known as Tikkun America, formalized their own non-profit organization to oversee and support the network of congregations designed specifically for the work of congregations in North America.  

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Given the growth of the work born out of Tikkun International as an organization in the United States, we also began to see the need to re-center the family of ministries to the Land of Israel as a relational network. The concept of the “Tikkun Global Family” first began to emerge in conversations in Israel in 2014 and began to formalize in 2020. The founders – the Justers, Intraters and Shishkoffs along with the Wilburs – together with the Revive Israel leadership team and in conversation with Tikkun Israel, launched Tikkun Global as an Israeli non-profit (Amutah) under the direction of Asher Intrater in 2023. The purpose of Tikkun Global is not only to lead their own ministry team from their base in Jerusalem, but also to provide a center place that ministries connected to the wider Tikkun Global Family, including the emissaries of Tikkun International, can be aligned to with shared values and relational history. 

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At Present

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As the work of Tikkun International has multiplied, the vision of the organization has been realized – we have witnessed ministers trained and sent, ministries organized, and congregations planted in the USA, Israel, and internationally. Upon formation of Beth Messiah Apostolic Ministries and continuing in Tikkun International, there was need for a single, centralized relational authority to establish accountability and values for ministerial equipping as new ministers, congregations and organizations were established on new frontiers. While there will always be the need for apostolic team ministry and oversight, the ministries and organizations that have grown out of the work of Tikkun International now have their own governance structures and senior leadership teams, which carry on our value for unified oversight and accountability of ministers and ministries within their own spheres. We will preserve our shared values and common history as voluntary members of the Tikkun Global Family.

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As the vision has materialized over the last three decades as detailed above, we started re-imagining Tikkun International in 2015 to capture the essence of why we continue to exist as a non-profit in the United States that serves a network of congregations, organizations and emissaries around the world. That effort over the last decade, spearheaded by Steve Erickson as Chairman of the Board, has led us to clearly define the primary purpose of Tikkun International as an agency that serves the network of ministers, congregations, and ministries as defined in the Vision, Mission and Distinctives section of this document. At present we are also continuing to evaluate our role as a “sending agency” to send those with whom we have a history of relationship and who are aligned with our vision, mission and distinctives to serve the people of Israel and a Christian Church committed to the Good News among the people of Israel. We believe that there is an enduring mission for us in serving and supporting the expanding Tikkun Global Family of ministers and ministries from an American base until the day we see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of Heaven (Daniel 7, Matthew 26, Mark 14).