... gave the book a little bit of themselves, which made the book more interesting and enjoyable. Meribah was a fourteen-year-old Amish girl who had lived all her life in an Amish community with her brother, sisters, mother and father. Her family was the most important thing in her life, especially her father ... never gave up, because of her great desire to live freely and be happy, and because she though that happiness came before anything, even before her Amish community. I also liked her father because he was a man of great courage who never showed his emotions no matter what, and becau...

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Early Beginnings Mennonites, a branch of Anabaptists which means "rebaptizers", are one of the early religion. The first group was during the 16th century in Zurich, Switzerland. They called themselves Swiss Brethren. They had branched off of the Protestant church during the Protestant Reformation. They believed ... in 68 different countries worldwide. Mennonites are the largest denomination of direct descendants of the Anabaptists. There is no certain ethnic group or culture group that makes up the Mennonite religion. It consists of members worldwide from Swiss to German, Russian to Dutch, ...

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