We are Bible Centered, Spirit Empowered, Family Oriented, Kingdom Focused, and Mission Motivated.
Celebrate and study God’s word as you to embrace the Jewish heritage of our faith. Our Messiah is Jewish and the early believers were Jewish. Be empowered as we study the entire Bible from a 1st Century perspective in context and culture.
We teach the Bible from cover to cover, from Genesis to Revelation, teaching the redemption made possible through our Messiah Yeshua. We truly believe we need to disciple to make new disciple who go out and make new disciples. Scroll down for our address.
Our services and Bible studies are focused on the God of Israel and His Messiah Yeshua. We seek to worship Him in Spirit and Truth. We meet every Saturday. Doors open at 8:30am. Scroll down for directions.
Come as you are. We encourage everyone to dress modestly and comfortably, whether that’s casual or dressed up. The morning Bible study is 45 minutes – and, yes, there is a very light breakfast (nosh) available. The service is about 90 minutes long, then we take an hour for lunch (oneg) and fellowship. The discussion about the morning message after lunch lasts 90 minutes and it is highly interactive – join in or just listen.
Break the routine and live out your faith by walking in an ever-closer relationship to our Messiah Yeshua. Build relationships with others who want to grow and worship God in a deeper way, living out the richness found in knowing Him. We seek to lead people to become radiant disciples of Yeshua Messiah by worshipping and praying daily, growing in discipleship, and caring for our community,
If you can’t make it to both the service and study time, just come to one! There is much more we would like to share with you, so please join us in worship
We follow the Biblical calendar of Feasts and Festivals because they lay out God’s plan of redemption year after year. We also follow Jewish lifecycle events.
Be sure to sign up for the Messianic Fellowship Newsletter.
Upcoming Holidays / Holy Days
Hanukkah Dec 25-Jan 2
2025
Purim – Thursday, March 13/14
Pesach / Unleavened Bread Sat. (evening), April 12
Pesach / Unleavened Bread 8th Day, April 20
Shavuot — Sunday, June 2/3
Feast of Trumpets / Rosh Hashanah, Sept. 23/24
Yom Kippur / Day of Atonement, October 2
Sukkot / Tabernacles, October 7
Shemini / 8th Day, October 13/14
Hanukkah – Dec. 15-22
A Day of Remembrance – Kristallnacht – Nov 9
Mailing address: Yirat HaShem Ministries, PO Box 3916, Rapid City, South Dakota 57709.
We meet at 927 East Philadelphia, Rapid City, South Dakota (Destiny Foursquare Church). Use the parking lot east of the entrance or across the street. Street parking is not recommended.
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No, everyone is welcome! We are a joyful mix of people – Jewish Believers and non-Jewish Believers! We come from a variety of backgrounds.
The service begins at 10am and ends at 11:30am. It is a mix of song, Psalm, prayer, blessings and Scripture reading. The message is usually, but not always based on the weekly readings. The weekly Scripture passages are posted on our Facebook page midday Tuesday.
Dress modestly. We have lunch after the morning service. It is potluck, we usually have too much food, so if you are a first-time visitor you do not have to bring anything. If you want to bring food, we don’t want to offend anybody so please do not bring a dish of mixed meat and cheese (you can bring them separately, however), fish without scales, shellfish, shrimp or pork products (ham, bacon).
Yes! Services are mainly in English with just a little Hebrew.
Yes! Children can stay in the service for the message. We have activities available for them, too.
We have a Bible study Saturday afternoon from 12:30pm to about 2pm. We have another Bible study Tuesday evenings. Other studies online and in person are in the planning stage.
Yes. We disciple to make disciples (the “Great Commission”). Sharing our faith in Yeshua requires us to teach and build up Believers, too.
We are Torah pursuant; only Yeshua kept Torah perfectly. We do our best. Everyone is growing in their faith and walk with God. We certainly are not legalists and we expect everyone to be “working out their salvation,” discovering what their walk with God looks like – but always striving to be increasingly obedient to Him.
Messianic Judaism is a movement of Jewish people from all walks of life, who believe Yeshua (Jesus in Hebrew) is the promised Jewish Messiah and Savior of Israel and the world. Messianic Jews have not stopped being Jewish and continue to strongly Jewish in identity, lifestyle and belief. Yeshua is the fulfillment of Biblical Judaism. We observe the Sabbath (Shabbat) and the Biblical feasts (Leviticus 23) which were given to Israel and fulfilled in Yeshua. Salvation is, as it always has been, by faith and not by works or righteous acts.
Messianic Judasim began almost 2,000 years ago when the first 3,000 Believers came to faith on Pentecost/ Shavuot. Cornelius was the 1st gentile to come to faith in Yeshua in 39AD.
We do not adhere to the following…
- Replacement Theology – we do not believe that the Gentile Church (or Messianic Jewish Congregations) have replaced Israel regarding her covenant callings and promises based on Scripture (Romans 9-11).
- One Law Movement – we do not believe that the entire Gentile community of believers are required to keep the Law of Moses, or be what is called “Torah Observant.” We love our brothers and sisters in the Movement, but we believe the writings of the apostles are clear on the responsibilities for both Jewish and Gentile believers. Having said that, there is nothing wrong with Gentiles keeping the Law of Moses, as long as they do not say it is incumbent upon all Gentile believers to do so (1 Corinthians 7:17-20) or that it impacts salvation.
- Ephraimite or Two-House Theory – The Two House movement, also known as the Ephraimite movement among other names, is a Christian sect that teaches that Gentile believers in Messiah Yeshua are literal physical descendants of the ten northern tribes of the Kingdom of Israel, also know as Ephraim. Thus the name Ephraimite. Ephraimites believe that Jewish identity is rightfully theirs. They identify themselves as Israelites, and not as Jews, the latter of whom they believe come primarily from the tribe of Judah. Nevertheless, they claim to be Jews by most common definitions, and are therefore to be considered a pseudo-Messianic sect. Those who adopt Two House must realize that God doesn’t make mistakes, that He doesn’t love Jews more than Gentiles, and that Jews and Gentiles are one in Messiah. In addition, those in the Messianic movement must be careful to not perpetuate the error that there is a qualitative difference between Jewish believers and Gentile believers. We all must accept one another as we are, and as God has made us. Everyone should stay in the calling in which he was called (1 Cor. 7:20).
- Sacred Names Movement – The Sacred Name Movement developed from the Church of God (Seventh Day) in the 1930s. Supposedly, the movement began in response to the study of Proverbs 30:4, “What is his name, and what is the name of his son?” The Sacred Name Movement teaches that only “YHVH” (not spelled out here to avoid offense) is to be used as the name for God and only “Yahshua” is to be used as the name for Yeshua. According to the Sacred Name Movement, the use of any other name is blasphemy.
- Seventh Day Adventists – Though some join us from the Seventh Day Adventist Church, we do not align with the strict SDA theology that Israel has been replaced by the Church and that those who worship on Sunday are practicing paganism and idolatry (John 4:21-24; Romans 14:5-6).
- Any form of Modalism – Whether from Oneness Pentacostalism or any other Modalist movement, we believe in the “Triunity” of God. Modalism says the Father,Son and Ruach manifest themselves at different times but are one God, and not existing eternally as three Persons. We believe God is Echad (One) who exists eternally in three Persons: Father, Son and Ruach HaKodesh (Isaiah 48:16; Matthew 3:16-17; Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14).