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Robin David Rose - Congregational Leader
Stu Dorsey - Worship Leader
Karen Farley - Children's Director
Shem Campbell - Youth Leader
Robin David Rose - Congregational Leader
Born in the 50's to a Jewish family in Miami, Florida, Robin and his family belonged to a Conservative Synagogue in North Miami and at the age of 13, having had 4 years of Hebrew school training, he became a Bar Mitzvah. Following his Bar Mitzvah, Robin had an additional 2 years of confirmation studies in his local synagogue.
On New Years Eve 1972, Robin was confronted with the fact that Jesus, the One who he had rejected all his life as a Jew, could very well be the true Messiah. As a result, Robin's life took a dramatic turn and he was hungry to study the Bible and know more about this Jesus who seemed to be touching the lives of many young people during the turbulent 60's and early 70's. To his amazement and delight, Robin had realized that he had not only come to know the God of Israel, but that Jesus was the long-awaited Jewish Messiah that his people had been expecting for thousands of years. As he studied further, all the pieces of his Jewish heritage began fitting together - why the Jewish people were chosen and what was ahead for them in God's future purposes.
After receiving Jesus as his Messiah and Lord, Robin joined a storefront ministry located in North Miami. It was at this time that Robin met his future wife, Karen Goldstein, another Jewish believer, and they married in February in 1975.
After spending many years in local church ministry, Robin decided to pursue fulltime ministry and went back to school earning an AA degree in Biblical Studies from Dallas Bible College and a BA degree in Biblical Studies from Criswell College in 1987. After serving as youth minister and an educational director in local Bible church, Robin became interested in reaching out to his fellow Jews with the good news of their Messiah. He became Congregational leader of Adat Shalom in Dallas in 1998 and has served there until the present. Robin and Karen have three beautiful grown children .
You can reach Robin at his email
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Karen Farley - Children's Director
I was born in Dallas, TX in late 50’s and was saved at the age of 8 during a morning worship service at the Baptist church my family attended just down the street from our home. My mom was Jewish and my dad was not, this unfortunately caused my parents to have strong differences about religion. Our family left the church shortly after I was saved and never returned. I did not grow in my faith but I always believed in my heart that Jesus was God.
After many years of walking in ignorance at the age of 29 and at the lowest point in my life the LORD drew me to Him and I prayed in my living room confessing Jesus as my LORD (Romans 10:9 & 10). It was after that glorious encounter that the LORD led me to pray with my mother, who received Jesus before she passed away in 1991. He also led me to my wonderful husband, Terry. We met in a Show Business Sunday School class at First Baptist Church, Van Nuys, CA.
New in the faith, my circumcised heart was very tender towards the LORD and I had great zeal to serve Him. He drew me to a small messianic congregation in Van Nuys and thus began my association with Jews for Jesus. Shortly thereafter, Terry and I moved back to Texas to care for my aging Grandmother and we continued worshipping the LORD at a local messianic congregation and then at Adat Shalom.
At Adat, our spirits agreed so strongly with the atmosphere in the congregation and with Robin's teaching that we have grown in our desire to serve. It is clear the LORD has blessed me with the opportunity to teach in the Shabbat School.
Terry and I both have a background in Theater. I graduated from the University of Texas back in 1981 with a B.F.A. in Directing but the LORD had other plans for me. He protected Terry and I both from the path of fame and fortune and instead blessed us with two wonderful boys, Daniel and Samuel.
I have home schooled both our boys and love teaching. Daniel graduated from our home school, Hebrew Christian Academy, this May and Samuel will enter 8th grade in the fall. The greatest blessing we have received has been watching both our boys accept the LORD and continue to grow in favor with God and man.
Teaching God's word gives me great joy and He continues to bless me with opportunities to teach His word from a Messianic perspective! I pray for more and more opportunities to magnify His Name!
Stu Dorsey - Worship Leader
Stu Dorsey was born into a musical Christian family in Waxahachie, Texas and was saved at the age of eight. He was blessed to grow up a “Bapterian,” as he puts it:
“We were Baptists, but my father directed the choir at the Presbyterian church less than two blocks away, where my mother sang in the choir and was the substitute organist. I went to Sunday School at the Baptist church, morning worship at the Presbyterian church, and went back to the Baptist church for youth choir, training union, and evening worship. I had the best of both worlds, and I was fortunate to grow up with two church families and two different hymnals.”
As a music student in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Stu had the opportunity to sing in the choir of a large Reformed Temple near Cleveland, Ohio, where he learned to sing in Hebrew. “It was a very good experience, and I was blessed with many good friends and colleagues, there. I learned a great deal, but it was disappointing to be at such a theological variance with my friends in the Reformed Judaic tradition. After these many years, it’s a tremendous blessing to serve as Worship Leader at Adat Shalom and celebrate the Messiah, fully, with my Jewish brothers and sisters.”
Stu holds a B.M. degree in Composition from the University of North Texas. He also “has an embarrassing number of graduate hours not to have a master’s degree” from Southern Methodist University and The Cleveland Institute of Music. In the mid-‘90s, Stu served in the U.S. Army as a bass trombonist in the 2nd Armored and 4th Infantry Division Bands at Ft. Hood, Texas, where he also led the music for the Protestant service in the division chapel. He has since served churches in Nashville and Fayetteville, Tennessee. Stu splits his time between leading worship services at Adat Shalom and 1st United Methodist Church of Red Oak, Texas where he currently serves as Minister of Music.
Stu can be reached via email at
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Shem Campbell - Youth Leader
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