Letters to and from Former Amish
Uncle to Nephew: You broke your covenant to the Amish Church
You mentioned that you don’t read in the Bible about “ordnung.” Well, probably a lot of it is tradition, but history teaches us over and over that when people leave the church, their children, or maybe more often their grandchildren will not belong to any church...
Nephew to Uncle: Cell Phone, Cars, Chainsaw; What is Wrong With That?
This is a response to what you wrote about covenant breakers. Do you realize that you are no longer with the church you were raised in? Did your father and his father use the chainsaw or the tractor as some Amish churches are using? How are these people obeying what their parents taught them? Did I miss something? How is going from a windup watch to a battery watch any different than going from a buggy to a car? I know your forefathers didn't approve of those things, and yet many Amish feel ok to condemn us who convert to an (English) church because that is not what our parents taught us. Look deep into your hearts and ask yourselves, have you always done everything that your parents said to?
Uncle to Nephew: Remain Faithful to the Amish Church
Most of you have promised to remain faithful to the church, and if you now leave the church and join another one you are covenant breakers, and this is just like leaving one wife and marrying another in God’s eyes.
Father to Son: Don't Get Married in English Church
Dear Son, We received your letter to invite us to your wedding. Don't expect any of us there. Just wish you would be getting married Amish so we could all be there. You wrote that there will be music before the wedding starts, we wouldn't want to be involved in that anyways, as we...
Father to Son: Please Come Back to the Amish
Dear Son, We got your letter yesterday. Mom said when Laura read your letter she just cried, it was hard for us too. Laura was also hoping you will still come back home before long and be Amish again, but the way we understand the letter, you must feel that we didn't...
Son to Father: I Got Baptized In a English Church
Dear Parents and Family, Now!! Us ex-Amish! Do you think God's gonna look at us different then the English people, even if we believe we have the same things. You said that you have hopes for them, but not us. Does God look at people any different???
Sister to Brother: Come Out of the Wicked World
Dear Perry, I just can't see how you can enjoy it out in that wicked world. "thou we shall lead a still and quiet life." I have to think about that verse in (German). "wer die welt Lieb der Lieb nicht Gott"? (English) "Whoever loves the world, cannot love God"? ...
Father to Son: You are no longer part of the family
Dear Son, So at this point, you are on the outside of our family and you don't belong in the family anymore. So whether it's a wedding or a funeral, you don't belong in the family. You know you can't come home again. Unless, like I wrote earlier, if you want to...
Daughter to Parents: I Weep for Your Return
Dear Father and Mother, You are our dear parents and we don't expect you to listen to us, but we also have a concern for you. Oh, so sad that you left us. How can you go on and forsake...
Amish Minister: Please Return to the Fold
Dear Lester, It's unthinkable and terrible, how can you go to sleep at night. Only because Satan has you in his grip!
Parents to their daughter: Come back to the Amish
Dear Lovina, ...oh, we'd so much love to have your children. It hurts so deep in our hearts to hear what you are doing! Just think what you are doing, just THINK, to put that electricity in your...
An Alarming Concern for the Amish Church
I 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
I can honestly and from the depth of my heart say that I have no more pride with English clothes than Amish clothes. I have no more pride or lust to drive a car than to drive a horse and buggy. But a lot rather I have less problem with pride. In Philippians chapter four, Paul explains how his goodness of the law was all a loss and considered as dung when he received Jesus for his Savior. We can not have Jesus for our Savior and still cling to our righteousness and bondage. Since I have surrendered to God only I have been miraculously delivered from my depression.
Son to Parents: My life Has Been Changed Forever!
Mom, 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
The 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.
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