Baptists purchased the first section of property near the Yarkon river in 1946 to establish a Baptist moshav as a place for followers of Yeshua in the land to live and farm and to be a place of refuge from religious persecution.
After Israel’s War of Independence in 1948, the orange grove was purchased, and the settlement was renamed “The Baptist Village”.
In August of 1955, an orphanage was moved from Nazareth to its newly built, large facility at the Baptist Village.
In the 1960’s, the orphanage expanded to include a boarding school. Agricultural education added beef cattle farming and a dairy barn was constructed.
In 1967, the government took on the
responsibility for providing orphanages. For this
reason, the orphanage at the Baptist Village was
closed and the facilities were transformed into a
boarding school.
By 1972, The Baptist Village had become a
central place of ministry where both Arab
Christian and Messianic Jewish believers could
meet for the purpose of religious instruction,
worship, and discipleship.
Around 2007, the baseball fields were improved
to be able to host the Israel Baseball League and
Maccabiah Games. International Sports
Properties rents the fields, and baseball and
softball leagues use the fields for most of the
year.
Today, the Baptist Village is used for conferences
and camps hosted by Messianic Jewish and Arab
Christian groups who believe, as Baptist do, that
Yeshua is the promised Messiah of the Jewish
scriptures.
