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Mosie Shetler

He walked out the door of his farm house and for two miles debated his decision to leave. Eighteen-year-old Mosie, born into an Amish family in upstate New York, one of 12 children, turned from… 

Alvin Mast

As a young child I was taken to the neighbor minister to be “brauched” (powwowed) on. This was done for such things as sore throat, earache, canker sores etc. As a child growing up I… 

Mary Troyer

I was born into the Amish and lived most of my life in Michigan. When I was 15 my father passed away on December 22, 1997. Then on May 20, 2005 my brother passed away… 

Lydia Shrock

I left an abusive Amish family and lived in Joe and Esther Keim’s apartment for a while before moving in with my now, ex-boyfriend. Based on my abusive childhood, I picked a guy who became… 

Uriah Shetler

The following testimony was written several months before Uriah left the Amish. Uriah writes: We lived in New York until I was 13 years old when we moved to a Wisconsin settlement with only five… 

Tiffany Raber

How easy is it for an English girl to date a former Amish boy? When I was younger I was probably just like any other person that wasn’t around Amish people that much. If I’d… 

What If…

What if there really is a group of people out there that have a connection with God that transcends the daily grind of life and transports them into a place of intimacy? What if they… 

Stephen Zimmerman

From the pits of Hell to the Highest Heaven I come from an old older Mennonite home, known as the plain people. Ever since I was a little kid I had questions about God. I… 

Uria Gingerich

I grew up in the Amish and I was getting ready to be a church member and when I found out all their church rules and I felt like there is more to being a… 

Levi Shetler

I left the Amish in 2008, at age 17. I left with my friend. We stayed in a barn for the first night and the next morning my cousin Sam from Canada came and picked…