Letters to and from Former Amish
An Alarming Concern for the Amish Church
| October 13, 2004I have been taught that we need standards, fences or guard rails to keep our sheep in. Why do we all have different kinds of fences or guard rails? We all want to have the strongest fences, and still the sheep may keep getting out. Didn't God give us a good enough standard? Didn't God give us the laws which govern how to build the strongest fences? How about going back to God's laws and leaving our own laws out, and see if that won't build a stronger fence?
I Will Stand for Jesus, Regardless of the Cost
| October 12, 2004Greetings of love in Jesus' name. How are you doing? I think of you often, and I have wanted to write you for a while, but our last letters felt rather cut off; it seems we are not seeing things eye-to-eye anymore.
I don't want to go on and on, writing many words because I feel too unworthy to admonish you. May I , instead, write a little about us?
When I was Amish, I was told over and over to surrender to and obey the Amish church. Last year, when I was in the ban for issues not related to leaving, I felt the Amish church was doing something wrong.
Son to Parents: My life Has Been Changed Forever!
| February 15, 2004Mom, wondered how I spend my Sundays. I go to church almost every Sunday and five month ago I started to read my bible everyday. I can not even tell you how excited it makes me to talk and think about going to church. Every Sunday's service is different. I love it!! God is so extremely powerful.
Son to Mother: Give Me Over to God
| June 21, 2003The letter below was written by William to his mother on Mothers Day. William had gotten saved and then left the Amish because he had a desire to grow stronger in his faith in Christ. At the time of this writing,it has been 6 years since he left the Amish.
