WHO WE ARE

We are a fellowship of Pro-Torah believers in Yeshua of Nazareth, the Messiah

OUR HISTORY

Beit Tefillah (House of Prayer) Messianic Fellowship was formed in 2001 CE at the leading of the Ruach HaQodesh by Terry Scruggs  ZT”L, Dan Payton, Jim Barfield, and Gary Gardner.

We have met in a variety of locations over the years, including many years as a “home fellowship”  meeting in several homes on a rotating basis.  We are still a “home fellowship” at heart, but have been blessed to meet at the Impact Center, 2810 NW Sheridan Road since 8/2019.

Our current Zaqanim (Elders) are Wayne Ingalls and J.D. Kimbrell, shown below opening up the 2011 Lawton-Fort Sill National Day of Prayer with blasts of the shofar:

We enjoy fellowship with the Worldwide Nazarene Assembly of Elohim and other congregations and groups that are Torah positive (the Torah of Messiah Yeshua) in the greater Texoma area, including Lawton, Altus and Duncan, OK; Wichita Falls and Bowie, TX.

Our Doctrine

Our beliefs are:

Big enough to include all the facts, and

Open enough to be tested.

Don’t Believe a Thing that we Say

Search the Scriptures; Be Bereans  (Acts 17:11)

The Worldwide Nazarene Assembly of Elohim’s Official Statement in Defense of Marriage is shown below:

Official Declaration in Defense of Marriage

Yeshua the Messiah said:

4 …Have you not read, that He who made man at the beginning, made them male and female.
5 And said: Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh?
6 And now they are no more two, but one flesh only. What therefore Elohim has joined together, man cannot separate.
(Matt. 19:4-6 HRV)

We as Nazarenes maintain that marriage is a religious rather than a secular act. We maintain that word ‘marriage’ means only a union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word ‘spouse’ refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.

Therefore, we as Nazarenes claim the right not to participate in any public act, record, or judicial proceeding respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of any nation, state, territory, possession, or tribe, or any alleged right or claim arising from such relationship.’