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For many years, all Anabaptist groups embodied their Gospel beliefs and values in distinctive cultural norms to which all members were held accountable. We currently hear that such forms are imposed "man-made rules" that militate against a genuine personal experience with Christ. This booklet investigates the following questions: Has God ever endorsed "man-made rules"?Do distinctive cultural norms violate the Gospel?Does a relaxing of distinctive cultural norms lead to greater evangelistic success?If "the past is prologue," what can we learn from groups that relaxed their distinctive practices?Answering these questions is important, because decisions have consequences, and wise believers base their decisions on the consequences they desire.

North Wind Man is a co-authored biography in which Clarence Cachagee courageously shares his challenging and inspiring path to becoming a helper and leader in his community - a multi-generational healing journey that reveals cycles of trauma and oppression, beauty and resilience. After being displaced into foster care as a young child, and raised by a Mennonite family, Cachagee struggled for years with addictions and homelessness, until he embarked on a new path by reconnecting with his Indigenous culture and accepting the support of his community. Along with Clarence's storytelling voice, the book includes interviews with family members, social workers, and community leaders, and integrates local history of the Waterloo Region and Chapleau Cree First Nation. It also includes the voice of Cachagee's late father, also named Clarence Cachagee, recorded during an interview in 1991 about his experience in Canada's Residential School System. Co-written with Seth Ratzlaff, an emerging Mennonite writer and friend of Cachagee, the book's co-authorship is guided by a spirit of friendship, equality, and respect.In this insightful biography, Cachagee thoughtfully and graciously recounts a life haunted by unanswered questions and unaddressed trauma, revealing the challenges he experienced as a Cree man of mixed heritage displaced into the Sixties Scoop in colonial Canadian society. Not afraid to disclose the dark periods in life, Cachagee also identifies the beauty throughout, illustrating how cultural teachings, spiritual practice, and the embrace of community can lead to finding one's voice and becoming a helper.

It’s wedding time at Pennsylvania’s historic Shadow Lake Inn—and at least one of the Amish King sisters is waiting on a proposal…Award-winning New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author Lenora Worth’s third Shadow Lake inspirational romance series features independent Amish sisters who run a historic inn located near Lake Erie, Pennsylvania. It’s a satisfying life of simplicity and peace, but when Collette King’s former beau returns home with another woman on his arm at her sister’s wedding, it upends her very life…As the holidays approach, Collette King is eager for Matthew Mueller’s return to Shadow Lake. Especially now that she has finally surrendered to the truth—that the friend she has known forever, the first man she ever kissed, is the one she longs to spend her life with. So when Mattie shows up at her sister’s wedding with another woman on his arm, Collette’s hopes are shattered. To heal her broken heart, she begins a quilt honoring her memories of Mattie. But every square she adds only makes her yearn for him more . . .Matthew’s new inheritance comes with a lot of responsibilities—including his late-uncle’s deathbed request that he marry the woman who was his ward. But from the moment Mattie sees Collette again, he wishes he could escape his familial duty, even though doing so could bring scandal upon his mamm and daed. Will his desire to protect his parents cost him the life—and the love—he dreams of? Or can faith work a Christmas miracle that blesses all . . .

Amish auctioneer Toby Miller and special education teacher Rachelle Lapp love their jobs so much, they're in danger of missing out on marriage and children of their own---until circumstances force them to face uncertain futures.

Sometimes a beautiful miracle comes to you at exactly the wrong time...Lindsay Prescott is forty and single when tragedy strikes. After being diagnosed with stage 4, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma cancer, her instinct is to right the wrongs in her life, starting with the secret she'd kept from Harris Manning, the man she'd loved.Harris' life was already planned out for him by his wealthy parents. Falling for Lindsay had been a dream. However, compelled to wed the woman his parents chose for him, he'd left her to endure a shaky marriage.Though Harris never knew it, Lindsay found herself pregnant with no way to care for identical triplets on her own. An Amish couple, Katie and Roman Yoder, adopted five month old Amy and Jenna while Lindsay kept Phoebe. She couldn't bear to give all three babies away.When you let go of a miracle, can you ever capture it again?Harris is thrilled to discover he's a father. But life rarely gives fairytale endings. Revealing the truth may prove more devastating than the hurdles that came before...and all that will surely come after for a woman fighting for her life.

In the Time of Lilacs and other short stories.This book is the second volume in the Christmas Carol Kauffman short stories series. It joins the other four Volumes: Comin Home Soon Vol 1, Up Sumac Lane Vol 3, According to His Purpose no. 5 and Before the Fall no, 4 After reading just one of her stories, the reader is captured by her simple yet powerful prosaic style. It seems as if Carol had the gift to craft words at the first passing... as they flowed from her mind to the pencil. Rarely did she edit or alter these stories but just wrote as the words came. It was as if the words came from elsewhere and she was but the earthbound conduit of heaven's dew distilling upon her fertile and innocent mind.

Beth loves Christmas... and Ben, her co-worker in her furniture business in their Amish community. Their views on Christmas keep their friendship from becoming more. Will Beth's letter and gift to Ben bring these two together at long last?

"This collection offers poems about fences and boundaries and borders--whether keeping the sheep in or maintaining or breaking the fences the author puts up around self, marriage, friendships, the greater world"--

"Doretta Schwartz used to be so happy and passed her positive attitude along to friends in several letters she wrote each month. But that all changed the day she learned of her fiancâe's death and a heavy weight of depression fell upon her. Feeling empty, she puts away her letter writing and won't even respond to calls from friends. William's twin brother, Warren, is also grieving his loss, while at the same time, trying to be supportive to his parents and Doretta. Doretta responds to Warren's friendship, but is he just becoming a replacement for the once-in-a-lifetime love she lost?"--

When two women arrive at Promise Lodge under the guise of being Mennonites to experience the life they have read about in Amish romance novels, their deception has an interesting impact on the faithful, hardworking community.