Trans-Local Elder Tom Blake

Tom Blake is a founding elder of Kingdom Living Messianic Congregation in Kansas City. He currently is also serving as an offsite elder in the community of ROOT of David, via our connection with the greater Tikkun America network.  Although Tom lives in the KC area, he actively engages in weekly elders’ meetings at Shoresh David and has felt called by the LORD to specifically help establish a model of congregational government and local eldership that will be ready to take on the challenges of the current spiritual and societal climate in our country.

Tom and his wife Leah first became elders and part-time staff at Kingdom Living in 2007. They were ordained as Tikkun Emissaries in 2011 and lived in Jerusalem, Israel from 2012-2014. In Israel, they connected with the Tikkun network and Tom studied the Bible from a Hebraic perspective as a part of a PhD program at the University of the Holy Land. They moved back from Jerusalem in 2014 and helped Kingdom Living transition from a home congregation to a weekly public Shabbat service. Tom serves as a teaching elder and pastor and plans to finish his doctoral studies at The King’s University.

He is passionate about imparting a Spirit-empowered Hebraic worldview unto the unity of Jew & Gentile so that the world would know and believe that G-d loves them.