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Could you write up 500-1000 words about this experience? I want to use it to encourage people to plant churches out west. Sure, I’d be honored to. We still lament the huge mission field we left! You know me~ the challenge will be to get it short enough. 😂 Just give me a week or so. We were close to...

First, a disclaimer, every Catholic person I know is a great person & I have no issues with anyone. I have attended masses & all that. But seriously, over the years, it seems like so many people who were raised Catholic (Catholic school, nuns, etc)… that when they are of age, they leave &...

Thank you, Variety!

No, that would’ve been interesting.

We were in western Washington State, way out in the woods.

We were at an ultra conservative Menno church for about five years, and were obeying alllllll they said (gelassinheit?) to the point of our family coming apart at the seams. Not saying Gelassenheit is bad, just maybe we hang out at the wrong places. Thank you for reminding me of this part of anabapt...

I mean no disrespect to you Goodgirl, and I understand bad experiences within churches called Plain - but I think that historically the name Anabaptist and Mennonite came from a people willing to forsake all and literally die for their faith and for others too. With that, an important aspect within...

Before we became plain, we discussed how on earth plain dress could be modest~ with the attention it attracted. We lived on the west coast & soon started dressing plain (what it meant to us 15 years ago- long skirts, very simple head coverings, etc) and we were started at, openly commented on, a...

Yes, they did. Didn’t the break off start an outreach church closer to a bigger town?

Yes! How could I forget Frystown ?

It is honestly not that different from how ordinary American kids do it these days. When my daughter was in middle school and even early high school she would talk about which one of her friends was "dating" or "going out" with so and so. Upon probing it turns out that none of t...