The children and the youth
A children's class and a youth group, every week, alongside the Shabbat gathering — plus a summer trip that is, for some of these teenagers, the first time they meet other believers their own age. Many of the 120 people here are young families; this is the largest single thing we do apart from Shabbat itself.
It runs on volunteers and borrowed equipment. TODO: the annual number — curriculum, equipment, the trip, and whether the goal is a part-time youth worker.
Prayer, and the new home groups
The Monday night prayer meeting has been the quiet engine of this congregation for years. From October we are opening home groups across the city — which is where we began, twenty years ago, in somebody's living room.
TODO: what a home group actually costs to start and to run — materials, hosting, training for the people leading them.
The monthly table
Once a month we welcome Shabbat together on Friday evening and then eat — the whole congregation at one long table. It is the least programmatic thing we do and probably the most important. Food for a hundred and twenty people costs money.
TODO: the cost of one meal, and how many we want to be able to host in a year.
A share in a building
For twenty years we have met in other people's rooms — a living room, a field, a cave, a rented basement under a bowling alley. In 2025 we moved into a building on the edge of the desert that we spent the best part of a year renovating: bigger, and able to hold everything we do rather than only Shabbat morning.
We rent it together with another ministry, and when the time comes we intend to buy it together. Our share of that purchase is what we are raising for here. To be plain about it: this is a joint purchase, not a building of our own — and the gift you make to us goes to our share of it, not to theirs.
TODO: our share, what is raised so far, and by when.
