Meet the Directors


Paul, Tara, and Adin Klassen

Paul was born in Uruguay, South America, into a Mennonite family. He then moved, with his family, to Canada in 1976.

Tara was born into a Conservative Jewish home in Brooklyn, New York. Then at the age of 3, moved with her family to North Carolina.

Paul and Tara met during the School of Jewish studies at the University of the Nations. They were married in a Traditional Messianic Jewish way in April 2000, and now have a son named Adin.

Currently they are the Youth Directors at Tikvat Israel Messianic Jewish Congregation in Richmond Virginia. They are helping to raise up Jewish and Gentile Youth for the destiny of reaching out to the Jewish people and all the Nations, worldwide.