What about the Single Amish?

[@theamishpotato]

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[@tingting4980]

I know you may hear question before. But can person join as outsider?

[@theamishpotato]

@@tingting4980 yes but it’s hard and most end up leaving again

[@ulquiorra635]

I always thought the Amish people don't wanna use Electrocity and sort of stuff so where this camera come from.

[@theamishpotato]

@@ulquiorra635 I’m no longer amish

[@ccaswick]

Yet another great video. No need to feel sorry for us who never found the right partner. Life alone can be quite fulfilling -- it is what you make of it. Much better to be alone than with the wrong person for an entire lifetime. Carry on, CJ, I enjoy your channel.

[@theresacase9999]

I love your videos I am originally from Allen County Indiana and you probebly know there is a very large community there. I did drive for the Amish there. It is so awesome to find your videos and i cannot believe how much I actually know about them and not being one. But i had alot of great friends that i spent alot of time with. I have been gone from that area for over 10 years now and alot of the ones i knew have now passed away.. Keep the videos coming. I would love to see one about the horse sales in Topeka I spent alot of time there as well taking people who wanted to purchase a horse. I love the big draft type horses the hard working horses. Thanks for what you are doing.

[@Robert_Sparkman_01]

I bought a red raspberry pie at E&S Sales today along with an Amish cookbook.

[@TheLizardKing1967]

I am Swiss German and approve of what you are doing. Great channel and information. Keep up the Great work!

[@donraber1234]

my father grew up amish in the Topeka shipshawana middlebury area .he had 3 sisters who never married they lived together across the street from the Redmond plant in Topeka until thet passed away two of them were in their 90's

[@joywebster2678]

Where I live in Canada there is a large Mennonite community living the old way on their farms around the edges of the city. It is eerie to drive the side roads out there at might as the farms are all in black, yet while driving you can suddenly come up on a horse and buggy, or a man on a bicycle riding home from a late shift at one of the commercial pig farms that employ many Mennonites. Then as I shop at Walmart there are the Mennonite in their old garb shopping for groceries. I'm disabled, and a woman leading a line of children will help me reach an item from a shelf, but their husband simply stands with arms crossed. Same in the parking lot an older woman will come help me load my car, but her husband will go stand by their buggy. I figure there must be some rule that the men don't help women? 🤔

[@gilbertjones9157]

The situation with your parents brings up a hard question: What happens to an Amish farm when the owners pass on, and the property becomes a full fledged inheritance, when their grown adult children are Not practicing Amish? Associated with that is how the property is held when they are living, i.e.. is it held in a trust or foundation?

[@Shy-n3b]

Thanks for another great video! Im still so obsessed with amish 😂🤷🏻‍♀️ idk why but ur videos help me learn so much about them ❤️ blessings to u and ur family!

[@hothmandon]

I gotta admit, when I first took a look at this I first thought It was an Amish dating ap ad. I've seen Amish men drive cars, let their kids have phones, the wife doing the shopping with debit cards. IT'S WILD!!!

[@Engelhafen]

You’re a good man and that follows a person no matter what they practice.

[@margaretporkolab7166]

Please people the have respect for his old culture. I am curious to but I do have great respect and appreciation how the way work their land and live. Adding Glad to see you back. Have a good one. God Bless. Ontario Canada 😊

[@myboibill]

Always remember it’s better to be alone and wish you were.

[@emmib1388]

yes better to be single and alone than married and lonely!

[@emmib1388]

@@GladeSwope huh? If you are extremely social, why would you want to be alone? In my example, single and 'alone' is someone who is not married or involved with someone. Some people think that if you are single, you are lonely -- but sadly, there are more couples that are lonely because they no longer get along 😞

[@bonnielaarman1878]

Came over to your channel from Tawra...😊 I've enjoyed it so far.

[@bobbylaguardia6680]

Thank you for your honesty brother

[@Robert_Sparkman_01]

What about Amish couples with one mate in the church and another who leaves the church? I know one guy who is an evangelical Christian now, and his wife is Amish.

[@natalijaasbjornsen8827]

they still can live together. Because Apostle teaches that if unbelieving spouse want to live together the believer should stay with him/her

[@barbieskates540]

Don't fret about what you can't SHOW us. It's really ok to let them keep what they need private. We understand. We will enjoy you simply telling fun memories or even stressful memories of the past.. Or when you spoke about the barn or house. Describe it how you remember it

[@pchts1]

So I have hypothetical question, if a young Amish couple get married and find out a year or so later one or the other can’t produce offspring / children how are they treated by their community?

[@jlf1309]

Love your videos. I admire the Amish. I am 100 percent dutch. My grandparents came over from Holland. I was wondering if the Amish people originated from Holland.

[@UpsheetscreekWOapaddle]

A bit of advice. Don't give out ur personal information (ie, email, phone number etc) I seen someone asking you for it. Keep up the good work, God bless

[@efolinsky]

He has an e-mail set up exclusively for this channel….

[@emuriddle9364]

I'm a single guy in my late 20's. I'm kind of impressed with how their communities have been able to work this stuff out. I didn't grow up Amish. So, we usually got the typical, "You'll find somebody someday" speech. Which I think kind of skewed things in favor of those who are really, really social. While more reserved people like me are just confused. Sometimes wandering aimlessly in life. Or worried about meeting someone, who ends-up being a not so good person. Basically, I think your video helped give me some clarity on how humans relationships work. Because it's something that usually isn't talked about in our English society. They either think it's "too personal." Or they expect you to already know this.

[@isaweesaw]

All very true

[@ronmoore3987]

I love your channel brother. I've been over here 12 yrs haulin the rv's. Never knew their donuts were the bomb, now I'll be lookin for them seeing how the transport end is slow nowL.O.L

[@theamishpotato]

I’ve wondered how the transporting is. That’s slow to? There are still a lot sitting around waiting to be delivered it seems like.

[@Dwayne707countryliving]

Great video my step-grandmother was Pennsylvania Dutch and she spoke some of the language but my step dad was raised with a house without electric. I always wonder how do you do your daily life without electric and what kind of things are used

[@mardigrasqueenofthesouth8847]

im liking the sound of that single amish lifestlye lol wheres game night this weekend?

[@dreamimpossible542]

This is so interesting cause I literally deliver to the Amish throughout Indiana including shipshewana @ yoders meat and cheese. Also have a couple other shops I bring stuff to. It’s interesting too experience

[@dawnchain1020]

Those that never married may have been (or may be) of the other sexuality and kept (keep) it quiet

[@kimjones5366]

I’m new to your channel and enjoy it. Was your wife Amish also and I didn’t think that you could take your picture.

[@chriscristah9178]

Explain more about Amish Widow Rules? Allowed to re-marry? Do widows marry one another? OR Is it more common to remain a widow?

[@stephanyandrews685]

Interesting. I took a 23 and Me test and, as my mother's family said, were are Pennsylvania Dutch. I know nothing of the Amish but what I can Google.

[@mattywhittaker8518]

O my I went and look up the electric amish😂😂😂

[@vastexpansion]

Could a woman who was born and raised English and is divorced, but decides later in life to join the Amish Church and community, marry a man in the Amish church?

[@theamishpotato]

She would not be allowed to marry but she could join

[@vastexpansion]

@theamishpotato, is there a way I could email you?

[@theamishpotato]

@@vastexpansion [e-mail]

[@livingreverence8739]

What about a 22 year old man that never married?

[@theamishpotato]

@@livingreverence8739 yep. Your good to go.

[@wesleymorris1]

Just wear glasses with cameras in them, the new ones are so small you can barely tell there's camera in them.

[@michellealvermann1377]

Do you have a pic of you in your Amish outfit

[@pamelabranch5865]

I didn’t think that Amish allowed anyone to take their pics? How did you get a childhood pic? Was this allowed only in your community?

[@theamishpotato]

We live in a more lenient community so we attended public school and had our pictures taken there

[@glynnhebert7573]

I watched a video many years ago about a gay amish/mennonite. Are there gay men and women in your communities?

[@holsen2]

Why do the Amish stop formal education at the 8th grade level? Did you go back to school after leaving your community? Maybe you've already done a video on this?

[@theamishpotato]

Not yet. Planning on one in the near future

[@eugenebell3172]

What happens to those who are gay? Are they automatically shunned.

[@TheSwissChalet]

Why do you have an Amish picture of you as a kid? Wasn't that prohibited?

[@benyaakov6453]

`Are you completely out of the Amish life?

[@theamishpotato]

I’m completely out. However i still interact with family and friends

[@benyaakov6453]

@@theamishpotato That is good some people end up totally estranged.

[@elwardmatthews4529]

What do you do to earn a living now.

[@theamishpotato]

I’m currently doing handyman work

[@goingaboutmyfathersbusines4359]

I always thought ..the Amish arranged marriage...the parents set their kids up from infancy..shows how clueless I am about the Amish community..I stand corrected.. interesting subject.

[@tammy5590]

CJ I know it must really burden your heart knowing your parents are not saved now that you are. How do you or do you address that when you are home. I pray for your family all and pray that maybe someday ALL amish will see where they have been lead wrong.

[@theamishpotato]

I think I need to make a video on this. Thank you for the question!

[@donraber1234]

@@theamishpotato I have former Amish cousins who left the Amish in thieir 50's so there is always hope>I probabley have cousins that know your parents

[@natalijaasbjornsen8827]

I still have yet to meet an Amish that is not saved. I used to believe they are not saved because ex- Amish say so. Yet when I get accuainted with them closer, they are born again. May be not all of them( like in any other church), but those I met , believe in Jesus. They just have an understanding that this world is a pretty defiled place and they choose not to live like the rest, but rather separate themselves for continuing simple Christian life as a first church Community. Their teaching is biblical for the most part.As a very close knit spiritual family they choose to follow agreements on how they want to deal with the worldly things. Those are not "rules". Rules are for children, but grownups have agreements. They do not believe agreements save them. They believe in being born again and follow Christ and His teaching literally. Protestants have a "head doctrine" and they think they figured it all out. But often their life is the same as in the world. Divorces,remarriages, going to courts, killing in self defence and in a war. These are things contrary to a sound doctrine of Christ and His Apostles. Jesus said if you are truly my disciples, you will follow me. And" if you live Me you will do what I say"

[@theamishpotato]

@@natalijaasbjornsen8827 Ask any Amish if they are saved. They will tell you they can’t know if they are saved or not. If we don’t know if we are saved, we are not fully trusting in the work of Christ, we must then, by default, rely on ourselves to be good enough to get to heaven by our own works. The Bible is very clear it is only by the grace of God through faith only. I get what you’re saying and I’d love to think that most of them are saved. And mostly there good works would show they are saved but unfortunately I do not think this is the case. I think they are under the spell of a false religion and are not being set free in Christ.

[@tammy5590]

@@natalijaasbjornsen8827 I have never met one that is saved and they will tell you they don't believe in being born again in Christ. They believe in following what they have been taught for 100's of years. And what is sad is that many Christians do they very same thing. They are saved but follow unsound doctrine instead of searching the scripture out for themselves to know what God wants us to do and how we are to live.

[@mclamb2011]

Has Miranda been blessed with a kitten yet?

[@theamishpotato]

😬she has not.

[@mclamb2011]

@@theamishpotato How soon will you make this happen?

[@theamishpotato]

@@mclamb2011 probably not until we move again. She plays with our neighbors cats all the time

[@Montycat92]

@@theamishpotato Would a single Amish woman be allowed to adopt a child despite not being married? I'm sure there are some women who don't want to miss out on being a mom. I'm divorced, no kids or any chance of getting back together with my husband. Im also considering joining an new order Amish community in PA. I've talked to the bishop and I'm going to go visit the community first. Just curious whether that would be allowed. Not sure how to bring it up. I'm honestly surprised that they are willing to let me join despite that. The bishop was very friendly and understanding.

[@theamishpotato]

@@Montycat92 probably depends on the community. Your chances are good with a new order group. I knew of one lady in middlebury Indiana who adopted while she was single. I think she ended up marrying eventually

[@margaretswartz3348]

What about gay Amish?

[@alfredabbey6162]

How would someone go about trying to study the Bible with Amish people with the desire of reaching them with the truth? Would they be open to someone just approaching them and asking?

[@theamishpotato]

Probably not in most cases. They shy away from being taught by outsiders or anyone with a “different belief”. Best way might be to ask them about verses they can’t answer. 1John 5:13. John 5:24. Colossians chapter 2 etc

[@alfredabbey6162]

@@theamishpotato thanks, that really makes sense.

[@carolinekaplan542]

they not need your truth honey respect other religions

[@alfredabbey6162]

@@carolinekaplan542 you follow the devil, ill follow my Lord.

[@carolinekaplan542]

@@alfredabbey6162 im actually a chosen person . my mothers side were lovely quaker people. I grew summers at lake Wawasee and interacted with the amish my father was close friends with Levi miller.

[@tonibunch2380]

So are you single

[@theamishpotato]

Married

[@HappyQuailsLC]

Old Maids? Maybe Independently Wealthy!

[@Engelhafen]

Not all are called to be married - Jesus was single

[@Engelhafen]

@@hesedken amd written by a single man 🤣

[@AnnaParada-x3y]

THINGS FROM KENTUCKY WOW WHAT BRAINWASHING SUCH OLD MENTALITIES NOT EVERYBODY'S MEANT TO BE A PARENT OR SHOULD BE A PARENT OR SHOULD EVEN GET MARRIED AND I'M GLAD THAT I AM JUST A CHRISTIAN PERSON AND PEOPLE CAN DON'T HAVE TO GET MARRIED THEY CAN LIVE TOGETHER A BIBLE TIME THERE WAS NO OFFICIAL PAPERWORK OR WEDDINGS THAT'S JUST A MAN-MADE STUFF DON'T BUY INTO THIS AND LOVE YOURSELF WOMEN NEED TO BE TAUGHT TO BE POWERFUL TRAVEL THE WORLD HELP THE POOR AND THE HOMELESS HELP YOUR FAMILIES YOU KNOW BE EMPOWERED BE GOOD BEING ALONE IS THAT WHAT PEOPLE NEED TO TEACH THEIR CHILDREN WE LIVE IN AN ABUSIVE NARCISSISTIC WORLD YOU THINK MARRIED LIFE IS GOOD AND THAT'S CRAZINESS THAT'S A LOT OF WORK AND IT'S NOT FOR EVERYBODY TO BE LONELY IN A ROOM OF PEOPLE WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU FEEL SORRY FOR WOMENTHAT ARE SO COLD ALONE THAT IS NOT A HARD LIFE IT'S A HARD LIFE SOMETIMES BEING MARRIED TO THE WRONG PERSON OR BEING MARRIED WITH WITH A BUNCH OF KIDS THAT'S INSANE IT'S NOT FOR EVERYBODY IT DOESN'T BRING HAPPINESS PEOPLE NEED TO LIVE THEIR LIVES HOW THEY FEEL IS BEST FOR THEM AND EVERYBODY HAS A DIFFERENT MISSION IN LIFE AND IS HERE FOR A DIFFERENT PURPOSE AND HAS THE RIGHT TO LIVE HOW THEY WANT TO LIVE THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH THE MAN OR A WOMAN BEING SINGLE BIG DEAL THERE'S A LOT OF MEN IN THE SECULAR WORLD AND OTHER CHRISTIANS THEY NEVER GET MARRIED BECAUSE IT JUST NOT INTERESTED SAME WITH WOMEN A LOT OF MOST MEN ARE VERY NO BUT IT ISN'T LONELY STOP SAYING THAT MOST MEN ARE VERY SUPERFICIAL AND CONTROLLING AND NARCISSISTIC THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT THE WOMAN OF HOW THEY LOOK THEY'RE NOT INTERESTED IN THEIR INTELLECT OR POWER HER INDEPENDENCE AND HER MORALS NO NO MOST AMERICAN MEN DO NOT LIKE IN INDEPENDENT WOMEN THEY'RE INTIMIDATED BY POWERFUL WOMEN❤❤❤P TRAVEL THE WORLD HELP OTHERS BE GOOD WITH BEING ALONE AND LOVE YOURSELF AND HAVE BOUNDARIES

[@jaybaker4447]

Have you ever heard of Amish being gay or is that something that never comes up?

[@theamishpotato]

Very seldomly does that come up. Definitely not until they have left the community

[@JesusIsMyFirst]

I guess your heart goes out to me then huh. I dont think marriage after divorce is exactly what Jesus wants.

[@MrTruckerf]

It seems like that something Jesus wants, Jesus gets!

[@JesusIsMyFirst]

@@MrTruckerf True

[@cherylharrison3789]

Extremely interesting. I do feel sad for the Amish that never find a partner. Divorce is forbidden? I don’t agree with this either. Just subscribed. Thank you

[@incredingo]

do gay people just leave? i would assume they wouldn't be accepted for who they are.

[@sticking202]

hello I want to marry a Mennonite

[@myboibill]

What about the gay Amish?

[@emmib1388]

what about them?

[@MrTruckerf]

You are talking about something which is not to be talked about.

[@jeanholley5820]

Wouldn’t it be better not to marry than to settle and be unhappily married?

[@MrTruckerf]

It is better to go through life wanting something you don't have rather than having something you don't want.

[@ronin2963]

You are clearly single, because if you had an Amish wife you could ask her to make you some kool Amish clothing

[@davidgingerich2230]

Why can't you peaple leave the Amish Alone.So yous got a big education. Well Whoop De Do

[@theamishpotato]

Am I hurting the Amish in any way?

[@davidgingerich2230]

@@theamishpotato No you not hurting them. I never been Amish but that's who I come from.i don't claim to know the why or how of much of anything.Have a good one. 🤣