May 2025 MAP Update

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The SonLight Club (SLC) has been a part of Mission to Amish People since the beginning. I am delighted to be the director. Watching students learn and grow throughout the years has been such a blessing.

I have seen a change in Amish commu-nities over the past few years. More people are leaving the Amish, and that trend reflects in our students. Many have a better understanding of what it means to be saved and live for God. Never has our number of salvation pro-fessions been as high as 108 for the year! And it is only May!

On a lesson that asks the student to read John chapters 1,3, and 5, one stu-dent wrote:

“These verses encouraged me to keep on trusting in God. They showed me how to get to heaven. They told me that if we keep on trusting in Him, we will get to a place that is better than this world.”

—John (from WI)

When the lesson asks students if they have been saved, we look to see if

1) It was through the SLC.

2) If they understand salvation.

Some students will write, “Before I was born,” or “They believe in works,” but the students, like John, who better un-derstand salvation have increased.

Every workday at noon, we have a pray-er meeting at the office. We pray for students who don’t understand salva-tion and praise God for students who do. We pray for staff and volunteers who are going through difficult times. We pray that God will help us reach more students through the SLC and guide us in teaching them.

We also pray for funds. The SonLight Club account is currently $14,000 in deficit and relies on Mission to Amish People’s general fund to keep it going. On the day we began to pray earnestly for increased support, a check arrived in the mail earmarked for SLC postage costs. What an answer to prayer! It was as if God was saying, “I’m right here, I am listening, I will provide what you need.” (Ex 16) Soon after, we received another gift of $5,000 for the SLC.

I hope you will join us in praying for funds to keep The SLC going. Thank you for all your support.

Sadie has arrived in KrinKrin and is busy adapting to the culture, making friends with the village children, and learning the Miskito language from her young friends. To receive updates from Sadie, follow her Facebook page: Sadie’s Nicaragua Adventures and ask to be added to her email newsletter: SadiesNicaraguaAdventures@gmail.com

THANK YOU, MAP supporters, for fully funding Sadie’s year-long ministry trip to Nicaragua. Her expenses are met -with a comfortable cushion for un-known expenses. We are grateful!

2025 is a quarter of the way past al-ready! Where has the time gone? We have been busy trying to get a home business going (finished cabins built on skids), weekly music lessons with the children, and a Thursday night Bible study with a family in Freedom, NY via video call. Our life is full. Since my last newsletter, we discovered we are hav-ing a baby boy due July 23rd. So far, Momma (Polly) and baby are doing well. Before Polly conceived this baby, she miscarried last August. It was tough on her. We would covet your prayers for a smooth delivery.

Since we traveled most of 2024, we decided not to book as many trips in 2025. We have done a few MAP presen-tations and are scheduled to present at two churches in Kansas this October.

Many who leave the Amish culture have never been taught how to manage money, and as a result, they are con-stantly broke. I recently spoke to Wal-ter Wengerd, who came to us in 2021 as a very broken and lost sev-enteen-year-old. Two years ago, Walter married Mad-die, who had gone to accounting school. I was blessed to hear how they had saved money for a down payment on a piece of property that they now own and are planning to build a house.

Last summer, an Amish mother and her nine children left the Amish and stayed with a family in Millersburg, OH, for the past nine months. Many people donated food, clothing, money, and so much more to help this family. In April, she moved back with her husband, who is still Amish. Their marriage re-mains very shaken, but she agreed to go back to him if he would go to coun-seling. In June, they will both begin counseling. I covet your prayers for them: that God would do a great work through both them and their children.

The Amish Voice is a 16-page bi-monthly publication that MAP began sending out in 2007. Our first issue was sent to 2,000 Amish addresses.

During the past 18 years, staff and vol-unteers have continuously added infor-mation from Amish directories to our growing database. We now have 82,000 addresses, but lack the funds to send The Amish Voice to each and eve-ry address. We currently mail each is-sue to 15,000 Amish homes.

The Amish Voice encourages checking religious beliefs with Scripture as the ultimate authority.

Occasionally we get beautiful notes that bless our hearts like the following:

We are Amish still—my husband is a bishop. We committed our-selves to staying and preaching and teaching TRUTHS—until God tells us to leave or they have had enough of us. It is exciting to help people grow and understand!

If you would like to read this publica-tion or sponsor sending The Amish Voice to more families, visit us at:

mapministry.org/ways-we-serve/the-amish-voice