Lisa is following Yeshua in a Hebrew way! Here's her story.

My name is Lisa Thomson. I was saved, baptized (about age 9) and belonged to a Congregational Methodist Church, most of my life.

While in church one day, I learned that the Sabbath was really on Saturday but we were observing on Sunday for various reasons.

I was very young but remembered thinking that no one really had a right to change a day that God specifically established. I hoped that someday there would be a church in our area that worshiped on Saturday.

About 7 years ago, my husband and I found Beth Israel Congregation, a congregation that worshiped on Saturdays, offered free Hebrew classes and had wonderful Parasha classes.

I went to the free Hebrew class since I had been learning Hebrew on my own for a long time. Next thing I knew, we were keeping Shabbat on Saturday and I was teaching Hebrew!

We’ve learned a lot in the weekly Parasha classes; things that didn't make much sense before in scripture now make perfect sense! God has been answering our prayers like never before since we're observing Torah - it's amazing and has really built our faith.

I've been a graphic artist for about 28 years and freelancing for the last few. My husband works at home too for a company in Maryland, so it's a blessing to spend so much time with each other.

I learned of Holy Language Institute online somewhere, signed up for the emails, and volunteered to provide graphics or whatever else the institute may need. I'm looking forward to my first assignment and getting started with the classes.

So far I've been through the three sets of Hebrew Pimsleur CDs and the Hebrew Rosetta Stone, but of course that's not enough.

I'm trying to get the hang of verb conjugations. I'm hoping the classes will help and I need to learn Biblical Hebrew. It's great that the classes are affordable and open to everyone!

In Yeshua,

Lisa