Gatherings & Events
Shabbat every week. Feasts throughout the year.
Every Shabbat, 10:30 AM
159 Frederick Street, Lexington, OH
Biblical teaching, worship, Torah reading, and community — no notification needed, just show up.
Life at Tikkun Olam Messianic Center is built around a steady rhythm — Shabbat every week, full of teaching, worship, and community, plus special gatherings throughout the year that mark the feasts and appointed times of Scripture. Whether it's a regular Saturday morning or a festive celebration like Purim or Passover, we invite you to join us.
Mikvah
August 22nd, 2026 10:30 am - ?
Charles Mill, Pavilion 1 (right by beach)
Tikkun Olam will hold a waterside service on August 22 at the new Charles Mill Beach. We'll have our usual service in the pavilion, followed by a mikvah and oneg.
Immersion in the mikvah is a tradition of spiritual renewal and preparation, and it holds special significance in the weeks leading up to the High Holy Days. As we approach Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, mikvah offers a tangible way to enter a season of self-examination, repentance, and return (teshuvah) — a physical picture of the inward cleansing and renewal these days call us toward.
Whether you're seeking mikvah for yourself or simply want to witness and support others in the congregation, all are welcome.
Modest attire is requested.
The park charges $5 per person or $10 per car. All guests joining us will have this covered — for members in need, please just let us know and we'll take care of it as well. See Amie.
There will not be services held at the Lexington location on this date.
Rosh Hashanah — Begins sunset Friday, September 11 · Ends nightfall Sunday, September 13, 2026
Service times:
Friday, September 11th at 7 PM
Saturday, September 12th at 10:30 followed by a Tashlich service and Oneg.
Our Friday evening service will include a Rosh Hashanah seder — a short series of blessings over symbolic foods that open the new year, each one a small prayer in edible form. Apples dipped in honey for a sweet year, pomegranates for abundance, and several others, each with its own blessing. It's brief, participatory, and a genuinely lovely way to begin the year together. Everything is provided; just come hungry for a taste.
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is a day of judgment, coronation, and the sounding of the shofar. Scripture commands its observance in Leviticus 23:24–25 and Numbers 29:1, calling it a "day of blowing the trumpet" — a sacred assembly marked by rest and the shofar's cry. In the New Testament, this same trumpet imagery echoes forward: Paul writes that at Messiah's return, "the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable" (1 Corinthians 15:52) — a promise many believe finds its shadow in this very feast.
We can't wait for you to hear our shofar sounded this year by Cathy, our baalat tekiah (master of the blast)— a sound that calls the congregation to attention and awakens the heart for the season of repentance ahead.
Following our Saturday service, we'll gather for Tashlich — a tradition of walking to moving water and symbolically casting away our sins, drawn from Micah 7:19: "You will cast our iniquities into the depths of the sea." It's a simple, physical act of leaving the past year behind and stepping into the new one clean.
Yom Kippur — Begins sunset Sunday, September 20 · Ends nightfall Monday, September 21, 2026
Service times:
Sunday, September 20th at 7 PM
Monday, September 21st at 11:30 and closing service at 7 PM
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year — a day of fasting, repentance, and return, commanded in Leviticus 23:26–32 and Leviticus 16, where God instituted the annual atonement made on behalf of His people. It is a day set apart to afflict our souls and stand before the Lord in humility, seeking forgiveness and restoration.
For us, Yom Kippur also points forward. Messiah Yeshua, our great High Priest, entered the Holy of Holies once for all, offering His own suffering to secure eternal atonement — the once-a-year picture of Yom Kippur fulfilled in Him.
Many choose to wear white on Yom Kippur, a tradition symbolizing purity and the hope of forgiveness — a visible reminder that "though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow" (Isaiah 1:18). It's a meaningful custom, though certainly not required to attend.
We will break the fast together following the closing service. It is our honor to provide this meal at no cost — please let us know if you'll be joining so we can prepare enough food for everyone.
Sukkot — Begins sunset Friday, September 25 · Ends nightfall Friday, October 2, 2026
Service time:
Friday, September 25th at 7 PM — Movie Night
Saturday, September 26th at 11:30 AM
Friday evening we will be opening Sukkot with a casual evening together — come at 7 PM for fellowship and a movie. We'll be watching Ushpizin (2004), a warm, funny, and unexpectedly moving Israeli film about a poor Jerusalem couple who pray for a miracle during Sukkot — and then find that miracle arriving in a form they never would have chosen. The title comes from the tradition of the ushpizin, the honored guests welcomed into the sukkah each night, and the film turns that custom into a story about hospitality, faith, and what it costs to actually mean the prayers we pray.
Please note: the film is in Hebrew with English subtitles, so you'll want to be settled in and ready to read along. It's well worth it.
Saturday we'll gather at 11:30 AM for a late morning service. Bring a covered dish, we'll share a meal and spend the afternoon in fellowship together. Bring a favorite board game.
Don't forget your lulav and etrog.
The Feast of Tabernacles commemorates God's provision and shelter for Israel during the wilderness wandering, commanded in Leviticus 23:33–43. For seven days, families traditionally dwell in a sukkah — a temporary shelter — as a physical reminder that our security rests not in walls, but in God's faithfulness.
Sukkot carries rich meaning for us as believers in Yeshua as well: John 1:14 tells us the Word "became flesh and dwelt [tabernacled] among us" — echoing this very feast, as God once again chose to dwell among His people.
We're looking forward to celebrating Sukkot together this year.
Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah — Begins sunset Friday, October 2 · Ends nightfall Saturday, October 3, 2026
Service times:
Saturday, October 3rd at 10:30 AM
Shemini Atzeret ("the Eighth Day of Assembly") and Simchat Torah ("Rejoicing in the Torah") bring the fall feasts to a joyful close. Leviticus 23:36 sets apart this eighth day as a sacred assembly, while Simchat Torah marks the completion of the annual Torah reading cycle — and the moment we begin again from the beginning.
We'll celebrate together with a rolling back of the Torah scroll, a beautiful and joyous tradition marking this fresh start. There's real celebration in the room — singing, dancing, and rejoicing over God's Word. If you've never experienced this, this is the year to come see it for yourself.
Chanukah — Begins sunset Friday, December 4 · Ends nightfall Saturday, December 12, 2026
Chanukah, the Feast of Dedication, remembers the rededication of the Temple after it was defiled and the Maccabean victory that made that restoration possible. Unlike the feasts of Leviticus 23, Chanukah isn't commanded in Torah — it rose out of Israel's history. But it holds a striking place in Scripture nonetheless: John 10:22–23 tells us that Yeshua Himself was in Jerusalem for the Feast of Dedication, walking in Solomon's Colonnade in the winter. It is the one festival the Gospels name Him keeping by name.
What follows in that chapter is no accident. It is at Chanukah — the festival of light and rededication — that Yeshua declares Himself the Good Shepherd and speaks of the Father who set Him apart and sent Him into the world. The One who called Himself the Light of the World stood in the rededicated Temple during the festival of lights.
Each night we kindle the chanukiah, adding one flame at a time until the eighth night blazes. The shammash, the servant candle, gives its light to every other without ever losing its own — a picture we find hard to miss. And the traditional Chanukah haftarah still says it best: "Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of hosts" (Zechariah 4:6).
Service details will be announced as we finalize plans — check back here or reach out to us directly.
Holy Day Offerings & Caring for Those in Need
All special offerings given during our Fall Feasts and Holy Days — beyond regular tithes — go directly to our Benevolence Fund, which exists simply to help those in need.
This reflects something remarkable in Scripture itself. In the middle of Leviticus 23 — right in the heart of God's instructions for the appointed feasts — the text pauses its description of the Holy Days to command: "When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field... You shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger" (Leviticus 23:22). Even in the midst of sacred celebration, God turns our attention to the poor and the sojourner among us.
We follow that same pattern — celebrating the feasts joyfully, while making sure our giving during this season reaches those who need it, wherever they are.