Letters to and from Former Amish

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...

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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...

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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???

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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"? ...

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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...

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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...

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Dear Lester, It's unthinkable and terrible, how can you go to sleep at night. Only because Satan has you in his grip!

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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...

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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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