JOINING THE AMISH – CHEF & AMISH CONVERT MATTHEW SECICH
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I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love. - Hans Rosling
Matt Secich hangs sausages on a bar to dry at his Charcuterie shop in Unity on Wednesday. David Leaming/Morning Sentinel [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.pressherald.com/2016/01/13/peripatetic-chef-pursues-his-calling-among-unity-amish/] |
May 20 is the martyrdom date of Michael Sattler birthday of the Amish in 1527. 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 |
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.
I will post some photo quotes of simple living and I will introduce Matthew Secich, a chef who joined the Amish community and owns an off grid deli in Unity, Maine. He is similar to the McCallums, Mark Curtis and Titus Morris, who became Amish.
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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. - Charles Spurgeon
Matt Secich uses a hand-powered slicer to cut bacon at his Charcuterie shop. David Leaming/Staff Photographer [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.pressherald.com/2016/01/13/peripatetic-chef-pursues-his-calling-among-unity-amish/]
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The following is an excerpt from some other sources:
Chef who found religion pursues his calling among Unity Amish
Matthew Secich gives up famous restaurants and high-profile posts for a community where he smokes local meats and cheeses – and drives his family in a horse and buggy.
Posted January 13, 2016
Portland Press Herald
UNITY — Up a dirt road winding through a small community of Amish families, in a modest pine building hung with lanterns and a simple sign that says Charcuterie, Matthew Secich cures and smokes local meats and cheeses, and remembers the life he led before he found religion.
“I was horrible,” he said. His bushy beard falls to his heart and he speaks with solemn sincerity, but there were decades when he worked at famous restaurants and stoked his ego more furiously than a wood stove on a January afternoon in an off-the-grid Maine house.
“I was at the pinnacle,” he said. “I commanded 40 people in the kitchen. I walked into the kitchen and they jumped.”
His perfectionist streak ruled his actions. “I burned people,” he said. As in, held a line cook’s hand to a hot fire for making a mistake at Charlie Trotter’s restaurant in Chicago, where Secich was a sous chef from 2006 to 2008. “Four stars, that’s all that matters.”
Then he grew disgusted.
“I went home one night and got on my knees and asked for forgiveness,” he said. For his lack of compassion for others, his nights with restaurant friends and a fifth of Jim Beam with a side of Pabst Blue Ribbon, for that over-active ego. “I gave my life to the Lord, which I never would have imagined in the heyday of my chaos.”
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Matthew Secich lights oil lamps at his Charcuterie shop in Unity, Maine. [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.centralmaine.com/2016/01/13/peripatetic-chef-pursues-his-calling-among-unity-amish/] |
After the chaos came the Mennonites (more on that later) and now the Amish. He once worked in $700 a night inns and lavish restaurants where dinner bills for two could easily top $600, now he works without any modern conveniences. But it is completely functional; Secich shows off a just-finished curing room and an ice chest that will soon hold 79 tons of ice chipped from the waters around Unity, built with his new brothers.
“The whole community helped out,” Secich said. “We’ve been in cahoots of some sort from the beginning.”
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UNITY, ME - JANUARY 13: Charcuterie shop owner Matt Secich is reflected in an antique scale used to weigh smoked meats and cheeses at the shop in Unity on Wednesday, January 13, 2016. (Photo by David Leaming/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images) [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/charcuterie-shop-owner-matt-secich-is-reflected-in-an-news-photo/504966982] |
He serves customers who can hardly believe their good fortune to be buying reasonably priced world-class but local meats – including 12 kinds of smoked sausage, like the alluring sounding “bacon sausage” – in a town with a population that just tops 2,000.
Secich’s meats and cheeses – and eventually breads, as soon as he gets the wood oven built – are a gift to the community, said Ted Quaday, executive director of the Maine Organic Farmers and Growers Association, which also makes its home in Unity. Quaday has been shopping at Secich’s Charcuterie since it opened in mid-December.
“To me it is right on par with The Lost Kitchen down in Freedom,” Quaday said. “It’s just unreal that it is even here.”
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" Community is like an old coat, you aren't aware of it until it is taken away." – Amish Proverb A large Amish buggy with two draft horses [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=896676189128007&set=a.538291671633129] https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-mccallums-one-of-australias-few.html |
PATH TO MAINE
But the path to parting ways with a chef’s ego is not without roadblocks. Secich drops samples on a plate – heavenly chorizo, andouille, a sweet bologna – and at the same time, famous names.
He didn’t just work with Trotter, but also Craig Shelton of the Ryland Inn in Whitehouse, New Jersey (now closed, like Trotter’s place), Patrick O’Connell at the Inn at Little Washington, where Secich learned how to butcher and once had an omelette lesson from Julia Child. He was the chef at the Oval Room in Washington, D.C., and the Alpenhof Lodge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He has done so many things that you might think him a very well preserved senior citizen, but he is only 45.
So what’s his secret? Short stints for one thing. The kind that tend to leave broken-hearted food lovers in one’s wake. A food writer at the Times Union in upstate New York, who dined at the Inn at Erlowest on Lake George during Secich’s year-long employment there in 2004-2005, referred to Secich’s “peripatetic ways” in a blog post titled, mournfully, “Comet streaks on.” Secich had just left the Oval Room after three very well-reviewed months at the DC restaurant as executive chef in 2006.
“I have a big problem,” Secich said. “I’m either all or none.”
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After giving up
Michelin-starred restaurant life for his Amish faith, Matthew Secich now smokes
stellar sausages and cheese in a small, off-grid shop. [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.instagram.com/gastroobscura/p/CvPx1gmsM6v/] |
After renouncing chaos, and Chicago, he returned to his wife Crystal and family in Vermont – they had stayed behind while he tested the Midwestern waters – and joined a Mennonite church. His thinking was, “if you surround yourself by godly people you’ll grow godly.”
In Vermont he also started a small dairy, farmed, got a state license to process meat and spent two years at Rabbit Hill Inn in Lower Waterford.
At Rabbit Hill, owner Brian Mulcahy said, Secich served highly sophisticated food. Guests at the inn tend to come from the likes of New York and Boston, so typically Rabbit Hill pushes the envelope “a little bit, but Matthew pushed the envelope a lot.”
“My wife, Leslie, used to call it ‘Shock and Awe’ cuisine,” Mulcahy added. “He had a penchant for working with offal. Calf’s brains. We had a particular dish that was five different types of internal animal parts.”Some guests loved this. Others not so much and Rabbit Hill and Secich parted ways after two years. Mulcahy said what Secich is doing now is what he believes he wanted to do.
“He is indeed talented, but his frustration with doing what he was doing – a lot of that was tied into his ego. He could not understand why the people in the Northeast Kingdom could not understand his food.”
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Matt Secich offers
samples of his variety of smoked meats and cheeses to customers Sally and Chris
Waterhouse at the shop in Unity on Wednesday. [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.pressherald.com/2016/01/13/peripatetic-chef-pursues-his-calling-among-unity-amish/] |
DEXTERITY IN DEXTER
They were done with Vermont. “I think Vermont is moving too fast,” Secich said. They moved to Maine and joined the Mennonite community in Dexter, where they farmed and added daughters Lydia, 6, and Hannah, 5, to their brood (their son, Emerson is 10). Then they thrilled locals by opening the Riverside Meat Market in early 2015. Among the delicacies Secich smoked up for his happy neighbors were nine kinds of smoked salmon.
“It was an exceptional thing that you don’t see in big cities, let alone Dexter,” said Dexter optometrist Gerry Rudmin. He is such a fan he already made the hour-plus drive to Unity once and plans to do so again.
Problematically, Riverside was tucked into a back alley behind Tilson’s Hardware store. “Great guy doing great things, but he opened up in the middle of the winter in a terrible location,” Tom Tilson said. “Just kind of a raw deal. I’m surprised he did as good as he did.”
The Mennonite community wasn’t the right fit for the family, Secich said, and he asked the Amish in Unity if there was a place for them there. His main experience with the Amish had been as a child in Ohio. His parents had divorced and at 10, Secich began riding a Greyhound bus between them in Youngstown and Columbus. He’d sit with Amish people riding the bus, and felt they projected a sense of safety. When the Amish of Unity said yes, that meant the end of the Riverside Meat Market.
“We miss him,” Rudmin said. “I understand, but everybody is disappointed. I think even people in Shop N Save are disappointed.”
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Crystal Secich behind the counter at Charcuterie. [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.mainepublic.org/arts-and-culture/2016-01-15/unity-man-trades-culinary-success-for-amish-lifestyle] |
To make the transition to the lifestyle of the Unity Amish, Secich and his wife had to give up their cars and embrace driving a horse and buggy.
“It wasn’t easy to walk away from a car,” Secich said. “And I was scared of horses.”
As the afternoon light peaks and turns, his children, just home from school, go bouncing across the fields in the horse and buggy, the 10-year-old driving. It is wildly romantic. These three know nothing of screens. Their father doubts they know what Annie’s Mac and Cheese is. Life is good. He feels at home.
“It took time,” he said. “We didn’t all of a sudden jump into being Amish. It took six years to find this.”
“Lord willing, I stay here awhile,” he added.
But the memories of that old life are still fresh in his mind. The velvety quality of the omelette Julia Child showed him how to make. The names. The food. And maybe some sophistication: Landscapes adorn the walls of Charcuterie, painted by Secich himself, and one is priced at $1,100. And there is enough hustle left in him to call a newspaper to invite coverage. What if that call means he is flooded with customers, in this little shop?
“If that would take its course we’ll do our best,” he said. “I don’t want to be so busy that I neglect my family. It that happens, I’ll just close it down.”
https://www.centralmaine.com/2016/01/13/peripatetic-chef-pursues-his-calling-among-unity-amish/
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The register at Charcuterie. [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.mainepublic.org/arts-and-culture/2016-01-15/unity-man-trades-culinary-success-for-amish-lifestyle] |
We Came to the Amish
Sadie Quarrier
Four-Star chef Matthew Secich left behind the material world to become Amish. He and his family joined an Amish community in Unity, Maine, and opened a charcuterie. New filmmakers Sadie Quarrier and Bridget Sipe were graciously allowed to spend a few days documenting the family as part of their Maine Media Documentary Film School project. Hopefully we will expand upon our collected assets when time allows, but this short edit will give you a taste. The Amish request discretion when showing faces which influenced how we shot and edited this film. *We are keeping this film private. Please do not post!*
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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/2023/05/family-value-quotes.html BLOG: https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-mccallums-one-of-australias-few.html |
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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 https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2024/02/simple-living-quotes-part-2-mark-curtis.html |
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I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love. - Hans Rosling 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 |
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A bunch of Amish men sitting around shooting the breeze at last week's every Tuesday Farmerstown livestock auction. Some guys come every week just to watch and socialize. There's also a really good little breakfast/lunch stand on the premises. JD [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1078593767162952&set=a.258613655827638] https://southernthailandelephants.org/team-work/ https://herd.org.za/blog/elephants-their-families-the-importance-of-social-structures-within-a-herd/ https://allcollectivenouns.com/animal/collective-noun-for-elephants “There are two explanatory factors: one is large families, and the second is high retention rates,” said Professor Steven Nolt, Director and Senior Scholar at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. “If you looked at the 1930s, up through about 2000, the retention rate had actually increased. There’s a case study that showed that the retention rate went from the upper 70 percent to 90 percent,” he said. https://hoptownchronicle.org/across-the-country-amish-populations-are-on-the-rise/
https://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/population-2024/ https://amishamerica.com/2024-amish-population-passes-four-hundred-thousand/ |
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Become ungovernable [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=891509939698752&set=a.688993269950421] Click here to learn all the recipes [SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=388174770462146&set=a.269425129003778] https://southernthailandelephants.org/team-work/
https://herd.org.za/blog/elephants-their-families-the-importance-of-social-structures-within-a-herd/ https://allcollectivenouns.com/animal/collective-noun-for-elephants “There are two explanatory factors: one is large families, and the second is high retention rates,” said Professor Steven Nolt, Director and Senior Scholar at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. “If you looked at the 1930s, up through about 2000, the retention rate had actually increased. There’s a case study that showed that the retention rate went from the upper 70 percent to 90 percent,” he said. https://hoptownchronicle.org/across-the-country-amish-populations-are-on-the-rise/ https://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/population-2024/ https://amishamerica.com/2024-amish-population-passes-four-hundred-thousand/ https://www.anabaptistconnections.org/
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https://amishamerica.com/catching-up-with-amish-convert-chef-matthew-secich/
https://amishamerica.com/an-unusual-amish-convert-story-in-unity-maine/
https://www.pressherald.com/2016/01/13/peripatetic-chef-pursues-his-calling-among-unity-amish/
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
Piano Tuner Compass
https://vimeo.com/539429269/5a910346a1
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
“A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.” ― Albert Einstein
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
https://blackforestproject421.blogspot.com/2024/02/simple-living-quotes-part-2-mark-curtis.html
Marlene Miller 1944 – 2020
https://amishamerica.com/marlene-miller-1944-2020/
https://amishamerica.com/joining-the-amish-45-years-later/
https://amishamerica.com/marlene-miller-grace-leads-me-home/
https://www.spidellfuneralhomebrewster.com/obituaries/Marlene-C-Miller?obId=14836750
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Click here to learn all the recipes
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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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5 lost survival lessons from the Amish [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=403752892237667&set=a.269425129003778]
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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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Winter in Hinterzarten, Black Forest (Schwarzwald), Baden-Württemberg, Germany [PHOTO SOURCE: https://windows10spotlight.com/images/13715]
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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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Two dogs, big and small dog friends. Great Swiss Mountain Dog and Little Jack Russell on the grass against the background of the summer garden. Two pets, couple of friends. [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/two-dogs-big-small-dog-friends-1323153782] https://images.app.goo.gl/jNwqzcbp9QhkQvcF7 https://www.buzzfeed.com/elainawahl/when-youre-the-best-of-friends https://www.thesprucepets.com/japanese-dog-breeds-4799113 BLOG: https://thesamuraiseven7.blogspot.com/2023/11/100th-birthday-for-hachiko-japans.html
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“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
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Friendship Between a Horse And Malamute Caught In Mesmerizing Photos Share it with your friends! This gallery is created by Russian photographer, Svetlana Pisareva perfectly shows this unique bond, it’s a friendship between a husky dog and a beautiful grey horse that blends well with the snow around them. The images are so good we wouldn’t be surprised if we see these two starings in their own Disney movie. [PHOTO SOURCE: https://themindcircle.com/friendship-between-horse-malamute/]
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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
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Amish couple on horse and buggy. [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/722616702691505546/] A horse and buggy (in American English) or horse and carriage (in British English and American English) refers to a light, simple, two-person carriage of the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, drawn usually by one or sometimes by two horses. Also called a roadster or a trap, it was made with two wheels in England and the United States (also made with four wheels). It had a folding or falling top. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_and_buggy https://www.amishfarmandhouse.com/blog/amish-horse-and-buggies-guide/ https://ohiosamishcountry.com/articles/the-amish-and-their-horses https://www.amishbuggyrides.com/
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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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The Four Horsemen by Sigit Pamungkas [PHOTO SOURCE: https://dribbble.com/shots/11058578-FOUR-HORSEMEN] https://images.app.goo.gl/5KUjBwnmDaDEYD9u6 - Photo links
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 |
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