Author: Harvey HostetlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Descendants of Jacob Hochstetler
Author: Harvey HostetlerThe Story of Berks County (Pennsylvania)
Author: A. E. WagnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beks Co., Pa
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Amish Voices
Author: Brad IgouPublisher: MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN: 1513805851
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Strong families. Caring communities. The nearly nine in ten youth who join the church. How do the Amish do it? In Amish Voices, Amish writers share news and advice from their communities and reflect on their daily lives, work, and faith. Brad Igou, publisher of Amish Country News, gives readers a behind-the-scenes tour of Amish life by compiling writing from Family Life, a popular monthly magazine that thousands of Amish people read. Learn about how the Amish began and what they value. Hear what they think about technology, happiness, community, obedience, success, and change. Listen in as they discuss shunning and rumspringa and forgiveness. Find out what sustains them in difficult seasons, and how they try to trust God in all things. Why learn about the Amish from outsiders when you can learn from the Amish themselves? And why just learn about them when you can learn from them?
Notes and Queries, Historical, Biographical and Genealogical
Author: Jacob's Choice
Author: Ervin R. StutzmanPublisher: MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN: 0836198980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Jacob Hochstetler is a peace-loving Amish settler on the Pennsylvania frontier when Native American warriors, goaded on by the hostilities of the French and Indian War, attack his family one September night in 1757. Taken captive by the warriors and grieving for the family members just killed, Jacob finds his beliefs about love and nonresistance severely tested. Jacob endures a hard winter as a prisoner in an Indian longhouse. Meanwhile, some members of his congregation—the first Amish settlement in America—move away for fear of further attacks. Based on actual events, Jacob's Choice describes how one man's commitment to pacifism leads to a season of captivity, a complicated romance, an unrelenting search for missing family members, and an astounding act of forgiveness and reconciliation. Free downloadable study guide available here.
Pennsylvania Archives ...
Author: Samuel HazardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Pennsylvania Archives
Author: Northkill
Author: Bob HostetlerPublisher: Northkill Amish
ISBN: 9781936438358
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Winner of ForeWord Review's 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Bronze Award for historical fiction. In 1738 Jakob Hochstetler and his family immigrate to America, seeking sanctuary from religious persecution in Europe and the freedom to live and worship according to their nonresistant Anabaptist beliefs. Along with other members of their church, they settle in the Northkill Amish Mennonite community at the base of the Blue Mountains, on the frontier between white and Indian territory. They build a home near Northkill Creek, for which their community is named. For eighteen years, the community lives at peace with its Indian neighbors. Then while the French and Indian War rages, the Hochstetlers way of life is brutally shattered. On the night of September 19-20, 1757, their home is attacked by a war party of Delaware and Shawnee Indians allied with the French. Facing almost certain death with his wife and children, Jakob makes a wrenching decision that will tear apart his family and change all of their lives forever. Northkill is closely based on an inspiring true story well-known among the Amish and Mennonites. It has been documented in many publications and in contemporary accounts preserved in the Pennsylvania State Archives and in private collections."
History of Berks County in Pennsylvania
Author: Morton Luther MontgomeryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berks County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
Book Description
The Indians of Berks County, Pa
Author: David B. BrunnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berks County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description