I was born in the month of November. Raised the outside of Lancaster,Pa. Attended private schools. The Mennonite schools because my family are Mennonites. The Mennonites and Amish families are consider called the plain people.  We attended our own churches. The Mennonite church was established in the era of the Reformation, the period of history between 1517 and 1575 that marked the rise of Protestantism, according to my research.

We lived according to the believes of God’s word, and what the Bible taught. Mennonites believe that the Bible taught a way of life that evidence itself in every area of how Mennonite’s should speak, how the ladies and how females and males should dress  which is with morals. Mennonites are very devoted to worshipping and being obedient to God’s word. Few of Mennonite curches have a powerful enough testimony and consitant discipline to keep worldliness out of their churches. Most of the Mennonite churches today have accepted and tolerated some of the following: fashionable attire,cosmetics,cut hair,jewlery, the unequal yoke with unbelievers in business and with false teachings in liberal, ecumenical religion, the radio, television.

In many Mennonites family has large families, a couple has 10 or more children, In my family, my parents had sixteen children, I am being next to the baby. Nine siblinings have went to be with the Lord before I was born and a sibling who was a year older then me went to be with the Lord on January 17,2007, she was fifety one years old, she lost her battle to cancer. Her husband and my sister together had seven children, five boys and two girls, the youngest was eleven years old prior to my sister’s passing and her husband died two months before my sister passed. So not only did her seven children lost their parents within two months apart. The youngest of the seven is being raised by their oldest daughter.

What is not told about the mennonites is that many couplles have so many children so that they have the extra help to work on the farms, majority of many children who are born in Mennonites family are sexual abused or abanded from their parents. Leaving the mennonite community, the mennonite community are shunned. That is where my story comes in. My mother worked and had so many children, she did not have the time or patiances to raise the last two which would be my baby sister and I. The Bishop handed over the custody of my baby sister and I to our grandmother. Is fine living with grandma and she loved us. I was a very sick child but grandma always stayed by myself. She comfort me and held me when I cry, many times when I came down ill I did questioned my grandma, Why? couldn’t my Momma be here with me. Grandma never agve me a straight answer.