2019 Local NJ & PA Activities - Mottel Baleston, Messengers Messianic Outreach

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MESSIAH IN THE PASSOVER Outreaches & Demos - April 2019, New Jersey & Pennsylvania

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.  Believers invite friends & neighbors to hear us make a strong case that Jesus is the greater Passover Lamb, the Jewish Messiah and that all need to respond in faith to His Messianic claims. That is the main point of why we conduct a Seder.

We collaborated with ministry colleague & Jewish believer Diann Parkas of CJF Ministries for an outreach Passover Seder in a New Jersey home. We used a Passover Liturgy booklet that points out the places in the Passover ritual and meal which have reference to Messiah Jesus. In all we had about 16 at this Seder, with several who are not yet believers in Messiah.


This Passover Outreach was held in a Pennsylvania church. Several unsaved neighbors were invited and attended

This MESSIAH IN THE PASSOVER Demonstration was held in a Jewish area in Pennsylvania, and Jewish believer Rob attended.

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We held this Community MESSIAH IN THE PASSOVER Outreach in April 2019 in an area with a significant Jewish population in northern New Jersey. These presentations bring people outside Messiah face to face with His claims in a new, unique way, and help believers experience how the Old and New Testements are related.

- Misha is the young mom in the middle, along with her husband Souta & daughter Reiko. Twenty years ago she left Japan and attended and graduated from a New Jersey High School as an exchange student, living with a Christian family. It was there that she came to faith in Messiah.
- As she attended Church back in Japan, a guest speaker was Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, the Messianic Jewish Bible Scholar who founded the Summer Bible School where Mottel teaches every year. Misha started coming each summer, and she became a student of Mottels' in the years 2006-2009. She became active in ministry in Japan, organizing conferences, teaching Ladies and translating from English.
- After a 10 year absence, she returned to the Summer Bible School, now with a family, and we got together at the NJ host home in July 2019 just before we went upstate for the school.

Messianic Bible Discipleship Program in New York at Camp Shoshanah Summer 2019

- Each Summer Mottel teaches for three weeks at the Camp Shoshanah Discipleship Program for Jewish & Gentile believers arranged by Ariel Ministries.  Twenty-five years ago this program was only open to Jewish believers, in recent years it's been opened to all. It was vital to Mottel & Deborah's early spiritual growth and so it is a privilege for Mottel to teach there and to have believers we work with attending.
- Many of the believers there have come to faith in recent years. The program entails over 5 hours of classes per day at the Bible College level, so the students tend to be serious and MOST teach Bible themselves in their home areas. In 2019 the program averaged about 50 adult students each week, with about 140 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, leadership and occasional music responsibilities.


The main adult classroom and lecture hall at the Bible School


Bible Class is underway, Summer 2019.


A portion of the students from just one week in 2019. Countries of birth are Israel (10 people), Russia, Italy, Liberia, India, 
Albania, China, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Canada & all parts of the USA.


Mottel teaching, July 2019

Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum is the school founder and teaches at least 2 courses each day. He's a Bible scholar and author of 14 books.

All these students live in Israel. Most are native born & Jewish believers

Jewish believers in Messiah Jesus attended from Maryland,
New York and New Jersey

On Friday evening our Shabbat meal is festive with group singing

Classes are held mornings and evenings, afternoons are recreational

Demonstrating the Old Testament Tallit garment in kids class.

For two of the weeks, in addition to the adult classes, Mottel also taught a daily class for the older kids, age 11-14.  An Old Testament Torah scroll is shown.

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Video Excerpt - Bible Class Teaching:
Old Testament Covenants,
Conditional and Unconditional
from 2019 Shoshanah Discipleship School - 7 minutes

Song: Michamocha (Who is like You?)
In addition to teaching 2 classes each day, Mottel occasionally
leads worship before the classes of other instructors.
MICHAMOCHA is Hebrew for Who is like You? from Psalm 86.
Emmanuelle S. is on Piano, Ayelet H. on Violin,
both are Jewish believers in Messiah Jesus

Video teaching - Design For Discipleship
Excerpt of 2nd session: Conformed to the Image of Messiah
 Summer 2019 Ariel School of Messianic Discipleship, held at Camp Shoshanah, NY.

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ROSH HASHANAH - Jewish New Year outreach


In September 2019 we collaborated with CJF Ministries to stage a Rosh HaShannah outreach in the home of a Diann Parkas,
a Jewish believer and worker with CJF. We used the occasion to point all to the atonement found only in the person of Messiah Jesus.


Blowing the Ram's Horn to bring in the Jewish year 5780

Reciting the Hebrew prayer over the cup


Mottel with Charles and Michael, two Jewish believers in Messiah Jesus


HANUKKAH OUTREACH - December 2019
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!
Our Hanukkah celebration has it's focus on Messiah Jesus, the Light of the World !!


Lighting the Hanukkah menorah. These two Jewish sisters grew up in the home of believers involved in our ministry.


Each night of Hanukkah a candle is added

Some who attended


We partnered with Diann Parkas of CJF Ministries, a Jewish believer also involved in outreach


Hanukkah decorations made by Deborah

Leading Praise & Worship

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