Kim McKay Interview

Kim McKay is a retired nurse practitioner and believer in Messiah Yeshua. Raised Protestant, she dedicated her heart to Yeshua in 1999 at her previous evangelical congregation and has served in various roles. On short-term mission trips she has traveled to Peru Brazil and Ecuador and volunteered for 13 years with Healing Hands Health Center, a local free clinic. Since 2014 she has traveled to Israel numerous times and enjoys volunteering at Abundant Bread Of Salvation in Netanya. She attends Shoresh David Messianic Synagogue in Wesley Chapel, Florida, where she serves as Messianic Dance leader.

Robin Cowan Interview

Robin grew up in a believing home and remembers her mother praying with her every night. She heard the stories of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph many times. When she was 12 she went forward and prayed the sinners prayer with a counselor.  When Robin was around 15 she took confirmation classes and was baptized, and started attending many youth activities at her church.  She attended Seattle Pacific College and halfway through her junior year Robin was baptized in the Holy Spirit.

After attending a Liberated Wailing Wall concert and seeing the Christ in the Passover demonstration from Jews for Jesus, a friend invited her to a Messianic congregation and Robin fell in love with the Jewish feasts and customs. Having already learned many Jewish folk dances, Robin found the dances very worshipful and fun.  She began attending congregation 

Emmaus (now Beit Tikvah) in Bellevue every Shabbat. She has been involved in dance ministry and leadership ever sinceand also reads in Hebrew from the Torah scroll about once a month.  Robin’s main career was working as an office manager in the public health laboratory in Seattle for over 40 years. She retired the end of 2017.

Mariah Jackson Interview

Mariah “Blue” Jackson is a Messianic Jewish biblical teacher, author, and content creator with a passion for helping believers understand Scripture through its historical, cultural, and Jewish context. She is one of the founders of the Hood Bible Translation, a biblical commentary that helps readers engage Scripture in a Hebraic, but relatable and accessible way, and co-founder of Aaronic, a faith-based brand centered on biblical teaching, spiritual growth, marriage, family, and discipleship. Through her ministry and content, Mariah encourages believers to deepen their relationship with God, understand the Jewish roots of their faith, and apply biblical truth to everyday life.

Donna Coffey

Donna was born in Ringgold, Louisiana on June 26, 1955. She has been a life long resident of Louisiana and currently resides in Denham Springs, Louisiana near the state capital city of Baton Rouge,  home of Louisiana State University, LSU, geaux Tigers! She is a retired Professor of Nursing and is also a Family Nurse Practitioner. Donna was raised on a farm in Northwest Louisiana in Natchitoches Parish. She has four grown sons and one granddaughter. She accepted Yeshua as her Lord and Savior at the age of 9. She and her husband Jeff were high school sweethearts. Jeff was called to the ministry and she served as a Southern Baptist pastors’ wife for 20 years. She is no longer married and 13 years ago the Lord called her into the Messianic Community. She is an active member of Beth Hallel in Mandeville, Louisiana. She loves to travel and meet people especially Russian Jews. Her hobbies are singing, messianic dancing, swimming, and learning foreign languages such as Russian and Hebrew.

Tina Collison Interview

Tina was born to a teen Mom in Georgia. Early in her life she was a nurse. Most of her married life she was a stay at home mother, active in Christian schools her kids attended and also she was a Sunday school teacher. Tina was saved at age 32. It was a trip to Israel with First Dallas Baptist church in 2014 where everything came together like a puzzle that was waiting to be finished. She loves Israel and the Jewish people, and shares the good news of Yeshua to anyone she meets. She and her husband have visited Israel every year since 2014.  Tina has been married for 47 years to Santosh Collison, an Engineer from India and they have three children and two grandkids. 

John Gomez Interview

John Gomez was raised in a non Jewish home. Although raised Catholic, he later became involved in a Baptist church. Sometime during the pandemic, he discovered Messianic music and was very moved when he heard the words to Marty Goetz’s song  He is My Defense.

John became very interested in the Messianic movement. He went through a difficult time when his father passed away, but God strengthened him.  

John also had the opportunity to go to Israel with Sharshalom Israel (Jeff and Barry Seif.). He was there for 10 days and it completely changed his life.

Today he serves at Victory First Church of God of TexasCity.

Dolly Ziegler Interview

Dolly grew up in a secular home and later learned of her Jewish heritage.  At the age of 17, during the Jesus Revolution, she was introduced to Yeshua at a youth meeting.  Dolly has been a licensed Pastor and currently is studying to be a Certified Mental Health Counselor.  She and her husband of 40 years have served as Childrens Pastors, Shabbat School Coordinators and Youth Teachers and Leaders.  She is currently Women's Leader at Shoresh David Messianic Synagogue in Tampa where she and Don have attended for 25 years.  Her passion is to point and exhort others to a deeper more intimate walk with Yeshua and to be a bridge of understanding between the church and the Messianic Community.