Another Special Life in Christ:
These lives are not "role models". Jesus is the role model! These are lives wonderfully touched & changed by Jesus!

Lily Fishman Isaacs:

Her Life Before Jesus Came In:

Born about 1947, Her parents are full-blooded Polish-born Jews caught up in the German Holocaust for 5 years. Lily was born in Germany. They immigrated to New York in 1949 (when Lily was 2), and Lily aspired to theater acting and spoke Yiddish until grade school.

Betty & I first heard of The Isaacs from a Christian Jew & his young daughter we met at a piano-bar restaurant in Gatlinburg, Tenn. in June 2003.

Lily met Joe Isaacs in New York, and they married in 1969; a family of 3 children followed. Joe was the handsome son  of a Pentecostal preacher, one of 19 children; he was playing with the Greenbrier Boys, a Blue Grass band playing in Greenwich Village. Joe placed musical instruments around for the children. In 1971, Lily accepted Jesus as her savior under most unusual circumstances (the funeral of Joe's 27 year old brother-in-law at a little church near Cincinnati, Ohio), see below.

Her Life Since Jesus Came In:

Her family rejected her for a time. Lily & family became The Isaacs, a current Christian singing group. Check her story on the group's website and the wrenching words of her "700 Club" appearance in August 2005 (following which the Club handled more than 600 calls from people wanting to claim Jesus as Savior). Her father accepted Jesus as his personal savior before he died. We tremendously enjoyed their performance at a 26 March 2004 Gaither Family Reunion Concert at The Colonial Center, Columbia, S. C. (and again on 11 November 2005, same venue). Also see Bernard Nathanson's story.

Several years ago (about 1999), we had a Jewish couple visit our Sunday School class; and the husband told us of his experience of being almost inner-compelled to find out about Jesus. And they noted what a wonderful and advantageous situation it was to be a family in a congregation of "messianic" or "completed" Jews who practiced their God-loving faith and culture as Jesus following Jews. Also, as mentioned above, on 25 May 2003, we met a man and his young child at a restaurant in Gatlinburg who told of his conversion to being a messianic Jew...he originally was from California and gave the name of Barney Russell (I never got contact info). Note the Jews for Jesus website and the International Messianic Jewish Alliance website.

What is the Gospel...the "good news" of Jesus?