“the growing season is not so good. As the tomatoes and sweet corn hardly make it till the first frost. I guess… — Ora-Jay Eash Corn Copy Share Image
“In addition to having to preach, more is expected from him. His life and his family are set up as role models,… — Ora-Jay Eash Family Copy Share Image
“young people at church have a hard time understanding what is preached. They speak Pennsylvania Dutch at home and English in school,… — Ora-Jay Eash Hard time Copy Share Image
“It must have been God’s will,” they said. I’d been trained to believe that to be true, but the words bounced off… — Ora-Jay Eash Amish Copy Share Image
“It is different out here than what we were used to in Indiana. Weather-wise you just don’t have the humid, sticky weather.… — Ora-Jay Eash Humid Copy Share Image
“There is no divorce in an Amish community. Many Amish young people turn earnestly to the question of family and marriage in… — Ora-Jay Eash Amish Copy Share Image
“Amish in this area like to hunt and fish. In fact, in addition to the locals, who live here year-round, twenty to… — Ora-Jay Eash Amish Copy Share Image
“In all Amish communities, students stop going to school in the ninth grade, at age fourteen. Ninth grade in our school consisted… — Ora-Jay Eash Amish Copy Share Image
“No one hugged in the Amish church, and it was awkward at first. In fact, the first time I ever received a… — Ora-Jay Eash Amish Copy Share Image
“an Amish funeral. It’s a time for mourning, no doubt about that.” — Ora-Jay Eash Amish Copy Share Image
“I enjoyed spending time with Ora Jay, but he had a bit of a wild streak. He had a new horse, a… — Ora-Jay Eash Spending time Copy Share Image
“We had to wait two hours at Elkhart because train was late, but in Chicago we didn’t wait at all.” — Ora-Jay Eash Fitness Copy Share Image
“There’s never an occasion for an Amish man to hug or kiss a family member out of affection. Kisses are used only… — Ora-Jay Eash Amish Copy Share Image
“our family alone was moving to Montana — with me preparing to live in a foreign place with no one I knew… — Ora-Jay Eash Family Copy Share Image
“Every congregation has four preachers, and they take turns preaching. The sermons are quite lengthy.” — Ora-Jay Eash Preaching Copy Share Image
“We made it to Montana in May 1990. The West Kootenai area is exactly what you picture when you think of a… — Ora-Jay Eash Montana Copy Share Image
“We were impressed by how the Amish in Montana had chosen this more spiritual way. The church services impressed us too. First,… — Ora-Jay Eash Amish Copy Share Image
“Montana. Ora Jay’s uncle lived there, and he often talked about the secluded place he’d found in the mountains, a place of… — Ora-Jay Eash Beauty Copy Share Image
“Ora Jay’s parents, who referred to God as Gut Mon (Good Man), would say things like, “Gut Mon is watching you” .… — Ora-Jay Eash Good man Copy Share Image
“Ora Jay’s father tried farming for a time, but it didn’t work out so he went to work in a local trailer… — Ora-Jay Eash Amish Copy Share Image
“The only thing I remember about his being ordained minister was that my mem had just had a baby so she hadn’t… — Ora-Jay Eash Copy Share Image
“Before moving to the West Kootenai, prayer meant saying the Lord’s Prayer in German, silently in our minds. As children sometimes we’d… — Ora-Jay Eash Prayer Copy Share Image
“Many people don’t realize that there is no true hope of salvation in most Amish churches. The concept that faith in Jesus… — Ora-Jay Eash Amish Copy Share Image
“At a funeral the preacher holds nothing back during his sermon and speaks with reality and fear. The Amish believe that during… — Ora-Jay Eash Amish Copy Share Image
“The preachers would come in first, before any of the other men, and shake hands with all the women. A few would… — Ora-Jay Eash Children Copy Share Image
“A group of us also started having church every week instead of every two weeks. We called the “off” week Sunday school,… — Ora-Jay Eash Amish Copy Share Image
“This last week there’s a young couple here that were our neighbors in Indiana, and we’ve been spending quite a bit of… — Ora-Jay Eash Food Copy Share Image
“While our Amish friends were discouraging change, our Englisch friends were encouraging us to open our hearts and talk about things we’d… — Ora-Jay Eash Amish Copy Share Image
“I grew up knowing I wanted to be a member. I had already joined the church first, but since I was always… — Ora-Jay Eash Baptism Copy Share Image
“Even now when we visit Indiana I get a twinge in my heart to see the old place. There is a new,… — Ora-Jay Eash Family Copy Share Image
“a store called Emma-town. We’d tie up our horses and hang out. The wilder youths in the community would go to the… — Ora-Jay Eash Nature Copy Share Image
