"Amish are standoffish and don't get much outside of their community" The above is just wrong, real BS. Matt Van Swol on X: "#BREAKING: Chimney Rock NC officials have confirmed that a mind-blowing 2,000 members of the Pennsylvania Amish Community have been quietly rebuilding the town's homes, businesses, and bridges... ...for 6 months straight GOD BLESS THE AMISH!! https://t.co/DfwOFLyO8Q" / X Working the word they preach.
The Amish are truly committed to their faith. My 91 year old uncle lives in Richland NY up near lake Ontario. The Amish youth help him out all the time. This year they had more snow than ever and they kept his roof clear and drive way. He pays them but they take far less than what he offers.
WHOA! These guys come all the way from Pennsylvania to North Carolina not for profit but to simply help... Wow! Action not words.
After hurricane Hugo we had Mennonites came and help rebuild ----they along with the Amish are amazing
As a teen during the summer break I used to spend a few weeks at my sister's place near Strasburg, PA. The local farmer hired me to help on his farm. He was having the Amish build a house for his aging father and mother, so he put me to work helping them. I was carrying cinder blocks and striking mud joints. Apparently they liked me (or perhaps even back then they knew they needed new blood, who knows?) because after a few weeks they asked me to quit school and join their community. I was tempted, but at age 15 too young to make such a decision and I knew it. Often think of how differently my life would've turned out......
The LDS do a great job at charity. The regional areas have storehouses and they are stocked with items that they have packaged. The food goes out to food banks etc for distribution. Most of labor is donated and expenses are kept to a minimum. I admire the work they do as a church and think that they do about the best job of obeying God's word on earthly matters of any group. On the individual level I would have to let the Amish and menonite win. When you have a multi billion charity fostering illegal aliens close down because Trump pulled the funding, it was not a charity, it was a money laundering scheme. Most common large charities are ways to keep control of the company stock and maximize income to selected companies and individuals. Most of their help is symbolic rather than real. Grants to NPR rather than helping with a new roof.
I had a long discussion with the comms guy of the LDS church while attending a Radio Club meeting. It totally blew me away when we got talking about how prepared they are, truly a complete and total in-depth approach. Tons of food, fuel, and even transportation to distribute the fuel and food and security for the transport on and on and on... It all started as I noticed the numerous antennas on the roof of their church to include HF to talk back to the main church (think it is in Utah...don't know) from North Idaho. Talk about being prepared, unbelievable! I realize then that this group is so organized and so disciplined that should there ever be a SHTF event - well - this group will definitely be in charge of the area here. I truly doubt that even the local and state government are as prepared.
The LDS were driven out, everything they owned was stolen and some killed in New York. They moved to Illinois and srarted over. Built a very good place and Jobs for themselves. Were driven out again and lost everything. Moved to the middle of the great American desert and started all over again with their own country. US couldn't allow that and sent army to take control. Army sort of won and the standoff sort of continues even today. We prep in case it happens. They prep because it has happened and they remember. Like the Japanese and native American people have had their trips to the FEMA camps. The native people still have the camps and we call them reservations. That tends to at least get ones sense of paranoia up. But to most of us it's theory and paranoia. To them it's the stories of what happened to their ancestors. Big differences in how it affects you.
A decent look at early LDS history Legacy (1993) well worth the watch, based on real life, real people foud in the journals of early LDS folks.
