• Welcome to our wonderful life!
    the life Yahshua taught us to live
  • We all live together,
    like a big extended family.
  • We live this way because
    We follow the teachings of Yahshua.
  • Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another."
    He said, “Love one another.
  • We share our possessions and work together,
    like bees in a hive - every day.
  • Our communities began
    in the early 1970s in
    Chattanooga, TN.
    We had searched to find
    a church where God really
    was the highest priority,
    but found that He actually
    took second place,
  • even to things like
    Superbowl Sunday
  • Disappointed, we all went to the
    park to worship our Father.
    We just wanted to make Him as
    important in our lives as we are in His.
  • So we stopped going to church and started being the church,
    and something wonderful began to happen!
    We began discovering what God wants to happen on this earth.
  • With excitement, we discovered that
    the disciples in the first century
    lived just as we were living.
    Acts 2:44 says, "All who believed
    were together and had all things
    in common."
  • And Acts 4:32 is even clearer, "All the believers were one in heart and soul,
    and no one claimed that any of his possessions was his own,
    but they shared everything they had.
  • We live together
    because we love Yahshua
  • Our love for Him makes us love being together.
  • We also love to share
    this simple life with others.
  • You may have seen us at events,
    walking in pairs,
    circle dancing,
    in our Yellow Delis,
  • or all together in a big unique bus.
    “Come for a day, or to stay!”
    You may have heard us say,
    what we now will say again:
  • Please come and visit us!
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You May Have Seen Us


At Our Yellow Delis

We serve the fruit of the spirit.  Why not ask?


On the Peacemaker Bus

We've taken our maroon-and-cream double-decker bus to many concerts and made many friends.


Have You Seen Our Walkers?

We are sent out in pairs to find others that are seeking


Circle Dancing

We dance together in a circle, where all members are important.

Testimonies

A Land Without Compromise

About eight years ago I left everything I knew in search of something better, something deeper. I was eighteen years old, living in my hometown in Puerto Rico. I wasn't satisfied. I didn't know what to do.

I didn't even know what praying was, but at this time I remember asking something greater than myself for some kind of direction.

Finally, one day, I heard in my heart that I needed to leave this small island. Somehow, I just knew I had to leave, but it wasn't clear where I should go. There had to be a place, a solution, an answer, something. There had to be truth somewhere. I was hoping and wishing for more meaning, some sort of answer, some sort of water that would quench my thirst for the truth--the truths about everything: about why the world was the way it was, why there are things like divorce, broken hearts, confusion, pollution, war...


Read the Whole Story

Nathaniel
Morning Star Ranch, CA

Our Songs

Are You Weary?  

This World is Perishing

Environmental Crisis 

Broken Relationships 

Collapsing Morality 

Organic Food

Broken Families 

Prophecies Fulfilled 

Forgotten Purpose 

Get to Know Us

Since our earliest beginnings, we have loved to have guests visit our communities, even spending days or weeks with us.  However, during this time of the worldwide pandemic, visiting the community nearest you may not be possible.  We respect and appreciate the direction of our country's leaders to keep socially distant for the sake of the older people especially.

Still, we would love to get to know you. Each of our communities would welcome your calls, letters, and emails.  Please get to know us, even though visiting may not be possible in the community nearest to you. 

Check our Locations page for the community nearest you and contact them. You can also write an email to us through the website by clicking the "Email Us" link at the bottom of the page.

The Twelve Tribes is a confederation of twelve self-governing tribes, composed of self-governing communities. We are disciples of the Son of God whose name in Hebrew is Yahshua. We follow the pattern of the early church in Acts 2:44 and 4:32, truly believing everything that is written in the Old and New Covenants of the Bible, and sharing all things in common.

Please Contact us

  E-mail us
  1-888-TWELVE-T

   Or call the phone number of your nearest community.