Elisabeta Karp

Serving in Washington DC

Back in 2015, Elisabeta graduated from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School with a lot of good Bible knowledge and wonderful experiences, but no idea about what to do next. She felt she needed still more training and even more direction. Shortly and suddenly, tickets to Israel came to her, and she found herself visiting and touring the Land. God began excavating her heart and unexpectedly “lifted a veil” from her eyes to the Hebrew roots of the Christian faith and especially to Jesus’ own Jewish identity.

The more she “went backward” in exploring the roots of her faith’s heritage, the more she “moved forward” with answers and direction in life, eventually finding a spiritual home in Messianic life, community, and seminary!

She moved to Brooklyn, New York for three years to finally receive the deeper training she yearned for—although this time from the Jewish perspective. Elisabeta graduated from Biola University and the Charles L. Feinberg Center with her Master of Divinity in Messianic Jewish Studies. She also has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Philosophy from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Two weeks after graduating (again), wedding bells rang, and she now lives with her husband, Zachariah, in Maryland where she ministers through outreach, teaching, writing, hospitality, and videos. Her YouTube channel “Messianic Matters” addresses Jewish-Christian topics, tensions, and texts through the unique Messianic perspective. Check it out and subscribe on YouTube!

Elisabeta is currently steeped in outreach to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, one of the most unreached people groups. Having herself been raised in a very religious Romanian church, Elisabeta’s heart is now burdened to reach the most religiously isolated and insulated people with the love and true knowledge of God through Jesus.

She also teaches at the Messianic congregation in Rockville, MD where she and her husband are very involved. They are also active in hosting ministry to traveling Israelis. Check out HostIsraelis.com to become a host!

Elisabeta’s passion is for two veils to be lifted: 1) the Jewish veil to the knowledge of Jesus as Messiah and 2) the Christian veil to the knowledge and significance of the Jewishness of Jesus and Scripture.

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