They feed their lives almost the same way they do 300 years ago. The shower, religious community in the us that originated in europe, their rules i called on and include adults baptism. And at times in strict communities the refusal of technological advancements. They were Old Fashioned clothes and head coverings. And the men have long beards. Spending time with the amish dislike. Delving into the past, the. The my name is keana slave all. I am married to Martha Miller slave boy. Now. We have 7 children. We are old order ami, and we live on a 94 acre farm. The we cried, a state of technology. We strive to stay away from that as much as you can. The more you keep away from us, the better we. We live just too much technology, just re problems 40 year old. You know, its a farmer and the blacksmith is children are between 5 and 15 years old. The slave all family lives in middlefield, ohio in jo county home, one of the Worlds Largest amish communities. The older homages or orient, you know, we dont use vehicles for small businesses. So yeah, thats, thats been a long time. Tradition is usually horses you know, way away the way we buy these horses together to work. 3 of them abreast is all what my dad, you know, i have from the employer we. We did. Its 5 30 am the 2 eldest sons, 12 year old marcus a 9 year old myron are helping their father in mrs. Staples before school life, according to the old fort, no means no colors to division or computers. Electricity comes only from batteries and generators. Venus owns 21. 00 horses, which he loans out for farm work and transport. Besides that, he lives from selling his harvest and from his work is a blacksmith. Whatever feed i can raise, then i dont have to buy. It saves me 3000. 00 a month. If i raise this, i got to thinking about this. Well, 3000. 00 a month. I yeah, its well worth it. Thats 36000. 00 a year. You know, thats literally like making money. You know, really, i mean, if you save that money, you dont have to spend that you can get by it cheaper. So its well worth, marcus and myron are always there to help the they have to do their chores in the morning. They get up early in the morning and then feed all the land them old and get ready to go to school and come back home and do it all over again. School starts at 830. Its 3 kilometers away. So the respect and behavior is taught at a very small age that will lead them through the rest of their life. What do you teach them when theyre young and what stays with them . All your life the. There are 350. 00, private amish schools across ohio. The amish pay school taxes that allow them to run private schools with their own teachers. Whether at home in places of worship or at school, in the middle field, people enjoy sing together. But only religious song the there was only one class which teaches children between 5. 14. The bible takes up most of the lesson, explains teacher kathleen, slave all the we usually do 1st thing. And they usually do their writing 1st. Spelling. Okay, and how much we usually do you already know about some to germany after 8th grade. When children turn 14, their education is over. But what have students want to continue learning and never heard of someone or something. Factories calendars, masons too much anything to kathleen . The bible has most priority. The 3rd, thats the main reason for our school is this person around to teach them the bible and becoming an honest teacher doesnt involve link the studies in higher education. They begin as a teaching assistant accompanying lessons for 4 years. Beyond that, there are several private courses on offer, as well as meet ups, where teachers can exchange experiences the just like it any other school. Everyone loves recess after school kids have choice, awaiting them at home. 12 year old ramons label is no different. We just go home and its basically whatever my, our dads mom says was to work for some time to sleep. But no, usually we dont know, homework. The, um is preserved centuries old tradition. John kings rich is the son of an amish father and a non amish mother. Hes very familiar with life in the community. Hes been collecting, interesting and noteworthy artifacts from amish history. Years ago, he and several members of the Amish Community founded this library and museum in middlefield. It houses over 300. 00. The we founded this library in 2014, with the purpose of collecting and preserving the history of the amish. Focusing on this community in northeastern ohio and also um, as history in general, weve been collecting old books bibles per books, articles of clothing, documents, letters, some going back to the 16th century, all relating to on the history the and sure example of a bible that was printed in zurich, switzerland by the 1st shower Printing Firm that was printed in 1534. So its a fairly early german printing. Age and soon dos without faces or embellish mints are meant to discourage children from pride and vanity. As per the roots of the old order on it, not every community interprets these strict rules the same way, but certain values have remain done changed. These include a bond with nature and with horses, as well as the practice of traditional skilled trades. This workshop produces kitchen and bedroom furnishings range. Sleep all implies 13 amish workers. Since all, most people are not allowed to own a computer. They receive their orders to a service contractor, who delivers the orders on paper. The countless machines are powered with generators and batteries. The community allows electricity for business operations, the order books are chock full, and we modernize a little bit more so than our parents. Yes. I think every generation goes through that. But we try to keep, you know, whats important to us is as far as in bodies, thats our mode of transportation. But in our work and our business, we also have drivers that drive for us to deliver our products to take us to measure jobs, etc. Rates as a member of the old order, every member of the Amish Community, you must decide for themselves how much they wish to adapt to the modern world. But one thing always remains certain. Certain sounds before the business. Every time i suppose to. Sometimes we have one in ourselves of the re needs to be available 1st customers. This is why the old order homage permit telephones and answering machines. If its for business purposes, but not at home, too much. Technology disrupts family life. Often times rate suffer and somebody calls will let it ring like rate. And so i see in the house you probably have to pick it up, you know, so ray and mary have 9 children between 6 and 20 years old. The oldest daughter also lives on the farm along with her husband and child on that on there. As close as you know, keep the house the husband, usually the one that is winter. Hes the one that goes out with the type of job and brings money and support the family. The gender roles are accepted unconditionally, as per their interpretation of the bible. God comes 1st followed by men, then women and children amongst themselves. They speak pennsylvania dodge, but its actually more like a southern german dialect. Sheila that i usually raised my own not my partner this year, so yeah, im just buying and i guess the easy its times myself or that our i have in the morning when my own kids go to work. And before the school before lunch, mary quickly takes down the laundry. 14 people live here. I have about 6 floats. Every time i do laundry calls and you know, all that. And the dark switching is that over there is usually around 5 loads every day. Oh no, its every other i just do monday, wednesday, and friday. Traditionally, most people pray together before each meal meet with mashed potatoes is a frequent dish. The to its an esteemed virtue among the homage to cultivate what the Community Needs with their own hands. But only 7 percent of this communal i, i wouldnt want to be, im a show i to use to the way, right . So i have, you know, i understand why they do what they do. Its, its part of the how they feel. They should live as you know thats, thats fine. I have no problem. Most of doing the 15 year old daughter, rachel finished school a year ago. Now shes helping out on the farm for the most part. Shes responsible for the laundry and looking after the courses. What about the future that something is already underway. Is i still . Yeah, im just there kurtz, a friend of he knows arrives at the farm on his horse, granny. Well, i am here, does he this is my blacksmith he put so ill choose on my horse. Thats a trim misspeak reissue of so. Right. Chester isnt a farmer. Hes a construction manager and a sub contractor, arranging jobs for tradesman. He lives 7 miles away. The does not feel it. You can save. He doesnt even for an inch. With 8000. 00 horses in and around the middle field, theres always lots of work for blacksmiths. A profession being kept alive by the Amish Community. Theres, theres almost no young english kids, not on the right term for its work. And thats not in the new generation. Youre looking to not so many people do it out 5 years. Theres been quite a few on the sort of science ball in there. So theres a good thing for you on, on the carriers that are really doing the grand. He is all done an entire course. You said costs 400. 00 per horse. Chester is on the way to his next errand. Is bugging you, needs new wheels, and estimated 370000 amish. People live in the usa, mostly indiana, pennsylvania, and ohio. The states have several 1000 bugs. That means plenty of jobs for a carriage go. Are like al yoder als grandfather used to own this workshop. The wheels for chester is buggy. Are due today or you know, in the past only wooden wheels with steel were permitted. Now most stomach bug use have rubber wheels. The change was not just one piece, but our culture is be able to adapt. You know, and we have a spring rigid rules and a, wed still lives or try to make a living like we did in teaching hundreds, we couldnt, we couldnt compete in our businesses. And so i think to me, the reason that we as a culture are still surviving is because we have been able to adapt to the economy to, you know, the social pressures weve been able to regulate the amount of technology we allow and still try to keep the balance in our family values. Chesters wheels are ready. 1600. 00 for a set of 4. 2 kilometers away. Chester and his family live on a small farm. He and his wife martha, have 7 children. They to follow the old amish or knowing at home with little technology, electricity, restricted to batteries, and generators, old fashion, washing machines, and heating with wood from the nearby forest. The even was during cova dan, in all this turmoil about, you know, uh you, that was worldwide. Weve been able to retain a, a way of living that promotes in our piece. Yeah, i dont think thats possible with a if youre always 247, if youre completely connected to social media and the outside world and even even businesses completely run with you know, programs to apply for use against in communication. But great. Its great for business. Im so happy i can step back from it. And thats way i keep my sanity the in the early morning, he heads to his construction business. Its 20 miles away, too far for a horse and buggy. He takes a private taxi instead. He says he doesnt find the amish lifestyle, hypocritical for allowing modern technology and businesses and offices. Its allowed for business if i dont own it. So at home. No. And in order to succeed and make a living as a part or family and we cant compete. If were out here trying to build houses with can saws and hammers and nails, we would have no job because it would take us way too long. And nobody could get ahold of us. You know, chester used to be a carpenter and bricklayer, according to a study by Elizabeth Town college in pennsylvania, over 80 percent of amish. Businesses are very successful. I dont have a college education. I dont even have a high school diploma. But the education i have is on the job and learning from my masters and teachers. I think its just because of our work ethic. We tend to start small. Uh, and youll offer our services or we work with our hands. Theres always a demand for that. So it is very possible even with a grades of education for an issue. Businessman to succeed chester overseas several projects in the area. So rounding middlefield one of them is the construction of this 2000000. 00 villa for an american. Businessman wayne just started here fresh out of school. Hes the 14 year old son of chesters cousin, the. 1 yeah, so hes, hes being paid about 15. 00 an hour and thats, thats where it starts. And then as you gain more experience and so like my top foreman, the manage, the top managers in our, in our company, are being paid about 32. 00 in our at this point. So that, that constantly changes to accomplish teenagers are only allowed to keep a small part of their earnings before they turn 20 until then the parents receive their income. Some of them continue to live at home, but now they pay rent for their room and board. Another major difference within the Amish Community is their health care system. They use the same services as the general public, but they dont have health insurance. The Community Pays privately. Chester and is non amish. Friends, john, king rich are attending an auction. Events like these are central to their health care. This is a benefit option and is something that happens quite regularly in our community. That is to raise finances, raising money for medical expenses, and what it is is people do tony items to sell the tangible culture. We dont like to be dependent on government. So we dont want to accept any handouts. We do not pay into social security. We also dont get the benefits, we dont get medicaid or medicare. Um, but we do within the community, we have some Church Community funded programs where its all non profit. And so for myself, i pay in about 200. 00 every month. And that gives me facing coverage, up to a 100000. 00 a year. And thats just for my family. To day, theyre raising funds for a 10 year old homage boy who needs an operation. The treatment costs 50000. 00. More than 250 amish people have come along in, in our culture, there is a lot of, uh, we call. Okay. Lawson right. Okay. Yeah, the means for the, for the sake of the, for the suit of the whole. Okay. It means putting your individual desires are selfish, desires to decide and doing what is good for the community. The treatments in hospitals and medical practices are covered through the so called armies fund and auctions like fees the, the bidding was a success. They even manage to raise more money than was needed for the operation. 80000. 00 in total the see how much have no governing body that dictates what a States Church districts should and shouldnt do. Theres no official head of the church, such as the pope for the catholic church. However, there are bishops who are the spiritual leaders and heads of individual church districts. They decide how to interpret the old or dont. Why believe their, their language, their clothing styles, the way they travel, the way they live, their lives at home without being connected to the public read without being dependent on the government for their security. I think theyll retain that even over the next 100 years. Once a year founding members of the library and museum meet here, including chester, tom byler is the team leader. Hes also administer in a business when from coach, rent in pennsylvania, not far from here. For helping on it. Lets see on here. The vehicle moves us on, we have a museum side on so we get together and have a good time on learn new things and try to help parents, you know, communities, it just comes up to why theyre so young. People learn from a heritage from our history about where we have from heritage on so from germany and switzerland on side of us. Were coming back home with adults. Lot of dish white. This is coach ranch and where tom is now. He was 18 when he left his amish family, enjoying the us army. The with station thats of im stein, air base in germany for 2 years. At 22, he returned home, got baptized and married. Today he has 5 children. Hes a volunteer minister and owns an antique store. Well, ive always been excited about old things since i was a boy. I like history. But i like the old handmade quality stuff. And theres so many things that are unique are handmade and its amazing what the older generations, how they would invent something. There was no technology. The one thing its interesting here is as i was going along, i liked glass myself, old glass, i low rare glass and i clicked so myself. I came up with this case here. And i found this, this whole glass figuring of, of the baby jesus. And mary, on the donkey, i put it here and i started thinking and i wrote down, take a good look at this baby. We are here because of him. So its like a witness to people down the road from his antique shop. Tom is just opened up a bakery we dont have a lot of uh, you know, a farming going on our community because of how it is with the farming industry. You know, the agriculture is that, like it used to be and the im a sure, very business oriented small business, you know, small Family Businesses that the you know, that are run by families or friends and we Work Together as a team and that so yeah, this is our bakery little does bakery, and i like our model, which says, how can we make your day sweeter . By mervin toms friends and family help out at the bakery. American customers are especially fond of the cream filled cakes. Tom and his family lived from the business earnings. His job is administer is voluntary. The every sunday amish communities are 10 to 3 hour long Church Services in simple powers halls outside the town. Tom has been administered here for 34 years. We believe in total of commitment when we marry, we dont believe in dollars. You cant be a member and our church and actually divorce. We consider marriage one man, one woman lifetime. As it was ordained in the bible. Yeah. We asked that they Stay Together for life. You know, it is pretty rare amongst our people to find any divorce. It can happen, but its pretty rare. Amish families have 6 children on average, each scene as a gift from god. You know, can they can discontinue, having children can stop having children and, or for medical reasons. You know, we think thats okay. But we dont believe in abortion. Know about the leasing songs from the house born a german language hymn book. Thats the oldest of the and the Baptist Movement 1st printed in 1564. Its been in continuous use to this day. Baptized members who leave the community are excommunicated from then on. Theyre allowed to remain in contact, but not to share a table with their own family. 90 miles away, lloyd and edna miller live with their 6 children. They run their farm on solar power. They have wall sockets for electricity, a cell phone, and they ride a bike, send quite bikes. They live from their 50 dairy cows and the yields from their 40 hector farm. Aetna has all of the modern Kitchen Appliances per Image Community permits them. Most of these people i would say, do have some kind of a mix or some, some people that dont have electricity, dam mixers like this, but they would be friends with the battery. The battery be attached to the back here, but yeah, for us its do have electricity. So we just use the electricity. It does these things. Pragmatically. Shes open to talking about otherwise taboo topics like sex and contraception. I think especially in our, in my case we had our 2 to 1st children were c section were my c section. So the other 4 were born naturally, but the doctor told us its a risk to have a lot more children. So i think i, as for us, it was a, we just decided thats, you know, and so we did measures to not tip to prevent it so that i think it is the ladys, is the Womans Health is at stake. I dont, i dont think its wrong to do that if the Womens Health is at risk, but to just do it for a selfish reason like that, you just dont want to be bothered with more children. I dont think thats really right. But edna is also critical of the amish world. I dont want to paint a picture. That is always, people are just these Perfect Little pious people. They are not always because there is, there are cases among the all nice and its, its very sad because and thats what i was saying is when, when you have people that dont have relationship, personally with god and then that that stuff happens. But there are, there are cases with and even fathers, sexually abusing their children that has happened among the armies. And its so sad, its very said, and its a, its a disgrace. Her husband lloyd enjoys the self dependence of the amish live style. Quite code came a lot of people panicked in and they were so people arent even sure of where their food is coming from today. And those are, those are real life issues, real life issues and i think, you know, uh yeah, were not completely unreliable on things from on, you know, we buy some fuel, we buy it we but for the most part, we could be sell sustainable for quite, quite a long time, quite especially within the group, within the group of people that we personally, you know, we could survive a pretty good long time without any outside input. The pacifist homage refused to go to war for their country and the president. But they do respect the Political Leadership as ordained by god. I have never voted. I have never loaded for anybody. And thats a little controversial. Among always people, we follow what jesus thought when he said that he, that takes the sword and defends himself, or it will be killed by the sword. And he also said that we should send the other g, so it shows somebody thats resist not resistance. If i vote and i put the commander in chief, hes the president , is the commander in chief and he goes, hes the head of the army that he calls the orders. I would be representing that. And although i have a higher respect for authority, i respect our president , i as break i respect our leaders of god ordained those peoples. And i, i respect that here to the family prays before each meal as is tradition. 2 of the 6 children still live on the farm. Daughter, julie and son jason, the edna rides are e bike to go shopping. She says its quicker and more comfortable than taking a horse, drawn buggy, and any way the 12 miles over and back across the landscape. Would be too strenuous for a horse. She only buys what she doesnt grow in her own garden and fields the. I needed some bolts and it stops nice stuff to read. Like flour and sugar. Look so attractive and nice. But i dont, i dont need to buy them because i think its just feeling grow your own and i dont know if theyre sprayed or all that you know at home. Its like a daily i no worries. Edna only visits the supermarket once a week, the, the millers day begins early at 4 30 am each day they milk, their 50 cows, the organic man can meet the cows provide are in high demand. The millers are doing well financially move prices are high and the family can live comfortably from their profits. The youngest daughter, julie still works on the farm. My work too hard one day and take the day off and once they complete school, its teenagers have a chance to take a year off known as rooms putting a friend that was to florida already. I dont really call that i would do anything down there that i know more like not that i go down there. Not just, im not sure things are not far from here. A group between 16 and 20 years old have a range to meet. Now is the time to experiment with things that are otherwise forbidden, like drinking smoking and driving. At the end of this time, the young people must decide between modern life or honor slice. So youre not necessarily under the ok mean. Under the ok names are your names at that time. So thats i mean, your parents will the law that you and make sure youre going to. Right. Thats it. You know, as you know, a kid sometimes tend to straight away the rooms for the day girl boy, thats when you basically leave your parents on the weekends. And so our friends, members of this group drink alcohol and smoke chance to get to know thats long story. So you are a 0 spring, a whole life. I guess it basically stops for you after that for your member of the church in this group. Views are so solidified that none are too quick to jump in. Anything new the world has to offer the every day we need cost by us to guide us and, and we absolutely depend on our face to pull us through and, and i think it, we try to follow his teaching and everything he will get us to for sure the we always are looking to improve the future and, and the more we teach our children respect, we discipline them to, to make them o b and everything is going to make the ami a better future. Damaged lifestyle is no longer as cut off as it once was. The modern world has found its way in, but nevertheless, most of most people still hold on to their centuries old principles and values the come to the polls. Its an excellent in south africa, as solid sides and young vases of the key exchange. Your own dismiss together. Lets come together. Lets do this together. Here, let me change things around this 77. In 30 minutes on the dw. We love us. We love, does us anything unusual . No mountain is too high. The road is too long and such a fee, extraordinary. 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