For Messianic congregations · synagogues · ministries
Congregations, ministries, teachers, 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.
Not because your congregation isn’t worth finding—because your website doesn’t tell Google when Shabbat begins, what kind of community you are, or that you exist at all. Check it in ten seconds.
Free. A real crawl of your live site—score and top issues in seconds.
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.
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.
Serving both without alienating either is an architecture problem before it’s a design problem. We solve it with separate paths off the homepage, not one blended page that half-satisfies both.
The 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 on their own—then Shabbat morning, kiddush, oneg, and havdalah, so a visitor sees the whole day rather than 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 single week, on a cycle that never stops—it’s the most underused search opportunity in the whole 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. How long. Will I be singled out as a guest. 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—it’s 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.
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.
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.
The site can carry you. What it needs is the structure fixed, the search visibility built, and someone watching it so it doesn’t quietly decay again. That’s managed work, month to month, and it starts small.
No amount of patching fixes a foundation that won’t hold. We rebuild—but as a phase inside the same working relationship, with data first and design second, so you’re never handed a beautiful site nobody can find.
Either way you get the verdict in writing, in a report you can hand to anyone. Fix it yourselves, or have us do the work—and the full $495 credits toward the engagement. And if I’m not the right fit, I’ll point you in the right direction.
Every month, Google makes up to $10,000 in free advertising available to eligible nonprofits. Not a foundation grant you compete for. A standing offer that renews.
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.
The catch is compliance—accounts get suspended when click-through falls below 5%, and nearly all of that is preventable. Here’s how it works.
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 account.
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.
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.
Probably not. Roughly seven in ten congregations we look at keep their foundation—we fix the structure in place and build the search visibility on top. The audit ends in a straight verdict either way, and when a rebuild is warranted it happens as a phase inside the same working relationship, never as a standalone project.
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 $495 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. Read more at newculture.co/for/messianic-organizations.
The Website Audit is $495, and if we go on to work together the full amount credits toward the engagement. Ongoing work is month to month—no long contracts. Full pricing lives at newculture.co/pricing.
The people looking for a congregation like yours are already searching. They deserve to find you.