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Survival Amish Style by Olivia Newport

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Mission trips, outreach strategies, evangelistic campaigns, discipleship programs, new church plants, contemporary worship styles—for many denominations, these are the backbone of church growth efforts. Yet few of them come close to how rapidly the Old Order Amish are growing. The most conservative of all the Amish groups, the Old Order do not actively evangelize. In […]

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Are the Amish as Plain as We Think by Olivia Newport

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The savvy readers who follow this blog know that not all Amish groups are the same and that they are not to be mistaken for the Mennonites. There are about forty different Amish affiliations, from the largest and most familiar in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to groups that have only a few churches. But how did […]