Shuvah Yisrael offers intermarried  families two things:  common ground and company. 

However, our synagogue does not exist primarily to make intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews easier.  Our religious outlook is based on deep convictions and not expediency.  This being said, our beliefs about Jewishness and Yeshua do, as a by-product create a very comfortable situation for intermarried families.

Many intermarried couples have made their congregational home among us because otherwise insurmountable difficulties can be removed:

A.    The Jewish spouse can worship in Jewish "space." Often, it is very difficult for a Jew to attend his wife's (or her husband's) church. However, Shuvah Yisrael is a synagogue. The sights, sounds, and rhythm of life are clearly Jewish.

B.    The non-Jewish spouse often finds it difficult to attend a traditional synagogue, not only because the symbolic world is unfamiliar, but because religion without Jesus seems incomplete. At Shuvah Yisrael, Yeshua the Messiah is honored as the exalted Holy One of Israel who, as a matter of genuine historical record, died and rose again! This point of commonality with the historic Church validates the deepest sensibilities of the non-Jewish spouse.

Thus, the common ground offered to an intermarried family can meet a deep need and even head off a potential marital conflict so long as the couple is willing to view the Jewish community as their primary community of reference.