Photos 2026 Messengers Messianic Outreach Baleston

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 Him. That is why we conduct a Seder.
In 2026 Mottel arranged and led 2 Messiah in the Passover Seders, one in New York and the other in Pennsylvania, but we found out later the phone/camera used was set incorrectly, so no photos of them. Below see a Seder at a Messianic Jewish home in New Jersey I participated in, the young man reading the text of the Book of Exodus was in the Hebrew class Mottel taught.

Messianic Bible Discipleship Program in upstate New York at
Shoshanah Campus Summer 2026

- Each Summer Mottel teaches for about five weeks at the Discipleship Program for Jewish & Gentile believers run by Ariel Ministries at their Shoshanah Conference Center in upstate NY. The ministry was founded by well respected Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, a Jewish believer in Jesus. This is a fully collaborative endeavor and benefits the Jewish believers we are discipling in our ministry. When the program began over 45 years ago it was only open to Jewish believers, now it's open 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 4 or 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 2026 the program averaged about 35 adult students each week, with about 140 different students in total across the weeks from across the USA plus 9 nations over the full 8 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 music leadership responsibilities.

Mottel teaching "Eight Covenants of the Bible" a 10 session (10 hours total) class. He also taught
the Book of Acts in 10 sessions, and a survey course on Systemic Theology (10 hours).

In addition to teaching, one of Mottel's responsibilities was to oversee and lead the seven or eight students who volunteered to be
in the various mix n match music team configurations. Most of our songs are taken directly from the Scripture text,
with some songs using the original Hebrew lyrics.

What we're NOT showing you . . .
are the details of some of the Jewish people who have come to faith or a being discipled. Privacy & security are concerns.


Hannah & Michael, Jewish believers in Messiah Jesus, first time at the school. Mottel led Michael to faith in December 2025, he was baptized at Camp


Bible students from Italy & the USA