Old Old Order Amish, or “house Amish,’’ hold church every other Sunday in a member’s home. Nolt speculates Lapp went to the Mennonite service on his week off.

LANCASTER, Pa. — Daniel is a publicity-shy member of the Old Order Amish Church. But it thrills him to jump into an ambulance vibrating with wailing sirens and flashing lights. The 24-year-old ...

Not everyone wants Lapp to continue, however. About 18 months ago the Old Order Amish church excommunicated Lapp, 37, and everyone associated with his healing ministry, including his wife and two ...

With only a few exceptions, Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonite church members don’t have commercial medical insurance or participate in public-sector insurances such as Medicare, Nolt said.

Side by side with a young family of eight Old Order Amish, I milked cows, tilled fields, bailed hay and h During a summer vacation when I was 17, I had the rare opportunity to experience the life ...

Scholars define the Old Order Amish by two distinctive features: 1) the use of horse-and-buggy transportation, and 2) the use of Pennsylvania German dialect in church services and daily conversation.

For nearly two months, the Old Order Stauffer Mennonite Church followed Pennsylvania’s stay-at-home order and guidelines. But now, it was "time to get back to work," their bishop said. "And more ...