Congregational Leader: Chaim Urbach
By By: Janice Desgroux
To bring variety to this series, this week’s article will focus
on a congregation just outside Douglas County, but whose doors are
open to all our residents.
The purpose of Congregation Yeshuat Tsion is to build a
close-knit Messianic community in which each individual is
spiritually nurtured into maturity, to worship Messiah Yeshua
(Jesus Christ) in a distinctly Jewish setting and to challenge all
people, but especially those in the Jewish community, to consider
the claims of Yeshua in their daily lives.
Yeshuat Tsion uses the Holy Bible and the Torah, the Law of
Moses, as guidelines on living life. The congregation believes that
none of us can live up to God’s requirement for holiness on our
own.
That is why the members join together in worship as a family and
use the tools provided them to fulfill their purpose. Holidays
celebrated by this congregation are the Levitical and traditional
Jewish holidays including Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Succot,
Passover, Shavuot and Chanukah.
Yeshuat Tsion’s congregational leader, Chaim Urbach, was born in
Israel and spent his childhood there.
Chaim came to the United States in 1967, where he pursued an
education in the biological sciences, obtaining a master’s degree
in zoology from the University of Northern Colorado.
He worked in biomedical research for a number of years while
active as a layman in Messianic ministry. Chaim served as a
founding elder in a local Messianic Jewish congregation.
In 1987 he entered the ministry full time and coordinated a
national Messianic Jewish conference. He received his theological
training at Denver Seminary, graduating in 1991 with a master’s
degree in New Testament studies.
After his ordination, he assumed the leadership of Yeshuat
Tsion.
The congregation meets for Shabbat/Sabbath worship Saturday
mornings, following the examples of Yeshua’s first-century
disciples who continued to live a Torah-observant
lifestyle.
While members do not judge other believers in Yeshua who observe
differently, they rejoice in their freedom to meet on the
Shabbat.
During the message portion of services, the children go to the
age-graded Shabbat school. The services include singing, worship
dance and reading from the Torah.
It is their desire to have all Douglas County residents join
them and share in creating a community of believers.
To find out more about this congregation, access the
congregation’s Web site at http://yeshuattsion.org, where the
information for this article was obtained.
You can also attend the weekly service time at 10 a.m.
Saturdays.
The congregation is one mile west of Interstate 25 on the
southeast corner of Belleview and Holly in Greenwood
Village.
Janice Desgroux is a free-lance writer who lives in Douglas
County.