Download or read book My Journey Into the Amish World written by Haley Straw and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haley, a big city west coast girl moved to the Midwest and was introduced to the Amish people by a friend. Upon seeing her large twelve-passenger van they asked her to start driving for them. She didn't know what that meant. She didn't know a lot of things about the Amish.Prior to working for the Amish, she assumed a few things: She believed the Amish had no idea what they looked like; that they had never seen themselves in a mirror. Every Amish home Haley visited had at least one small mirror.She thought the Amish would not venture out of their communities in order to keep themselves separate from the world. Haley was surprised to learn that many Amish travel considerably.And finally, that the Amish lived a higher moral standard than the rest of us and so they must be closer to God, their families, and their communities. When a rumor spread around the Amish community that Haley was pregnant, she began to understand the Amish were prone to the same weaknesses the rest of us are.You're invited to journey with Haley into the real Amish world to see for yourself in these true stories.
Download or read book Simple Pleasures written by Marianne Jantzi and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Amish homemaker Marianne Jantzi welcomes readers with wit and warmth in Simple Pleasures: Stories from my Life as an Amish Mother. Amid mothering four young children family and attending to the family’s sewing, cleaning, cooking, gardening, and Jantzi also works in the family’s shoe store—helping fellow Amish customers find everything from hardy Muck boots to Sketchers running shoes. Through her busy days, Jantzi finds strength in the simple pleasures of family, fellowship with her Amish community, and quiet time with God. The heart of a teacher shines through her memoir celebrating the innumerable ordinary and simple gifts of children, faith, and deep love. Hear straight from Amish people themselves as they write about their daily lives and deeply rooted faith in the Plainspoken series from Herald Press. Each book includes “A Day in the Life of the Author” and the author’s answers to FAQs about the Amish. Plainspoken series—real-life stories of Amish and Mennonites includes: Book 1 – Chasing the Amish Dream: My Life as a Young Amish Bachelor by Loren Beachy Book 2 – Called to Be Amish: My Journey from Head Majorette to the Old Order by Marlene Miller Book 3 – Hutterite Diaries: Wisdom from My Prairie Community by Linda Maendel Book 4 – Simple Pleasures: Stories from My Life as an Amish Mother by Marianne Jantzi
Download or read book Coming Into Focus written by Mary Kaufman Schwartz and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I darted up the stairs and with a grim face declared, 'You are not taking a picture of me in these clothes!' I dashed into my bedroom; seized the straight pins from my apron, cape, and dress; and tossed them onto my dresser. Now I wish I could hold in my hand the photo that wasn't taken. I wonder what I looked like. I wonder what was whirling through my mind and heart other than my fervent desire to leave the Amish.Amongst the largest Amish settlement in the world and a family of eight, you'll find Mary, dreaming of leaving the culture she was born into. Now Dr. Schwartz, she's written an open, honest story about her childhood and adolescence, revealing what inspired her to leave the Amish lifestyle. Taking with her the lessons learned from her family and the support of her siblings, Mary tries to make a place for herself in a culture of which she knows so little. Experience the pain of prejudice and the triumph of new experiences through Mary's eyes in this bittersweet, colorful tale.
Download or read book Called to Be Amish written by Marlene C. Miller and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fewer than one hundred outsiders have joined the Old-Order Amish--and stayed--since 1950. Marlene C. Miller is one of them. In this rare memoir, Marlene recounts her unhappy and abusive childhood, how she throws herself into cheerleading and marching band, and how she falls in love with Johnny, the gentle young Amish man who helps her lace her ice skates. Against the wishes of both sets of parents, Marlene and Johnny get married and begin a family. Follow the author on this unusual journey to find out how God’s love called her out of bitterness and depression and into the warm embrace of her new Amish community. Accompany her as she dons an Amish dress and prayer covering and gets baptized. Learn how she endures the strain of ten children, a hundred-acre farm, and accidents and tragedy, and find out how she comes close to walking away from it all. Turning Amish has proven to be anything but plain and simple for this former majorette. But nearly fifty years later, Marlene is still living out God’s call as an Old Order Amish woman.
Download or read book Growing Up in My Amish World written by Eirene Eicher and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the fully revised, second edition of Eirene Eicher's tales of her Amish childhood. Skip down the path behind the cows, swing from the hayloft, and play ball in the basement of a one-room schoolhouse as you follow this happy narrative of growing up Amish. Eirene, a young Amish girl, grew up on a farm in a rural, Old Order Amish community in Geneva IN. Being the oldest girl in a family of sixteen children, she worked very hard. She also played hard and loved every minute. She never thought she would ever leave her beloved community where she felt content serving her family. In fact, she never wanted to leave the safe haven of her Amish community until she got pregnant at sixteen and began her search for Truth.
Download or read book Plain and Simple written by Sue Bender and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I had an obsession with the Amish. Plan and simple. Objectively it made no sense. I, who worked hard at being special, fell in love with a people who valued being ordinary." So begins Sue Bender's story, the captivating and inspiring true story of a harried urban Californian moved by the beauty of a display of quilts to seek out and live with the Amish. Discovering lives shaped by unfamiliar yet comforting ideas about time, work, and community, Bender is gently coaxed to consider, "Is there another way to lead a good life?" Her journey begins in a New York men's clothing store. There she is spellbound by the vibrant colors and stunning geometric simplicity of the Amish quilts "spoke directly to me," writes Bender. Somehow, "they went straight to my heart." Heeding a persistent inner voice, Bender searches for Amish families willing to allow her to visit and share in there daily lives. Plain and Simple vividly recounts sojourns with two Amish families, visits during which Bender enters a world without television, telephone, electric light, or refrigerators; a world where clutter and hurry are replaced with inner quiet and calm ritual; a world where a sunny kitchen "glows" and "no distinction was made between the sacred and the everyday." In nine interrelated chapters--as simple and elegant as a classic nine-patch Amish quilt--Bender shares the quiet power she found reflected in lives of joyful simplicity, humanity, and clarity. The fast-paced, opinionated, often frazzled Bender returns home and reworks her "crazy-quilt" life, integrating the soul-soothing qualities she has observed in the Amish, and celebrating the patterns in the Amish, and celebrating the patterns formed by the distinctive "patches" of her own life. Charmingly illustrated and refreshingly spare, Plain and Simple speaks to the seeker in each of us.
Download or read book I Was Amish written by Malinda Detweiler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I will personally have the chance to help enrich mankind’s knowledge of the Amish and a life of happy choices. I learned how to be a satisfied person fourteen years after leaving the Amish. I know I could have happy moments in either world. Yet I chose to have it away from the Amish where I could also have my own religious freedom. I treasured those moments. My story is told in the events of my life. Yet in the end, all done and said, I never regretted leaving the Amish or learning everything I did. I found the other side of misery. I learned that I believed in self respect and living a whole life which made everything complete.
Download or read book An Amish Journey to Forgiveness written by Benjamin Girod and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ben and Barbara Girod married in 1973, they had no idea their new life together would be one of shared burdens and blessings, lovely dreams and bitter disappointments. Both products of a strict and conservative Amish upbringing, they sought to know Jesus, and they wanted more than the form and tradition of their Amish upbringing. In An Amish Journey to Forgiveness, author Ben Girod tells his remarkable and unusual story of Amish life, reflecting his painstaking social and spiritual journey over many decades. His responsibilities as a bishop and church leader were manifold as he dealt with the predominant and inherent traditions of the Old Order Amish church. A divine encounter with God brought peace and joy to their lives, but this was soon followed by misunderstanding and rejection by family, church members, and leaders, ultimately ending in excommunication from their respective district. Devastated, confused, and unable to understand why this was happening, they turned to the Lord in search of meaning and purpose. An Amish Journey to Forgiveness shares their story as they began to understand that God was allowing such persecution and suffering to draw them closer to Him. It shows how God used Girod to bring about an awareness of the need for healing and reconciliation throughout the body.
Download or read book My Amish Childhood written by Jerry S. Eicher and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling fiction author Jerry S. Eicher (nearly half a million books sold) turns his pen to a moving memoir of his life growing up Amish. Jerry’s mother was nineteen years old and nine months married when he was born. She had received Grandfather Stoll’s permission for the wedding because she agreed to help out on the farm the following year. However, with Jerry on the way, those plans failed. Jerry recounts his first two years of school in the Amish community of Aylmer, Ontario and his parents’ decision to move to Honduras. Life in that beautiful Central American country is seen through an Amish boy’s eyes—and then the dark days when the community failed and the family returned to America, much to young Jerry’s regret. Jerry also tells of his struggle as a stutterer and his eventual conversion to Christ and the reasons for his departure from the childhood faith he knew. Here is a must-read for not just Jerry’s fiction fans, but also for readers curious about Amish life.
Download or read book On the Other Side of Fear written by Twila Joyce Stutzman and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Other Side of Fear: Growing Up Amish and My Journey After Leaving is a book you won't want to put down. Twila talks about her powerful journey of overcoming fear, a religious mindset and many addictions. Twila has a heart to show people that their past doesn't define their future. She firmly believes that in telling her story, it will give others permission to tell theirs as well.
Download or read book Writing the Amish written by David Weaver-Zercher and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early 1960s to the late 1980s, John A. Hostetler was the world&’s premier scholar of Amish life. Hailed by his peers for his illuminating and sensitive portrayals of this often misunderstood religious sect, Hostetler successfully spanned the divide between popular and academic culture, thereby shaping perceptions of the Amish throughout American society. He was also outspoken in his views of the modern world and of the Amish world&—views that continue to stir debate today. Born into an Old Order Amish family in 1918, Hostetler came of age in an era when the Amish were largely dismissed as a quaint and declining culture, a curious survival with little relevance for contemporary American life. That perception changed during Hostetler&’s career, for not only did the Amish survive during these decades, they demonstrated a stunning degree of cultural vitality&—which Hostetler observed, analyzed, and interpreted for millions of interested readers. Writing the Amish both recounts and assesses Hostetler&’s Amish-related work. The first half of the book consists of four reflective essays&—by Donald Kraybill, Simon Bronner, David Weaver-Zercher, and Hostetler himself&—in which Hostetler is the primary subject. The second half reprints, in chronological order, fourteen key writings by Hostetler with commentaries and annotations by Weaver-Zercher. Taken together, these writings, supplemented by a comprehensive bibliography of Hostetler&’s publications, provide ready access to the Hostetler corpus and the tools by which to evaluate his work, his intellectual evolution, and his legacy as a scholar of Amish and American life. Moreover, by providing a window into the varied worlds of John A. Hostetler&—his Amish boyhood, his Mennonite Church milieu, his educational pursuits, his scholarly career, and his vocation as a mediator and advocate for Amish life&—this volume enhances the ongoing discussion of how ethnographic representation pertains to America&’s most renowned folk culture, the Old Order Amish.
Download or read book Out of this World written by Mary Swander and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a severe allergic illness dictated that she grow all her own food, Swander found herself living in the midst of a large Amish community in Iowa. In this simple but profound memoir, she celebrates her time among the Amish, explores what it means to be a lone woman homesteader at the end of the 20th century, and ponders the quiet spirituality born of a life on the land.
Download or read book What the Amish Teach Us written by Donald B. Kraybill and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the traditional plain-living Amish have to teach twenty-first-century Americans in our hyper-everything world? As it turns out, quite a lot! It sounds audacious, but it's true: the Amish have much to teach us. It may seem surreal to turn to one of America's most traditional groups for lessons about living in a hyper-tech world—especially a horse-driving people who resist "progress" by snubbing cars, public grid power, and high school education. Still, their wisdom confirms that even when they seem so far behind, they're out ahead of the rest of us. Having spent four decades researching Amish communities, Donald B. Kraybill is in a unique position to share important lessons from these fascinating Plain people. In this inspiring book, we learn intriguing truths about community, family, education, faith, forgiveness, aging, and death from real Amish men and women. The Amish are ahead of us, for example, in relying on apprenticeship education. They have also out-Ubered Uber for nearly a century, hiring cars owned and operated by their neighbors. Kraybill also explains how the Amish function in modern society by rejecting new developments that harm their community, accepting those that enhance it, and adapting others to fit their values. Pairing storytelling with informative and reflective passages, these twenty-two essays offer a critique of modern culture that is provocative yet practical. In a time when civil discourse is raw and coarse and our social fabric seems torn asunder, What the Amish Teach Us uproots our assumptions about progress and prods us to question why we do what we do. Essays include: 1. Riddles: Negotiating with Modernity 2. Villages: Webs of Well-Being 3. Community: Taming the Big "I" 4. Smallness: Bigness Ruins Everything 5. Tolerance: A Light on a Hill 6. Spirituality: A Back Road to Heaven 7. Family: A Deep and Durable Bond 8. Children: At Worship, Work, and Play 9. Parenting: Raising Sturdy Children 10. Education: The Way It Should Be 11. Apprenticeship: An Old New Idea 12. Technology: Taming the Beast 13. Hacking: Creative Bypasses 14. Entrepreneurs: Starting Stuff 15. Patience: Slow Down and Listen 16. Limits: Less Choice, More Joy 17. Rituals: A Natural Detox 18. Retirement: Aging in Place 19. Forgiveness: Pathway to Healing 20. Suffering: A Higher Plan 21. Nonresistance: No Pushback 22. Death: A Good Farewell
Download or read book A View from the Buggy written by Jerry S. Eicher and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us want a simpler life, and there’s no better example of the simple life than found among the Amish. But what is it really like to be Amish? In this delightful compilation of stories by more than 30 Amish men and women, you’ll get the inside story on the daily life of Amish families. With humor, grace, and charm, these “plain” people tell their stories; bringing tears, laughter, and an occasional dose of Amish wisdom to your heart. You’ll learn... how the Amish love their animals the joys of a community-wide barn-raising the ways the Amish handle great tragedy how the Amish find happiness in giving more than receiving This unforgettable book is compiled by two men who know the Amish. Author Jerry S. Eicher was raised as an Amish boy and Nathan Miller is a member of the Old Order Amish.
Download or read book Dust Between My Toes written by Wayne M. Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the charming story of an Amish boy turned medical doctor who cherished the religious roots that nurtured him. This intriguing close up of Amish life is hard to set aside. Amish wisdom and worldly success flow together in Wayne Weaver's fascinating story.
Download or read book Growing Up Amish written by Ira Wagler and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times eBook bestseller! One fateful starless night, 17-year-old Ira Wagler got up at 2 AM, left a scribbled note under his pillow, packed all of his earthly belongings into in a little black duffel bag, and walked away from his home in the Amish settlement of Bloomfield, Iowa. Now, in this heartwarming memoir, Ira paints a vivid portrait of Amish life—from his childhood days on the family farm, his Rumspringa rite of passage at age 16, to his ultimate decision to leave the Amish Church for good at age 26. Growing Up Amish is the true story of one man’s quest to discover who he is and where he belongs. Readers will laugh, cry, and be inspired by this charming yet poignant coming of age story set amidst the backdrop of one of the most enigmatic cultures in America today—the Old Order Amish.
Download or read book Leaving My Amish World My True Story written by Eirene Eicher and published by Fearless Publishing House. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pregnant.Shunned.Heartbroken.This is Eirene's true story of how she left the Amish. Like most Amish children, Eirene had a carefree childhood in a tight-knit family life in the Old Order Amish community where she grew up Indiana. Though she had no indoor plumbing, no electricity, and no modern conveniences, her young life was full of joy. Horseback riding, reading, working with her father, and singing while making noodles and quilts with her sisters filled her days as she grew up. When Eirene becomes pregnant and marries at the tender age of 17, the harsh reality of her new life sets in. From getting snowed in by 10 feet of snow to carrying icy buckets of water inside just to make coffee or wash dishes, Eirene remains steadfast in providing the best care she can for her son. As she has four more children, her world revolves around them, and they bring her more joy than she could have ever imagined.Though she loves being a mother, and she loves her family, Eirene knows there has to be more to life than just being a housewife confined to her home with no money, no phone, and no transportation. Doesn't God have a bigger purpose for her? Wasn't she meant for more? When Eirene makes a Christian friend, she is hungry to learn more about the loving God who died for her and rose again, a God so unlike the one she'd learned about growing up Amish. Eirene knows God is calling her to leave so she can serve God. But is she willing to leave her family, her community, and everything she's ever known behind? Eirene prays that her story will be in encouragement to a struggling young mother out there wondering if life will ever change or get better.Please follow Eirene on Amazon to be notified of her new releases in the future.* "This book was so enthralling, I stayed up late into the night to find out what would happen next. Never before has a book taken me through such a roller coaster ride of emotions: suspense, anguish, sorrow, indignation, and joy. This woman's story touched my heart, and when she was hurt in the story, it was written so beautifully that I could feel her pain. Her story was so incredible, how she could still have such unwavering faith after everything that happened to her. So many things in this story were absolutely shocking and absolutely heart-wrenching, but there were also so many joyful parts that spoke of the cheerful memories of the author's childhood, and the close-knit Amish community. I am a true admirer of the Amish, but all Amish communities are different. We sometimes put the Amish on a pedestal, but they are human too, and also make mistakes just like us. This story was heartbreaking and raw, but most of all, it truly was inspirational. Once you start, you won't be able to put it down." -Ashley Emma, bestselling author of Undercover Amish, Amish Under Fire, and more
