History

Olive Branch Ministries has been in the Atlanta, Georgia area for over eight years. We are a Hebraic Roots and Discipleship ministry. Hebraic Roots, from our point of view, is simple. God built his work on the framework of Abraham and Israel. In order to understand what Yeshua (Jesus) did, one would, quite realistically, need to get as close to the framework that formed Israel in order to understand what has occured. This is our mission. It requires much study and the second focus we have which is Discipleship. We form our discipleship around the Israelite method of training. It looks similar to a trade apprenticeship. It is focused and as constant as our schedules allow. It is meant to build the character of the teaching into the person so that they become what they are reading; what Paul, Peter, and John are imploring their readers to become.

Olive Branch Ministries strives as much as possible to build a corporate reality of the Body of Christ. In Acts, Luke relates that the early church made a decision concerning the ministry to the Body and they are quoted as saying, "It seemed good to us and to the Holy Spirit". This statement is prevalent in our midst. We always strive to give the Holy Spirit the correct place as leader and discerner of all conditions.

Olive Branch Ministries is also very much involved in the Atlanta community. We do quite a bit of outreach to various places around town. We of course have our radio ministry and we really enjoy music and film/theatre. We love to eat and all the restaurants around us know us by name. Come and visit. We would love to fellowship.

Biographies

Pastor Richard Weintraub

Pastor Weintraub has been in full time ministry for over thirty years. He originally studied Psychology at Boston College. When he met the Lord during his final year of school he knew the Lord was calling him to go to bible school. He attended bible school in Massachusetts and upon graduating he was led again by the Lord to go to Israel, the historical land of his people. At the Wailing Wall, during a moment of prayer, the Lord invited him on a journey to get to know his heritage and the history of the people of Jesus, the Messiah of Israel.

It is now some 25 years later. He has helped start, or started himself, four different communities of believers in three different locations (Atlanta is actually a return to the location of his first mission). He was initially a part of the budding Messianic movement that grew in the 1990's, but has since drawn towards Hebraic Roots and the richness of the historical bible as seen through the eyes of its Jewish writers. He is currently working on a Doctorate degree in Divinity and is constantly working to disciple those in his community after the full revelation of Messiah Yeshua.