The nile beth israel messianic congr

NO OTHER FOUNDATION BUT JESUS CHRIST " Yeshua Ha-Mashiach"

The Beth Israel on the Nile is a Messianic Congregation established on the Foundation of Jesus Christ by William Levi, Founder of Operation Nehemiah Missions with the support of a sister congregation, the Beth Israel Messianic Congregation, Wayne, NJ USA under the pastoral leadership of Rabbi Jonathan Cahn. It came into existence on July 31, 2000 precisely 7 years after the establishment of Operation Nehemiah Missions. It was first established in Kampala, Uganda under the pastoral leadership of Pastor Michael Longwa and Rev. John Moi to minister the word of God to the Sudanese refugees in exile. The congregation is Family Integrated. It networks with Family Integrated Churches, Messianic Congregations and Christ centered Orthodox Evangelical churches across the USA, Canada, Europe and Africa.

In May 2005, Beth Israel on the Nile moved to Beth Israel Mission Headquarter in Borongole, in Magwi County, Eastern Equatoria State, South Sudan. The Beth Israel on the Nile is established to meet the spiritual need of the South Sudanese returning from exile to rebuild their families and country from the ruin of war and to prepare them for service to serve God, It has ministry outreaches to the families, men, widows, soldiers, women, families, and to the Muslims. William Levi is the Spiritual overseer of the congregation and His oldest brother Michael Levi is the senior pastor.

William Levi and His brothers envisioned the congregation to meet the standard of the first century church as outlined in the book of Acts of the Apostles where Jews and gentiles co-labor together in Yeshua. As Messianic Jews themselves, the Levites brothers know that their ultimate calling is to be light to the nations. God’s divine providence has placed them in the interior of the Sudan, the largest country in Africa to make a difference for Jesus. They are pioneering the Great Commission and advancing the Kingdom of God in the Midst of persecution and major political changes taking place in the Sudan today.

Michael Levi ordained
On June 15, 2008 approximately 400 believers gathered at the compound in Borongole to witness the ordination of Pastor Michael Levi of Beth Israel Messianic Congregation. Micheal was ordained by Rev. Gabriel Lagu Vuni of the Christian Brethren Church. Rev. Gabriel is also on the board of elders of ONMI. He brought a message of exhortation from 2 Timothy 4:1-5 and 1 Timothy 3:1-7. Pastor Michael Levi has now the mandate to ordain other pastors, appoint pastoral staff, conduct baptisms, dedications, marriages, burials, conduct communion, and to plant other churches. He is the first ordained pastor to minister to the Congregation, which was planted eight years ago while still in exile in Uganda. This occasion marked another milestone of restoration for the believers of New Sudan. .

The growth of the Beth Israel Messianic Congregation: Sunday November 22 , 2009 at the Nile Beth Israel Messianic Congregation. By God's grace, we conducted the baptism of 58 repentant souls, officiated 4 marriages, dedicated 27 children to the Lord, and took part in the first ever communion held in this congregation! 250 copies of the Pocket Gideon New Testaments were distributed, along with the discipleship book "Growing to maturity" by Dr. Daniel Juster and over 1000 people were in the worship.
I am so grateful for the indigenous leadership of the church vested in Pastor Michael Levi. Seeing the work of God in his life and family is a vision and a dream coming to pass. It takes the national pastors of the South Sudan to strengthen the work of God and lead the church in that country. Without the participation of local pastors and the local body, our work would be in vain.

The Vision and the foundation of the Congregation stands on this scripture "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man's work shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is." (1 Corinthians 3:11-13). Please read our statement of faith at

Statement of Faith

Our vision and goal - The Nile Beth Israel Messianic Congregation is Family Integrated Congregation.

"In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we believe that the family is a holy institution, ordained and established by the Sovereign Triune God Who created the heavens and the earth. God's infallible revelation, the Bible, reveals that the family is an integral part of the unfolding of His eternal purpose for the redemption of sinners. This great and gracious salvation--purposed by the Father, accomplished by the Son, and applied by the Holy Spirit--is in great measure passed on to succeeding generations as parents faithfully disciple the children God gives them. Therefore, the biblical order and unity of the family are crucial to the stability and health of the Church of Jesus Christ. In light of this, we recognize that the family--and especially fathers--are the focus of a fierce and unrelenting attack by the world, the flesh, and the Devil. This has escalated to the point that Christians must rise up in defense of the family in uncompromising biblical warfare.

Rather than helping in this battle, unfaithful church leadership bears the primary responsibility for the vulnerability of the family in the face its enemies. Unfaithfulness to God's Word in our pulpits has produced the decline of biblical Christianity and the dissolution of the family in our pews. The abdication of God's authority leads to unbiblical practices in the churches and to the erosion of biblical manhood and leadership. This in turn leads to the perversion of the role of women, the destruction of our children, and the collapse of our society. Traditions, which have originated in the minds of devils and fallen men, counterfeit God's authority. False doctrines derived from Darwinism, Marxism, Feminism, Secular Humanism, Psychology, and countless other unbiblical sources, have emerged from a society that has discarded Divine Revelation and have contaminated or replaced God's standards in many professing churches of the Lord Jesus Christ. The bitter fruit of this is the fragmentation, not the unity of the family.

We believe that the only resolution to this problem is repentance. We must confess our failures, reject the traditions of men, and wholeheartedly return to God's revelation for the establishment and nurture of the family in loving obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Head of the Church. Our fervent prayer is that our God will raise up Spirit-filled and healthy family-integrated assemblies from the ashes of our fragmented, individualistic meetings.

ARTICLE I -- Scripture is Sufficient
We affirm that our all-wise God has revealed Himself and His will in a completed revelation--the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments--which is fully adequate in both content and clarity for "everything pertaining to life (salvation) and godliness (sanctification)" including the ordering of the church and the family (2 Pet. 1:3-4; 1 Tim. 3:15).

We deny that God's people should treat His Word as inadequate for church and family life by supplementing His completed revelation with humanistic psychology, corporate business models, and modern marketing techniques.

ARTICLE II -- God Created Church and Family
We affirm that Almighty God is the sovereign Creator and Preserver of His people and all the institutions that bring blessing to mankind--including the church and the family--and is thus deserving of our highest honor and humble obedience (Col. 1:16-17).

We deny that we, being mere creatures, have a right to refashion the church and family according to our vain imaginations by altering God's prescribed government, worship, gender-based roles, or any other normative patterns revealed in Scripture.

ARTICLE III -- Satan is a Deceiver
We affirm the warning of Holy Scripture that Satan, the father of lies and deceiver of the brethren, has used his subtle trickery from the beginning to question God's Word: "Yea, Hath God said�?" (Gen. 3:1).

We deny that the children of God should embrace and employ the philosophies, goals, and methods of this fallen world in our churches and families, and thus succumb to the Adversary's deception.

ARTICLE IV -- Church's Head is Christ
We affirm our Lord Jesus Christ as the Head of His church, having purchased it with His own blood and having instructed it through His Word in order to make known the manifold wisdom of God and bring glory to Himself (Col. 1:18).

We deny/reject the self-importance and pride of man to usurp Christ's headship of His church by creating personal kingdoms through churches with man-made rules that disregard the Law of Christ.

ARTICLE V -- Church's Leadership and Ministry
We affirm God's revealed pattern in Scripture that the church be led and fed by a plurality of biblically qualified elders whom the Holy Spirit raises up from within the local church, who equip all the saints to do the work of ministry, and who may or may not be remunerated (Acts 14:23; 20:28; Eph. 4:11-12; 1 Tim. 5:17-18).

We deny/reject the two unbiblical extremes of our day: authoritarian, one-man leadership/one-man ministry that impedes the biblical functioning of the body, and leaderless house churches that disregard the biblical necessity of elders.

ARTICLE VI -- Church is a Family of Families
We affirm that our Heavenly Father designed His church to be a spiritual "family of families" where members know one another intimately, the shepherds understand the sheep effectively, and the various body parts function interactively (1 Tim. 3:15).

We deny/reject the current trend to value numbers and size more than intimacy and vitality by building impersonal mega-churches rather than the multiplication of family-like congregations.

ARTICLE VII -- Family is a Building Block
We affirm that the biblical family is a scripturally ordered household of parents, children, and sometimes others (such as singles, widows, divorcees, or grandparents), forming the God-ordained building blocks of the church (2 Tim. 4:19).

We deny/reject the church's implementation of modern individualism by fragmenting the family through age-graded, peer-oriented, and special-interest classes, thus preventing rather than promoting family unity.

ARTICLE VIII -- Church and Family Mission is Generational
We affirm that God intends both church and family to carry out evangelism and discipleship through multiple generations, "so that you and your son and your grandson might fear the Lord your God to keep all His statutes and His commandments" (Deut. 6:2; Lk.1:50).

We deny/reject the contemporary seeker-sensitive and youth group philosophies which fail to "equip the saints" for spiritual ministry and maturity, resulting in adults and youth who become lukewarm and spiritually wayward.

ARTICLE IX -- Church and Family Method is Relationships
We affirm that the saints of God are to be equipped for spiritual ministry and maturity primarily through family-based, one-on-one, heart-level relationships, and especially by preparing fathers to be servant-leaders in family and church (1Tim. 3:4-5).

We deny/reject the popular church system that has replaced heart-level relationships with activity-based programs, and has supplanted father involvement with clergy dominance.

ARTICLE X -- Church and Family Milieu is Everyday Life
We affirm that the church's relationships are nurtured primarily through daily discipleship in everyday life, especially fathers and mothers training their families and living out the gospel in ministry to the saints and witness to the lost (Eph. 5:21-6:4).

We deny/reject family-fragmenting, facility-based programs which disregard the Church as a people in community and which displace family-integrated outreach through "loving our neighbor as our self."

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Dear Pastor Michael Levi,
Shalom! Here are the first 8 songs from the Madi Burulo which our grandfather, the late Rev. Andrea Vuni had translated from English to Madi Burulo during over 50 years of his mission work in Opari Nyakanigwa. We understand that for these songs to become standard Hymnal for Beth Israel Messianic Congregation, you need to know the way how they are sang. I want to take this time to thank our uncle, the Rev. Nikolao Vuni, the most functional and faithful son of Grandpapa for preserving the copy of this song. This is a rare providence from God. With this Madi Burulo song in our possession, we will be not only restore the legacy of our grandfather and His commitment to the Great Commission in Eastern Equatoria, but we will be able to preserve Madi Burulo language in its originality from extinction.