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	Beachy Amish Mennonite Fellowship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Beachy Amish churches received their name from the late Moses M. Beachy of Salisbury, Pennsylvania, who was a bishop of the Old Order Amish settlement known as the Casselman River district from 1916 until his death in 1946.
		The Beachy Amish churches had their origin in his refusal to pronounce the ban and avoidance upon all who left his congregation to unite with the Conservative Amish Mennonite congregation near Grantsville, Maryland.
		The initial Beachy Amish response to the cleanup and assistance of the homeless led to continued involvement in rebuilding.
	www.gameo.org /encyclopedia/contents/B435ME.html (1723 words)

	Amish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Amish children are expected to follow the will of their parents in all issues, but when they come of age, they are expected to make an adult, permanent commitment to the church.
		The Amish are afflicted by numerous heritable genetic disorders, including dwarfism (Ellis-van Creveld syndrome), and are also distinguished by the highest incidence of twinning, in a known human population, various metabolic disorders and unusual distribution of blood-types.
		In 1997, a young Amish woman in Milverton, Ontario, Canada, was struck in the face by a beer bottle believed to have been thrown from a passing car; she required thousands of dollars' worth of surgery to her face (which was paid for by an outpouring of donations from the public).
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Amish (5534 words)

	The Amish
		According to sociologist Julia Erickson and her colleagues, the Amish are among the fastest-growing populations in the world.
		The Amish respond to this pressure by adopting farm management strategies of the larger society such as reducing the farm size and field crop production, placing more emphasis on the production of milk by increasing the size of a dairy herd, or specializing in the production of hogs for market.
		Amish scribes from nearly every settlement report about important events in their locality to the nationwide Amish readership of this paper.
	www.shawcreekamishstore.com /amish_article1.htm (1094 words)

	Beachy Amish
		The Beachy Amish are a group of Amish who are also known as the New Order Amish, instead of the traditional Old Order Amish.
		The are allowed to attend weekly sermons at a local Beachy Amish church, while Old Order Amish attend mass once every other week at different houses, where their sermon is preached.
		The beachy Amish is yet another form of the Amish lifestyle.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/be/Beachy_Amish.html (116 words)

	Amish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amish preachers and deacons are selected by lot (based on Acts 1:23–26) out of a group of men nominated by the congregation.
		The Amish dislike the telephone because it interferes with their separation from the world; it brings the outside world into the home; it is an intrusion into the privacy and sanctity of the family and interferes with social community by eliminating face-to-face communication.
		Some Amish are afflicted by heritable genetic disorders, including dwarfism (Ellis-van Creveld syndrome), and are also distinguished by the highest incidence of twinning in a known human population, various metabolic disorders and unusual distribution of blood-types.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amish (7147 words)

	Amish
		The Amish church, a branch of the Mennonites, is a Protestant religious group descended from the 16th-century Anabaptists.
		The Amish are known for their practice of meidung (shunning of those who have violated church law) and for their use of hooks and eyes instead of buttons.
		The Amish, subject to persecution in Europe, migrated in the 18th century to Pennsylvania, where their descendants are called Pennsylvania Dutch (the German deutsch, "German," was misunderstood as "Dutch").
	mb-soft.com /believe/txn/amish.htm (679 words)

	The Rise and Development of the Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches (1955)
		Yoder may have been aware of this tradition of strictness among the Amish in the Somerset County of the past and possibly felt that he was contending for the “faith of the fathers” by reinstating the ban in his congregation.
		Bishop Beachy replied that he had insisted that the visiting ministers should first clear up that case, and that thereafter he would be willing to consider anything necessary for the pace and progress of the church.
		The Beachy congregation continues to use both meetinghouses for Sunday school on alternate Sundays, while the “Yoder congregation,” as it is now known, persists in the old tradition of a church service once every two weeks, with the alternate Sundays free for visiting friends.
	www.user.shentel.net /coryaa/abeachy.htm (9619 words)

	Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches (Beachy Amish) denomination updates from Becker Bible Studies Library
		The beginning of the Beachy Church was in the Somerset County area in south central Pennsylvania in 1881.
		Beachy relaxed the dress standards; He rebuked the rule of short hair cuts for men and the wearing of short bonnet fringes for women, and the wearing of gloves in the summer.
		The Beachy congregations spread in the 1940-1950 to encompass Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, New York, Georgia, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, the Great Lake and Midwest States, Virginia and even Ontario Canada, where a mission was established and the Amish Mennonite Aid and Mission Interests Committee were formed.
	www.guidedbiblestudies.com /library/beachyamish.htm (740 words)

	Syllabus for German Immigrant Culture in America: Lesson 8
		A bishop of the Amish church in Somerset County, PA who began in 1927 to lead some of the local congregations away from the rest of the church.
		The Amish are an Anabaptist sect which split away from the other Mennonites at the end of the 17th century.
		Although the Amish are taught from childhood that it is a terrible thing to leave the Amish faith, there are a certain number of people in each generation who feel impelled to do so.
	www.ulib.iupui.edu /kade/merrill/lesson8.html (1412 words)

	About The Amish
		The Amish originated in 1693 when a Swiss bishop named Jacob Amman and his followers broke from the Mennonite Church in an attempt to restore some of the early practices of the Mennonites.
		Amish settlers began to immigrate to Pennsylvania as early as 1720.
		The Amish believe that the Church was founded to bear witness to the world, but that the followers of Jesus are called to be separate from the world.
	www.dutchcrafters.com /aboutamish.aspx (2058 words)

	The Beachy Amish Mennonites in the US South
		Beachy churches often gave birth to new Beachy churches, and the size of Beachy congregations in the South has usually remained smaller than Pennsylvania and Midwestern churches.
		An “Amish Mennonite”; church or affiliation are here defined as groups that have either emerged directly from the Old Order Amish and have resisted absorption into an already established Mennonite conference or an Amish Mennonite group or individual church that broke from an Amish Mennonite church.
		Beachy hoped that Yoder, who took a relatively evangelical and redemptive approach to his ministry, would join the faction, but Beachy encouraged him to remain true to his convictions.
	www.user.shentel.net /coryaa/beachygeography.htm (9282 words)

	The Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches
		These statements were written by select ministers from the Beachy churches and approved by ministerial peers at the annual ministers' meetings as statements that represent the Beachy church's stance on issues.
		The paper chronicles the spread of Beachy churches throughout the US South (south of the Mason-Dixon Line and Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River) and discusses some of the spatial trends that are unique to this region.
		The webmaster is searching for a few hard-to-find Beachy books to acquire; if you think you may have any (or any not mentioned in the "List of Beachy Publications"), please check the list.
	www.beachyam.org (901 words)

	Welcome To The Amish Website!
		I myself am not Amish (I then would not be using this computer) or Mennonite, but I find the way they live their lives is a very interesting way of life that perhaps, at heart we all wish we had.
		The Amish do pay taxes, but try to get not too involved with the government and I could find no account on how many Plain People their were living now.
		The Amish believe that we have to avoid all sin and if we do commit a sin, that we are to confess it to the whole Church and Bishop.
	www.expage.com /amish1 (804 words)

	Amazon.com: "Beachy Amish": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The major groups in Iowa are the General Conference, (Old) Mennonites, Conservative Mennonites, Beachy Amish, and Old Order Amish; the General Conference is regarded as the most liberal.
		Amish church districts in Elkhart and LaGrange counties, Indiana, as of i g8o the "Beachy Amish" and "New Amish." The Beachy Amish permit the ownership of automobiles,...
		The more progressive New Order Amish and the Beachy Amish are two other, but much smaller, affiliations in the settlement.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Beachy-Amish (490 words)

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