Connecting Amish People

• Amish people do not use anything electrically powered. Each Amish house has a huge tank of propane gas for heating up water and for refrigerators to function, as well as heating up the houses in the wintertime. They use rechargeable batteries for home lamps. 

• The biggest fear is that their kids start watching TV and it will take them away from their religious beliefs and life values.

• They use phones only for business purposes and emergencies. Phones are not allowed to be kept in the house. So they build a separate booth for the landline phones and place it far away from their house to decrease the temptation of calling a friend out of boredom or need to gossip. 

• The Amish find out about the news within their community from a weekly newspaper called Die Botschaft. Its name is in German but all the articles are in English. Amish people can read about all the news related to the Old Order Amish and Mennonite Communities from the paper since 1975. 

Worship and Religion 

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