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New Order Amish
The New Order Amish are a subgroup of Amish that split away from the Old Order Amish in the 1960s for a variety of reasons, which included a desire for "clean" youth courting standards, meaning they do not condone the practice of bundling (non-sexual lying in bed together) during courtship. Tobacco and alcohol are also not allowed. They also wished to incorporate more evangelical elements into the church, including Sunday school and Missionary, mission work. Some scholars see the group best characterized as a subgroup of the Old Order Amish, despite the name. History The New Order Amish emerged mainly in two regions: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and Holmes/ Wayne County, Ohio. Waldrep cites a New Order Amish man: Even though in Waldrep's opinion this seems "like a simplistic reading", he states that "in the final analysis the characterization appears accurate". In 1966, around one hundred families split with the Old Order Amish in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, ove ...
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Subgroups Of Amish
Over the years, as Amish churches have divided many times over doctrinal disputes, subgroups have developed. The "Old Order Amish", a conservative faction that withdrew in the 1860s from fellowship with the wider body of Amish, are those that have most emphasized traditional practices and beliefs. There are many different subgroups of Amish with most belonging, in ascending order of conservatism, to the ''Beachy Amish'', ''New Order'', ''Old Order'', or ''Swartzentruber'' Amish groups. Amish affiliations Donald B. Kraybill, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner and Steven M. Nolt speak of different Amish "affiliations" in their book ''The Amish''. They define an affiliation as "a cluster of two or more districts with at least twenty years of shared history". They continue: "affiliated congregations share similar Ordnungs, which specify distinctive lifestyles and visible symbols that set them apart from other affiliations". When referring to affiliations, Amish themselves speak of "our peopl ...
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Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. The medium is capable of more than "radio broadcasting", which refers to an audio signal sent to radio receivers. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was ...
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Para-Amish
Over the years, as Amish churches have divided many times over doctrinal disputes, subgroups have developed. The "Old Order Amish", a conservative faction that withdrew in the 1860s from fellowship with the wider body of Amish, are those that have most emphasized traditional practices and beliefs. There are many different subgroups of Amish with most belonging, in ascending order of conservatism, to the ''Beachy Amish'', ''New Order'', ''Old Order'', or ''Swartzentruber'' Amish groups. Amish affiliations Donald B. Kraybill, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner and Steven M. Nolt speak of different Amish "affiliations" in their book ''The Amish''. They define an affiliation as "a cluster of two or more districts with at least twenty years of shared history". They continue: "affiliated congregations share similar Ordnungs, which specify distinctive lifestyles and visible symbols that set them apart from other affiliations". When referring to affiliations, Amish themselves speak of "our peopl ...
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Kalona, Iowa
Kalona is a city in Washington County, Iowa. It is part of the Iowa City metropolitan area. The population was 2,630 at the time of the 2020 census. Kalona is the second-largest city in Washington County. History Amish settlement in what is now the Kalona area began in the 1840s, placing the Amish among the first European settlers in the area. The split between Old Order Amish and Amish Mennonites occurred in the 1860s in most places, but it was not until the 1880s that the formal split occurred in Iowa, even though a process of sorting out between conservatives and change-minded Amish had begun a decade earlier or so in Iowa. Most Amish Mennonites later assimilated and lost their Amish identity. The Beachy Amish broke away from the Old Orders in the 1920s. The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway built a 66-mile branch from Iowa City to What Cheer via Kalona in 1879. Kalona was established by the railroad on August 6, 1879. The name was suggested to the railroad ...
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Nappanee
Nappanee is a city in Elkhart and Kosciusko counties in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 6,648 as of the 2010 U.S. Census and had grown to 6,913 by the 2020 U.S. Census. The name Nappanee is thought to mean "flour" in the Algonquian language. History Several hundred years ago, the indigenous Mound Builders built their settlements in an area to the north of the city's marshes. Pottawatomi arrived in the area from near Green Bay, Wisconsin in the 1700s, partially displacing the previous Miami inhabitants. The Pottawatomis had settlements on the Elkhart River at Elkhart, Goshen, and Waterford, and at Monoquet between Leesburg and Warsaw in what became Kosciusko County, Indiana. Thus, the Plymouth-Goshen Road near Nappanee probably follows the course of an old Indian Trail. The first European settlers came to the area in 1830, as various treaties and a process the Pottawatomi call the " Trail of Death" led to the relocation of Native Americans away from their tra ...
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Andy Weaver (Old Order Amish)
The Andy Weaver Amish, locally also called "Dan Church", "Dan Amish" or "Danners", are a conservative subgroup of Amish, Old Order Amish. They are more conservative than average Old Order Amish. Andy Weaver Amish are considered a subgroups of Amish, subgroup of the Old Order Amish, although they do not fellowship or intermarry with more liberal Old Order Amish. They speak Pennsylvania German language, Pennsylvania German as their mother tongue as well as English with outsiders. A subgroup of the Swartzentruber Amish is also called "Andy Weaver". History In Holmes County, Ohio, the Andy Weaver Amish were formed in 1952 over the issue of shunning. They were named after Andrew J. Weaver, a conservative minister who took a stand against "drift", that is moving towards mainstream society. Customs and technology They are less conservative than the Swartzentruber Amish but more conservative than the Old Order main body. Compared to them they have greater restrictions on farm, bu ...
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Swartzentruber Amish
The Swartzentruber Amish are one of the largest and most conservative subgroups of Amish, Old Order Amish. The Swartzentruber Amish are considered a subgroups of Amish, subgroup of the Old Order Amish, although they do not fellowship or intermarry with more liberal Old Order Amish. They speak Pennsylvania German language, Pennsylvania German as their mother tongue as well as English (with outsiders). History The history of the Swartzentruber is closely tied to issues of church discipline, particularly the use of Bann und Meidung when a member is Shunning#Anabaptism, shunned, and to issues of Ordnung, or rules regarding what is allowed and what is required. The group split, first from the other Old Order groups and then within the Swartzentruber group, multiple times throughout the twentieth century over these issues. The group originally formed as a result of a division that occurred among the Old Order Ohio Amish Country, Amish of Holmes County, Ohio, in the years 1913–1917 ov ...
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Noah Hoover Mennonite
The Noah Hoover Mennonites, called "Old Order Mennonite Church (Hoover)" by the Mennonite World Conference, and sometimes called " Scottsville Mennonites”, are a group of very plain Old Order Mennonites that originally came from the Stauffer Mennonites and later merged with several other groups. Today it is seen as an independent branch of Old Order Mennonites. The group differs from other Old Order Mennonites by having settlements outside the US and Canada ( in Belize) and by attracting new members from other groups on a larger scale. They have more restrictions on modern technology than all other Old Order Mennonite groups. They are rather intentionalist minded than ultra traditional. History The Noah Hoover Mennonites have a complicated history because they did not just separate from one other Old Order Mennonites group but emerged from a series of splits and mergers of different Old Order groups. The events that led to the Noah Hoover Mennonites as an independent group o ...
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Old Order Mennonite
Old Order Mennonites (Pennsylvania Dutch language, Pennsylvania German: ) form a branch of the Mennonite tradition. Old Order Movement, Old Order are those Mennonite groups of Swiss people, Swiss German and south Germans, German heritage who practice a lifestyle without some elements of modern technology, still drive a horse and Buggy (carriage)#Amish buggy, buggy rather than cars, wear very Plain dress, conservative and modest dress, and have retained the old forms of worship, baptism and communion. All Old Order Mennonites reject certain technologies (e.g., radio, television, Internet), but the extent of this rejection depends on the individual group. Old Order groups generally place great emphasis on a disciplined community instead of the individual's personal faith beliefs. The Pennsylvania Dutch language, Pennsylvania German language is spoken vigorously among all horse-and-buggy groups except the Virginia Old Order Mennonite Conference, Virginia Old Order Mennonites, who los ...
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Groffdale Conference Mennonite Church
The Groffdale Conference Mennonite Church, also called Wenger Mennonites, is the largest Old Order Mennonite group to use horse-drawn carriages for transportation. Along with the automobile, they reject many modern conveniences, while allowing electricity in their homes and steel-wheeled tractors to till the fields. Initially concentrated in eastern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, their numbers had grown to 22,305 people resided in eight other states as of 2015. They share the pulpit with the Ontario (Old Order) Mennonite Conference but have some differences in Ordnung. History The Groffdale Conference Mennonites have their roots in the Anabaptist movement of Switzerland and Southwest Germany, including the German-speaking Alsace, that came under French rule starting in the 17th century. In the first two centuries or so this movement was known by the name Swiss Brethren but later adopted the name Mennonite. Anabaptist beginnings The early history of the Mennonites starts ...
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Michigan Amish Churches
The Michigan Amish Fellowship is a subgroup or affiliation of Old Order Amish. In 2022, this network of churches consisted of 33 settlements in Michigan, Maine, Missouri, Kentucky, Montana, and Wyoming. Stephen E. Scott described the affiliation which emerged in 1970 in Michigan as "Amish Reformist". This affiliation, which is an atypical Amish community, is more evangelical and more open to outsiders, so-called "seekers", than other Old Order Amish affiliations. History The church in Mio, Michigan, was founded in 1970 by Amish people from Geauga County, Ohio, and from northern Indiana. Other local churches that now are affiliated with the Michigan Amish Churches originally were not Amish but were founded by evangelistic-minded people from several Old Order Anabaptist backgrounds, who were more open to outsiders than typical Old Order Amish. Later, these congregations joined the Michigan Amish Churches. The church in Manton, Michigan, originally not Amish, was started by peo ...
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New Order Amish Fellowship
The New Order Amish Fellowship or New New Order Amish, most commonly called New Order Christian Fellowship, is the most progressive affiliation among the New Order Amish. Because some scholars see the New Order Amish just as a subgroup of the Old Order Amish, the New Order Christian Fellowship is thus the most progressive affiliation among the Old Order Amish. In spirituality, they are close to Beachy Amish. Their use of horse and buggy transportation and their preservation of the German language distinguishes them from the Beachys, except for the Old Beachy Amish who have also retained the German language but drive cars. History In the late 1970s, there was a dispute among the New Order Amish if undesirable behavior should be treated by sanctions or by preaching. The context of this controversy was the fact that about half of the young people did not join the New Order Amish church. Therefore, some leaders had the impression that they had "gone too far" and that they had to "back ...
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