Mottel y Deborah Baleston
Mensajeros del Nuevo Pacto
USA – Noreste
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FIELD
In our day there has been a resurgence of Jewish people coming to faith in Jesus as their Jewish Messiah and Savior. They have a continuing affection for Jewish life and culture, while at the same time affirming Jesus as Lord and Messiah. The Baleston family of New Jersey is typical of this new movement within the Jewish community.
Mottel was born into a Jewish home in Brooklyn, New York and attended Jewish and public schools there. His grandparents were members of an Orthodox Jewish Synagogue and continued that affiliation after they arrived in America.
Mottel is the Director of the Messengers Messianic Jewish Fellowship of New Jersey, a ministry of Missions Door. Messengers carries on a work of sharing Messiah Jesus within the Jewish community and leading people to faith. There are over a quarter million Jewish people in the northern New Jersey area. The ministry has experienced active opposition from the rabbis of the community. Educating Christians concerning the Jewish roots of faith in Messiah is also part of their ministry.
Mottel is a graduate of Northeastern Bible College and has done extensive study and course work at Biblical Theological Seminary of Pennsylvania and Ulpan Beit HaAm of Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.
The Balestons have been used by the Lord to lead many Jewish people to faith in Messiah Jesus. Many other new Jewish believers have been discipled through the fellowships and Bible studies they have conducted. Many of these Jewish believers are now serving in local churches.
In 2006 Mottel was privileged to baptize eight Jewish believers from their fellowship. In addition to his work with Messengers, Mottel also served as the interim Messianic Pastor of Beth Messiah Congregation of Livingston, New Jersey from 1997 through 2001. He has spoken at churches and taught at conferences in Israel, Canada, New Zealand and throughout the United States.
FAITH
Mottel came to faith in Messiah as a result of a search for spiritual truth. After a careful reading of the Messianic prophecies of the Jewish Bible, it was evident to him that only Jesus had fulfilled these. Mottel was led to faith by Vincent Morgan, another Missions Door missionary.
Deborah was also born in Brooklyn, into a Sephardic Jewish family which had come to America from the Middle East two generations earlier. For several years she attended an Orthodox Jewish Yeshiva (Day School) in New York. She came to faith in Messiah Jesus also through an examination of the Jewish Bible prophecies shown to her by Vincent Morgan.
