For Messianic congregations · ministries · teachers · musicians
Congregations, ministries, teachers, Israel tour operators, publishers, and musicians. Sites built around Jewish life as your community actually lives it—the moadim, the weekly Shabbat rhythm, the lifecycle from brit milah to yahrzeit—because we’re part of this world, not visiting it.
They’re already looking—for a congregation, for answers, for a Shabbat service near them. If your website doesn’t tell Google when Shabbat begins or what kind of community you are, they never find you. Check it now, free.
A real crawl of your live site. Score and top issues in about a minute—no call, no obligation.
Runs on the same audit engine we use for paying clients.
Why church platforms fail you
Not because the vendors are careless. Because they built for a different year, a different week, and a different visitor. Here’s where it breaks.
The architecture problem
This is the thing no template solves, and the thing we spend the most time on. Two people land on your homepage in the same hour and they need almost opposite things.
Curious and cautious. Wants to know what this is before committing to a Shabbat morning—and is watching closely for anything that feels like a church in costume. Needs honesty about who you are, stated plainly and early. Anything evasive loses them for good.
Coming from a church background, hungry, often carrying questions their pastor couldn’t answer. Needs teaching, an on-ramp, and a clear sense of what’s expected of them. Needs not to be handed everything at once.
If this is the problem you’ve been staring at, it’s an architecture problem before it’s a design problem—and a free 30-minute strategy call is enough to find out where your site stands. No pitch, no deck.
Book a free strategy callThe standard set
Not add-ons, not a premium tier—this is the baseline for a Messianic congregation site done right.
Built on the Hebrew cycle, so Pesach and Sukkot land correctly every year without anyone editing a page. No more last year’s dates sitting there in August.
Candle-lighting and Erev Shabbat calculated for your location, updating weekly—then Shabbat morning, kiddush, oneg, and havdalah, so a visitor sees the whole day, not a start time.
Plain text and proper schema markup, so your times show up in search results instead of hiding in a PDF.
Every teaching tagged to its parashah and haftarah. People search these by name every week, on a cycle that never stops—the most underused search opportunity in the movement.
Bar/bat mitzvah, brit milah and baby naming, weddings, funerals, yahrzeit and Kaddish. Families search these by name at the exact moment they need them, and almost no congregation site answers.
Do I need a kippah or a tallit. Will there be a siddur I can follow. How much is in Hebrew. Answer these plainly and first-time attendance goes up—it’s the highest-value page on the site.
Set up around the pilgrimage feasts and your actual rhythm, not a Christmas campaign template.
Congregation, not church. Rabbi, not pastor. One transliteration standard chosen up front and applied everywhere—a small thing that signals whether you’re serious.
Some congregations are careful about publishing addresses and leadership names. We build for that from the start rather than patching it later.
The process
Most congregations don’t need to start over. We find out which one you are before anybody spends money.
Search Console, analytics, and a structural check on what you have. We find out what’s actually broken and what’s already working before touching design.
A real decision point, made with data. Sometimes your current platform can carry you and we fix it in place for a fraction of the cost. Sometimes it can’t, and we build. I’ll tell you plainly which one you’re looking at.
Search visibility, the Google Ad Grant, and steady monitoring so the site keeps working after launch instead of quietly decaying.
The next step after the free check
A human goes through your site in depth—not an automated scan—and you get an actionable report you can implement yourselves, or hand back to us with the full $495 credited toward the engagement.
Most congregations don’t need to start over. Some do. You shouldn’t have to guess which one you are, and I shouldn’t get to decide it based on what I’d rather sell you.
When your platform can carry you, we repair the structure, build the search visibility on top, and keep watch so it doesn’t quietly decay again. Managed work, month to month.
Feast calendar on the Hebrew cycle, parashah-indexed teaching archive, Hebrew set properly, service times Google can read—built in, not bolted on. The rebuild happens as a phase inside the same working relationship, data first, design second.
Verdict in writing, in a report you can hand to anyone. And if I’m not the right fit, I’ll point you in the right direction.
The Google Ad Grant
Every month, Google gives eligible nonprofits up to $10,000 in free advertising—and congregations typically qualify. That budget puts you in front of the people already searching for Messianic teaching, congregations, and the moadim.
Think about what that means before Yom Teruah: when someone in your county searches “Messianic synagogue near me” or “Shabbat service,” you’re the first thing they see, and it costs you nothing.
501(c)(3) nonprofits—and congregations typically qualify. If you have the determination letter, the grant is on the table.
Google suspends Ad Grant accounts when click-through falls below 5%. Nearly all of those suspensions are preventable—but only if someone is watching.
The fall feasts—Yom Teruah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot—are when seekers go looking. An account set up before then is worth more than one set up after.
We set it up and manage it as part of the retainer, so the account stays compliant and keeps running without your attention.
The bigger picture
The next generation is searching online first. So is the Jewish seeker weighing whether your congregation is safe to visit. A congregation whose teaching, feast calendar, and Shabbat rhythm live clearly on the web isn’t doing marketing—it’s doing transmission.
I’m actively involved in a local Messianic Jewish congregation in Cary, NC, and pursuing a master’s in Jewish studies at MJTI. Messianic.co is a service of NewCulture Consulting, LLC—the same infrastructure and craft we bring to every client, focused on the world I’m part of.
My passion is to bring that experience to help Messianic Jewish congregations elevate their web presence and effectively engage the Jewish community with solid theological resources that honor God, Israel, and Torah—while combatting replacement theology in all its forms.
Congregations are the center of the work, but not the edge of it. We also build for ministries, teachers, itinerant speakers, Israel tour operators, publishers, and musicians—and for churches and nonprofits too, on the same infrastructure.
Not necessarily. If your current platform can carry you, we fix it in place and build the search visibility on top. But most congregation sites do better on our platform—feast calendar, parashah archive, and Hebrew typography built in—and when that’s the right call, the move happens as a phase inside the same working relationship, never as a standalone project. The audit ends in a straight verdict either way.
A human going through your site in depth—not an automated scan. You get an actionable report: what people in your county are actually searching, the failures on your site named one by one, and a straight verdict in writing—keep your foundation or rebuild. Implement it yourselves, or have us do the work and the full amount credits toward the engagement.
The same infrastructure NewCulture uses for every client—chosen so feast dates maintain themselves, service times are readable by Google, and Hebrew sets properly. If your current platform can carry you, we fix it in place rather than force a move.
If you’re a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, almost certainly—congregations typically qualify. The harder part is staying compliant once the account is live, and we manage that as part of the retainer.
Messianic.co is a service of NewCulture Consulting, LLC, run by Jon Horton. We’re part of this world, not visiting it—but this is a service brand, not a voice for the movement. A vendor who gets it, nothing more.
The Website Audit credits in full toward the engagement if we go on to work together. Ongoing work is month to month—no long contracts. Full pricing lives at newculture.co/pricing.
Build a web presence that reaches your community and engages the next generation.
Start with a free 30-minute strategy call—your site, your county’s searches, and what to do next. Even if the answer is that you don’t need me.
Replies within a day. No pitch deck, no discovery-call funnel.
