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Believers in Christ is a Plain horse-and-buggy Anabaptist Christian community at Cane Creek, Lobelville, Tennessee, that is rather intentional than traditional. They are sometimes seen as either Amish or Old Order Mennonite. G. C. Waldrep classifies them as "para-Amish". Among Anabaptists the community is often simply called "Lobelville".
Two whole Christian communities have joined the Amish: The church at Smyrna, Maine, one of the five Christian Communities of Elmo Stoll after Stoll's death [118] [119] and the church at Manton, Michigan, which belonged to a community that was founded by Harry Wanner (1935–2012), a minister of Stauffer Old Order Mennonite background. [120]
According to Albrecht Powell, the Pennsylvania Amish has not always been the largest group of U.S. Amish as is commonly thought. The Amish population in the U.S. numbers more than 390,000 and is growing rapidly (around 3-4% per year), due to large family size (seven children on average) and a church-member retention rate of approximately 80%."
Skeptics claim Amish are unaffected by pandemic since they don't own TVs. Amish people have contracted COVID-19, but the numbers are underreported. Fact check: Amish communities have been affected ...
The community in Smyrna, after having lost most of its members without Amish background, developed a fellowship with an Amish community in Manton, Michigan, which is affiliated with the Amish Michigan Amish Churches. The community in Smyrna, which became Amish, was the first Amish community in Maine. Several of Elmo Stoll's sons, and others ...
Many Amish and plain Mennonites of the last 30 years have moved into non-farm work, such as construction, woodworking, harness making, shopkeeping, auctioneer services and other crafts. Donald Kraybill believes there are plain church communities in 47 states. Among people at least five years old living in Lancaster County in 2000,
Wendy Besmann, author of “A Separate Circle: Jewish Life in Knoxville, Tennessee," spoke in Oak Ridge as part of the "Our American Roots" series.
Vernon Community in Hestand, Kentucky, is home to an Anabaptist Christian community, that was founded in 1996 by Simon Beachy, former leader of the "Believers in Christ" in Lobelville, Tennessee. The Christian community is classified as " para-Amish " by G.C. Waldrep , adhering to plain dress using horse and buggy for transportation.