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My dad's church used to hold services in German. During WWII, some official came to the church and told them "No more German." It's unfortunate they didn't go back to services in German after the war was over, because I probably would have learned it that way. Also, one of my dad's brothers was chosen to communicate with the German POWs. They were surprised he was a Yankee, because he spoke German so well.
My grandmother's parents, and some of her uncles and aunts were among the founding families of the Church where I was baptized. It's an awkward history, because the Church also had Irish and Polish communities in the area at the time. The Polish and the Irish had a dispute over culture. Same religion, different cultural expressions. The Diocese put off the request of the German community to build a German church because they wanted to avoid another cultural/language dispute. In the meantime, the German families requested nuns to be sent to teach at the school they they established. They couldn't get a full German language parish, but they could get approval for a German language school from the city school district. All the German churches had that approval. At the time, circa 1900, Germans were very well respected as honest, fair businessmen. The only added requirement was that children also had to learn to read and write in either French or English. By that time, English was becoming more common than French. My grandmother's family attended services in a chapel in the school, with a visiting minister every Sunday. By the time the parish was approved by the Diocese in about 1919, it was as an "English" parish. The German community had suffered some prejudice and suspicion during WWI, and to avoid trouble, some of the churches stopped preaching and teaching in German. My grandmother taught her French-Canadian husband how to speak German, but they didn't teach their children.
Yes you have to be invited. For 13 years now when the bishop writes to me from Kentucky we'll attend services there once a year. It's a hour drive from where I live so we leave at 6. I get to see a really good friend I made there. The bishop up here near us where my best friend lives that's amish, the bishop will call us from the neighbors and we attend 4 services a year. We also go to our friends church that is Mennonite the 2nd and 4th Sunday night service of each month. They consider us their children and treat us like their children at times. And we go to our families church. It's pretty amazing to be invited sometimes the bishop up here will call us to come help out a new family in their community. We'll do a canning party while the men will help the new dad get everything ready for the winter. There can be around 100 people at the first time parents house at 5am working. I know the last time we went to do this we was there at 5am and left around 8 at night. I remember we canned around 3,000 jars that day and the guys got a fence finished and my husband and several other men split around 40 ricks of wood. It was a good day
Lebt Friedsam is a beautiful song even though I’m not amish but I’m a Pentecostal Christan , it’s a very beautiful song that speaks of many good things thank you for the video!
"Lebt Friedsam" - it sounds very poetic. It means "Live in a peaceful way". The church song in the video sounded wonderful and melodic, too. Thank you again for that interesting video. A Happy Easter to all of you! Greetings from Bavaria, Philipp
Very interesting. It makes sense that most would have more of a house church than a special church building set aside. There is a RUclipsr, Lynette Yoder is her channel name. If I remember right, she grew up Amish and their church collectively decided to become Mennonite. She shares regular life stuff as a more liberal Mennonite mom, but she often shares about Amish food and she had a video on a "Real Amish Church Lunch." The peanut butter spread you mentioned made me think of that!
I grew up in Somerset County, PA, The Amish there have a church building and people come from miles around to watch the Amish go to church. I never did because our church service started around 9:30.
Three hours on a hard wooden bench, I wouldn't do well with that but then again with the promise of Amish Peanut Butter during the meal I might be persuaded. Thanks for sharing.
Hey I would love to hear alot more of that church singing please can u make a vedio with Amish wedding singing that was my favorite about being Amish can't wait 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
Just search here on RUclips I have a lot of their music and songs in playlists I've made. I put my ear buds in hit play all and am sent to sleep in peace
When I worshipped with the German Baptists in SE Washington, going to church was to worship God and no visiting was done before services. They were quiet and focused on worshipping when they went and when the service was over was the time for greeting and visiting.
Not much visiting happens before Amish service either. It's pretty quiet basically exchanging handshakes around the circle and for some, the Holy Kiss. As a guest at church sometimes some of the men have exchanged a few words with me before church but the bulk of that is for the fellowship meal and visiting after the service
I have an interesting question for you…. Do Amish people enjoy maybe having a non Amish pen pals? Just thinking if like me you’re pretty far away from visiting an Amish community to get to know them to make friends, that writing letters would be a good way to make friends and get to know them.
I live in Middlebury Indiana so I'm pretty familiar with the Amish. But I just found your channel and learning things I never would have known. Great content. I was wondering if your planning on doing a video on Rumspringa? I know a few Amish I went to school with that don't appear to part of the Amish church anymore but don't really feel like it's my place to ask about their experience. My best friend was shunned from his Jehova Witness family because he didn't want to follow that path and I know how painful that can be. So glad the algorithm finally suggested this channel!!
What you say is one approach to take, yet another approach might be to offer your friendship. Maybe the person needs to talk about what happened. Maybe you could play a positive role in someone's life there.
As a Dutch person, Listening to the weird old German(?) they speak (like half understanding it) would be extra torture on top of sitting for three hours on the bench. It is still very interesting though, I would love to be able to attend one time to see what it is like.
So what do they actually talk about during the services? Do you know the answer to that, since it's not in English? Do they just read passages from the Bible and stuff, or do they give sermons where they talk about different issues and why they believe what they do?
Having been to several Amish church services, they build their sermons around Bible passages, tell stories from the Bible, and add in personal anecdotes and general advice relating the material to their lives. They don't use written notes. Their sermons are written down in their heads.
Each church generally has 2-4 ministers (including the bishop) and will alternate and there can fairly often be visiting preachers especially in the larger settlements
@@AmishAmerica Thanks for the input. Just found your channel and you've earned my sub. I hardly knew any information on these communities aside from the perspective offered through media (movies, TV, etc). It's fascinating stuff!
@@RockinRavenVA Do they spend a lot of time talking about why they believe what they do and why it's good to be separate from the rest of society and shun technology, etc?
Since it's Easter, do they celebrate Easter? Some more conservative Christians call it Resurrection Sunday, Amy Maryon calls it that on her channel. I got to watch church on the TV with XBOX internet at my mom's place. We went to Bob Evans and then caught church. It was a lot of fun. And I had dinner at my dad's. Happy Easter if you celebrate. Also, a guy wished me happy Passover at the grocery store on Thursday.
Your information is always very direct , simple , understandable , gives answer to questions people may have in their minds and very valuable too. About Germans they say in Europe , Germans are just like Coconut, very hard from out side and very soft inside , when they don't know someone , they don't ger together very quickly and have distance but when they know him and trust him , then they are good friends. I see the same characteristics in Old Order Amish but its just an opinion.
@@AmishAmerica , i am working in a German company and off course with German bosses and when many years before i was told this wisdom , later i found it just perfect and real comparison with my own experience by working with them, they are really like Coconut but off course i did not found them so Brown like Coconut , a little bit and it was only in a real Summer.
I live in an Amish area, and used to work at an Aldi were Amish would buy out our palettes of yogurt and sometimes have 10 carts of stuff and i eventually asked how big their family was and he simply said it's for their neighborhood store.
It is not uncommon for smaller stores to buy their product from the larger stores that receive volume discounts and then resell them in their little store :-) Amish and non Amish
This is truly a serious question. What's church peanut butter? Is it special just for church services, or do they just not have peanut butter except at church services? I'd be greatly interested in attending an Amish church service to see how it differs from my own experiences in church, although the thought of sitting on those hard benches for 3 hours + makes my bottom ache. haha If they know that there are going to be visitors who aren't used to that, do they provide cushions for them to sit on? In some novels that I've read that were set in an Amish communities they did this for visitors who weren't used to that. So I was just wondering if this was real or not. Thanks for another good and interesting video. :)
The southern baptist church i go to holds 1 hour service each sunday. Sometimes those 2 hours go very quickly depending on how interesting the message is. I wouldn't mind if my church did 3 hours.
Happy Easter Erik...In old order Presbyterian Churches (like the Reformed Church /Calvinism) men and women do sit on the opposite sides of the church like the Amish. Another good video.
@@AmishAmerica I am Catholic and my parents told me that in formerly times (when they were younger) men and women used to sit seperated in church like the Amish still do today. But I think it was abolished after "Vaticanum II" :-)
What's "church peanut butter"? Thanks so much! Our local amish (Western KY) said that little boys age 9 and up sit apart from their parents during church.
Yes that's about the age they sit on their own assuming they behave well :) Church peanut butter is delicious, a spread containing peanut butter, marshmallow cream, syrup. It's traditionally eaten at every church service and some companies now sell commercial versions of it.
You’re doing a fair job of representing the Amish. Pie at the end of the church service, though? That’s unusual. Cookies, yes,but pie was for the evening singings in most communities. You sound like you’re from Canada or Minnesota, they might have pie after church up there, for all I know. To all reading who would like more knowledge of the Amish,”Our Heritage, Hope, and Faith”(Pathway Publishing) is a good start.
That's not what a real MN accent sounds like, except for MAYBE up by Canada. Most of the MN Amish are in south-eastern MN. I was wondering where he is from as well.
That doesn't sound like Minnesota at all. Doesn't sound Canadian to me, either. It sounds more mid-Western (not upper midwest) like Indiana or somewhere around that general region. Eric, where are you from?
@RockinRavenVA Do you know some Amish doing it? I thought all is about work, serving God and suffering. No time for meaningless travelling for leisure.
3:05 Hmm ... "Lebt friedsam" in correct German. It is a verb, not a Nomen. Only German Nomen use first big letter... I think after this is an very old word and in a song where every word starts big it should be - but incorrectly use! It is an old christian song from the "Amish Ausbund" from 1742 (literally 'An Amish book for household use'). In this time was house churches typical and every family should have one copy at home. After the believe that God is at every home (see Buddhist believe!) it is natural not to build an extra church. Then this one was a typical sign of the catholic and orthodox church - exact from this the Zwingli and Luther people goes away around 1500! The put-away of music inside church mess is the place - the typical church is the house. Then every believe in God should came from the own singing - they use it at work and school too. In the history till goes over the water into the new holy country they use churches and music too but after the typical gemeinde was very small in the new holy country they change his mind.
GREAT VIDEOS. THANKS for the candid information. MUSIC? Acapella I would assume. SW Oklahoma, where I was born & raised, had no Amish services. So I am uninformed, but learning. The church of Christ is from the Anabaptist background with historical roots in the 1st century, though precious little is recorded, more accurately, records were systematically destroyed. As you probably know, the services of the church of Christ is heavily music involved. I think that would be the way to say that. The music is Acapella & strictly congregationally performed, no instruments and no choirs. Is this similar to the Amish services? Thank you. I am a college professor of Ancient History, but sure don't know much about modern stuff !!!
Don't forget, the seating is plain wooden benches, no backs, no cushions, no breaks, no fighting allowed. Three hours or so of sitting very erect and not squirming. Also, women are silent during the service.
When you say “The Amish” you are referring to old order and Swartzentruber Amish. There are others such as Amish Mennonite (not to be confused with Mennonites) and Beachy Amish who have church every week. Also, many Amish no longer read in Pennsylvania Deitsche and have started reading English translations of the Bible. This has started to cause trouble in some congregations of old order Amish because of perceived discrepancies between what they read in the Bible and what they are taught in the ordnung.
Good info! May I ask, which would be a great community to make some friends with the Amish? The first time I met them was outside of Sturgis, Michigan and then Shipshewana, Indiana. They were quite welcoming in Shipshewana. I guess that would be the place? Thanks again!
1:56 Translation for the Non-German reader: The Bible or the all Holy Writing from Old and New Testament after the German translation D. Martin Luthers. New re-reading from the ... I really wonder me after the most Old Amish are anabaptist and live after order of Zwingli and Grebel too - not only of Luther. Specially around 1500 where many are more from Switzerland and south-western (Pfalz, Baden). The typical german is pfalzian, not higher-saxony same Martin Luther mother language. So this bible in high german (new high-saxony) should be very young and not older as 100 years I think. Some new ideas from Martin Luther they do not like e.g. music, new order of liturgy, aso. Why they not printed own German Holy Bible after Zwingli and in pfalzian language? Every Amish should learn to read and speak it till this time.
The Bible or the entire Holy Writing of the Old and New Testaments (although singular in the German) after (according to) the German translation of Dr. Martin Luther I appreciated reading your comments about the various German styles and the related years of usage. Quite interesting. My translations are simply minor adjustments to make it sound like more natural (American) English.
@@kathyh.1720 I translate it word for word correctly. My point is that s/he show a bible from M. Luther - but they are a kind of baptism after an other leader - they are more ⅓ Lutheran, ⅔ Calvin. One point of calvinism is "not to accept new things". Technically farmer around 1700 use an ox on field but I think a horse have a better handling and can help better on travel around. BTW: But the English language is wrong at this point - it exist in the (Greek) bible only *one* old testament and *one* new testament. No plural ...
@@OldLordSpeedy I'm sorry that it sounds like you might have felt that I was criticizing you. (I say that because your post starts by saying that you had translated it correctly, as if I had said that it wasn't correct.) I never said that you were wrong. I said that I was adjusting it to make it sound more natural in (American) English. That's all.
Wow 😮 I wouldn't and couldn't sit that long on a hard wooden bench with no backs! 😢 Back issues. I'm sure others would have handicapped issues as well.
The Biship of the Amish church sets the presidence for what they wear, drive (Buggy), and their social order in business, cell phones, etc. must be approved by the Bishop.
How are you doing mr Erik Amish community is very interesting topic they have special lifestyles different than others in USA we are as foreigners subscribers as overseas students want to increase our cultural level improve our English language as well so that as always iam gathering main points about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s actually during 50 years about two third of Amish formed separate small churches of their own or joined either Mennonite church or general conference and Mennonite church most traditional Amish are members of old Amish Mennonite church you can join Amish community if you do important things attend church service and learn German first come live in Amish area for year and find job where you working with them after one year you became Amish thank you for your wonderful cultural channel if you please can you make video about amish names because dr Barry vann in his channel more than 20 episodes only about surnames in USA and Appalachian area origin and meanings of name stay safe blessed good luck to you your dearest ones
Khatoon AlSadah. I was reading your post, yet had trouble with it because there was no punctuation. I actually stopped reading part-way through because I couldn't figure it out. You said that you want to improve your English language, so please allow me to suggest that you use proper punctuation to guide your readers.
I took 2 years' worth of German in High School. I've got German heritage on my mom's side. Listening to German is really hard. Reading, writing and speaking is not as hard. I would fail Listening in German. French was easier, but Spanish was harder than German in my opinion.
Everything gets easier with practice. I have German on my moms side but I don't know much German. I'm the opposite, I am better at listening than I am at writing or reading. I haven't taken any classes for it though, just German I have picked up over the last almost forty years lol.
I speak German but I get just some words of what Amish speak. I can right away recognise it's something like German but it's definitely not German. Because German language that is official in Germany (and in any language class anywhere in world it is called German) is actually the High German dialect. - An Amish dialect (Pennsylvania Deutch) came from the Low German dialect (Plaitdeutch) There is also Swiss German and Bavarian dialects.
The cowardly and diabolical abandment of exorcisms, spiritual wafare, deliverances and Godly Holy Spirit infilling has caused all the destructions in the world past and present
WILL THEY ACCOMMODATE A HANDICAPPED GRAMPS WITH A WOODEN LEG?? MI GRAMPS WANTS TO GO TO A AMISH CHURCH SERVICE. IT'S ON HIS BUCKET LIST. LONG STORY SHORT= HE'S FROM CUBA= BACK THEN, YOU WERE FITTED WITH A WOODEN LEG! HE'S BEEN FINE ALL THESE YEARS WITH HIS WOODEN LEG. HE'S NOT WANTING TO CHANGE. BACK THEN, WOODEN LEGS WERE WAY MORE COMMON
If there is Amish near you go visit them if any have a store that would be a good place to start because like Eric says you need to be invited and to be invited you need to become friends with them; it's on my bucket list as I'd like to at least once experience how my great great great grandparents went to church before being driven into seclusion
Yes it is about observing Jesus' sacrifice and celebrating His resurrection. Outside of the religious meaning of this period, they also share a number of Easter customs that you'll find among non-Amish: amishamerica.com/how-do-the-amish-celebrate-easter/
@@Baguawitch There was some controversy if I remember correctly years back in Ohio where some didn't want to use an orange triangle on the back of their carts. Some interpretation of the triangle being the Trinity that they didn't want that association, or the triangle being interpreted as a talisman. So they ended up being allowed to use silver or red/silver reflective tape in lieu of the triangle.
I was always curious about this. Thank you.
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My dad's church used to hold services in German. During WWII, some official came to the church and told them "No more German." It's unfortunate they didn't go back to services in German after the war was over, because I probably would have learned it that way.
Also, one of my dad's brothers was chosen to communicate with the German POWs. They were surprised he was a Yankee, because he spoke German so well.
My grandmother's parents, and some of her uncles and aunts were among the founding families of the Church where I was baptized. It's an awkward history, because the Church also had Irish and Polish communities in the area at the time. The Polish and the Irish had a dispute over culture. Same religion, different cultural expressions. The Diocese put off the request of the German community to build a German church because they wanted to avoid another cultural/language dispute. In the meantime, the German families requested nuns to be sent to teach at the school they they established. They couldn't get a full German language parish, but they could get approval for a German language school from the city school district. All the German churches had that approval. At the time, circa 1900, Germans were very well respected as honest, fair businessmen. The only added requirement was that children also had to learn to read and write in either French or English. By that time, English was becoming more common than French. My grandmother's family attended services in a chapel in the school, with a visiting minister every Sunday. By the time the parish was approved by the Diocese in about 1919, it was as an "English" parish. The German community had suffered some prejudice and suspicion during WWI, and to avoid trouble, some of the churches stopped preaching and teaching in German. My grandmother taught her French-Canadian husband how to speak German, but they didn't teach their children.
That's really messed up. The Germans really went through a lot and were slandered.
Yes you have to be invited. For 13 years now when the bishop writes to me from Kentucky we'll attend services there once a year. It's a hour drive from where I live so we leave at 6. I get to see a really good friend I made there. The bishop up here near us where my best friend lives that's amish, the bishop will call us from the neighbors and we attend 4 services a year. We also go to our friends church that is Mennonite the 2nd and 4th Sunday night service of each month. They consider us their children and treat us like their children at times. And we go to our families church. It's pretty amazing to be invited sometimes the bishop up here will call us to come help out a new family in their community. We'll do a canning party while the men will help the new dad get everything ready for the winter. There can be around 100 people at the first time parents house at 5am working. I know the last time we went to do this we was there at 5am and left around 8 at night. I remember we canned around 3,000 jars that day and the guys got a fence finished and my husband and several other men split around 40 ricks of wood. It was a good day
Lebt Friedsam is a beautiful song even though I’m not amish but I’m a Pentecostal Christan , it’s a very beautiful song that speaks of many good things thank you for the video!
"Lebt Friedsam" - it sounds very poetic. It means "Live in a peaceful way". The church song in the video sounded wonderful and melodic, too. Thank you again for that interesting video. A Happy Easter to all of you! Greetings from Bavaria, Philipp
Thank you for sharing another interesting video. Happy Easter ☦️☦️
Thank you Kathleen and Happy Easter
Very interesting. It makes sense that most would have more of a house church than a special church building set aside. There is a RUclipsr, Lynette Yoder is her channel name. If I remember right, she grew up Amish and their church collectively decided to become Mennonite. She shares regular life stuff as a more liberal Mennonite mom, but she often shares about Amish food and she had a video on a "Real Amish Church Lunch." The peanut butter spread you mentioned made me think of that!
Thank you
Recently subscribed to your channel and wanted to suggest a video about Amish attitudes towards police. Great content!
I grew up in Somerset County, PA, The Amish there have a church building and people come from miles around to watch the Amish go to church. I never did because our church service started around 9:30.
Did the Amish and the onlookers wave to each other? 😄
They are in the handful (1-2%?) who don't practice home worship 👍
I want to join Amish community can you help me please
Three hours on a hard wooden bench, I wouldn't do well with that but then again with the promise of
Amish Peanut Butter during the meal I might be persuaded. Thanks for sharing.
It tastes great along with all the rest especially if you basically fasted all morning👍
Hey I would love to hear alot more of that church singing please can u make a vedio with Amish wedding singing that was my favorite about being Amish can't wait 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
Just search here on RUclips I have a lot of their music and songs in playlists I've made. I put my ear buds in hit play all and am sent to sleep in peace
When I worshipped with the German Baptists in SE Washington, going to church was to worship God and no visiting was done before services. They were quiet and focused on worshipping when they went and when the service was over was the time for greeting and visiting.
Not much visiting happens before Amish service either. It's pretty quiet basically exchanging handshakes around the circle and for some, the Holy Kiss. As a guest at church sometimes some of the men have exchanged a few words with me before church but the bulk of that is for the fellowship meal and visiting after the service
Interesting as always.
I have an interesting question for you…. Do Amish people enjoy maybe having a non Amish pen pals? Just thinking if like me you’re pretty far away from visiting an Amish community to get to know them to make friends, that writing letters would be a good way to make friends and get to know them.
I live in Middlebury Indiana so I'm pretty familiar with the Amish. But I just found your channel and learning things I never would have known. Great content. I was wondering if your planning on doing a video on Rumspringa? I know a few Amish I went to school with that don't appear to part of the Amish church anymore but don't really feel like it's my place to ask about their experience. My best friend was shunned from his Jehova Witness family because he didn't want to follow that path and I know how painful that can be. So glad the algorithm finally suggested this channel!!
What you say is one approach to take, yet another approach might be to offer your friendship. Maybe the person needs to talk about what happened. Maybe you could play a positive role in someone's life there.
Belatedly, thanks! Glad you found it, and I do plan a video on Rumspringa. You live in a great community btw!
As a Dutch person, Listening to the weird old German(?) they speak (like half understanding it) would be extra torture on top of sitting for three hours on the bench. It is still very interesting though, I would love to be able to attend one time to see what it is like.
So what do they actually talk about during the services? Do you know the answer to that, since it's not in English? Do they just read passages from the Bible and stuff, or do they give sermons where they talk about different issues and why they believe what they do?
Having been to several Amish church services, they build their sermons around Bible passages, tell stories from the Bible, and add in personal anecdotes and general advice relating the material to their lives. They don't use written notes. Their sermons are written down in their heads.
@@RockinRavenVA Thanks for sharing. Is it always the same pastor? Or do they rotate?
Each church generally has 2-4 ministers (including the bishop) and will alternate and there can fairly often be visiting preachers especially in the larger settlements
@@AmishAmerica Thanks for the input. Just found your channel and you've earned my sub. I hardly knew any information on these communities aside from the perspective offered through media (movies, TV, etc). It's fascinating stuff!
@@RockinRavenVA Do they spend a lot of time talking about why they believe what they do and why it's good to be separate from the rest of society and shun technology, etc?
Since it's Easter, do they celebrate Easter? Some more conservative Christians call it Resurrection Sunday, Amy Maryon calls it that on her channel. I got to watch church on the TV with XBOX internet at my mom's place. We went to Bob Evans and then caught church. It was a lot of fun. And I had dinner at my dad's. Happy Easter if you celebrate. Also, a guy wished me happy Passover at the grocery store on Thursday.
in a nut shell, I'll be passing this up next time I am around amish country
Recognized that song at the end. I grew up in an old order mennonite church, we used to sing that at certain services.
Lieb Freidsam
Lebt Friedsam
I have a topic suggestion for a video: Do Amish vote? And if they do - what political party do they usually vote for?
Thank you!
No, they don't
Your information is always very direct , simple , understandable , gives answer to questions people may have in their minds and very valuable too.
About Germans they say in Europe , Germans are just like Coconut, very hard from out side and very soft inside , when they don't know someone , they don't ger together very quickly and have distance but when they know him and trust him , then they are good friends. I see the same characteristics in Old Order Amish but its just an opinion.
I'd never heard that coconut comparison before 🙂
I've heard this basic analysis accept without the coconut 🥥
@@AmishAmerica , i am working in a German company and off course with German bosses and when many years before i was told this wisdom , later i found it just perfect and real comparison with my own experience by working with them, they are really like Coconut but off course i did not found them so Brown like Coconut , a little bit and it was only in a real Summer.
@@riazghuman8698 😆
@@joostdriesens3984 , you are welcome.
I live in an Amish area, and used to work at an Aldi were Amish would buy out our palettes of yogurt and sometimes have 10 carts of stuff and i eventually asked how big their family was and he simply said it's for their neighborhood store.
It is not uncommon for smaller stores to buy their product from the larger stores that receive volume discounts and then resell them in their little store :-) Amish and non Amish
Yoghurt is very easy to make from scratch, at your home. Some lazy Amish those are.
This is truly a serious question. What's church peanut butter? Is it special just for church services, or do they just not have peanut butter except at church services?
I'd be greatly interested in attending an Amish church service to see how it differs from my own experiences in church, although the thought of sitting on those hard benches for 3 hours + makes my bottom ache. haha
If they know that there are going to be visitors who aren't used to that, do they provide cushions for them to sit on? In some novels that I've read that were set in an Amish communities they did this for visitors who weren't used to that. So I was just wondering if this was real or not.
Thanks for another good and interesting video. :)
The southern baptist church i go to holds 1 hour service each sunday. Sometimes those 2 hours go very quickly depending on how interesting the message is. I wouldn't mind if my church did 3 hours.
Happy Easter Erik...In old order Presbyterian Churches (like the Reformed Church /Calvinism) men and women do sit on the opposite sides of the church like the Amish. Another good video.
Thank you and Happy Easter Zsuzsi, interesting to have another example. I don't think there are too many Christian churches which maintain this custom
@@AmishAmerica I am Catholic and my parents told me that in formerly times (when they were younger) men and women used to sit seperated in church like the Amish still do today. But I think it was abolished after "Vaticanum II" :-)
What's "church peanut butter"? Thanks so much! Our local amish (Western KY) said that little boys age 9 and up sit apart from their parents during church.
Yes that's about the age they sit on their own assuming they behave well :) Church peanut butter is delicious, a spread containing peanut butter, marshmallow cream, syrup. It's traditionally eaten at every church service and some companies now sell commercial versions of it.
@@AmishAmerica I'm definitely going to ask about that! Thanks!
You’re doing a fair job of representing the Amish.
Pie at the end of the church service, though? That’s unusual. Cookies, yes,but pie was for the evening singings in most communities.
You sound like you’re from Canada or Minnesota, they might have pie after church up there, for all I know.
To all reading who would like more knowledge of the Amish,”Our Heritage, Hope, and Faith”(Pathway Publishing) is a good start.
That's not what a real MN accent sounds like, except for MAYBE up by Canada. Most of the MN Amish are in south-eastern MN. I was wondering where he is from as well.
That doesn't sound like Minnesota at all. Doesn't sound Canadian to me, either. It sounds more mid-Western (not upper midwest) like Indiana or somewhere around that general region.
Eric, where are you from?
Awesome video man!!! I’ve got a question do amish go camping?
They sure do!
@@RockinRavenVA that’s awesome thank you for the info!
@RockinRavenVA Do you know some Amish doing it? I thought all is about work, serving God and suffering. No time for meaningless travelling for leisure.
3:05 Hmm ... "Lebt friedsam" in correct German. It is a verb, not a Nomen. Only German Nomen use first big letter...
I think after this is an very old word and in a song where every word starts big it should be - but incorrectly use!
It is an old christian song from the "Amish Ausbund" from 1742 (literally 'An Amish book for household use'). In this time was house churches typical and every family should have one copy at home. After the believe that God is at every home (see Buddhist believe!) it is natural not to build an extra church. Then this one was a typical sign of the catholic and orthodox church - exact from this the Zwingli and Luther people goes away around 1500!
The put-away of music inside church mess is the place - the typical church is the house. Then every believe in God should came from the own singing - they use it at work and school too. In the history till goes over the water into the new holy country they use churches and music too but after the typical gemeinde was very small in the new holy country they change his mind.
Thanks. That was interesting.
GREAT VIDEOS.
THANKS for the candid information.
MUSIC? Acapella I would assume.
SW Oklahoma, where I was born & raised, had no Amish services.
So I am uninformed, but learning.
The church of Christ is from the Anabaptist background with historical roots in the 1st century, though precious little is recorded, more accurately, records were systematically destroyed.
As you probably know, the services of the church of Christ is heavily music involved. I think that would be the way to say that. The music is Acapella & strictly congregationally performed, no instruments and no choirs.
Is this similar to the Amish services?
Thank you.
I am a college professor of Ancient History, but sure don't know much about modern stuff !!!
Yes, 100% acapella, sung from a German hymnal but many know a lot of the songs by heart.
Don't forget, the seating is plain wooden benches, no backs, no cushions, no breaks, no fighting allowed. Three hours or so of sitting very erect and not squirming.
Also, women are silent during the service.
*correction: no figeting not fighting.😂
@@kfer9249 No fighting! I can't go definitely.
Oh figeting, well that rules me out also.
What! no fighting allowed like in other churches? This is one of the most hilarious typos I've ever read online 😆 And *fidgeting* 😄
When you say “The Amish” you are referring to old order and Swartzentruber Amish. There are others such as Amish Mennonite (not to be confused with Mennonites) and Beachy Amish who have church every week. Also, many Amish no longer read in Pennsylvania Deitsche and have started reading English translations of the Bible. This has started to cause trouble in some congregations of old order Amish because of perceived discrepancies between what they read in the Bible and what they are taught in the ordnung.
Good info! May I ask, which would be a great community to make some friends with the Amish? The first time I met them was outside of Sturgis, Michigan and then Shipshewana, Indiana. They were quite welcoming in Shipshewana. I guess that would be the place? Thanks again!
That is a good community, also Holmes County Ohio generally
Have you ever been to Jamesport MO?
I like the Amish simple life but medically I could never be Amish.
1:56 Translation for the Non-German reader:
The Bible
or the all
Holy Writing
from
Old and New Testament
after the German translation
D. Martin Luthers.
New re-reading from the ...
I really wonder me after the most Old Amish are anabaptist and live after order of Zwingli and Grebel too - not only of Luther. Specially around 1500 where many are more from Switzerland and south-western (Pfalz, Baden). The typical german is pfalzian, not higher-saxony same Martin Luther mother language. So this bible in high german (new high-saxony) should be very young and not older as 100 years I think. Some new ideas from Martin Luther they do not like e.g. music, new order of liturgy, aso. Why they not printed own German Holy Bible after Zwingli and in pfalzian language? Every Amish should learn to read and speak it till this time.
The Bible
or the entire
Holy Writing
of the
Old and New Testaments (although singular in the German)
after (according to) the German translation
of Dr. Martin Luther
I appreciated reading your comments about the various German styles and the related years of usage. Quite interesting.
My translations are simply minor adjustments to make it sound like more natural (American) English.
@@kathyh.1720 I translate it word for word correctly. My point is that s/he show a bible from M. Luther - but they are a kind of baptism after an other leader - they are more ⅓ Lutheran, ⅔ Calvin. One point of calvinism is "not to accept new things". Technically farmer around 1700 use an ox on field but I think a horse have a better handling and can help better on travel around.
BTW: But the English language is wrong at this point - it exist in the (Greek) bible only *one* old testament and *one* new testament. No plural ...
@@OldLordSpeedy I'm sorry that it sounds like you might have felt that I was criticizing you. (I say that because your post starts by saying that you had translated it correctly, as if I had said that it wasn't correct.) I never said that you were wrong. I said that I was adjusting it to make it sound more natural in (American) English. That's all.
Thanks
My friend and I are looking for a Mennonite church to hopefully go to August 16 Lancaster Pennsylvania. Do you know of any? It's on a Wednesday
What do Amish do on their “off” sundays
I'm gonna be in Lancaster Pa Strasbourg. Any churches you would say to go to.
Wow 😮 I wouldn't and couldn't sit that long on a hard wooden bench with no backs! 😢 Back issues. I'm sure others would have handicapped issues as well.
They accommodate members who are elderly or have disabilities who need more comfortable seating.
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The Biship of the Amish church sets the presidence for what they wear, drive (Buggy), and their social order in business, cell phones, etc. must be approved by the Bishop.
Im curious what church peanut butter tastes like specifically.
As far as Amish funerals, do Amish people wear black as a form of denoting a mourning status?
What do the Amish think of the movies, Witness and Kingpin?
3 hours? They're trying to challenge the Southern Baptist.
How are you doing mr Erik Amish community is very interesting topic they have special lifestyles different than others in USA we are as foreigners subscribers as overseas students want to increase our cultural level improve our English language as well so that as always iam gathering main points about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s actually during 50 years about two third of Amish formed separate small churches of their own or joined either Mennonite church or general conference and Mennonite church most traditional Amish are members of old Amish Mennonite church you can join Amish community if you do important things attend church service and learn German first come live in Amish area for year and find job where you working with them after one year you became Amish thank you for your wonderful cultural channel if you please can you make video about amish names because dr Barry vann in his channel more than 20 episodes only about surnames in USA and Appalachian area origin and meanings of name stay safe blessed good luck to you your dearest ones
Khatoon AlSadah. I was reading your post, yet had trouble with it because there was no punctuation. I actually stopped reading part-way through because I couldn't figure it out. You said that you want to improve your English language, so please allow me to suggest that you use proper punctuation to guide your readers.
Amish don't speak German. They speak a dialect of German. I speak German but I can't understand them.
I took 2 years' worth of German in High School. I've got German heritage on my mom's side. Listening to German is really hard. Reading, writing and speaking is not as hard. I would fail Listening in German. French was easier, but Spanish was harder than German in my opinion.
Everything gets easier with practice. I have German on my moms side but I don't know much German. I'm the opposite, I am better at listening than I am at writing or reading. I haven't taken any classes for it though, just German I have picked up over the last almost forty years lol.
I speak German but I get just some words of what Amish speak. I can right away recognise it's something like German but it's definitely not German. Because German language that is official in Germany (and in any language class anywhere in world it is called German) is actually the High German dialect. -
An Amish dialect (Pennsylvania Deutch) came from the Low German dialect (Plaitdeutch) There is also Swiss German and Bavarian dialects.
Can you please tell me where in the scriptures that GOD said everyone to be ye Amish for I’m an your God is Amish?
What do the HORSES do for 4 hours ?
Do you know ? 🌹
There have their own church service.. Also with peanut butter.. 😀
They would either be put out to pasture or put in stalls or a combination of both depending on individual horses needs
@@joostdriesens3984 Cute reply! I suspect there might be some hay mixed in with their peanut butter.
The cowardly and diabolical abandment of exorcisms, spiritual wafare, deliverances and Godly Holy Spirit infilling has caused all the destructions in the world past and present
I am curious do Amish have 4H or agriculture fairs.
I wonder (1) if all kids and newer generation can understand German sufficiently and (2) if there are ever English sermons.
Pensyvania Deutsch is their first language. The children don't often learn English until first grade
I speak German, I can't understand Pennsylvania Deutch.
Amish churches use old German in Sermon, how do you understand?
That's not old German, but another old dialect.
I want to join Amish am from Kenya
WILL THEY ACCOMMODATE A HANDICAPPED GRAMPS WITH A WOODEN LEG?? MI GRAMPS WANTS TO GO TO A AMISH CHURCH SERVICE. IT'S ON HIS BUCKET LIST. LONG STORY SHORT= HE'S FROM CUBA= BACK THEN, YOU WERE FITTED WITH A WOODEN LEG! HE'S BEEN FINE ALL THESE YEARS WITH HIS WOODEN LEG. HE'S NOT WANTING TO CHANGE. BACK THEN, WOODEN LEGS WERE WAY MORE COMMON
If there is Amish near you go visit them if any have a store that would be a good place to start because like Eric says you need to be invited and to be invited you need to become friends with them; it's on my bucket list as I'd like to at least once experience how my great great great grandparents went to church before being driven into seclusion
@@thefreestylefrEaK BACK THEN THERE WERE NO LOWER CASE LETTERS ONLY CAPS AND PUNCTUATION WAS VERY EXPENSIVE SO YOU HAD TO USE IT SPARINGLY
Does Easter have the same meaning in the Amish faith as it does in most Christman faiths? Look forward to your reply.
Yes it is about observing Jesus' sacrifice and celebrating His resurrection. Outside of the religious meaning of this period, they also share a number of Easter customs that you'll find among non-Amish: amishamerica.com/how-do-the-amish-celebrate-easter/
You're being polite Eric and I'll leave it at that
Do the Amish display the christian cross ?
they usually don't wear jewelry in general so in most cases, no
@@emmib1388 in their homes ? anywhere else ~ I have never seen one
@@Baguawitch I misunderstood -- I was thinking of a cross necklace! A cross in their home (like on the wall) probably not.
@@emmib1388 thanks a lot it's a important question to me
@@Baguawitch There was some controversy if I remember correctly years back in Ohio where some didn't want to use an orange triangle on the back of their carts.
Some interpretation of the triangle being the Trinity that they didn't want that association, or the triangle being interpreted as a talisman.
So they ended up being allowed to use silver or red/silver reflective tape in lieu of the triangle.
Where are you from? Your pronunciation of "home" is unusual.
Peanut butter bread
They speaking German Dutch
Pennsylvania Deutch.
And who came up with the religion Amish and why is the whole world not Amish
Do Amish Churches worship Jesus?
Yes they are Christians
No thanks. I'll stay in my church.
His videos are still very cool he isn’t make you join the Amish?