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Founded in 2020, our vision is to teach individuals, families, and communities how to develop an intimate walk with the Father through understanding and applying the Torah in their lives. We strengthen Torah Pursuant communities, teach courses, and publish resources. We are building a bridge between Arkansas and Israel in preparation for the coming of the Messiah, Yeshua.  

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Beginning in 2020, the Lord has called hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Torah Pursuant families to Arkansas and Missouri, with many moving to Texas, Oklahoma, and the surrounding states. This migration from across the United States is to prepare a bridge from the United States to Israel in fulfillment of the prophecy that all nations will travel to Israel three times yearly to fulfill the command to go to the Temple for Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkoth. We hear the call to "make straight in the desert a highway for our G-d." We are called to the Court of the Gentiles. 

The Lord is preparing some of us to help others cross this bridge back and forth to Israel, make aliyah, and escape the coming persecution during what is called the "Great Tribulation."  

We started this ministry by teaching the Torah to friends attending our small meetings in Fort Smith, Arkansas. After struggling with temporary sites, including the public library, and the meeting rooms in various parks, a restaurant, and a church, we developed a more permanent location in Waldron in the Spring of 2022. 

In the meantime, we have been encouraging conversations on Facebook under the pen name, Wes Smith, which stands for WEStern Arkansas - Fort SMITH. We are interested in conversations, not conversions. Once the Jewish and Christian communities understood this, everyone began to notice the considerate and friendly tone of all of our posts. Eventually, Wes Smith became a digital creator with our largest reach on a post hitting 25,000 views as of December 2024. Our goal has been to inspire open and frank conversations on topics of interest to Torah Pursuant believers in Yeshua. Our audience includes influencers, Jewish and Christian religious leaders, a large demographic that self-identifies as the "Excluded Middle," and many Torah Pursuant Gentiles, just starting the journey. The largest demographic is males, ages 25-54. We hope to extend this conversation across other social media platforms. To do this, we need help. (Feel called?)

We are now migrating our center to this website. We hope to help congregations and families discover the Torah Pursuant life. Our focus is the Holy Spirit/Ruach HaKodesh inspiration for applying the mitzvot/G-d's divine instructions in our lives. 

Mark S. Railey

Founder

I founded Wes Smith in 2020. I am the Academic Dean of an online seminary in Bigfork, Montana. I have been happily married to Katheryn since 1989. We love four sons, two daughters-in-law, and a precocious granddaughter. We enjoy our small homestead in Waldron, Arkansas. 

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