SIMPLE LIVING QUOTES PART 2 – MARK CURTIS JOINS THE AMISH AT AGE 51
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A happy home is more than a roof over your head, it’s a foundation under your feet. – Amish proverb [QUOTE SOURCE: https://www.pinecraft.com/blog/a-happy-home-is-more-than-a-roof-over-your-head-its-a-foundation-under-your-feet/] https://yahwehssong.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/amish-proverbs/ BLOG: https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2023/05/family-value-quotes.html Retired Ohio science teacher reveals why he joined the Amish at age 51 - but could YOU give it all up for the simple life? · Mark Curtis, now 71, was baptized into an Amish church in Belle Center, Ohio, in 2003, after their care for his cancer-stricken mother convinced him to join · Other converts, including a former top chef in Chicago, have cited spiritual awakenings as reasons for joining the Amish, while some have joined for love
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February 12 is the birthday of the Amish founder, Jakob Ammann, who was born in 1644. One of the Amish 4 core values is simple living. Here is what they believe:
The most obvious trait of the Amish community is that they choose to lead a simple life. But the reason they do this is because they believe simplicity is a symbol of humility. They take seriously the Biblical commands to separate themselves from worldly things.
Often the first thing that identifies the Amish is the way they dress. Amish fashion styles are simple, practical, and modest. Clothing is generally made at home using plain fabrics. Their choice of clothing shows their commitment to the principles of the Amish church – to live simply.
Despite the many advancements in our society, the Amish do not typically utilize modern or worldly things like electricity, technology, vehicles, and other modern conveniences that many of us depend on for our daily lives. They believe worldliness can keep them from being close to God which could present influences that may be destructive to their communities and their way of life. By living simply and restricting access to unnecessary items, such as fancy clothes, TV, or iPhones, the Amish feel they can keep the modern world from intruding into their lives and allow them to remain focused on their faith and family.
By following the four principle values of faith, family, community, and living a simple and modest life, the Amish live out their own religious beliefs and lead a unique life in their own spiritual way.
SOURCE: https://www.amishvillage.com/blog/the-4-core-values-of-the-amish-culture/
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What makes Amish life simple: family, home, community, and faith. [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/645140715341399759/] The 4 core values of the Amish culture https://www.amishvillage.com/blog/the-4-core-values-of-the-amish-culture/ https://www.amishbaskets.com/blogs/blog/amish-values BLOG: https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2023/05/family-value-quotes.html |
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“It’s not how big the house is, it’s about how happy the home is.” [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=262975950226858&set=a.136887179502403] |
The truth is even the other anabaptist groups like the Beachy Amish-Mennonites, Mennonites and Hutterites all follow the Four core values of the Amish, that is why they have large families, with an average of four children each. They also get together often with their church friends like a herd of elephants or lions.
We often read the news and hear testimonies of people who were growing up Amish and left the community. I can understand them, if I were to join the Amish, I will join the New Order or Amish Mennonites, not the Old Order Amish, which have very extreme rules. While we hear testimonies from Ex-Amish, let us also hear from people who became Amish or joined any Anabaptist groups.
Just a reminder, even if you do not wish to become Amish, you can live a life similar to the Amish AKA the Plain People. Take Titus Morris, for example, he lives in a way similar to the Amish but he does not follow their religion and practices pure Christianity instead.
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The family that works together, eats together, and prays together, stays together. – Amish Proverb Meet the McCallums, one of Australia's few Amish families Ever wanted to not just slow down, but jump off the grid? A family leaves behind the trappings of the 21st century to lead a simple, pious life in rural Tasmania. Springfield Farm Fresh Produce - McCallum Family [PHOTO SOURCE: https://maps.app.goo.gl/r9BLz6rNjPR59YG99]
BLOG: https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-mccallums-one-of-australias-few.html |
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Titus Morris and his home [PHOTO SOURCE: https://sergeydmitriev.medium.com/the-simple-good-life-as-titus-morris-lives-it-ddbd770e2a66] BLOG: https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2024/02/simple-living-quotes-part-1-meet-titus.html |
I will post some photo quotes of simple living and I will introduce Mark Curtis, a teacher from Ohio who joined the Amish community at age 51. He is similar the McCallums and Titus Morris, who became Amish.
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I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally. - Albert Einstein Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.168, Open Road Media [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/700232] |
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“The dearest things of life are mostly near at hand.” – Amish proverb Mark Curtis, 71, was baptized into an Amish church in the small village of Belle Center, Ohio, in 2003, after their care for his cancer-stricken mother convinced him to join |
The following is an excerpt from Daily mail:
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| But Mark's collection of Holy Bibles is in keeping with the Amish devotion to their faith |
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Mark's decorations demonstrate his faith, displaying quotes from the Bible in a German dialect spoken by the Amish, which harks back to their European ancestors |
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Commitment to God appears to be a prerequisite for any successful integration into an Amish community, who believe their shunning of modernity brings them closer to the Lord |
Mark Curtis has bookshelves stuffed with tomes on China, World War Two, and slavery.
His bedroom is adorned with a portrait of King George V, half a dozen pictures of English country homes, and a collection of Sherlock Holmes posters - a nod to his self-confessed 'Anglophilia'.
He has traveled around Europe, including trips to Germany, Switzerland and Austria, and has even been to China.
Yet for the last 20 years of his life, Mark has lived as part of a traditional and isolated Amish community in Belle Center, a small village of around 800 people in Logan County, Ohio, of whom roughly 10 percent are Amish.
For a man with a passion for global affairs and travel, joining an austere and inward-looking religious sect whose only means of transportation is a horse and cart might seem an odd choice.
But Mark, now 71, says he has never been happier.
His journey has been driven by disillusionment with modern society, punctuated by the loss of his mother, and shaped by the challenges of abandoning home comforts.
Yet his is ultimately a rare tale of successful assimilation into an Amish church.
Although no official data is available, an informal report carried out by Amish converts, based on written records and interviews, found only 300 people joined the Amish between 1960 and the turn of the century.
Of these, around two thirds later returned to modern living.
The barriers to joining are considerable. Those who do make it often lose patience with strict rules over the shunning of modern amenities, from smartphones to electricity and - in some cases - even running water.
It begs the question: which curious souls would seek to join the Amish in the first place - and how do they cope?
As Mark told DailyMail.com over a homemade lunch of chicken and rice soup, it is not for the faint-hearted.
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The former science teacher has had to sacrifice modern luxuries he lived with for 50 years, including swapping his car for a horse-drawn-cart |
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Mark says he is happier now he is Amish, but around two thirds of those who join the ultra-traditionalist church later return to modern living, according to an informal survey by converts |
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| The 71-year-old wheeled out his collection of six buggies on a snowy day in rural Ohio |
Mark's moment of truth
Born and raised in Ohio's capital city, Columbus, Mark studied at Capitol University and then Ohio State University, where he obtained a master's degree in early middle childhood education.
He taught in Columbus public schools for 28 years.
His association with the Amish began in 1985, when he met a professor of education at Urbana University, Ohio.
Spurred by their shared interest in pedagogy, the professor talked Mark into joining her on a visit to an Amish school in Belle Center.
Mark admits he was 'intimidated' at first and told his mother 'those Amish are too scary'.
'I had a perception of the Amish as being stern and forbidding. It's not true, but there's that sort of Gestalt,' he says, using a German term for perception.
The former science teacher regularly slips into Pennsylvania Dutch, the High German dialect spoken by the Amish that harks back to their European ancestors.
He has even developed a subtle Germanic twang, something that is notably absent from those born into his adopted community.
But Mark overcame his initial hesitancy and found those in Belle Center to be a welcoming bunch.
He was invited back the next Spring, then started getting invites to Thanksgiving and Christmas services.
'As the years went on, I was coming up here every month,' Mark says. 'But still I didn't plan on becoming Amish. It was a different way of life.'
That began to change in 1994 when his mother was struck down by Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, which left her permanently paralyzed.
Mark says it was like 'pulling teeth' to get anyone from his church in Columbus to visit her at the nearby hospital.
But his Amish friends in Belle Center, who had never met his mother before, hired a van driver to take them 65 miles to see her.
(Most Amish are not allowed cars, but more moderate churches allow members to hitch lifts.)
It became a weekly visit.
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A friend is one who knows all about you and still loves you – Amish Proverb [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/146930006569691577/] |
When his mother was discharged from hospital, Mark decided to look after her at home. The Amish called him and asked if he had a wheelchair ramp, which he didn't.
The next week, the Amish A-Team was there again.
The men built ramps and widened the doorways. The women cleaned the house and fixed a meal.
'I thought to myself, my church is right here in Columbus,' Mark says. 'Everybody has a car. They live right here in town. Everybody knows my mom. But they don't have time.
'The Amish are 65 miles away. They don't have a car. They have to pay someone to bring them down. But yet, they have the time to come down to visit my mom, and come down and help us in a practical way.
'That's when I had a moment of truth. What is Christianity all about? Is it that you just go once a week and see the show? Or is it living for others and helping other people and showing the love of Christ?
'I want to be a part of a church like that. So that's when I really started thinking about [joining the Amish].'
Mark's mother died in 1998. The Amish were pallbearers at her funeral.
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| Mark tends to one of his two horses he keeps in a stable at his home in Belle Center |
Led by the Lord to the Amish
Mark has always been a man of God. Over the next four years, he began talking to 'the brethren' about joining their community, but, ultimately, it was a matter of prayer, he says.
It would mean moving away from his father, Don, who himself was wanting to move to Florida to look after his brother, Mark's uncle, who had fallen ill.
'I remember it was a Sunday evening,' Mark recalls. 'I said "Lord, what should I do?"
The next day he got a call from an Amish friend in Belle Center who said a family was leaving to join a more liberal church, but would leave all their appliances and horse and cart.
All Mark had to do was move in.
'The Lord opens doors and the Lord closes doors,' he says. 'It felt like he was leading me to this.
'I didn't choose this house, the house was chosen for me.
'Dad and I came up and looked at the place. I liked it, so that's where I am now.'
Mark moved to Belle Center in October 2002. He was allowed to keep his car until the Spring, before he ditched it for a horse and cart.
He then took classes in Amish teachings every other Sunday for 18 weeks, before he was baptized in August 2003.
Mark admits he has always been 'conservative' and disinterested in the materialism of modern life.
He enjoys the communal spirit of the Amish. 'We don't have Facebook, we just have face,' he says.
While this is a statement many can relate to, Mark says those who join the Amish as a lifestyle choice never last.
It also requires a deep commitment to God - the Amish belong to a Christian church that traces its roots to the Protestant Reformation - something he has in common with other converts.
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The city boy said he struggled to work out how to attach a harness when he first moved in |
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| But he is the now proud owner of a variety of Amish buggies, after ditching his car in 2003 |
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Mark Curtis working with his two horses [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=914583547445412&set=a.428825349354570] https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2024/02/simple-living-quotes-part-2-mark-curtis.html |
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Mark Curtis washing his horse and buggy. [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1010839131078263&set=a.613847060777474] https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2024/02/simple-living-quotes-part-2-mark-curtis.html |
Leaving modernity behind
But assimilation to Amish life is not without its challenges.
The use of modern technology varies depending on the community, with decisions on what can and can't be adopted left to various church districts.
The community in Belle Center is relatively moderate: it allows landline phones and taxi rides, but shuns electricity and the internet.
Mark admits it took a while to adjust to living without an automatic water pump (we drink water from his well at lunch) and had help installing his propane heater.
Like many Amish, he has installed solar panels. Because the power is self-generated, it means communities can stick to their principle of remaining 'off-grid' and not reliant on state supplies.
Some things took a bit of practice.
Mark, raised a city boy, recalls the first time he tried putting a harness on the horse he inherited with his home in Belle Center.
'I remember the horse turned around and looked at me like, 'what is your problem?' I was trying to fasten the crop, the part that goes under the tail, around his nose. I had the whole harness reversed.'
What does he miss most about his former life? He an no longer watch his favorite Sherlock Holmes series on the TV, or enjoy the 'ethnic foods' he used to devour in Columbus.
Indian was a particular favorite, he says, opening a cupboard to show us a row of Patak's curry sauces.
There is nothing in Amish culture that stops him from eating it, it's just getting to the restaurants that is the problem.
Mark later asks us to take him to a Mexican place he knows in nearby Bellefontaine, where he praises his fajita, but complains about the garish interior decor.
He insists on paying our bill.
Blessed with an inquiring mind, Mark relished the prospect of learning Pennsylvania Dutch, but others have not found it so easy.
He recalls a small survivalist group who tried to join the Amish community in Belle Center, who enjoyed the idea of riding a horse and cart and the self-sufficient lifestyle.
But one later confided that he was 'hungry to hear the word of God', but didn't understand why he had to learn German to do so.
They didn't last. Mark is unsympathetic.
'You had all the churches in the world to choose from, but you chose to join here, where they speak German. Whose fault is that?
'They did not kidnap me to become Amish, I asked to become Amish. So then it is my responsibility to do as much as I can to fit into that.'
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Mark moved into his home in Belle Center in 2002 after it was vacated by an Amish family |
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Like many other Amish, he has solar panels. The self-generated power allows them to stick to their principle of not relying on state energy supplies and remaining 'off-grid' |
Amish life is 'not a refuge'
The Amish in Belle Center have seen around half a dozen people join and then leave their community over the years. Mark is the only one to have stayed the distance so far.
He takes us on a visit to Schlabach's Woodworking, run by his Amish friend Levi Schlaback, 75, and his two sons Michael, 52, and Josiah, 25.
They regale us with stories of failed integrations, including a military man who left due to his distaste for the Amish philosophy of 'nonresistance', and another young single man who got bored after the novelty wore off.
The Schlabachs say those who seek out the Amish as a 'refuge' from their problems in the outside world are also often left disappointed: the back-to-basics lifestyle is not a 'quick fix'.
Meanwhile, Anne Hughes believes her son, now 39, whose name she has chosen not to share, has become 'a little more disillusioned with the Amish' of late.
In 2008, his community in Virginia split over its liberalization, with Anne's son relocating to a more conservative church in Fertile, Minnesota.
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Mark believes the Amish have a stronger sense of community and commitment to God |
Accepted as one of their own
There are also those who have been raised Amish who have chosen to leave the church.
But, contrary to what you might expect, the proportion of people leaving the Amish is relatively low.
The retention rate is around 85 percent, according to Erik Wesner, author of 'Success Made Simple: An Inside Look at Why Amish Businesses Thrive'.
This is one reason the Amish don't traditionally seek converts, Wesner says, because they don't need them.
But some communities have started to become more evangelical in recent years.
Mark's church in Belle Center is part of the New Order Amish, who are more mission-oriented than most other communities.
There are also a handful of churches in Maine and Virginia that make accommodations for outsiders, including translations of Pennsylvania Dutch for services.
The most outward-looking are the 'Michigan Circle' Amish, which despite the name, are present in six states, according to Wesner.
But those who join are still few and far between.
For most Americans, the Amish will remain a peculiar anachronism - an insular people who can be occasionally glimpsed through the window of a horse-drawn-buggy.
But as Mark has found out, you may have more in common than you think.
He feels wholly accepted by his new brethren, who treat him as one of their own.
Mark regales an anecdote about an Amish man in a nearby, more traditionalist community than his own, who got in a tangle with the local sanitation department about his use of an outhouse as a toilet, common practice in some churches that don't allow indoor plumbing.
The outhouse fed directly into a creek and water supply, angering officials.
When they asked the man to stop, he dug in, claiming he was being persecuted for his religious beliefs.
But Mark and his church in Belle Center are more pragmatic - they believe they can make common sense accommodations to modernity, while retaining their essential spirituality.
As we slurp down our second helpings of chicken soup, Mark leaves us with this thought: 'You don't have to crap in a creek to prove you're Amish.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12886257/amish-convert-ohio-teacher-cancer.html
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After a period of adjustment, he feels at home in his new life and accepted by the community |
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“A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.” ― Albert Einstein |
RELATED LINKS:
https://amishamerica.com/amish-belle-center-ohio/
https://amishamerica.com/joining-the-amish-after-50/
https://amishamerica.com/inside-an-amish-home-second-sink/
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A happy home is more than a roof over your head, it’s a foundation under your feet. – Amish proverb Amish Leben [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=891957355826595&set=pb.100050370164918.-2207520000] |
BECOMING THE PLAIN PEOPLE LINKS:
“Buying a chunk of land, building a home, and raising our children away from the noise. That is the goal.”
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J. R. R. Tolkien
The McCallums – One of Australia’s few Amish families
https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-mccallums-one-of-australias-few.html
The Church At Springfield
https://thechurchatspringfield.com.au/
True community arises out of transformation, and only transformation can make real community. – Eberhard Arnold
The McCallums and their community
https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-mccallums-and-their-community.html
The simple good life as Titus Morris lives it - Sergey Dmitriev
https://sergeydmitriev.medium.com/the-simple-good-life-as-titus-morris-lives-it-ddbd770e2a66
BLOG: https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2024/02/simple-living-quotes-part-1-meet-titus.html
YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/@friends.of.titus.morris
https://www.amishfurniturefactory.com/amishblog/how-do-the-amish-handle-conflict/
https://www.youtube.com/@Titus.Morris.Extras
Titus Morris | My Testimony | Rooted Deep In Sin & Contemplating Suicide
5.31K subscribers
295,466 views Premiered Aug 16, 2023 LIBERTY
The rest of this years theme for Prophetic Visuals is “The Power Of Testimony”! We traveled all the way to Liberty , KY to meet Minister Titus Morris . Who Shares a powerful testimony & some encouraging words along with a powerful prayer.
VIDEO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iZel5viTAs&t=586s
Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEyPgwIPkHo5If6xyrkr-s2I6yz23o0av
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There is also a barn in the property where Titus keeps the horse for his horse-drawn buggy and during the summer months, he sleeps amid the hay in the loft as it is cooler. [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12532263/farmer-no-government-id-grid-appalachia-finds-girlfriend.html]
https://sergeydmitriev.medium.com/the-simple-good-life-as-titus-morris-lives-it-ddbd770e2a66 BLOG: https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2024/02/simple-living-quotes-part-1-meet-titus.html |
VIDEOS ON PEOPLE ON SIMPLE LIVING LINKS:
16x9 | Lasqueti: Living off the grid an hour from Vancouver
https://rumble.com/vqtj6o-16x9-lasqueti-living-off-the-grid-an-hour-from-vancouver.html
Jill Redwood has lived 'off the grid' for more than 30 years in East Gippsland
Woman Living Off-Grid in Her Tiny House in Northern Canada
https://rumble.com/vrh3wk-woman-living-off-grid-in-her-tiny-house-in-northern-canada.html
Family Of 9 Live Off Grid To 'Reject Society' | MY EXTRAORDINARY FAMILY
https://rumble.com/v1130r3-family-of-9-live-off-grid-to-reject-society-my-extraordinary-family.html
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Amish men standing up together [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.amishfurniturefactory.com/amishblog/how-do-the-amish-handle-conflict/] |
AMISH-MENNONITES LINKS:
“Buying a chunk of land, building a home, and raising our children away from the noise. That is the goal.”
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J. R. R. Tolkien
The McCallums – One of Australia’s few Amish families
https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-mccallums-one-of-australias-few.html
The Church At Springfield
https://thechurchatspringfield.com.au/
True community arises out of transformation, and only transformation can make real community. – Eberhard Arnold
The McCallums and their community
https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-mccallums-and-their-community.html
Brandenberger Family Music
https://www.youtube.com/c/BrandenbergerFamily
What makes Amish life simple: family, home, community, and faith.
https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2023/11/community-living-quotes.html
The family that works together, eats together, and prays together, stays together. – Amish Proverb
https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2023/05/family-value-quotes.html
Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. - John Templeton
https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2023/07/participatory-budgeting-for-community.html
Amish Family Size: How many children is typical?
Amish families are large, with 6-7 and even up to 9 children on average
https://amishamerica.com/how-many-children-do-amish-have/
Four Core Values of the Amish culture:
https://www.amishbaskets.com/blogs/blog/amish-values
https://www.amishvillage.com/blog/the-4-core-values-of-the-amish-culture/
https://www.amishfarmandhouse.com/blog/learning-to-speak-like-the-amish/
https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2023/09/dawdi-haus-for-elderly-parents.html
Springfield Tea Room
https://www.aussiedestinationsunknown.com.au/2019/01/31/springfield-amish-tea-room-tasmania/
https://maps.app.goo.gl/fgBHoegufTk2Bs1UA
Heredi Jews singing = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO9_rhaLjZE
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“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein [PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.quotecounterquote.com/2013/11/life-is-like-riding-bicycleor-maybe.html] |
VIDEOS ON THE PLAIN PEOPLE LINKS:
Very few burdens are heavy if everyone lifts. – Amish Proverb
We do not relegate the pulpit work, or the rest of the church’s teaching, to the lead pastor to handle as much as he can alone and then fill slots when he’s on vacation. We value plurality in teaching, and preaching, just as we value the plurality of elders in decision-making, oversight, and pastoral ministry throughout the week. We begin not by asking how the lead pastor can preach as much as possible, but by asking how we can most effectively teach and preach as a team of pastors.
- Team Preaching by David Mathis [https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/team-preaching]
https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2023/06/team-preaching-is-like-barn-raising.html
"If we don't want the government to tell us how to conduct our church affairs, we had better not tell them how to run the government.” – 1001 Questions and Answers
https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2023/10/how-amish-cope-with-covid.html
The Amish way of life | FULL DOCUMENTARY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRodjLbdTps&t=1463s
Inside the Amish & Mennonite Community - Full Documentary - Living Plain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwL_evg5z1I&t=1235s
Mennonites: Life in the Ultra-Conservative Christian Colonies of South America (Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdyVNoazurI
The lives of the Amish in the US | DW Documentary
Jan 6, 2024
A life just as it was 300 years ago: the Amish in the US. They live according to their own rules, reject technological advances, wear old-fashioned clothing and drive horse-drawn carts. An encounter with the Amish is like traveling back in time.
Originating from southern Germany and Switzerland, the Amish community brought its culture and language to the New World. Deeply rooted in their faith, the Amish adhere to strict codes and reject modern technology. For outsiders, these rules can sometimes appear strange. They traverse their rural communities in horse-drawn carts, but if a distance is too far, they’re allowed to use a shuttle service. They don’t use telephones unless it’s for business purposes and the device is located outside of the home.
Children are expected to help with housework even when they’re attending school. But before they’re baptized as young adults and finally become part of the Amish community, they’re allowed to try what’s called the rumspringa: a period of time when they’re encouraged to behave like regular teenagers - before deciding on which lifestyle they prefer. But those who opt for a conventional, modern existence are exiled. The film sheds light on a fascinating world governed by tradition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9He5DVePvk
Cute Pony video =
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtQVOlhLXQ-/
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My friends and I when the government remove our license because we are higher risk of traffic accidents. Would you like to drive a horse & buggy to work every day?
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Horses galloping in the wild [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=741812648162338&set=a.651412093869061] The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are figures in the Christian scriptures, first appearing in the Book of Revelation, a piece of apocalypse literature written by John of Patmos. Revelation 6 tells of a book or scroll in God's right hand that is sealed with seven seals. The Lamb of God/Lion of Judah opens the first four of the seven seals, which summons four beings that ride out on white, red, black, and pale horses. In John's revelation the first horseman rides a white horse, carries a bow, and is given a crown as a figure of conquest, perhaps invoking pestilence, Christ, or the Antichrist. The second carries a sword and rides a red horse as the creator of (civil) war, conflict, and strife. The third, a food merchant, rides a black horse symbolizing famine and carries the scales. The fourth and final horse is pale, upon it rides Death, accompanied by Hades. "They were given authority over a quarter of the earth, to kill with sword, famine and plague, and by means of the beasts of the earth." Christianity sometimes interprets the Four Horsemen as a vision of harbingers of the Last Judgment, setting a divine end-time upon the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse https://clearlyreformed.org/sermon/the-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse/ https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/prayers-of-the-apocalypse |
KENNEL CLUB LINKS:
“I never could think of animals as anything but endearing pals, fellow sufferers in the human condition.” - James Herriot
“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.” - James Herriot , All Creatures Great and Small
100TH BIRTHDAY FOR HACHIKO, JAPAN’S FAMOUS AKITA INU (NOVEMBER 10, 1923 TO MARCH 8, 1935)
https://thesamuraiseven7.blogspot.com/2023/11/100th-birthday-for-hachiko-japans.html
https://www.fosteringpeople.co.uk/resources/blogs/latest-blogs/dogs-help-children-with-autism/
https://www.dogsforgood.org/2017/03/10-ways-dogs-are-helping-people-with-autism/
https://germmagazine.com/why-dogs-are-great-companions-for-kids-with-aspergers/
https://www.saddlebox.net/horses-can-help-those-with-asperger-syndrome/
https://www.thesprucepets.com/japanese-dog-breeds-4799113
INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY LINKS:
Foundation for Intentional Community (FFIC):
https://www.facebook.com/FoundationForIntentionalCommunity
https://ecovillagebook.org/ecovillages/sieben-linden/
https://www.facebook.com/OekodorfSiebenLinden
Pilgrim Hill, Tasmania:
https://www.pilgrimhill.com.au/en/
https://www.pilgrimhill.com.au/en/blog/
https://pilgrimhill.org/give.php
The Bruderhof:
https://www.facebook.com/TheBruderhof
Celastrina Rebecka
https://www.youtube.com/@celastrinarebecka
TEMPORARY LINKS:
SINGLE PARENTS LINKS:
https://singlemum.com.au/
http://singlemotherfamilies.com.au/
https://coffeewithstarla.com/6-life-changing-prayers-for-single-moms/
https://www.kingdombuilders.com/prayer/a-prayer-for-single-parents-2/
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