There was a family in my English church and the husband wanted to be Amish but the wife didn’t want to go that far so she relented to be a Mennonite. Their 2 children graduated high school and their son went to a Christian college for a year or two. He decided he wanted to be Amish so he quit college and did whatever he needed to do to turn Amish. He was an Amish school teacher for awhile and taught his students some of the praise choruses we sang at our church. He met a young Amish girl I knew, and married her and 11 children later, there ya go. The family sings together together and after they had been visiting family on Thanksgiving they stopped in and sang to me. How blessed I was.
My hubby and I attended a Beachy Amish church for a couple of years. We live in an area with a large Amish and Mennonite population. We met some wonderful people and are still friends with many of them. We never joined. I always told my hubby one of the biggest reasons I couldn't join wasn't all the rules they had listed out (cape dress, head covering...) but all the unspoken rules. I always felt I was being watched and judged because there were so many unspoken rules - that I was probably breaking right & left ;) It is easy to put the Amish on a pedestal. I read those Amish "romance" novel and long for the community I read about in those books, but real life is rarely as idyllic. I think idea of community is the biggest draw for people looking at the Amish because it is extremely hard to find these days.
agreed -- i think the Amish romance books and weekends at the farmer's market (and all the yummy food!) is a big draw for people -- but like he said you can still do it on your own..... Just like people today reminisce about when stores were closed on Sundays - you can still have that time -- just don't go shopping on Sundays!! It is very sad that we don't know our neighbors and most people's 'community' today is online ... was just talking about that with a face to face friend to day .
GREAT video! Living the Amish lifestyle vs living the Amish culture are very different. While I am not Amish it is similar to being born into a culture vs converting to one. If one wants a simpler life they can accomplish it without making the religious sacrifices as you point out. Well done! Keep these videos coming as we are learning so much from them!
As a man all I can say is: Good luck finding an English woman willing to give up her devices and social media validation addictions. Try going up to a "Christian" woman at any church and telling her you are looking for a traditional wife that's a virgin until marriage AND will give up her electronics. LOL
AMEN to your advice. Being Amish doesn't mean to have a relationship with God.. God say we are in the world, but we are not of the world. As you clearly said there are great ways of the Amish, but they also have serious problems. Thanks again for sharing.
I love your idea about living like the Amish, but not becoming Amish. No television, animals, and teaching children how to work sounds ideal. Community can come from neighbours and your church family
In 1982 we bought a small farm in MO. I didn't know how to do some things so I started a women's group were we would meet at the home of who ever was giving the lesson. We had canning, baking bread, making cheese, sewing, cross stitch, garden ideas ect. It was fun to socialize and learn new things. We would ask what everyone wanted to learn and someone in the group would usually know how. Having just moved to town I met the locals and was accepted as they got to know me. If I was young again I would do it all over again. Raised our kids on the farm with no TV. We trained and showed horses for our fun.
Thank you for addressing this specific topic. I live smack in the middle of Amish farm & lumber country. I greatly admire their self sufficiency but I've observed the way they distance themselves from anyone in their own community who is a little different. I am happy to be their neighbor, buy their wares and wave when they are in town👍
Not in Michigan you can't. The judge illegally KIDNAPPED MY DAUGHTER because I live simple and don't have tv and technology and feed my Daughter healthy and I was told I live in an unrealistic structured environment and am setting my Daughter up for educational failure... Was told if I was part of an organized religion then they would accomadate to my beleifs... I'm English born and raised but lived more Amish then the Amish do.im still fighting the law breaking the law🤬🤬😭😭
Where l grew up northeast of Topeka, within a mile from us there were 2 married men who became Amish after dating an Amish girl who grew up completely "english". One has become a preacher now.
Hi, your videos are very uplifting and back when I was a child, we lived in some houses that we did not have a lot of modern things in, but back then many things that we have today have only been introduced an anyone . can live a plain lifestyle if they do as you suggested and my grandma didn't believe in many of those things the outside world did but she was not Amish it was Church "rules" for one thing. My grandma was a "Charter Member" of the Church of the Nazarene" (rip grandma) 1980
We have remote property in northeastern Arizona which is off-grid. When we were living out there on another on-grid property it was cool to be part of the community. Even where we are in Kentucky we are more rural and have more community in regards to helping out one another. But we haven’t gotten involved with sharing in raising livestock or gardens. I could easily give up the electronic world but hubs isn’t as ready to grow our own food, can said foods,... mercy, how does one live without pickle forks, coordinated jackets for each color group or just the right computer desk chair???
Totally love the simple lifestyle, and started that a few years ago, no TV, not alot of " stuff", conveniences ..But that's as far as it goes, not at all interested in the Amish lifestyle. Enjoyed the video..thxs
I work in a State prison in Ohio. this inmate married an Amish female and bragged that he is the only black man that is Amish. We also house several Amish in Ohio, the beard cutting incidents,the one that had his mistress murder his wife.
Brother.. I don't have cable I do have t.v. my family watches my old movies and I watch preaching and singing and good family inertermante like your program and a few other programs.. I try my best to watch what I see.. I don't really know what the News is unless someone tells me about it.. I go to church when I can because sometimes my health keeps me from going.. I really don't have that many friend's and I really dont socialize with my family much either because of they like drama too much. I don't.. I bible say's be at peace with all men if possible.. I don't like drama I just stay away love them from a distance... Just like you sometimes you have to love the Amish from a distances.. For two year's now I have been shut in because of my health and I be ownest with you anymore I don't like going out in the public but I have to then right back home when I do.. Bless you and your family in the name of Jesus.. Shine and Smile on..
Has anyone converted from Islam or Hinduism to Amish? It would be interesting to learn about the minorities in the Amish community (conversion, adoption etc.).
Very few convert to being Amish. Amish do adopt children but they try to stick with Caucasian kids I think because a child of different ethnicity will stand out and will likely get picked on. There are those who are raised by Amish foster parents though. An Asian guy started speaking to me in Pennsylvania Dutch at a restaurant one time and I about fell over dead.
Thank you 😊 I know that we "English" tend to romanticize the Amish. I surely do love the people. But human nature is still what we all struggle with. As a Christian of 70 years, I can testify that we ALL sin. I think we imagine that if we cut ourselves off from temptations it will be easier to live faithfully before God. Orthodox religions of all Abrahamic faiths, Jewish, Muslim, & Christian separate men from woman even more than the Amish do to protect purity. Restrictive customs & rules aren't a guarantee AT ALL.
Following Christ transcends all cultural traditions. In other words, one does not have to change their cultural traditions so long as they do not violate the commandments of Christ. Therefore, if the Amish where obedient to Christ they would be willing to teach people of all cultures the Sermon on the Mount and if they agreed to follow his teachings, that is all that is required to be a Christian. Of course the Sermon on the Mount is a loaded sermon that requires a lifetime to unpack. Thus after baptism, such people should also be allowed to attend Church.
Many many years ago I was wanting to get baptized at my church the Reverend said well once you get baptized you will be long to the church that feltl weird to me as children if my parents missed a Sunday and we went every Sunday they were at our house before the next Sunday giving a sermon in my parents living room mom didn't like that one Sunday dad showed up with his suit but he didn't have a tie on one of the fellas there walked up to him opened up his suit and on the inside he had rows of ties he was wanting dad to pick one Dad didn't like that we quit going to the church . Some years later went to West Virginia got baptized in the river the preacher down there had no problem with it he didn't own us the church didn't own us and it felt right.
A simpler lifestyle is much needed today, home values, home cooked meals, family togetherness. All of that is needed back in society again. I didn't grow up Amish but, the Amish way of life I am familiar some with and love it because, my Grandparents on my Mom's side was a farming family with an outside toilet, home cooked meals everyday, large gardens, canning, clothes washed and dried outside on clotheslines Mom kept that home-like style when I came home from school I came in the door to the smell of supper being prepared, bread baking. Clothes flapping on the clothesline in the breeze. I totally loved it and have it that way in my own life today. I live in a Amish and Mennonite way of life I don't have television, I don't drive or own a vehicle, I cook, bake, can, walk to mow grass, I do have electric, and cell phone so that is leaning the Mennonite way I use my phone to have groceries delivered to my home. I live in a country rurual area and I love this way of life.
My grand mother was Swiss German and she married my English grand father in 1920 in Cambridge Maryland. He was a HUGE Tomato farmer. My Swiss German Grand mother Anna learned to speak Swiss German in Baltimore Maryland in the early 1900's. I am 1/2 English and 1/2 German and Swiss German. How would the Amish view that. Would i have a "Foot in the Door" so to speak as far as joining. I am 59.
I'm a Amish taxi driver in PA. I see so much animal and child abuse in the Amish community. I see children as soon as they're able to walk roaming a huge farm all by themselves with no supervision, hence the death rate of very young children from farm accidents. So sad 😥.
There are no animal shelters in Amish areas. If an animal is what they think is no longer useful they sell it for slaughter or shoot it or dump it. A great hard working plow horse who works for years for the family doesn't get retirement. It gets sold for dog food or shot.
@@theamishpotato I guess it's more neglect than anything but to me that's the same as abuse. Very seldom does anything happen tho if reported. They are so protected because of the revenue they bring in with the tourists.
Gail, the problem is English children are so coddled due to horrible parenting, that even teenagers aren't responsible enough to be left alone. Seriously, in Biblical days, those same "kids" you can't bear to leave home alone when you go to a movie, would have been married for a couple years already needing to do everything that is needed to keep a home and raise a family. Mary was probably 12-13 when she bore Christ.
Her curls are so cute! Honestly, I looked up “can a non-Amish person become Amish” and this is the first video I came upon. I see that you guys have the best of both worlds. If so could, I would be living like you are..with animals and some land and a nice home. I feel so stuck where I am. I have two kids and this is the life I dream for them. I will subscribe. Where do you guys live? I live in Pa. what community do you come from and how did you leave your community and why? And how did you create this life for yourself. How much did it take to leave, buy your own land, and live as you are living now? What do you do for a living? I just want to make a bette life for me and my children. I am stuck in my life, living under section 8, and 8 do not like feeling dependent, barely getting by, and feeling like my life is going nowhere and like a life like you are living seems impossible for somebody like me. I would love to talk with you more closely one on one because I am trying to prepare for the future. I have had..visions..prophesies..whatever you might think of it. I have had them most of my life, but starting around 6years ago during my spiritual awakening, I started having many more and also experienced some very surreal, crazy things. I can feel when certain prophesies are coming closer and every single one of them that I have had _has_ come true. At this point, without giving details as to what the future holds, it is important for me to plan out the future for the next few years. I appreciate everything you shared here, I heard you out, and at would love to talk more! Subscribed and turning on my notifications! Lmk if we can talk, because as much as an loved everything you shared, there is so much I wish I could have responded to and have a conversation about.
Yes living in the country is so great. I encourage you to do so if possible. We live in southern idaho. But land is expensive here. Find a few acres in the Midwest and have a garden and some chickens. It’s the best life for a family. It’s ok to be dependent as a female. Men desire to be married to a woman who is dependent. It makes the feel masculine and good about themselves when they know they are taking care of someone. It awakens the inner man. Pennsylvania is great to if land is affordable. You only need a few acres to have a homestead. Start small and grow from their. The comedian Owen Benjamin has started a great online community uniting like minded people. Check out the Beartaria Times App. There are a lot of negative pieces about him online but they are all lies so ignore them. He also does daily live streams on unauthorizedtv.com
There are blessings & advantages in clean living & a good work ethic. But resisting temptations is your responsibility. I can give you a little list to help, but you need to learn how to rein yourself in. The best advice I have is search the Bible, studying about resisting temptation, & self-control. Start in the New Testiment. First it starts in your heart & mind. Do you want to be good? If you do you have to make up your mind to curb your own behavior. For example before you are kissing someone, or even before you ever have a love interest you NEED to know WHERE YOU draw the line. Because it's hard to put on the breaks when you find yourself already in the situation. If you don't have a limit on yourself before you are tempted, it will be hard to resist. (This applies to single adults, too. None of this "do as I say, not as I do".) Are you born again by Christ's death, burial, & resurrection? If so, Christ has given you the Holy Spirit. (There is so much to learn about Jesus, & God, & how to live in the love, joy & peace of the Lord; & Jesus promised us that the Spirit would teach us. But you gotta read the Word for the Spirit to teach it.) ... Anyway, I found hope & strength in knowing that we can have the fruit of the Spirit. Paul gives us a list of 9, my favorite is #9. Love, joy, peace patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, & SELF-CONTROL! Now, someone is reading this with a broken spirit because you are already trapped in sin. You want to do good now, but you don't think you can. Good News! Our God is a God of new beginnings! Ask me, if you like.
Neat ! When I was about 24 I was gonna see ' Let me go on an adventure to see if I can join! ' In Reading, Pa. I was. - 1. Invited to spend the night at amish family home - but didn't. 2. Mennonite group invited me to bible study & a couple said I could live with them. I didn't. So, I want to say yes you can join! It's just that I couldn't settle down😊
Even broken oaths could be atoned for in the old Testament per Leviticus 5:4. With the new Testament atonement by the Blood of Jesus per 1 John 2:2 - then any protestant denomination including Amish, Mennonite, or "English church" should know that changing denomination is not permanent damnation. It's actually shocking how they are taking some Roman Catholic stances while being Out of Communion with Rome. I still defer to Martin Luther 95 theses.
Recently, I've watched some videos on the Hutterites. They are somewhat similar. They live communally and I've noticed the women are allowed to wear prints. They can use any technology for work. In one video, the leader ( bishop, maybe ) had to give permission for anyone to go into town. His son had to ask permission to take his wife to the doctor. I think they are actually stricter, because of communal living.
The lure of community sounds nice but unless one has grown up in that community you would have no shared history with people and it’s those shared histories that create the bonds that hold them together.
Good Afternoon, happy Sunday!! I have a question I hope you could answer for me. I really want to learn how to do canning this fall because every year my garden gets bigger and bigger. I don’t like to use RUclips videos all the time, I don’t have anyone I know personally who can help me with learning how to do a lot of canning. I live near a fairly large Swartzentruber community. My friend has 6 families who are Swartzentruber. Do you think of I went to them and asked to pay them to teach me it would be appropriate? Would I need to ask the Bishop for permission and so that he could pick a family or speak with some to find some Women who would teach me. There are 18 families currently in northern Maine, the fort Fairfield area in Aroostook county. There are more coming also. I feel like these families have been canning for many many many generations so I feel they most likely would have all the best tricks. I need hands on, I need to be able to ask questions if I get confused. I would certainly pay for their hell and I would be an extra set of hands to them as I would be learning from them while they are canning theirs. Then I would go home and do mine. Also if you do think it would be okay, what are some “dont’s and do’s” if I’m spending time with them as far as being respectful. I definitely wouldn’t be cussing, or talking about my Pentacostal religion, I would not show up in shorts and a tank top I would dress modestly. Etc. etc. can you address this question in your next video?
Yes It is a great question. I will try to answer it in the 10 minute Tuesday in the first week in June. Are you male or female? That would make a big difference. ( not sure if that’s you in the profile pic)
I disagree just because you’re not watching the news or of the things around here doesn’t mean you’re affected by the things around you. You have to know in 1930’s jewish people who didn’t have access to the media jewish people they didn’t have as much access to the media may not have been as afraid but that doesn’t mean that they didn’t have to worry about Nazi Germany or the holocaust just, because they were oblivious to the things that were happening.
Could you libe with all the rules ie, your kids only attend school to 8th grade, you have no social security, no health insurance, learning 2 languages (Pennsylvania Dutch and German), no birth control, shunning if you disobey rules etc etc?
Could you talk about what happens to Amish kids that know they are gay. I feel for them. Also, isn't Pennsylvania Dutch more of a broken German? I grew up in a community with Amish farms all around. I admire them in many ways. Thank you for your channel and sharing your life with us. I admire you greatly!
@@theamishpotato wanted to share with you that I grew up around Bowling Green, Missouri. Bowling Green and the Curryville areas there have quite an established Amish community there. That is in rural NE Missouri. Further North MO around Kirksville, there is a black bumper Mennonite clan. Love your channel. I admire you for your courage and honesty. May God bless you always!
@@theamishpotato sorry for the typos! I didn’t mean to say “you “ are beautiful property. Ha ha Ha I’m glad you understood what I meant! Auto correct gets me every time🤣
Your chicken barn is pretty enough to live in !!! I was fixed up pretty nice for chickens. But wanted to go work for Case Farms . Now I cannot have my own fowl 😩 I miss them very much. Yeah, I was raised Amish😁. One of 12 children 😁. Loved it. But the Spiritual side of things😩 Well...They sure didn’t help us when we were HURTING! Because of Dad.Other people came with their Bibles and taught us The ministers came and put their hats on the table 😩. One told Mom to go home and shut up! Boy that really helped us !! Mom was an absolutely wonderful Mother!!! Don’t know how she did it!! We still have her. But Dad is gone for years.
Our community did everything the government required. Some communities don’t have birth certificates and social security cards. They don’t exist according to the government.
Any idea on the percentage of ex Amish that left because they found the Lord as opposed to those left because they wanted to be English? Seems a lot found their way to a relationship with God. I found Him as a 10 yo at a Catholic alter by myself but didn't know it yet. Just always loved Jesus and was anti abortion from the moment I heard about it even before becoming a Christian. Crushing btw, I always make sure I give you a Rogan's up ❤
Thank you. Yeah I’m not sure. I’d say about 95% who leave are leaving because they are searching for spiritual truth. It’s probably closer to 50-50 for those who never join the Amish church after rumspringa.
Sounds kinda like you broke the oath without caring. I’m sure this will only make you and your family closer. Best relationships/families are built on failures.
I liked the video. I found you interesting. One criticism is that I didn't like that you put your kids in it when they clearly didn't want to participate.
Check out Sam & Mary Seven Blessings YT channel. Her story growing up Amish is very interesting. She was adopted by an Amish couple when she was a few days old. Her testimony is Soooo GOOD!
The thing that appeals to me is the idea of having a traditional wife. With the feminist movement among the English, it's become impossible to find that, even in the most conservative church. So all that to say I admire the traditional marriages in the Amish and would love to meet an English girl that believes in that sort of relationship but it's entirely impossible.
I know what you mean. But women can be changed by a good masculine leader. Lead them so they become that way. It means putting your foot down a lot, but they will be happier in the end. Find Owen Benjamin on bitchute. He has lots of women followers who are becoming traditional wives again. They want it. But we must do our part and be masculine as well
@@theamishpotato Thanks for the comment. I'm single and most likely a bachelor til the rapture. I'm not going to compromise on those things as far as Biblical standards in a wife...those things that were standard issue and expected of single women from the beginning of time until about 60 years ago. Even though our society has lost all sense of chastity and morality, doesn't mean I will just settle for a western loudmouth loose feminist English woman because that's all there is.
Thanks for the quick response. I thought of converting amish mainly because I'm a Christian believer and my family farmed I dont mind farming and work and good people but my arms are covered like a bikers. And due to the vaccines being mandated I wanna live off grid and be apart of good amish people.
Just thought I'd share another ex-Amish RUclipsr you or your followers might find interesting, Sam and Mary 7 Blessings. Content is lots of cooking and daily life as well as lots of religion. They are also from Indiana.
Can you tell more about this "sexual abuse" you have mentioned? Is it regarding a situation where two people (spouses of course) are not similar when it comes to their natural sexual needs and (most likely) husband demands his wife to "serve" him as it is said in the Bible? Is this what you meant by sexual abuse? I am curious on this matter.
I think that belonging to such a tight knit community appeals to people. We have become so isolated and lonely.
I wish we could have the best of both worlds
There was a family in my English church and the husband wanted to be Amish but the wife didn’t want to go that far so she relented to be a Mennonite. Their 2 children graduated high school and their son went to a Christian college for a year or two. He decided he wanted to be Amish so he quit college and did whatever he needed to do to turn Amish. He was an Amish school teacher for awhile and taught his students some of the praise choruses we sang at our church. He met a young Amish girl I knew, and married her and 11 children later, there ya go. The family sings together together and after they had been visiting family on Thanksgiving they stopped in and sang to me. How blessed I was.
I'm sure there is a verse in the Bible that says 'Blessed are they who are loving dads and fantastic builders of henhouses.'
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It really is a top grade hen house!
My hubby and I attended a Beachy Amish church for a couple of years. We live in an area with a large Amish and Mennonite population. We met some wonderful people and are still friends with many of them. We never joined. I always told my hubby one of the biggest reasons I couldn't join wasn't all the rules they had listed out (cape dress, head covering...) but all the unspoken rules. I always felt I was being watched and judged because there were so many unspoken rules - that I was probably breaking right & left ;) It is easy to put the Amish on a pedestal. I read those Amish "romance" novel and long for the community I read about in those books, but real life is rarely as idyllic. I think idea of community is the biggest draw for people looking at the Amish because it is extremely hard to find these days.
agreed -- i think the Amish romance books and weekends at the farmer's market (and all the yummy food!) is a big draw for people -- but like he said you can still do it on your own..... Just like people today reminisce about when stores were closed on Sundays - you can still have that time -- just don't go shopping on Sundays!! It is very sad that we don't know our neighbors and most people's 'community' today is online ... was just talking about that with a face to face friend to day .
I bet you met a lot of awesome people. Lucky you. I'm a fifty-three-year-old single male and I am definitely thinking of this.
GREAT video! Living the Amish lifestyle vs living the Amish culture are very different. While I am not Amish it is similar to being born into a culture vs converting to one. If one wants a simpler life they can accomplish it without making the religious sacrifices as you point out. Well done! Keep these videos coming as we are learning so much from them!
As a man all I can say is: Good luck finding an English woman willing to give up her devices and social media validation addictions. Try going up to a "Christian" woman at any church and telling her you are looking for a traditional wife that's a virgin until marriage AND will give up her electronics. LOL
AMEN to your advice. Being Amish doesn't mean to have a relationship with God.. God say we are in the world, but we are not of the world. As you clearly said there are great ways of the Amish, but they also have serious problems. Thanks again for sharing.
Your chicken house is awesome 👍
Agree, was checking it out.
Thank you! I think I over did it🤔 but I don’t know how not to.
Agree. I hope you’re chickens appreciate how good they have it.
@@freeatlast5499 haha unfortunately they don’t. They want out all the time😂. If only they wouldn’t tear up the garden.
What an adorable family, so happy to have found you thru Anthony's video you did. Thank you
Great video, love the chickens and their house. You've come a long ways keep up the great videos.
Thank you!
The Amish lifestyle of being off grid and disconnected from technology but in a community is appealing but the Arminian theology is horrible.
Your chicken coop is really nice. This was another great video, thanks for sharing!
I love your idea about living like the Amish, but not becoming Amish. No television, animals, and teaching children how to work sounds ideal. Community can come from neighbours and your church family
DONT DO IT IN MICHIGAN!! ESPECIALLY NORTH EAST OF WHERE HES FROM, YOU WILL REGRET IT AND LOSE YOUR CHILDREN BECAUSE OF IT!! TRUST ME I KNOW!
In Michigan church is not considered family neither are friends...
In 1982 we bought a small farm in MO. I didn't know how to do some things so I started a women's group were we would meet at the home of who ever was giving the lesson. We had canning, baking bread, making cheese, sewing, cross stitch, garden ideas ect. It was fun to socialize and learn new things. We would ask what everyone wanted to learn and someone in the group would usually know how. Having just moved to town I met the locals and was accepted as they got to know me. If I was young again I would do it all over again. Raised our kids on the farm with no TV. We trained and showed horses for our fun.
Thank you for addressing this specific topic. I live smack in the middle of Amish farm & lumber country. I greatly admire their self sufficiency but I've observed the way they distance themselves from anyone in their own community who is a little different. I am happy to be their neighbor, buy their wares and wave when they are in town👍
God has blessed you with awesome kids and awesome chickens. 👍
I am blessed indeed
Not in Michigan you can't. The judge illegally KIDNAPPED MY DAUGHTER because I live simple and don't have tv and technology and feed my Daughter healthy and I was told I live in an unrealistic structured environment and am setting my Daughter up for educational failure... Was told if I was part of an organized religion then they would accomadate to my beleifs... I'm English born and raised but lived more Amish then the Amish do.im still fighting the law breaking the law🤬🤬😭😭
Where l grew up northeast of Topeka, within a mile from us there were 2 married men who became Amish after dating an Amish girl who grew up completely "english". One has become a preacher now.
Hi, your videos are very uplifting and back when I was a child, we lived in some houses that we did not have a lot of modern things in, but back then many things that we have today have only been introduced an anyone . can live a plain lifestyle if they do as you suggested and my grandma didn't believe in many of those things the outside world did but she was not Amish it was Church "rules" for one thing. My grandma was a "Charter Member" of the Church of the Nazarene" (rip grandma) 1980
We have remote property in northeastern Arizona which is off-grid. When we were living out there on another on-grid property it was cool to be part of the community.
Even where we are in Kentucky we are more rural and have more community in regards to helping out one another. But we haven’t gotten involved with sharing in raising livestock or gardens.
I could easily give up the electronic world but hubs isn’t as ready to grow our own food, can said foods,... mercy, how does one live without pickle forks, coordinated jackets for each color group or just the right computer desk chair???
The biggest appeal to me is the government doesn't mess with the Amish. The worst part for me would be electronics.
Totally love the simple lifestyle, and started that a few years ago, no TV, not alot of " stuff", conveniences ..But that's as far as it goes, not at all interested in the Amish lifestyle. Enjoyed the video..thxs
You have the same chickens as us.. I love them
I work in a State prison in Ohio. this inmate married an Amish female and bragged that he is the only black man that is Amish.
We also house several Amish in Ohio, the beard cutting incidents,the one that had his mistress murder his wife.
The Sam mullet crew....
The truth of the gospel without the legalism. The Amish are simply the modern day Pharisees and Sadducees.
Thanks for the good advice to those who really don't know what it's like to grow up in the amish!!! Good advice and work ethics!!!!
Great, informative video. Love the chicken coop. Again, enjoyed your talk. Thanks
You make a lot of good sense.
Brother.. I don't have cable I do have t.v. my family watches my old movies and I watch preaching and singing and good family inertermante like your program and a few other programs.. I try my best to watch what I see.. I don't really know what the News is unless someone tells me about it.. I go to church when I can because sometimes my health keeps me from going.. I really don't have that many friend's and I really dont socialize with my family much either because of they like drama too much. I don't.. I bible say's be at peace with all men if possible.. I don't like drama I just stay away love them from a distance... Just like you sometimes you have to love the Amish from a distances.. For two year's now I have been shut in because of my health and I be ownest with you anymore I don't like going out in the public but I have to then right back home when I do.. Bless you and your family in the name of Jesus.. Shine and Smile on..
Has anyone converted from Islam or Hinduism to Amish? It would be interesting to learn about the minorities in the Amish community (conversion, adoption etc.).
Very few convert to being Amish. Amish do adopt children but they try to stick with Caucasian kids I think because a child of different ethnicity will stand out and will likely get picked on. There are those who are raised by Amish foster parents though. An Asian guy started speaking to me in Pennsylvania Dutch at a restaurant one time and I about fell over dead.
Thank you 😊 I know that we "English" tend to romanticize the Amish. I surely do love the people. But human nature is still what we all struggle with. As a Christian of 70 years, I can testify that we ALL sin.
I think we imagine that if we cut ourselves off from temptations it will be easier to live faithfully before God. Orthodox religions of all Abrahamic faiths, Jewish, Muslim, & Christian separate men from woman even more than the Amish do to protect purity. Restrictive customs & rules aren't a guarantee AT ALL.
I would love to live with the Amish, Im tired of this life Im forced to live...no community, nothig but consumerism and greed..
Following Christ transcends all cultural traditions. In other words, one does not have to change their cultural traditions so long as they do not violate the commandments of Christ. Therefore, if the Amish where obedient to Christ they would be willing to teach people of all cultures the Sermon on the Mount and if they agreed to follow his teachings, that is all that is required to be a Christian. Of course the Sermon on the Mount is a loaded sermon that requires a lifetime to unpack. Thus after baptism, such people should also be allowed to attend Church.
It's like anything you are born into you take for granted !
Many many years ago I was wanting to get baptized at my church the Reverend said well once you get baptized you will be long to the church that feltl weird to me as children if my parents missed a Sunday and we went every Sunday they were at our house before the next Sunday giving a sermon in my parents living room mom didn't like that one Sunday dad showed up with his suit but he didn't have a tie on one of the fellas there walked up to him opened up his suit and on the inside he had rows of ties he was wanting dad to pick one Dad didn't like that we quit going to the church . Some years later went to West Virginia got baptized in the river the preacher down there had no problem with it he didn't own us the church didn't own us and it felt right.
A simpler lifestyle is much needed today, home values, home cooked meals, family togetherness. All of that is needed back in society again.
I didn't grow up Amish but, the Amish way of life I am familiar some with and love it because, my Grandparents on my Mom's side was a farming family with an outside toilet, home cooked meals everyday, large gardens, canning, clothes washed and dried outside on clotheslines
Mom kept that home-like style when I came home from school I came in the door to the smell of supper being prepared, bread baking. Clothes flapping on the clothesline in the breeze. I totally loved it and have it that way in my own life today. I live in a Amish and Mennonite way of life I don't have television, I don't drive or own a vehicle, I cook, bake, can, walk to mow grass, I do have electric, and cell phone so that is leaning the Mennonite way I use my phone to have groceries delivered to my home. I live in a country rurual area and I love this way of life.
Amen. We have removed ourselves so far from a good quality life.
My grand mother was Swiss German and she married my English grand father in 1920 in Cambridge Maryland. He was a HUGE Tomato farmer. My Swiss German Grand mother Anna learned to speak Swiss German in Baltimore Maryland in the early 1900's. I am 1/2 English and 1/2 German and Swiss German. How would the Amish view that. Would i have a "Foot in the Door" so to speak as far as joining. I am 59.
I heard the Indiana RV manufacturers are getting 2 weeks off for Thanksgiving, are you feeling that too?
I never watch TV....but I have this smart phone, that's how I found you lol!
Haha. I have a RUclips addiction myself 🤫😋
@@theamishpotato omg it really is! 😂
I'm a Amish taxi driver in PA. I see so much animal and child abuse in the Amish community. I see children as soon as they're able to walk roaming a huge farm all by themselves with no supervision, hence the death rate of very young children from farm accidents. So sad 😥.
There are no animal shelters in Amish areas. If an animal is what they think is no longer useful they sell it for slaughter or shoot it or dump it. A great hard working plow horse who works for years for the family doesn't get retirement. It gets sold for dog food or shot.
If you are aware of child abuse you need to report it. I’m not sure how much can be done about animal abuse.
@@theamishpotato I guess it's more neglect than anything but to me that's the same as abuse. Very seldom does anything happen tho if reported. They are so protected because of the revenue they bring in with the tourists.
@@Tgail1 yeah sadly you’re correct. But if they get more and more reports they might eventually look into things. Thanks for being a watchful eye.
Gail, the problem is English children are so coddled due to horrible parenting, that even teenagers aren't responsible enough to be left alone. Seriously, in Biblical days, those same "kids" you can't bear to leave home alone when you go to a movie, would have been married for a couple years already needing to do everything that is needed to keep a home and raise a family. Mary was probably 12-13 when she bore Christ.
Her curls are so cute! Honestly, I looked up “can a non-Amish person become Amish” and this is the first video I came upon. I see that you guys have the best of both worlds. If so could, I would be living like you are..with animals and some land and a nice home. I feel so stuck where I am. I have two kids and this is the life I dream for them. I will subscribe. Where do you guys live? I live in Pa. what community do you come from and how did you leave your community and why? And how did you create this life for yourself. How much did it take to leave, buy your own land, and live as you are living now? What do you do for a living? I just want to make a bette life for me and my children. I am stuck in my life, living under section 8, and 8 do not like feeling dependent, barely getting by, and feeling like my life is going nowhere and like a life like you are living seems impossible for somebody like me. I would love to talk with you more closely one on one because I am trying to prepare for the future. I have had..visions..prophesies..whatever you might think of it. I have had them most of my life, but starting around 6years ago during my spiritual awakening, I started having many more and also experienced some very surreal, crazy things. I can feel when certain prophesies are coming closer and every single one of them that I have had _has_ come true. At this point, without giving details as to what the future holds, it is important for me to plan out the future for the next few years. I appreciate everything you shared here, I heard you out, and at would love to talk more! Subscribed and turning on my notifications! Lmk if we can talk, because as much as an loved everything you shared, there is so much I wish I could have responded to and have a conversation about.
Yes living in the country is so great. I encourage you to do so if possible. We live in southern idaho. But land is expensive here. Find a few acres in the Midwest and have a garden and some chickens. It’s the best life for a family. It’s ok to be dependent as a female. Men desire to be married to a woman who is dependent. It makes the feel masculine and good about themselves when they know they are taking care of someone. It awakens the inner man. Pennsylvania is great to if land is affordable. You only need a few acres to have a homestead. Start small and grow from their.
The comedian Owen Benjamin has started a great online community uniting like minded people. Check out the Beartaria Times App. There are a lot of negative pieces about him online but they are all lies so ignore them. He also does daily live streams on unauthorizedtv.com
My email is theamishpotato1@gmail.com
@@theamishpotato thank you so much for getting back to me! 💓
@@TheKatarinaGiselle did you get it all figured out? I’m curious myself. I would love to live this way
There are blessings & advantages in clean living & a good work ethic. But resisting temptations is your responsibility. I can give you a little list to help, but you need to learn how to rein yourself in. The best advice I have is search the Bible, studying about resisting temptation, & self-control. Start in the New Testiment.
First it starts in your heart & mind. Do you want to be good? If you do you have to make up your mind to curb your own behavior. For example before you are kissing someone, or even before you ever have a love interest you NEED to know WHERE YOU draw the line. Because it's hard to put on the breaks when you find yourself already in the situation. If you don't have a limit on yourself before you are tempted, it will be hard to resist. (This applies to single adults, too. None of this "do as I say, not as I do".)
Are you born again by Christ's death, burial, & resurrection? If so, Christ has given you the Holy Spirit. (There is so much to learn about Jesus, & God, & how to live in the love, joy & peace of the Lord; & Jesus promised us that the Spirit would teach us. But you gotta read the Word for the Spirit to teach it.) ... Anyway, I found hope & strength in knowing that we can have the fruit of the Spirit. Paul gives us a list of 9, my favorite is #9. Love, joy, peace patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, & SELF-CONTROL!
Now, someone is reading this with a broken spirit because you are already trapped in sin. You want to do good now, but you don't think you can. Good News! Our God is a God of new beginnings! Ask me, if you like.
I need help becoming Amish. I was born into an English family although I have PA Dutch ancestry.
It depends... I wouldn't mind if I could have electronics I already live off grid I'm not super spoiled or anything but I'm addicted to electronics 😁
play games with your kids and spends family time is one you can work do a some thing to be like them
Neat ! When I was about 24 I was gonna see ' Let me go on an adventure to see if I can join! ' In Reading, Pa. I was. - 1. Invited to spend the night at amish family home - but didn't. 2. Mennonite group invited me to bible study & a couple said I could live with them. I didn't. So, I want to say yes you can join! It's just that I couldn't settle down😊
Even broken oaths could be atoned for in the old Testament per Leviticus 5:4. With the new Testament atonement by the Blood of Jesus per 1 John 2:2 - then any protestant denomination including Amish, Mennonite, or "English church" should know that changing denomination is not permanent damnation. It's actually shocking how they are taking some Roman Catholic stances while being Out of Communion with Rome. I still defer to Martin Luther 95 theses.
Recently, I've watched some videos on the Hutterites. They are somewhat similar. They live communally and I've noticed the women are allowed to wear prints. They can use any technology for work. In one video, the leader ( bishop, maybe ) had to give permission for anyone to go into town. His son had to ask permission to take his wife to the doctor. I think they are actually stricter, because of communal living.
The lure of community sounds nice but unless one has grown up in that community you would have no shared history with people and it’s those shared histories that create the bonds that hold them together.
Good Afternoon, happy Sunday!! I have a question I hope you could answer for me. I really want to learn how to do canning this fall because every year my garden gets bigger and bigger. I don’t like to use RUclips videos all the time, I don’t have anyone I know personally who can help me with learning how to do a lot of canning. I live near a fairly large Swartzentruber community. My friend has 6 families who are Swartzentruber. Do you think of I went to them and asked to pay them to teach me it would be appropriate? Would I need to ask the Bishop for permission and so that he could pick a family or speak with some to find some Women who would teach me. There are 18 families currently in northern Maine, the fort Fairfield area in Aroostook county. There are more coming also. I feel like these families have been canning for many many many generations so I feel they most likely would have all the best tricks. I need hands on, I need to be able to ask questions if I get confused. I would certainly pay for their hell and I would be an extra set of hands to them as I would be learning from them while they are canning theirs. Then I would go home and do mine. Also if you do think it would be okay, what are some “dont’s and do’s” if I’m spending time with them as far as being respectful. I definitely wouldn’t be cussing, or talking about my Pentacostal religion, I would not show up in shorts and a tank top I would dress modestly. Etc. etc. can you address this question in your next video?
Yes It is a great question. I will try to answer it in the 10 minute Tuesday in the first week in June. Are you male or female? That would make a big difference. ( not sure if that’s you in the profile pic)
I disagree just because you’re not watching the news or of the things around here doesn’t mean you’re affected by the things around you. You have to know in 1930’s jewish people who didn’t have access to the media jewish people they didn’t have as much access to the media may not have been as afraid but that doesn’t mean that they didn’t have to worry about Nazi Germany or the holocaust just, because they were oblivious to the things that were happening.
Great Video..... Thanx! 💯
It's kinda like joining the crips or bloods, right?
Hahaha that lonely little chicken egg sitting just to the right of the door 😁
Haha didn’t even notice it. Wonder what it’s doing there......
@@theamishpotato it's making a break for it 😅
I would love to go live with the Amish
Could you libe with all the rules ie, your kids only attend school to 8th grade, you have no social security, no health insurance, learning 2 languages (Pennsylvania Dutch and German), no birth control, shunning if you disobey rules etc etc?
Do Amish people vote
Some. More did this past election then ever before the way it sounds.
I would love to go live with the Amish I would love to live like that
Same
Good hard work ethic but no assurance of salvation through faith in the finished work of Jesus.
Me too
Could you talk about what happens to Amish kids that know they are gay. I feel for them. Also, isn't Pennsylvania Dutch more of a broken German? I grew up in a community with Amish farms all around. I admire them in many ways. Thank you for your channel and sharing your life with us. I admire you greatly!
I will try. I don’t know much about it.
@@theamishpotato wanted to share with you that I grew up around Bowling Green, Missouri. Bowling Green and the Curryville areas there have quite an established Amish community there. That is in rural NE Missouri. Further North MO around Kirksville, there is a black bumper Mennonite clan. Love your channel. I admire you for your courage and honesty. May God bless you always!
If the Amish can drink coffee I can do it… I have such a desire to be Amish.. but i’m vegan 🤣
You can be an Amish vegan!
I would like to live as the Amish
Off grid living. Many are doing it
Awesome and beautiful chicken coop. It looks like you are beautiful property!
Thank you. Yes, I can’t complain. We love our place but it’s been neglected for years so it needs a little tlc.
@@theamishpotato sorry for the typos! I didn’t mean to say “you “ are beautiful property. Ha ha Ha I’m glad you understood what I meant! Auto correct gets me every time🤣
@@joanrichter4718 haha yeah I figured. Yes, auto correct is a thorn in my side. I understand
Your chicken barn is pretty enough to live in !!! I was fixed up pretty nice for chickens. But wanted to go work for Case Farms . Now I cannot have my own fowl 😩
I miss them very much.
Yeah, I was raised Amish😁.
One of 12 children 😁. Loved it.
But the Spiritual side of things😩
Well...They sure didn’t help us when we were HURTING! Because of Dad.Other people came with their Bibles and taught us The ministers came and put their hats on the table 😩. One told Mom to go home and shut up! Boy that really helped us !! Mom was an absolutely wonderful Mother!!!
Don’t know how she did it!! We still have her. But Dad is gone for years.
It would be interesting to hear your story
It’s hard to talk about and not sin! Did we really forgive him??? We came from Ind too.
I would love to have a whole day with you guys!
@@orphayoder9085 shipshewana Topeka area?
Mom’s side was from LaGrange.
Eli and Anna Troyer. But we now live in Mt Vernon, Oh.
I couldn't be Amish ... .
How do you just legally get out of all the things they do so the government doesn't have so much control?
Our community did everything the government required. Some communities don’t have birth certificates and social security cards. They don’t exist according to the government.
Any idea on the percentage of ex Amish that left because they found the Lord as opposed to those left because they wanted to be English? Seems a lot found their way to a relationship with God. I found Him as a 10 yo at a Catholic alter by myself but didn't know it yet. Just always loved Jesus and was anti abortion from the moment I heard about it even before becoming a Christian. Crushing btw, I always make sure I give you a Rogan's up ❤
Thank you. Yeah I’m not sure. I’d say about 95% who leave are leaving because they are searching for spiritual truth. It’s probably closer to 50-50 for those who never join the Amish church after rumspringa.
Sounds kinda like you broke the oath without caring. I’m sure this will only make you and your family closer. Best relationships/families are built on failures.
I liked the video. I found you interesting. One criticism is that I didn't like that you put your kids in it when they clearly didn't want to participate.
I want that chicken house 🐔
We are blessed to have it!
Check out Sam & Mary Seven Blessings YT channel. Her story growing up Amish is very interesting. She was adopted by an Amish couple when she was a few days old. Her testimony is Soooo GOOD!
Some video ideas for you:
1) Do Amish and Mennonite hangout together?
2) Are there different levels of Amish?
3) What do you miss about being Amish?
Thank you!
@@theamishpotato No problem!
The thing that appeals to me is the idea of having a traditional wife. With the feminist movement among the English, it's become impossible to find that, even in the most conservative church. So all that to say I admire the traditional marriages in the Amish and would love to meet an English girl that believes in that sort of relationship but it's entirely impossible.
I know what you mean. But women can be changed by a good masculine leader. Lead them so they become that way. It means putting your foot down a lot, but they will be happier in the end. Find Owen Benjamin on bitchute. He has lots of women followers who are becoming traditional wives again. They want it. But we must do our part and be masculine as well
@@theamishpotato Thanks for the comment. I'm single and most likely a bachelor til the rapture. I'm not going to compromise on those things as far as Biblical standards in a wife...those things that were standard issue and expected of single women from the beginning of time until about 60 years ago. Even though our society has lost all sense of chastity and morality, doesn't mean I will just settle for a western loudmouth loose feminist English woman because that's all there is.
Who makes that hat?
O’Neill. I think I got it from Amazon. And love it.
@@theamishpotato thanks it looks nice. I have been needing one just like it
Do you remember the "model name"
@@queerdor O’Neill Men’s Sonoma Print Straw Hat. They are currently on Amazon for $20.
Would they let me use my dowsing rod?
Are tattoos forbidden? I would imagine so but I'm just wandering
Yep absolutely forbidden. A person would have to get it removed before joining the church.
Thanks for the quick response. I thought of converting amish mainly because I'm a Christian believer and my family farmed I dont mind farming and work and good people but my arms are covered like a bikers. And due to the vaccines being mandated I wanna live off grid and be apart of good amish people.
@@dakotafunk6092 it’s hard to become Amish but I encourage off grid living. More and more people are doing it so I think communities are forming
Off grid with Doug and Stacy RUclips channel.. they live like Amish buy are not Amish
Just thought I'd share another ex-Amish RUclipsr you or your followers might find interesting, Sam and Mary 7 Blessings. Content is lots of cooking and daily life as well as lots of religion. They are also from Indiana.
Yep. Subscribed
I was just hearing words until you fist bumped your chest and flashed the peace sign .... then, you completely lost me.
Can you tell more about this "sexual abuse" you have mentioned? Is it regarding a situation where two people (spouses of course) are not similar when it comes to their natural sexual needs and (most likely) husband demands his wife to "serve" him as it is said in the Bible? Is this what you meant by sexual abuse? I am curious on this matter.
This is absolutely stupid
You want to be Amish. Just be Amish
Do an dress like the Amish
You don’t have to join a church
Just declare your Amish