Lifestyles Transitional Homes
This ministry, and what stands behind it
Lifestyles Transitional Homes keeps one household where people of different ages live the Word together, read from the Torah perspective.
Behind the house sit a few supporting parts: the ministry itself, a company that does the building work and secures the property, and other structures that hold land and resources for this work. Each has its own job. None of them is the point.
What we are
We read the Scriptures from a Torah perspective — the instruction given at Sinai as the foundation everything else rests on, and the rest of Scripture read in light of it. That shapes what we teach and how we keep our weeks.
It also shapes how we live. This is not a place where someone is handed a room and left in it. What we keep is a household: people of different ages and different stories in one house, eating together, praying together, keeping the Sabbath together, raising each other’s children together. It is not an hour on one morning a week — it is a way of living, kept all through the day, in the same rooms, by the same people.
And it is a ministry, which means the door is open and our arms are open with it. Our gatherings — devotions, study, prayer, Saturday worship — are for the people in our household and for anyone in the community who wants to come and learn, whether or not they ever live with us. Anyone who is drawn to what we keep is welcome to reach out — and every person who is interested in living here sits down with us first, so both sides can see whether it is a good fit.
Said plainly
Most people come to us with a picture in their head that is not quite right, and we would rather correct it before you call than after. So here it is, in four lines.
There is no service to sit through and go home from. The teaching is the whole day, and the household is where it happens.
This is a house with a family in it. Nobody here is a case, a bed number, or a file. You are part of the household or you are a guest of it.
You are welcome to convert if you want to, and nothing anywhere says you have to. Nobody is required to join, sign anything, or become anything — and nobody is pressed on it. What is asked is a willingness to hear the Word taught from a Hebrew perspective.
We work alongside the professionals in a person’s life — doctors, psychiatrists, courts, agencies — and we never take their place.
How it is structured
People ask us how it all fits together, so here it is plainly. A ministry, the hands that build and secure the house, and the structures that hold the property — one work, several parts, none of them the point.
The heart of it
A ministry rooted in the Torah — reading Scripture as it was first given and living it out as a household: devotions, study, prayer, the Sabbath, and family life shared at one table. It is the reason any of this exists, and it is what the house is for.
The hands that build
A separate company that does painting, remodeling, and construction contracting — and that acquires and secures the house this ministry uses. It is not the ministry and does not replace it. It is the pair of hands that makes a house ready and keeps it standing.
How it is held together
Alongside the ministry and the company sit other supporting entities — trust and charitable structures among them. They exist to hold property and resources for this work properly, so the ministry can stay focused on the people in the household.
If you need the legal details of any of these entities for a donation, a grant, or a partnership, ask us and we will send them to you.
Household life
That phrase is the heart of this. Everyone in a house is part of one household — not a tenant, not a guest, not a case. There is a rhythm to the week that everybody keeps: devotions in the morning, study and prayer through the week, worship together on Saturday, and meals eaten together rather than alone in rooms.
Children are raised by more than one set of hands. Adults who came in with nothing find themselves needed by someone else. That is the point: it is hard to stay stuck when you are somebody’s family.
Come and see. Guests are welcome at any of our gatherings — reach out and ask us when the next one is.