Nate Long

Hello! My name is Nate Long, and I am privileged to pastor King Messiah Fellowship. I'm a bi-vocational priest in the Apostles' Anglican Church, so besides shepherding KMF, I also work for an information security company.

Let’s see, what can I tell you about King Messiah? We are a small and intimate congregation that worships together in member’s homes here in Ft. Wayne, IN.

We are believers in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and disciples of Yeshua. Why do we call him “Yeshua”? Well, we don’t always or people wouldn’t know who we're talking about, but the name does have a special place in our hearts. Basically for the same reason that if you really know me, you don’t call me “Mr. Long” but “Nate” or “Nathan.”

At King Messiah Fellowship we are attempting to re-discover Jesus in his original, Hebraic milieu. The effort has revealed a lot about his words that would have otherwise remained obscured by the patina of centuries of mostly unintentional yet historically persistent a-contextual reading of the Gospels.

I should point out that the word “disciple” holds great significance for our community. We understand it in the context of the Hebrew word for disciple, “talmid. ” A talmid was the student par excellence of a 1st century rabbi or Torah Teacher. The significance, however, is in the distinction between our American understanding of the word “student” and the Hebraic concept of a disciple. A talmid wasn’t just looking to collect knowledge from his rabbi, but was zealously intent on apprehending his rabbi’s way of walking out the Scriptures, focused on becoming like his rabbi/teacher in every way.

It is our passion therefore to learn and imitate everything we possibly can about Yeshua. How did he pray, what did he read, how did he talk to those who were close to him, how did he talk to those who opposed him, how did he understand the Hebrew Scriptures, etc.? You will notice in this site evidence of that passionate pursuit to know and imitate our Master. It shows up in the books we read, the history we are interested in and sundry other ways, but hopefully most of all in the way we live.

We would love to have you visit, but you need to let us know you’re coming so you don’t show up at the wrong house! If you would like more information send an email to nate@kingmessiah.org.