Special Report: Leaving the Amish Life

It's the perfect May day in Elizabethtown, and the Schrock family is out enjoying the breeze. Today, the family's five strong, but seven years ago, Saloma and Isaac were a young dating couple in Senora, Tennessee as part of an Amish community.

"Life in the Amish. It was all I knew," Saloma remembers.

"It was a very simple life," adds Isaac. "All that we were allowed as far as electricity was batteries and a flashlight. I remember growing up asking my parents, why do we do things like this? They would say, 'because we've always done it that way'."

For Isaac and Saloma, that answer wasn't good enough.

"Until the night we left the Amish, me and my wife didn't even talk about leaving," Isaac recalls.

"There was a lot of little things going on and the preachers came and talked," says Saloma. "It was actually because we were seeing each other too much during the day."

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"Thank you, Joe and Esther, for giving of your time and sharing with us about the MAP Ministry. We sure learned a lot about the Amish folks. I watched and have listened to the CD’s. I was impressed about your love and concern for the Amish People. My wife and I would like to support the ministry on a monthly basis. Will also pray for you’s. Thank you for the 1st class ministry that you run. "

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