Living Israel congregation (currently it could be better characterized as a movement) started in 1995 with a pastor Gleb that arrived with his family from Russia and started a small home group in the suburbs of Haifa. The local Russian speaking church has been growing mainly due to the new immigrants that came from the Russian speaking countries. In 2004 the rehabilitation ministry has been launched to serve those new immigrants that fell into the traps of alcohol and drugs. Many people have been saved and restored to life through the rehabilitation ministry. Many of these saved people matured and became pastors. The ministry has been growing further with the constant focus on planting new churches. Today Living Israel is a network of churches each one managed by the local pastor or group of leaders. We support each other and collaborate through various projects and meetings.
Living Israel in Carmiel started in 2009 with a small home group. We started to meet at the small apartment but since then have been growing and exchanged several houses. Today we rent a big house in which some of our community families live. We conduct here our weekly Sabbath worship meetings and other activities. We share the same house with another local Messianic community. We have in total 4 messianic communities in the city. We have a wonderful relationship. We meet together constantly for the prayer and worship and pastoral meetings. We strongly believe in the concept of the unity and try to preserve it!
In our Sabbath meetings we have worship in both Hebrew and Russian. We have a children and youth ministry. During the week most of the community members meet in the home groups where we study the word of God.