Sar Shalom Fellowship was born in August 1998. It was a congregational plant of Son of David Congregation and was led by Dennis Karp. After brief periods of time in Herndon and Reston, the congregation landed in Sterling, in northern Virginia. Neal and Kim Surasky joined the congregation in 2005. Dennis and Tina Karp announced their move to Israel in 2006, and Neal was inaugurated as the rabbi in 2007. In 2008, as the congregation grew, the Hebrew name of the congregation was adopted as the official name, Kehilat Sar Shalom. The congregation moved to its current home in Leesburg, VA in 2011. The congregation features Messianic praise and worship music, a Torah service, and a message from the Word, with the goal of ministering to the Jewish community in northern Virginia.