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Dear Reader,

I grew up on a farm in northern Illinois, not far from Amish country. When we would drive to town, I’d see Amish buggies and horses. That form of transportation looked like fun, so I asked my dad why we didn’t have a horse and buggy. To my disappointment, he explained it was part of their religion to give up modern devices. From then on, the Amish have intrigued me.

Now I live seventy-six miles from Kalona, Iowa, and visit there often. The Amish started to move to Iowa in 1846 to live a more secluded lifestyle. The different groups—including the Old Order, New Order and Beachy Amish—have settled in seven Iowa counties.

In The Amish Baker, Sarah Gingerich, who is Old Order, and Caleb Brenneman, who belongs to the New Order, struggle with what their church Ordnung requires and what their hearts want. Like Sarah and Caleb, sometimes we might feel as though God has left our side. That is, until we discover that the impossible can come true and God is faithful and has never left us.

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Blessings,

Marie E. Bast