​AMISH

Amish values

 

Amish live in small rural communities where strong family and social ties allow them their own distinctive and separate way of life. The family is the heart of Amish community, individual identity and spiritual life.

However in recent times they've diversified from farming and in some communities more than 80% work in small businesses making things like indoor and garden furniture, small sheds, quilts and leather goods.

 

The Amish produce many of their needs, rearing animals to produce meat, growing corn for food and for feeding animals, and growing vegetable both for food and for sale. Amish women make most of the clothes. But they are not totally self-sufficient and rely on the outside community for other requirements.

 

Amish values

• putting God and community ahead of the individual;a life of 'goodness', rather than a life of intellect;

• A life as a spiritual activity;

• wisdom, rather than technical knowledge;

• community welfare, rather than competition;

• separation from, rather than integration with, modern worldly society;

• non-resistance - seeking peaceful resolution to conflicts