Mennonite & Anabaptist

In this video I show you more of my visit to the horse-and-buggy Mennonite community in Buffalo Valley (Union County, PA). You’ve already seen the posts on the Mennonite bakery and market – they appear here too as well. Additional things you’ll see in this video are a visit with to an old cemetery in […]

Continue Reading Visiting Plain Mennonites (Video)

As promised, following the look inside a plain Mennonite market, let’s check out the bakery. As you might recall this was found just next door to the market in the Snyder County, PA Stauffer Mennonite community (Port Trevorton area). We were met by the aroma of what I thought was apple cobbler as we exited […]

Continue Reading Visiting a Mennonite Bakery (16 Photos)

While in Lancaster County I took a trip with a friend and his son to an Old Order (horse-and-buggy) Mennonite community in the Buffalo Valley area of Pennsylvania. It’s about a two and a half hour drive and there had been inclement weather that day, which worsened as we headed further north. We did get […]

Continue Reading Visiting a Mennonite Market (21 Photos)

Good news from Haiti: all remaining missionary hostages – 12 of them – have now been released. From the Associated Press: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The remaining members of a U.S. missionary group who were kidnapped two months ago in Haiti have been freed, Haitian police and the church group said Thursday. The spokesman for […]

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What’s the difference between Amish and Mennonites? I previously covered this question about 10 years ago in written form. I’ve now made it into a video. Given all the different Amish and Mennonite groups, I couldn’t go incredibly in-depth on this question. But I think this is a pretty solid overview. I discuss a number […]

Continue Reading Comparing Amish & Mennonites (Video)

Following up on the Haiti missionary hostage story – some good news, with three hostages being released Sunday, in addition to two released last month: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A religious group based in Ohio announced Monday that a violent gang in Haiti has released three more hostages, while another 12 remain abducted. The statement […]

Continue Reading Five Haiti Missionary Hostages Have Now Been Released; 12 Remain Captive

The Anabaptist missionaries kidnapped over two weeks ago in Haiti made national news. The 17 remain in custody, victims of a criminal gang demanding $1 million per person for their release. These kidnappings brought about a flood of reporting in the following days, but I notice there seems to have been little-to-no news over the […]

Continue Reading Amish Cook: Prayers For Haiti

It’s the 65th Annual Pennsylvania Relief Sale, and 65 quilts will be sold online today (Saturday April 10) starting at 10 AM. This sale benefits Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). Amish support and participate in MCC disaster relief efforts. Here are some of the quilts. These are not necessarily Amish-made (going by the names, most of […]

Continue Reading Pennsylvania Relief Sale: 65 Quilts To Be Auctioned Online @ 10 AM Today

Do the Amish live in Ireland? There are no Old Order Amish communities in Ireland, but Beachy Amish do live there. The question is revisited today by irishcentral.com in an article titled “Did you know Ireland has an Amish community?” The Christian Fellowship of Dunmore East, Co. Waterford is Ireland’s only Amish-Mennonite community. It was […]

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The Young Center at Elizabethtown College provides annual Amish population numbers, with totals for each state, province and so on. But they also have figures for the Old Order Mennonite population, a group similar to Amish in many ways (and in some cases living next door to them as neighbors). According to their latest tallies, […]

Continue Reading The Old Order Mennonite Population (Horse & Buggy): 38,000+ in The US, Canada & Belize