Photos 2014-2015 Messengers Messianic Outreach

Guest Teaching at SEED OF ABRAHAM Messianic Jewish Congregation, Lititz, PA

Passover Seder Outreaches 2014 - The Passover Seder is a ritual which our Jewish people have continually observed for over 3,000 years. Passover is first found in the book of Exodus and celebrates our release from physical bondage in Egypt. As Jews, Jesus and His disciples celebrated the Passover, with the "Last Supper " being the best known example.
Increasingly, Christians are enjoying the celebration of Passover as they discover the Jewish roots of their faith. Our presentation demonstrates that the Passover service contains rituals which clearly point to Jesus as Messiah. At our Passover Seder we make a strong presentation that Messiah Jesus is the greater Passover Lamb and that we all need to respond to His Messianic claims. That is the main point of the way we conduct a Seder.

This Messiah in the Passover Seder in Ledgewood NJ was the largest, 200 people seated in a large room.

Messianic Bible Discipleship program in New York at Camp Shoshanah Summer 2014

Each Summer Mottel teaches for three weeks at the Camp Shoshanah Discipleship Program for new Jewish & Gentile believers arranged by Ariel Ministries.
Twenty-five years ago this program was vital to Mottel's early spiritual growth and so it is a privilege for him to teach there and to have believers we work
with attending. Many of the Jewish believers there have come to faith in recent years. The program entails 5 hours of classes per day at the Bible College level,
so the students tend to be serious. An encouraging trend the past few years is the increased presence of a younger group of new believers.
The Camp averages about 70 to 80 adult students, and over the years many who were initially discipled here went on to full time Jewish outreach ministry.
Mottel usually teaches 2 courses per day, and has counseling and worship leading responsibilities. It's located in the mountains of northern New York State.

Mottel teaching a course in the main hall at the 3 week Discipleship Program.

After class there were always questions.

The 3 Instructors: Mottel (at left) with Dr. Barry Leventhal (center) and Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum (right). Barry & Arnold were Mottel's teachers in the early 1980's so it's a privilege to co-teach with them now. Barry was a Professor at Dallas Seminary in the 1980's and is now Academic Dean at Southern Evangelical Seminary. Arnold has taught for Tyndale Theological Seminary and is an internationally known Bible Scholar & Author.

Teaching Jewish & Christian History: We're in the Byzantine period, discussing the Jewish community in Babylon/Persia years 300 thru 700 AD

At left, 3 students received their 5 year Diplomas in 2014. Joni, at top, leads women's group Bible studies in New England, Chris, at center, is Pastor of a Church in Australia, and Beth helps coordinate ministry activities in New Zealand.

Each summer since 1973 Ariel Ministries has conducted a 3 week intensive Messianic Bible Institute Discipleship Program, taught by director Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum and other skilled Bible Teachers. Over the years many Jewish believers & leaders in the Messianic Movement have taught here including Dr. Louis Goldberg, Dr. Michael Rydelnik, Steven Ger, Sam Nadler, Dr. Mitch Glaser, Dr. Barry Leventhal, Robert Morris, Mottel Baleston, Dr. Greg Hagg, J. Isaac Gabizon, Barney Kasdan, Gary Derechinsky, Louis Lapides, Jeff Gutterman, Michael Gabizon and several others.

Many students who were initially discipled here went on to full or part-time time ministry.

The daily schedule includes 3 hours of classes in the morning, 2 hours in the evening, with the afternoon free for recreation. The entire set of courses offered is fully covered during a cycle of five summers. A student may begin at any time. A certificate is given to those completing the 5 year cycle with a minimum 2 weeks each summer. The following courses are offered during each 5 year class cycle:

The Book of Isaiah
The Book of Proverbs
The Book of Acts
The Book of Jeremiah
Zionism and the History of Israel
Eschatology: Study of the Last Days
Messianic Jewish Epistles:
Hebrews, 1st, 2nd Peter, James
Rabbinic & Messianic Views of Messianic Prophecy
Ecclesiology: The Study of the Church
Ministries and Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Israelology: The Doctrine of Israel in the Scriptures
The Feasts of Israel
Issues in Messianic Jewish Theology

Bible Study Methods
Holocaust: History & Theology
The Book of Galatians
Design for Discipleship
The Minor Prophets
Messianic Jewish History
Jewish Family Life
The Plan of the Ages
The Covenants of the Bible
The Spiritual Life
The Book of Ezekiel
The Book of Daniel
Jewish History - Comprehensive

	In September Mottel led this gathering in Bucks County Pennsylvania. Over 40 attended, a mix of Jewish & non-Jewish people, including a few new believers. The scriptures were taught and we saw how they point to Messiah Jesus. - At left, sounding the "Shofar", the Ram's Horn, just as described in Leviticus 23 for the Feast of Trumpets, also known as Rosh HaShanah..

In Leviticus 23:39-43 the Feast of Tabernacles is described. It celebrates the faithfulness of God as he sustained the Jewish people for 40 years of living in flimsy
"Booths/Tabernacles" in the desert during the Exodus wanderings. The Jewish community celebrates this as commanded by scripture. When Mottel teaches about
this Holy Day we stress it's ultimate fulfillment in the Messianic Kingdom, the reign of Messiah Jesus, as He "Tabernacles" with His people. The photo is from an
October 2014 Messianic gathering in New Jersey inside the Sukkah/Booth as the items mentioned in Lev. 23:40, the Lulav & Etrog are held as the Hebrew blessing is recited.

Over many years we've cooperated with Ariel Ministries, an evangelical agency with their emphasis in outreach & discipleship of Jewish believers in Jesus. They sponsored and had me teach a 2 day conference in Texas on the theme of "Messiah in the Jewish High Holy Days", a study of how every one of the Holy Days given by God to Israel in Leviticus 23 finds ultimate fulfillment in the person and ministry of Messiah Jesus. We had a full house at their San Antonio headquarters, about 55, with several traveling from nearby states to be there.


Good fellowship during break time	The Ariel staff gathered all of Mottel's Bible teaching DVD video sets
The chart of the Biblical calendar gives an overview	Randy Shapiro is a Jewish believer, a good brother

On the day after teaching at the Bible Conference, Mottel was the guest presenter at the Adult Bible Class at Wayside Chapel in San Antonio, Oct. 2014.

HANUKKAH OUTREACH - December 2014
In John 10:21-22 Messiah Jesus is involved in the observance of Hanukkah (Feast of Dedication), as He
also observed all the Jewish Holy Days. Hanukkah commemorates the victory of the Macabees over
pagan forces who wanted to destroy the Bible and the Jewish people. Think about it:
No Jewish people = No Jesus / No Jesus = No Christmas. Without Hanukkah there wouldn't be Christmas!

We had about 35 out, both in this room and the room to the left	Hanukkah Menorahs
Who says Jews don't don't believe in Jesus? We're Jewish and we do !!	Mottel explains the background of Hanukkah
Potato Latkes along with a few other traditional Hanukkah foods	Good fellowship after the meeting

January 2015, Great meeting on Friday evening in a 2nd location in Bucks County PA, these folks have just started a Messianic Fellowship and
have asked Mottel to teach when he is available.

In April a new ministry outreach project was launched, as we collaborated with two similar ministries: Chosen People Ministries in New York and OneforIsrael.org from Israel. The video project was promoted globally, and filmed by a believer with professional credentials. The result has exceeded their expectations and mine, big time ! When you see my new testimony video I believe you'll agree that this is a significant new tool to help reach Jewish people. Again, it's meant to reach Jewish people who are not yet believers, it's very short and contemporary, and other Jewish believers were also filmed for separate videos. The film team choose to release my video first, to be followed by another every week.
Just seven weeks after the video launch it had over a Quarter Millions views YouTube & Facebook combined. Now, because of people "sharing" it, on the 'One for Israel' Facebook the views for this video stand at over 7 million as of December 2015 !!

To find it just type: Mottel Baleston into the Facebook or YouTube search bar. The comments/debate on those FB pages are an education onto itself, with some Jewish people from the mainstream condemning the video and myself, Jewish & Gentile believers refuting those comments and witnessing, with many ill-informed comments as well. While just 5 minutes long, the video presents a strong challenge and we've already seen it work! The main follow-up is being handled by the 2 larger ministries I collaborated with. As people have 'Googled' our name and sought us out, over several months we received many e-mails from Jewish people asking for literature, with two others even charging I'm pretending about being Jewish! Rabbi M. is open to dialogue. This is clearly just the beginning. If your congregation would like to show the video in a service, or use it some other way, it can be downloaded by 3rd party software and saved to disk. Just go to YouTube and enter in Search: Mottel Baleston
PLEASE SHARE IT!! - Translations into French, Russian, Portuguese & Chinese have been done as well.

Messianic Bible Discipleship program in New York at Camp Shoshanah Summer 2015

Each Summer Mottel teaches for three weeks at the Camp Shoshanah Discipleship Program for new Jewish & Gentile believers arranged by Ariel Ministries.
Twenty-five years ago this program was vital to Mottel's early spiritual growth and so it is a privilege for him to teach there and to have believers we work with
attending. Many of the Jewish believers there have come to faith in recent years. The program entails 5 hours of classes per day at the Bible College level,
so the students tend to be serious. An encouraging trend the past few years is the increased presence of a younger group of new believers.
In 2015 the program averaged about 65 adult students each week, with about 180 different students over the full 6 weeks of the teaching schedule.
Importantly, over the years many who were initially discipled here went on to full time Jewish outreach ministry. Mottel usually teaches 2 courses per day,
and has counseling and worship leading responsibilities. Camp Shoshanah is located in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York State.

A portion of the students for one week. The instructors at front, right to left: Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, Mottel Baleston, Michael Gabizon.

Some of the students in Mottel's Bible class: a new Pastor from Australia, a Bible teacher reaching Jewish people in Budapest,
a woman who came out of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, a Pastor of an underground Church in China, a veteran missionary from Israel,
a new missionary appointee to Israel, a couple who host a Bible study in England, an Elder at a Messianic Congregation,
a Methodist Pastor, a Jewish believer who teaches a Men's Bible study, a young Jewish couple seeking God's will re full-time ministry.

David & Betsie have proclaimed Messiah Jesus in Jewish communities in New England.	Mottel got to lead worship before several class sessions
Children of the adult students had their own Bible sessions, they are a mix of Jewish & non-Jewish backgrounds. Languages spoken fluently: Hebrew, French, Russian, German, Hungarian & English.	Afternoons were free for recreation
Both these Jewish believers teach Bible in local congregations	After each of the Bible classes there was time for questions

Messianic Fellowship Bucks County PA, October 2015
Explained the Torah Service and displayed the Torah Scroll. This was central to the first century world of Jesus & His disciples.

Teaching at the Ariel School of Jewish Ministry

Mottel spent two weeks in October teaching a module at the new Ariel School of Jewish Ministry in New York, where there are students who are considering a
career in Jewish ministry. This is an evangelical one year Bible school, similar to Word of Life, except on a much smaller scale. I am there on a collaborative basis.
The summer version of this school has seen over 30 students who came as young people eventually go into full time Jewish outreach careers,
that is a truly astonishing number.

Some of the staff and students at the school	Explaining the Passover Plate, Unleavened bread & lamb shank bone
The Rams' Horn "Shofar" was used in both Old & New Testament	Explaing the Passover Liturgy book, the "Hagaddah"