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This has been really interesting! Thanks for your responses!

I understand and this must feel grievous to the older folks- I see the faultiness in what you are conveying and how there can be some 'coveting' for really 'seemingly' having these great ministries- and the menial work doesn't get the same admiration or recognition. I have witnessed this in churche...

temporal1 wrote:i think many older folks feel unwanted, they do not want to interfere.
younger folks don't know how to initiate, or how to respond.

There is a lot of truth in that statement, right there. And I feel like we are missing out on an even richer relationship with God because of it.

This really surprises me- it almost seems like the 'generation gap' has hit the Mennonites in ways I wouldn't have expected. When I read the OP, my (perhaps false) assumption was that most girls in more plain circles would be learning from their own mother's the most and their mothers would be the ...

silentreader wrote:
Perhaps in many ways we consider ourselves to be self-sufficient, and expect it of others as well?

My first 2 thoughts are "That's so sad!" and "Is that biblical?" I'd love to hear more of your thoughts!

HH, I think your observations are correct. It is my opinion and belief that the plain churches I'm familiar with have failed in the area of Titus 2, especially with regard to the older women mentoring and teaching the younger women. It seems to me that young women are primarily taught by their pare...

I have done a bit of this with several young brothers who did not have the best relationship with their father. It is not something that is encouraged but it can certainly have its rewards. Being told "you have been like a father to me" more than makes up for any inconveniences or for the...

" That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, and charity, and patience.The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their h...