Joe Keim
Auteur de My People, the Amish: The True Story of an Amish Father and Son
Œuvres de Joe Keim
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Joe Keim, one of fourteen children, was born and raised in Ashland, Ohio. It was his grandfather who left a more liberal Amish community and brought his family here and started a new Old Order Amish community with more strict do's and don'ts. Each Amish community adopts their own by-laws and rules and regulations to live by. But, you can tell the difference between the older, more strict order and the newer more liberal order by the size of the men's hats and the ladie's bonnets. The older order requires larger rims on the hats and larger bonnets covering all the women's hair.
Joe's story gives you a rare insight into the real lives of the Amish people. He started rebelling at age 15 when his father told him that he was worthless and didn't even know why he fed him. The Amish are surprisingly not known for outward expressions of love. He even tried three times to leave the Amish community, but his father came for him and talked him into returning before he was excommunicated.
At age twenty, he and his girlfriend finally made a break for it. He became saved, they married and later created an organization called MAPS (Mission to Amish People) where they help the Amish transition outside of the Amish community by offering support and help in getting birth certificates and social security cards for employment. But mainly MAPS introduces them to Jesus Christ and helps them find a church that focuses on the written word.… (plus d'informations)