Homeless. Nobody likes the sound of that word. Thirteen-year-old Lydia Yoder certaintly didn’t. But that was how she felt − homeless. The Yoder family was on the move again, first working for produce farmers at Ordway, then on to Montana. An Amish community had been started in Montana some years before and life is still […]
No job, no money, no food. This became a little refrain that you heard practically every day in the early 1930’s. Operating a rice farm in Arkansas, the Yoder family had plenty of food, but money was another matter. Through it all God works miracles of love and sharing.
School had become a nightmare for Hannah and Abner Yoder. They respected their parents for taking a stand against modern education. But the parents hadn’t dreamed that the officials would actually seize the children and take them away to an orphanage! Mexico seemed to be the answer. Cheap, fertile land and few school laws. Was […]