A True Amish Story - The Amish Lifestyle And The Clash Between God & Rules Banned FOREVER

[Music] just a few hours drive from the noisy streets of Philadelphia and New York there is another world it's a world frozen in time home to a people whose way of life has barely changed since their forefathers settled here almost 300 years ago these are the Amish they're bound by a code of strict rules that govern every aspect of their lives rules that keep the modern world out they're not allowed to use mains electricity or drive cars and they're not allowed to be filmed but from early spring until late autumn to remarkable men let us into their lives they question the very rules that make them Amish the consequence is excommunication and total rejection by their own people I've said it this way and I'll say it again it would be much easier for everybody they would have just killed us but a family tragedy will turn their lives upside down this is the story of their agonizing struggle to decide whether to leave the only world they've ever known it's probably the hardest decision that Amish people have to make is a life-changing decision [Music] 300 years ago a handful of devout German and Swiss Protestants arrived here in North America to escape religious persecution the world has changed a lot since then but they haven't they came to farm the land and to live plain and simple lives they live side by side with modern Americans but they keep themselves apart with a strict set of rules these rules are what find the Amish together those who break them are shunned cut off from their friends and family [Music] over the years this harsh punishment has caused many to split away and form new and more liberal churches at the very first Amish church in the United States is the one here in Lancaster Pennsylvania the Old Order Amish have the strictest set of rules few dare to challenge them but Ephraim Stoltzfus is not your average Amish man he lives an Amish life but he has a big problem with the Amish rules Ephraim runs a dairy farm where he lives with his wife Amanda and their four children six-year-old Samuel and Dee age three Christopher who's one-and-a-half and their five-year-old daughter Marie I [Music] know nothing else at Amish and I feel privileged to have grown up Amish my parents taught me how to work with that in itself is a wonderful blessing if I see something that needs to be done I've been taught to do it nah man she's just following a set of rules you just decide to live a simple lifestyle and and get ready to work like crazy as well as the farm Ephraim has a workshop where he makes harnesses for racehorses the children work alongside their parents from a very early age this is where they learn how to be army they can feel involved when there are a few months old by just having to carry them along why are you working now push now did you set up and after a while they get to be a big help one love is to feed and marine job is to get eggs with over 40 cows to milk and no modern machinery the traditional Amish life is one of relentless back-breaking work from dawn until dark every day my cows are my pets discipline life if you have to get up in the morning you have to do them at night you can't sleep in for two hours trying to stay white running now get on it now let's tie the back legs Samuel go get the burner bring me your tags Murray Sam you'll hold this please one great thing about the farm and there's work for the whole family as you can see but they won't just do it on their own unless you teach him it takes a bit of training there was a time in our life where it was faster due to ourselves but we have learned that we take the time to teach our children it actually speeds the process later bring the air tight Murray growing up Amish means they always know what they're supposed to do even if they don't always know why they do it wear a beard like this I don't have the answer you're supposed to have it long hair you're not supposed to you're not really supposed to shave it much and you're not supposed to wear mustache so you have beards anywheres they all wear their beards different depends on what their father did you put your dishes away please really steal because straight in front and then down around this is just a way that we always did it just like the Amish rules their distinctive language has also been passed down from one generation to the next no no it sounds like German but it's not it's known as Pennsylvania Dutch we speak Pennsylvania Dutch at home and they learn English when they go to school Pennsylvania Dutch comes easiest for me because that's what we spoke at home that is my first language and when I speak English you need to translate everything in my mind which do you like to see which is easier Pennsylvania Dutch or English [Music] okay all done although more and more Amish do now speak English they still believe strongly that they should do exactly as their forefathers did which is why they use the same Bible their ancestors brought with them from Europe hundreds of years ago the problem is it's written in antiquated German a language the Amish no longer understand as a result many of them don't realize that the Amish rules they live by are not in fact in the Bible at all some people like 36 year-old Jesse Stoltz Foose and his wife Lillian believe this is a fundamental problem which undermines the whole Amish Way of life most of our forefathers have read the Bible in German and they've stuck to it but over the years we have become a more of an english-speaking culture we do our business in English our schools are in English a lot of people reading their Bibles in German don't understand what they read they can read it but they don't understand it the Amish people are beginning to read the Bibles in English it's a language they understand and as they understand that they look at and say I didn't know it means this having always been taught to obey their church leaders without question some of the Amish are now asking if it's their leaders they should be following or the Bible these people have been told by the leaders to go home don't dig so deep into the scripture don't ask these questions just live by the rules of the church and do what we tell you and you'll be okay do it let's move to the next one the rules to me are not the issue I'll follow the rules I don't have problem following the rules that's not the issue it's when church makes a decision that goes against the Word of God and you get questioned on it you have to stand for truth Church or laws of the land if they go against the Word of God you have to follow the Word of God when the Amish first arrived they all lived by one set of rules which were based on the Bible but over the years people started to disagree about the best way to live a true Amish life so different groups invented their own rules to set themselves apart from the rest now there are any number of regulations that dictate everything from how wide your hat ban should be to the proper way to hold your trousers up [Music] Ephraim thinks the whole thing has got out of hand some Amish communities don't wear suspenders some of them wear suspenders somewhere - suspenders down the front somewhere once it's been in the back to defend it as a front somewhere one suspender going from the one side in the back to the other side in the front the sad part is if you're in that church district you have to wear this to spend all the way they say if you don't the next Munich atrium the church that's the sad part of the rules is is they combine Church and culture and and that's that's that's wrong you can't do that you cannot you cannot do that if that's the way it was supposed to be then Jesus would have made those rules specific and said you got to drive a horse with a green harness or you go to hell you didn't say that [Music] when Ephraim first read the Bible in English he started to question everything he'd been taught to believe in particular what happens when you die [Music] this is an Amish funeral [Music] the Amish believe that to have any chance of getting to heaven they must obey all of the rules laid down by the Amish church anyone who questions or disobeys those rules risks eternal damnation I used to clean this thing thick and span McGregor see Amanda for a rule-breaker like ephraim a funeral was a terrifying experience I was horrible yeah not knowing where the person is and not knowing where I would go and and just fear of death fear of what if it was me and oh lord please but after reading the Bible he now believes he'll get to heaven simply by trusting in Jesus regardless of whether or not he follows the Amish rules I didn't have her where now I do have hope if eternal life oh yeah it's an unbelievable difference yeah yeah yeah oh yeah I have no fear of death [Music] [Music] for the Amish farming is absolutely central to their way of life it's how they preserve their old-fashioned values of hard work and simplicity they even call themselves the quiet people of the land house that has a roof is ephraim and amanda are breaking with this Amish tradition they've sold the farm and have a hundred thousand dollars to spend if I was running the house they're seen today is small and needs a lot of work they're hoping to buy it outright and not have the worry of a mortgage we had a lot to consider before we decided to move off the farm because the farms worth over a million bucks and big house big shop big buildings and that's a nice place enough but when we moved on the farm we we'd work harder than we did before and when we went to bed at night tired I'd say to my wife what are we here for are we here to pay off this farm and then what buy another farm and pay that one off so we said there's got to be more to life we started searching asking questions we really came to a crossroads by asking so many questions Ephraim is moving further and further away from what it means to be Amish [Music] it's now summer [Music] Efram and Amanda are moving to a new house just up the road from the old farm they couldn't find the right house to buy so they're renting this place from Ephraim's brother-in-law for now the money they made from selling the farm is staying in the bank I like this pantry as is the Amish custom their families have already moved their belongings up into the new house everybody helped unload and just put it wherever they thought it would go which is great because most of the stuff is right where I want it but I just need to so there's quite a lot that I still didn't need to change around Ephraim's got a few changes he wants to make as well that aren't quite in keeping with the Amish way of doing things we're gonna have a phone in here just soon Samuel yeah I never have enough a wire I could string one in the house through the tree the Amish aren't allowed to have telephones inside their houses but many get around it by having the phone in a separate building outside I am running a wire to bring my phone I'm a little shanty out back up to the building having his business phone outside is inconvenient so Ephraim's going to bend the rules by installing one upstairs in his workshop I'm not supposed to be in here but I'm here so I'm you know I'm gonna holler I'm gonna go you and then see the phone work well phone is as simple as you're gonna find that let me ask tell you it is a most simple thing [Music] did you say it works wow she's done Chris did Seif Cambridge having a phone in his workshop is bad enough now he from once a phone in the house it goes against the Amish ban on telephone wires coming into the home a direct connection with the wickedness of the outside world but once again Ephraim's got a cunning solution he's going cordless charging station what he hasn't realized is that it needs power to work but he knows a way around the Amish ban on mains electricity it involves some makeshift ingenuity and an old car battery so what I have to do is I have to take these two wires hook them up to a 12-volt battery this could be scary stuff if they don't work we're gonna say Who am I works that's cool it's not just phones and electricity the Amish have rules for just about everything [Music] bicycles with pedals are forbidden but rollerblades are okay and their buggies must be a particular shade of gray all these rules are decided in twice yearly meetings of the elders of the community the Amish bishops they are both leaders of the church and the ultimate guardians of the culture and it's the bishops who punish anyone who doesn't obey I'm putting up a small chicken fence we have 18 chickens from the farm we want to move up and then we have our own eggs Ephraim thinks the bishops have strayed too far from the Bible one if this is how an Amish Bishop feels just put up a another boundary fence I mean if you want to preserve the culture you're gonna have to have culture laws like this fence but that shouldn't come be combined with church should be two separate things but if the church and culture were separate the Amish bishops would lose all their authority our church is focused so much on clothing and focus so on rules and regulations that they forget where we came from they forget that our forefathers were giving their lives for their faith so ephraim and amanda want the amish to go back to basics God has laws we know the Ten Commandments were supposed to this not not at any time a church makes additional rules the people start relying on the rules instead of reading the word themselves you don't have to have those rules tough to live a Christian life but it's the rules that make the Amish who they are even to suggest that they're unnecessary is dangerous and radical it undermines the bishops authority and that's not something they take lightly with his own precious blood paid in full by the blood of the Lamb free from sin he from springing his family to visit Jesse who's also been breaking the rules not only has he been studying the Bible with others he's been singing hymns in English one of the things that's going on in our our churches right now is a hunger and thirst for Bible study people want to gather to study Bible and for some reason that's one thing that we're not supposed to do I think there's gonna be a time when we're gonna have to make a decision what do we stand for but taking a stand against the bishops will have serious consequences [Music] excommunication we could be excommunicated they would say well we're not going to excommunicate you for studying the Bible or gathering to study the Bible but it would be because you disobeyed the rule you were disobedient to us we have a rule that says you shall not gather we're not supposed to gather to study the Bible outside of the homes and you're refusing to follow that rule as grounds for us to excommunicate you and it could happen in my family it could happen to us from an Amanda know exactly what jess is going through some time ago they also started to openly express their Christian faith and paid the price we're excommunicated about exactly one year if you're not obedient to their rule whatever rule they make if you're disobedient then they can hand you over to the devil so that your flesh is destroyed in your spirit save the day of the Lord and I started thinking uh says they're excommunicating my friends pretending Bible study this doesn't make sense and I said it's wrong good to see ya so my heart went out I said these people need to know about Jesus so I got bald and started sharing and I've got me in trouble I would say but although Ephraim and Amanda were excommunicated they've chosen to hang on to their Amish culture we live like the Amish we look like the Amish and they put us out but Ephraim never one to do as he's told refuses to leave quietly determined to convert the Amish to his way of thinking amazingly he still goes back to his old church we've only missed a few services since people are starting to ask questions they're thinking they're gone you know what is this all about why are they still coming back why they know why don't they just leave and go to another church some of us and just join a church come on we don't you know come join your church we want to be together in heaven and understand you excommunicated me how are we gonna be together in heaven the rest of their family think they should either conform or leave altogether Amanda finds that tough it's a challenge it really is it's hard for our families too we're totally off the wall what are you making I'm trying to figure out what I'm so wrong Amanda would much rather join another church one that shares their beliefs and where she'll feel accepted but ephraim insists they keep going to the Amish church I mean stop we had a little battle last night yeah I just plead with God is it right to go back to his church cuz we always fight this thing is it's right to go back is it wrong and go back and I think it's right if man and woman aren't in unity if husband and wife aren't in unity you will never prosper before we become united he from gets his way for Amanda it's going to be another difficult someday it definitely is hard for me to think about going back again I guess I'm a relationships person and a lot of our relationships have been broken so it's hard for me to go back and know how people feel about me your turn my where's my shirt despite her own feelings Amanda's going along with Ephraim's decision as all Amish women a tort she's submitting to her husband's will as the family gets ready it seems like no one really wants to go [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] but if they stop going to the Amish services they'll be cutting the strongest link they have to their culture this will be the last time they go to Amish church [Music] Jessie's conflict with his bishop has come to a head in a week's time he'll have to face his whole church to account for his disobedience during the course of the last year there was a few things that they told me I can't do and one of them was challenging the leaders on what they preach and teach I was not supposed to challenge I was just supposed to mindlessly agree and listen to what they say well I couldn't do that the church asked him to come on Sunday they want to talk to him about it and you know I would say there's a 95% chance that he'll be excommunicated you sit in front of the council it's just a little like a well like a court session I guess where they ask questions and and I either have to defend myself or bring evidence that what I believe is right facing the church elders is not an experience anyone looks forward to it's terrible it's heart-rending it's confusing silly it's nonsense it's ridiculous it's boring it's tiresome that's ridiculous all because of tradition people are willing to look in the Bible for the answer it would treat a person like me with my faith and the beliefs that I have the same as a person who would be caught in the sin of fornication murder Seth or anything like that [Music] any two things I need my sword which is the word of God I need my new pad [Music] Efram went through the same thing when he was excommunicated he's on his way over to help Jessie prepare his defense [Music] but talking about the excommunication it simply says it here it has a list of of people that you are supposed to excommunicate from a church congregation if they're involved in these things adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness idolatry witchcraft hatred variance emulations wrath strife seditions heresies envyings murders drunkenness revellings which are wild parties and the such like so here we are possibly facing excommunication and we look at this list and we say yes but all we want is to serve God the church is saying you can't go to Bible study you can't go to prayer meetings you can't speak to other people about Jesus and because you refuse to stop doing these things we've told you to stop doing these things and because you refuse to quit we are going to put away from us you this wicked person and we're saying okay but what part of prayer meeting is fornicator or drunkard or extortion ro what part of talking to other people about Jesus fits this criteria and there is not as all Amish leave school at 14 jesse and ephraim aren't sure what all the words on the list really mean just Wendy grades yeah for Jana at least I am I got dissensions extortioner enmity sorcery strife and I'm jealousy it's right in there right now insurrection something that is inserted there's a part of a muscle that inserts the act of process and inserting now a high spot insurrection uh and Su are do you see going I'm sorry I am su or AC - okay ar-ar-ar-ar what see tion the act of or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government mission insurrection yes that's right well okay all right so we're not involved in death the Amish are an unusually close-knit people they rely entirely on each other's support if anyone gets sick or too frail to cope the whole community rallies round to help if someone goes out of business or a house burns down everyone comes together to provide financial and practical support this security is something the Amish take completely for granted but those who are excommunicated can no longer rely on this safety net they are totally rejected shunned by everyone in the Amish community the bible does teach us clearly about shunning and how to shun who to shun but the Amish take it too bit extreme if you would have this and you would give it to me that's okay cuz now you're clean and I'm the onion and I'm defiled but if that five seconds later we'd say well wait a minute now I don't need this yet I'd go to give it back to you you couldn't take it back from me it's much harder for our family and for the church than what it is for us it hurts to see my family struggling and my family going upside down about it and and they don't they don't want to shut us they absolutely do not want to and I don't think that more than half of my family even thinks that we're wrong but the only they do it because they think that they have to and if they don't shun us they'll be excommunicated the funny part is we can go to my parents house and we can eat their food but they can't eat our food so sometimes we make a special ice cream and we we know mom and dad will like it we send a small dish over but they they will need it they'll send it back even if we send it with the children they still know it came from our cows and and they think in their mind they would be sinning by doing it and they'd have to confess to the church because they hold communion so I understand why they don't want to do it they want to eat it but yet they think they will be sitting so it's very tough it's it's very hard for them they're old and it's very there's a lot of people that are going to see counselors because they can't take it emotionally not the people that are being excommunicated but their families I've said it this way and I'll say it again it would be much easier for everybody they would have just killed us [Music] every two weeks the Amish take turns to have Church in each other's homes the 300 or so members of each church district set pack together on hard wooden benches which are moved from house to house in a special wagon it's Sunday in a few hours time jesse has to go before the church to find out if he'll be excommunicated he's had a call from the deacon this morning which has thrown him into turmoil [Music] he wasn't counsel that I thought was going against what God wanted us to yeah she told us not to go to church today what's worse is that the Deacon of the church is Jesse's own father and wrestling with Thaddius do I be my dad follow the ways of God running from it is simply not gonna be doing God's will oh I don't know what that is I don't mean if it means an excommunication you know in a rough harsh way or if it means a simple humbling of myself and just saying God that will be done I don't know what it means but I have I have to go we have to go to find out [Music] to the Amish church is not a building church means their closest neighbors and family these are the people who will decide Jessie's fate first of all they asked me to sit up front like in the court you have to call the person to the front and then they tell the people that charges against this person and ask the person if he's guilty or innocent were you involved in these things well yes I was I was going there for a meeting yes I yes I was going to Bible study well then are you willing to repent of these things and admit that you were wrong I can't no I am NOT willing with Jessie unwilling to renounce his beliefs the outcome is inevitable jesse is excommunicated and shunned it's the next morning well I did hear excommunicated but strangely his wife Lillian did not everyone's friendly and even after church yesterday after I had been excommunicated a few a few ladies came up to my wife and said oh please don't go away from us we need you here the lady were Church was at I didn't get the dinner because I'm now supposed to be shunned and I'm not allowed to sit down eat with the other people and she came over to my wife and gave her a whole pie is that this is for Jessie they're so kind and loving it's just it's this whole mind game that just gets in a way it's just silly it's the first of August and that Ephraim and Amanda's has it Samuels seventh birthday now we all want to take turns to bless Samuel I think he sent me because you're my son and you're seven years old you are a good learner you learn things fast and you're a good teacher I love you Samuel seven years ago you were a tiny tiny baby this big and I realized that God has a special plan for you because we thought you might not live you really were a miracle and we knew that through that God has a special father thank you thank you for our little son we asked you Father that he would become a teacher of your word we love Him we ask that you would help him to be a big and strong to the world Lord to tell them about you Lord yes raise him up to serve you in Jesus name Amen [Music] for a special treat Ephraim is taking Sam into town to spread the gospel to the Amish this would be seen as proud almost arrogant behavior and strictly forbidden let's stop you're not some million dollar bills now take care stuff now here's a know you not a veil for you ma'am no you're not our bill it has the Gospel message on the back no you're not our question it's the one we all want to know right will you go to heaven how you guys done my name is Ephraim nice to meet you you're Mennonites no I'm a Christian right and I live the Amish culture Amish yes I was passing out gospel tracts they look like million dollar bills and everyone's like gray well I got a million bucks then they read the back they go oh boy I'm not a good person tell me would you consider yourself to be a good person you heard of the ten commandments I'm sure where do you think you've kept them did you ever tell a lie did you ever tell a lie oh yeah so what does that make you lock you're a lying even lyin stealin thieving adulterer in their heart if you hate your brother you're a murderer and I hated my brother did you ever hate your brother hate anybody hate anybody yeah yeah yeah listen this is what happened to me I tried to be a good person and I couldn't I couldn't be good enough when I find it says God you need to help me I'm a sinner and he gave me a new heart and we didn't do an open-heart surgery oh he gave me a new heart let me change my life I like giving away fake money but it's better when you give away real money because that is actually money did you get one of these it's a million dollar bill with the Gospel message on the back yeah you're welcome you read the Gospel message just more important the Apostles they sold their houses and they gave to the people that didn't have it didn't have didn't have any money they would give their money to them the money Ephraim made from selling the farm was meant to be used to buy a new house but true to their beliefs Ephraim and Amanda recently decided to give it all away there was a family that was in need and and God kind of directed that we would change that heart to where we were willing and gladly surrendered the money to him for needy causes it's a blessing we don't know what our future holds we don't know we can buy a house now if we you know what the Lord has for us but we know we can trust him good to talk to you all right nice meeting you sir and your name again is Sir pork mark I'm sorry I always forget names please forgive me Ephraim wouldn't say on camera exactly how much they'd given away but it was their entire life savings [Music] with no savings and without the financial support they could rely on from the Old Order Amish church Ephraim and Amanda are now very vulnerable since they stopped going to the Amish services they've been considering the many alternatives some churches are conservative and share many of the Amish values others are more charismatic in their approach with an openness which appeals to many who leave the Amish but Ephraim and Amanda have still not decided which one they'll choose over the summer a number of different churches in Lancaster are coming together for a week-long event they're setting up an enormous tent in the middle of a cornfield [Music] this is old order amish country and the hope is to attract hundreds of new converts [Music] they call them ten meetings yeah the punch of church is getting together singing and they're preaching the Word of God though most of these churches agree on the basic principles they're often divided on details we are hoping for the meetings that the differences between churches would come down a bit all the churches here would like the Amish to join them at these ten meetings but it's not an invitation that's welcomed by the Amish bishops there's a lot of Amish people that have been warned not to come to them for fear that they would then desire to leave the Amish culture they could be excommunicated for attending [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] it's not surprising the Amish bishops don't approve of these meetings they're coming under attack for not letting their people read the Bible in English to do it today keep the people in darkness by giving them a Bible in the language that they do not understand and telling them and warning them not to read it in English have mercy although Ephraim likes the message it's hard for him to abandon his Amish culture all together choosing a new church is not going to be easy since being excommunicated Jesse's facing the same dilemma it's probably the hardest decision that that Amish people have to make when they are faced with this situation because it is a life-changing decision the decision that we make now could affect our great-grandchildren rejected by his church but still clinging to his culture Jessie's stuck in no-man's land [Music] it's autumn [Music] a month ago Ephraim and Amanda salt sluice were struggling to decide whether to leave the Amish altogether but this is not the only thing on their minds their daughter Marie doesn't seem well we call it Marie I don't think your tummy's really sore right now it's more her joints the following day ephraim takes marie to the doctor the diagnosis is a shock yes well our little Marie is not feeling well we went to the doctor this on Wednesday and they diagnosed it as possible leukemia so we have found the doctor that will treat her for the cancer if it is cancer we're going for tests now the hospital is too far for the horse and buggy so they accept a ride in the film crews car Marie's fever has Ephraim worried quite a bit since yesterday is it 102 point five so by two o'clock this afternoon we ought to know we ought to have the other test back to see how bad it is and what kind of what kind of the cancer would be I guess so we will leave a call point two miles turn right men destination Universal you PC Center straightforward UPC okay Marie is subjected to hours of tests still reeling from the morphine the diagnosis is confirmed they took blood tests and also a bone marrow test 50% of the cells in the bone marrow were leukemia cells so they did treat her yesterday they gave her her medication to kill off the cancer she is now on chemo she'll be having chemotherapy for the next three years probably how good not okay she is tired she is they would be very hopeful about her recovery but anything can happen in looking with leukemia Marie's illness comes at a time when the family are extremely vulnerable but they're finding strength in their faith it was actually a couple calm days we were very relaxed lots of friends calling us and asking us how we're doing you said they're praying for us we are praying that God would still just heal her in a miraculous way to bring glory to me because people say Oh goddess to do this kind of things today and we believe he does so we're gonna pray for that if you choose us to glory to be his name if you choose those two that he doesn't want to heal her and overnight like that and once her to use medication for three years that's what would do if he chooses that he wants to take her hand and Gloria we are okay with that as well when Ephraim says to take her home in glory he's talking about the possibility of Marie dying well two things will happen either you have faith and you trust that will allow you hard to be happy and to rejoice regardless of the outcome and if you don't trust you're gonna worry and you have fear and you just have a horrible three years regardless of the outcome I don't know how I could have handled this two years ago now I just feel God's strength it doesn't make it easy but if there's a confidence in knowing that God is with me God cares no two years ago three years ago I would have been a wreck they've also found support from other excommunicated Amish who share their faith so many people praying for us so many people offering rides bringing food we've got lots of people that care and even though Ephraim and Amanda have been excommunicated there are machine to my parents they called Amanda's parents called a few times and my brothers and sisters calling their guy actually gonna make applesauce worse tomorrow the very people who shunned them a year ago are now at their house mowing their lawn mopping their floors and cooking them food the ad Anna's coming down this morning and she's going to do my laundry she'll go through my house and get the laundry she's going to mop my kitchen floor I imagine when I come home that everything would just be in tip-top order that's one really nice thing about the Amish is the way they reach out to others they serve each other they do what they can to help each other it's a closed community you know not always easy to accept people helping you and doing things for you but I can see that the next couple months we won't be able to do it by ourselves we're going to need some help with the hospital costing around $3,000 a day they'll need all the help they can get having given away their savings a mandarin ephraim have no way to pay for Murray's medical bills themselves but despite everything Ephraim's evangelistic fervor is undimmed i have opportunities to share the gospel with the nurses and the doctors and I have a hopefully a pack of million dollar bills coming in this morning after four days in hospital Murray is allowed back home and it's time to think of the cost [Music] medical care is quite expensive in the States the way the Amish do it is if people want to they can pay in like $125 a month per adult if you're a member of the church it's per member of the church $125 a month and then if you get a hospital bill you pay the first 2500 in a year and then they cover 80% from there so what will you be sending us in what would cost so far we are covered we paid her membership and even though we are members with the church my brother is a accountant for our district so he said he's going to allow us to be a part of the Amish aid and as long as his overseer doesn't kick a fit he's gonna let me go and so they said they're gonna pay as long as I don't drive a car though they're okay with it so that means we have to drive a horse and buggy for the next three years here having been on the verge of leaving the Amish Murray's illness has thrown Ephraim and Amanda into a dilemma on the one hand the very Amish community they've been exterminated from has stepped in to provide powerful support [Music] but on the other hand it's their new non Amish faith that's given them the spiritual strength to get through this crisis [Music] when we last spoke to him jesse was still going to the old order amish services and still working hard in his carpentry business [Music] Efram still hasn't decided which church to join but he's still getting about in his horse and buggy so far Murray's been responding well to the treatment and Amanda's expecting another child their fifth [Music] coming up next on BBC two wit and fashionable whimsy from the well-dressed minds of Qi [Music] you're supposed to have it long here you're not supposed to know what it's supposed to shave it much and you're not supposed to wear mustache two years ago I filmed an extraordinary family going through a life-changing experience when I first met Ephraim and Amanda they lived in a culture that shunned the modern world they were Amish and ultra conservative American Church where cars electricity and modern clothing are totally forbidden the Amish look like they're from another century but when Ephraim and Amanda challenged the beliefs of the Amish they were thrown out of the church they were shunned by their friends and family cut off from the world they'd been born into it hurts to see my family struggling in my family going upside down about it when I lost filmed the thing they were on the brink of leaving the Amish Way of life for good but they had yet to join the modern world I often wondered if they could ever really get away from the culture that had made them who they were I wanted to know if they could ever really leave the Amish [Music] okay let's go to the water it's been a few years since I lost salt Ephraim and his family and I caught up with them on a tour of the British Isles they'd been invited over by people who'd seen the first film and had wanted to meet them this is the first time they'd been to a beach and it's the first time they've ever been abroad leaving the Amish has transformed their lives I hated my how much times I hated wearing suspenders I hated everything I guess I can be myself now whereas continuing to go back to the Amish church was I was trying to be someone that that I'm not I my heart wasn't there anymore being away from home for the first time has made them think hard about what they want to do with their lives it has been a time of just sitting back and reflecting and saying what is our life supposed to be what are we supposed to be doing [Music] where do we go from from here where does the Lord want us to be don't you know that we're all going to appear before the judgment seat of Christ there's one thing II from is sure of he wants to save souls please consider every day a hundred and fifty thousand people will die it's this kind of thing that got him thrown out of the Amish church in the first place Trillian for you above all the Amish believe in humility they consider Ephraim's preaching to be nothing but pride you can take it read it there's a little test there to do on the back then I'm gonna turn it around I'm gonna get some time just do the test there and you'll see if you get to heaven Ephraim spent his time here in Britain spreading the gospel he hasn't had to work at all and it's been a revelation the Amish are famous for their theater work ethic and Ephraim's always worked hard to support his family but no more our Father thank you for this food yes that you would bless it to our bodies father he's now decided to only do God's work and to trust completely in God to provide for all his family's needs I've always had a secure job where you know money has never been an issue and I expect the next couple years to be different okay you got your jackets put some jackets on children I don't want to have a 7 to 5 job but if the Lord just provides for us that's all we need he says follow me seek my kingdom and my righteousness everything else will be added that's her confidence and so now we're ready to head back home and really think about her life and and yeah walk the plan we have now relying only on faith to sustain them Ephraim's bringing his family back to Pennsylvania home of the same Amish community that projected them [Music] Efram was born and raised in Lancaster County home of the first and oldest Amish community in America over the centuries America has changed dramatically but the Amish have not and their old-fashioned ways are nostalgic ly envied by their modern cousins the unofficial capital of Amish country here in Lancaster is a small town called intercourse it's an ironic name for a town that attracts millions of tourists who come here to see the wholesome lifestyle of the Amish yeah we went through a tour through an Amish land so how do people live the Amish people very interested they just fascinate me the way they they operate everything is done the old-fashioned way more peace in this world that we did the tourists who come here see a chocolate box version of the Amish but the Amish are anything but simple just like any other group of people they have complex problems and deep divisions but this is kept hidden from outsiders because the strict rules the Amish live by forbid them from being filmed I filmed these shots from quite a distance this is about as close as you can get without causing offence the only way to see the true nature of Amish life is to film with those who are on their way out [Music] LC Miller has been Amish all her life and so has a husband Jessie but that's about to change just before I came to film with them that had a visit their Amish ministers had come to warn them they were about to be thrown out of the church excommunication is the punishment for attending a non Amish church they face being shunned by their friends and family cut off from the only world they've ever known what they're gonna do probably then is like they're actually they're actually gonna say that they're now handing us over to the devil I don't know if you've ever heard that but that's how they do I mean yes because we're leaving the church and going out into the world is how they look at it we have tricky to take a deep faith take a deeper Christian face so we can what was Godin they came to this new faith with the help of Ephraim [Music] when I first met Ephraim he'd become involved in a growing evangelical movement with a clear target I filmed him along with other born-again Christians setting up a huge tent right in the heart of Amish country they called tent meetings the bunch of churches came together singing and preaching the Word of God they were here on a mission to convert the Amish and at the center of their campaign was the Bible Amish Bibles are written in an old form of German that few understand but reading the Bible in English is prohibited it breaks the Amish reliance on the authority of their elders keep the people in darkness by giving them a Bible in the language that they do not understand and telling them and warning them not to read it in English god have mercy these tent meetings were just part of a larger conflict between the Amish elders and the new faith of Ephraim and others like him there's a lot of Amish people that have been warned not to come to them for fear that they would then desire to leave the Amish culture they could be excommunicated for attending LC was amongst those who were won over to this new faith Jessie followed got on his knees and started praying after he stopped praying I said so would you go to heaven he said yes I would I said why would you go to heaven II because it's because of what Jesus has done for me and that's not what he said an hour before so I knew he was a new man so I asked him if if the if the community's gonna reject him will he still follow Christ and he goes yeah I said I have no choice it's just like the fear of rejection was gone Jesse NLC started coming with you from here to charity Christian Fellowship one of the main evangelical churches campaigning to convert the Amish during this time of need for fellowship and wisdom Gardens thank you for this there are mushy or unhappy with their decision and don't want them to go amen thank you lord well I guess it was one last attempt to see what he can do to get us to change our minds before we get excommunicated he doesn't agree with anything I believe and I can't agree with his you know Elsie and Jesse are part of a growing exodus leaving their traditions and their families for modern evangelical Christianity [Music] Efram and his family are arriving back off the months of traveling they don't have a house of their own so they'll be staying with friends from his new church the first thing to do is find a place to live Ephraim is praying he can find a house for free and see if it's what we want it's the one I don't know yeah we just we just trust in the Lord so they say they have a pretty stand that we can help work a kriti Sanon and feed some heifers maybe to exchange exchange rent but we'll see it's not mine to figure out [Music] a few days later I caught up with Ephraim he'd already found a house and wanted to get some help moving in we're trying to figure out he's gonna help help us move in tomorrow and when my brothers are going going to come and their wives hopefully yes my family is still Amish his Amish family won't help if it means consorting with people from charity Ephraim's new church they wanted to know if there's other people there here excommunicated okay I got to figure out a way who's gonna drive it that my brothers can ride along so even though he's no longer part of their church Ephraim still finds himself having to work around the Amish rules in the end he finds a workable compromise his Amish families have packed everything up and people from charity church are doing the unpacking unlike the Amish they don't mind being filmed if it helps do God's work Jesus Christ [Music] [Applause] [Music] the house is on a farm and Ephraim's struck a deal with the owner in the summer months he'll do some work around the farm and run the owners roadside fruit and veg stand in exchange they'll live rent-free it seems Ephraim's prayers have been answered it's exactly what we wanted well we didn't we just wanted to work somewhere so we can work for the farmer in exchange for rent so we found it but there's more than rent to consider Ephraim is counting on God to provide for all their financial needs you know even though the Lord has given us this place - for what we prayed for it still that thought of but what if he doesn't supply money person [Music] ephram's new home is deep in Amish country but that's not to say it's completely separate from the outside world seeing the Amish like this in rural isolation it might appear that they live apart from everyone else but the reality is quite different for the most part they live right alongside the modern world [Music] driving around I found the freeways of Pennsylvania regularly jammed up by slow-moving Amish you'd think this day-to-day contact would be the death of their culture but it isn't even when rebellion and teenage hormones kick in the Amish have a way of dealing [Music] [Music] these young guys hanging out are believe it or not Amish in their late teens are mushy its are allowed to run wild before they join the church and get a taste of living in the outside world with the Amish work ethic drilled into them from early childhood many of these guys are earning good money which is why one particular form their freedom takes is hot rods I'm told some will also be using their buying power to try the effects of eye watering amounts of drink and drugs but that's not something I got to film surprisingly enough the vast majority of these wild teenagers will return to the fold get baptized into the Amish church and trade in their fast cars for slow-moving buggies they go back because they've been taught from birth they'll go to hell if they don't live by the Amish rules and they believe it wholeheartedly but this fear of Hell which holds them together is now tearing the Amish apart born-again Christians promised them a guaranteed escape from hell and an end to their fear it's a powerful message and the Amish are right for it [Music] it's Sunday morning I've set up my camera down the road from Elsie and Jessie's house to get some shots of their Amish brethren on their way to church [Music] [Music] Elsie and Jessi have been summoned to appear before the whole congregation so their excommunication is made public pretty positive I mean since we started you know going this direction despite her conviction the prospect of standing before the Amish elders is daunting and they haven't decided whether they'll attend or not Jesse used to look to the Amish rules to make every decision now he's turning to the Bible something in the passage he's chosen seems to have settled the matter for Jesse tell me what you've decided to do this we really feel those made in our heart set if you if we're not more than always church anymore why do we need to go where we got excommunicated they don't want us anyway [Music] having decided not to face the Amish they'll be going to their new church instead the preacher is giving them a lift in his car [Music] [Music] the Amish will carry on without them [Music] Elsie and Jessi will still be expelled in their absence they've now irrevocably severed their links with the Amish LC and Jessie are now full members of Charity Christian Fellowship despite the best efforts of their families to convince them otherwise the charity Church just does not have a good name among the Amish my sister said they heard from someone else that the church at charities is a cult you know like a cult thing it's not about Jesus Christ [Music] [Music] [Music] Church I see Amish in transition to the modern worlds most of the women have replaced the Amish head coverings with simple scarves some of the men still dress and shave in the Amish way while others are in the process of shedding the look it's full of people just like LC Jessie [Music] Efram was instrumental in convincing Jesse to leave the Amish and so when Jesse approached him after the service I expected the huge step he'd taken to be acknowledged somehow but there was nothing when ephraim was excommunicated he'd gone to the Amish church to proclaim his new faith he'd hoped Jesse would do the same Jesse's decision to come here instead has not gone down as well as he'd hoped with his friend [Music] today Ephraim's got a bunch of his Christian brethren together to pull down a house the house which belongs to a good friend of his will be torn down piece by piece and then rebuilt from scratch they had loading their house and so they closed up everything tightly and they come back and the walls were all moldy and the Bible says that if there's mold there and it increases after you close the windows and doors for ten days and it increases and you have to tear it down and burn it don't let one stone upon the other stone and so just as the Old Testament says they're taking all the stones plaster and timber to an unclean place and burning the line they're following the Bible to the very letter it seems this new faith Ephraim follows is in many ways just as uncompromising as the Amish church he's left [Music] Efram has given up working so that he can spread the gospel this morning he's taken delivery of some car stickers and signs a big city you'll have 10,000 people to see your van and now if the people are going to have to think about something that hasn't thought about a couple my friends will put these on their buggy I think look really nice to have something like that on their buggy yeah it would be looking to be frowned upon very much the Amish have this saying that they say you don't need to use words to when you just live your life and let people see let people see the life of Christ in you so they would they would not think it's wise to have scripture on your car or your buggy if they could be proud but you know you know there's a hurricane coming and it's gonna touch down in this search area you're gonna tear it when they get out of the other houses in mood because don't get dime I think it's important we talk about could it give you a gospel message could it give a gospel message to you alright there's a funfair going on in a nearby town today but ephraim set up his signs just outside i don't want to be connected with the fair it's a wicked place it's the whole thing is about money everyone's trying to get rich trying to entertain trying to satisfy their longings the music is evil the some of the pictures are really demonic you got the the dragon trains you got the evil house on the other street and it's just it's a place where I want to be a gospel message for you do you want to be in heaven alright well don't stay too long in there it's a wicked place now okay it's not what you make of it it's what it is there's a gospel message for you you're welcome people are more receptive here than in England in England they've been taught Darwin's were quite quite a few years more than we have here the Bible says that in the beginning God created the world in six days and that's what I that's what that's what's the truth that's the truth that's what happened in six days Darwin doesn't believe that way or he didn't he does believe that way now Darwin now is saying yes Jesus was the Christ I didn't acknowledge it in the past but he is and I wish I would have you know Darwin is in hell today according to the Scriptures how many five seven sixteen this literal reading of the Bible is something he's determined to share with his children even man Amanda don't send a children to school instead they do all the teaching themselves at home we do books but then we also learn through life we butcher chickens we plant a garden all these things are learning experiences when amanda says that butchering chickens can be part of their schooling she really means it the lesson today is not so much about biology there as it is about theology Bible says that the life is in the blood and what it means is that's what makes something live step back Samuel is the blood so when the Bloods all gone children the animal is dead and when Jesus was on the cross his life was dropped out on the ground for us and so when Jesus blood becomes ours we do have life because his life his blood has life in it [Music] it's the day after Elsie and Jesse's excommunication the Amish believe they've been deceived into going to charity church and have handed their flesh to the devil I've come to see how they're coping with that yeah but what often what people do is like people who leave you leave the Amish if that happens they'll afterwards just like pray pray to God and ask him to remove that curse I feel if we pray about it I think you'll be would the Amish think that Elsie and Jessi are now living in a place of temptation and deceit [Music] they have a word for this place they call it the world [Music] the Amish keep themselves separate by having countless rules for every aspect of their lives without those rules to guide them LC and Jessie on are faced with bewildering choices the first thing they must decide is what to wear [Music] what's wrong the Amish church decides a lot of things you know like our clothes should be made and the colors we should wear and the things that we can have and not have [Music] nothing is forbidden anymore they can have anything they want but after a lifetime of rules they have no experience of making choices independently so now it's up to us to decide you know what does God's Word say about this or that you know and we try to make our decisions based on what the Bible says Ephraim putting up a fence for his chickens yeah I didn't need a set of rules anymore to guide my life when I became a Christian because I not I now have here you go I now have living inside of me God Himself he knows the difference between right and wrong and so therefore I don't need rules don't don't point guns we don't do we don't point guns at people that's not sober Christopher how were you feeling when you're appointing the gun sober or foolish now you're sober now but how are you fooling how are you feeling then foolish yeah HOPWA doesn't want you to do that we want stay sober thank you I want something else to cover my children rather than a set of rules I want them to know why why don't we walk around immodestly and I want to I want them to know it's because the Bible says instead of having a set of rules the Bible talks about the sin of nakedness I didn't know that it would be a it would be something that that the Bible would have as a rule I guess I'll always know it's not a rule it's a part of its it's a part of a life or a part of a yeah it's part of a life it's much bigger than a rule isn't it [Music] I've often asked why the Amish do things the way they do the answer is always the same you don't ask why they say it's just how we do the Amish are taught to obey without question and conform [Music] at first glance the congregation of charity church doesn't appear to be all that different to the Amish church that so many of them have come from although charity claims not to have rules like nama Sh their lives are governed by what they read in the Bible and they to keep their distance from the modern world but although it might not seem much of a difference coming to this church is probably the biggest change they'll ever make in their lives today Efram is trying to drum up more customers for the produce stand they live rent-free in the summer in exchange for running the stand but once winter sets in the family will have to start paying their way the Landlord recently offered them another deal if sales are better than usual they won't pay any rent at all the stands been far busier than they expected this wasn't the plan when they first moved in here right now it looks like a full-time job I really struggled with okay I gotta come out and sell stuff customers are here flowers I can sell things I can make it happen and I really just you know had to say God please you know take that from me look did we sell flowers yourself flowers I told him last night it says so okay Lord if this if this Stan does better then they're normal we can be rent free so you're gonna make it happen I'm not gonna make it happen I mean I'm thinking okay I should come out make signs put a sign on every telephone pole and just you know come out and really make stuff happen I said no I'm not gonna do it I told God this morning if people need stuff and they're gonna buy it somewhere make them stop here Efram wants God to provide for all his family's needs but even though the rent is covered there are other financial pressures to deal with as well during the course of my first film with the family Ephraim's daughter Marie contracted leukemia it was the beginning of years of expensive treatment so what were you pretending us in what would it cost [Music] although she's recovered now she still needs chemotherapy Ephraim wanted to stop buying the medicine and instead rely on God to keep the cancer at bay but the state wouldn't let him we had taken Murray off chemo for a month and we were going to stay off and then the law said we have to go back on and so that was really a little stressful time saying well hang on who's the Bible says that we believe she's healed we're gonna continue a natural route but the law is saying you need to continue or will make her to continue [Music] in his old life all his medical expenses would have been covered in full by the Amish $78 right there [Music] but now he's relying on occasional donations from friends at charity and his savings which are disappearing fast [Music] methotrexate 2.5 milligram is that correct okay on the way out of the hospital he stops to try and get a better deal for the medicine Murray needs okay thank you night Ephraim's plan was to stop working and give all his time to God the way it's looking now he'll need a miracle to carry on [Music] Amish children are taught only the basics they have their own schools and leave at the age of 14 [Music] now that they've joined charity LC has to come to grips with homeschooling like these books these are different from what from what I had when I was going to school the Amish schools they have other other kinds that are more more simple so some things in here is a little bit challenging for me this morning with your page in letters and sounds okay it's a fun exede work tics with three children it seems a lot for her to take on and what's more Elsie is expecting another child what how about in hurt my get marked out to you Jesse wants to buy a car but he's having trouble selling his buggy while only Amish would wanted no army would buy it off him [Music] they don't want to they don't want to help us to something different than what we were brought up from the buggy is fundamental to the Amish Way of life it's their means of going about their lives as cars are totally forbidden buying a car is a big change and it'll transform the way they live but a car is not always a blessing exhaust pipe on Ephraim's car is bust and he's having a go at fixing it himself it's a bit of a learning experience kind of thing used to have to do in the end of Olson buggy no horse the buggy was rather you had to figure out what's wrong with a horse and he got sick and I know I know how to take care of horses but bands is a new thing okay if we're going to be using the van I need to learn how they work otherwise I just spend a lot of money on paying people and it fix my van and I it's not my vision he's going to replace the exhaust on his car with one from this wreck this was Ethan's first car but a few months ago while he was on his way to church he rolled it the whole family was inside at the time singing vivent come around like this and rolled so we flipped in the air the first time and come down right here and a man who got the jar of it and then we wrote again and on the four wheels and Amanda she went unconscious just a little bit there was people there right away and they called the ambulance it's icy and it was so just I got out and I said Lord what is this we had an accident we rolled twice but we're not hurt and what are you trying to say and so I went on a fast on Monday and then Tuesday morning the Lord woke me early my quiet timing and he showed me that I was proud I was actually proud of this then I was proud of how the Lord had given me this and that we had prayed and prayed and prayed and then God gave us it's 944 901 about that fact that I had missed it so I repented of my pride and wanting people to think that I'm spiritual so was a it was a good lesson and by God's grace no one was hurt and the Lord provided another van that has much less mileage on and for even less money [Music] cheap heaps in Lancaster City is just what its name suggests a budget used-car dealer Jessie and Elsie are looking for something with plenty of room Elsie is now seven and a half months pregnant you guys what are you looking for the red okay until next November how does it run runs very very nice okay absolutely can go on a test drive if you like to do that watch the kids okay [Music] it's a bit of a shock to see Jesse behind the wheel but like many Amish men during his wild youth he had a car but I'm not sure about this one there's something odd about the electrics how much uses she there one for this man 3300 analysis Jessie may still be able to drive but his navigation skills are a bit rusty on the way back we get lost its three-quarters of an hour before we find our way back to cheap heaps their switch for interior light in that car I'm sure there is I can check it for him typically it's just a matter of did you turn it both ways the actual way so I did not check if where I didn't turn it pastor cymbals okay yeah I'll check it for it there's more to buying a car than knowing how to drive and they seem overwhelmed by it are you guys looking to make a purchase right away yeah Saturday were looking at making a purchase just as they're about to test another cheap heap Jesse gets a call from Ephraim with God's help he reckons he's found them a good car from a trustworthy man amen I suppose were to go look at that we shall go home and pray about it again [Music] early the next morning I got a phone call from Jesse he was on his way to the hospital with else their baby wasn't due until Christmas but six weeks earlier than expected Elsie had gone into labor father we pray for Jess and Elsie father is there not away to the hospital or maybe they're already a father for their baby to be born father we pray in Jesus name that the baby would be healthy father we pray against any extra expenses that could be incurred in a hospital father we pray that they would not do lots of tests father but it would only do father what is necessary for a safe arrival of their new child in Jesus name Amen you can go to your chores children hi Jesse a thief how's everything going do they expect a baby to be born today okay how close is a baby being born you have any idea very soon okay who's that for thank you very much sure we'll do that when we arrived at the hospital LC had already given birth to a baby girl they named her Anna Rose but she lived for only an hour [Music] if it was God's will no matter what the doctors or nurses do they will not provide that child if that child were to go he's going to take it Jesus has taken a beautiful bird out of our garden of love the funeral was held two days later at charity church standing out amongst the parked cars I saw one solitary Amish buggy Elsie's parents and some of her sisters had violated their Amish rules and come this once to a non Amish church most of Jesse's family stayed away [Music] after the burial there was a meal in the basement of the church but none of their Amish families stayed it was a step too far [Music] [Music] it was a hard day but God is working things things out through this it has really brought our families together and we hadn't seen most of our families since spring so it was I think God used that to break down some some barriers that had been there some walls during a funeral your parents with everything yes yes they were it was very special I was got to sit beside my mom my mom and my dad there were next sitting next to me and that was very special yeah and we prayed that that would hear a good message and we pray that some seeds I think some seeds have been sown they heard the gospel [Music] this move towards van Jellicle Christianity is splitting Amish family and it's a conflict that's far from over there's no chance LC and Jessie can ever go back to the way they were the only hope they have of getting close to their families again is if they to leave the Amish [Music] with winter approaching Ephraim's closing down the produce stand now we're done with the produce for this year so we'll take it down and put it in the barn till next spring then we'll put it back up again his plan to live rent-free all year-round has not worked out so we need to come up with $800 a month yet for rent and utilities for November December January February and maybe March we might might be doing flowers in March ready so for months for sure maybe five that's nice so far Efram has been relying on God to provide for his family's needs he's been kept going he envelopes of cash given anonymously most probably by sympathetic members of his church but with God no longer providing as well as the paid work he's come up with another very Armas to bring in a bit of money he's bought this horse cheap and plans to fatten it up and sell it on for a profit as a bonus the horse also gives him an alternative when his car's not working [Music] Efram always been at odds with the culture he grew up in but at the same time he's never completely escaped the Amish though he's left the church his simple values are not so different to those he was raised with but still the Amish elders see him as a threat and not without reason if this move towards evangelical Christianity takes hold it could be the end of the Amish as they are now but it could also be the beginning of something new [Music] you you

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