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    The Glory Path: Growing Up Amish and Being Healed, to Helping Others.
    The Glory Path: Growing Up Amish and Being Healed, to Helping Others.
    The Glory Path: Growing Up Amish and Being Healed, to Helping Others.
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    The Glory Path: Growing Up Amish and Being Healed, to Helping Others.

    By Steve Lapp

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    Some people at some point in life awaken to the revelation that Jesus is exactly who He says He is. Steve Lapp has come to this place and has chosen to be satisfied with nothing less than for people and people groups to experience the fullness of the healing and transforming power of Jesus that he has gotten to know.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateDec 20, 2012
    ISBN9780988728714
    The Glory Path: Growing Up Amish and Being Healed, to Helping Others.

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      The Glory Path - Steve Lapp

      Chapter One

      GROWING UP AMISH

      ON THE FARM

      I was born on August 14, 1970, and was raised on a dairy and hog farm in New Holland, PA. Later on we also had produce and greenhouses. I was the oldest of ten children and had lots of responsibilities around the farm as I grew up.

      We farmed with horses and horse drawn equipment. I enjoyed working in the fields. I also enjoyed grinding and mixing feed.

      People have asked us over the years, Isn’t it hard to grow up Amish? Did you miss not having electricity? Did you really feel ripped off by not having a lot of this stuff?

      While growing up there wasn’t another option for us. Therefore, it wasn’t hard for us to live this way.

      People would ask us if we use candles to light our houses. We did not use candles. We would use propane lights. I would say most Amish people’s living rooms are just as bright as if they had electricity. In many ways it is not as hard as most people think, on the cultural side of things, because that is what we were always used to.

      The Amish have a way of figuring out new ways to do things. Due to the fact that we could not use electricity, we had to figure out a new way to operate without modern conveniences. This causes the Amish to become very creative.

      SCHOOL YEARS

      I went to a one room parochial school, where we had grades 1-8 in the same room. I was one of seven boys in my grade (there were no girls). I believe we were a real challenge for our teachers. I give special thanks to my teachers, because I can now see that they had a huge impact in shaping my life for the future.

      In first grade I was the only Amish boy in a room full of Mennonites. I can see that God was setting this up, to give me a heart to see reconciliation between the Amish and Mennonites.

      TEENAGE YEARS

      When I was 14, I started working as a hired boy for my grandmother and uncle on their farm.

      When I turned 16 it was time for me to go with the Amish youth group. Because I went to school with the Mennonites, I would have rather gone with the Mennonite youth group than the Amish youth group at that time.

      From age 16 - 18 I worked at a welding shop where we fabricated sawmill equipment. When my brother Jake turned 16, he started helping me at the welding shop.

      When I was 17 I started courting Elsie Mae Zook. On our first date Elsie went to get milk out of the refrigerator and spilled it all over the floor. I was kind enough to clean it up for her.

      When I was 18, Jake and I both started working at a fencing business as fence installers. We learned a lot of teamwork and delegation principles while working at this fencing business.

      At 18 years old I was baptized by sprinkling in the Amish church and I had an experience with God at that time. I had been born again at 11 years old, while doing a mailbox Bible club program as a child.

      On November 13, 1990, I got married to Elsie Mae Zook. Elsie and I were both 20 years old at the time.

      OUR FAMILY

      Steve Lapp—August 14, 1970

      Elsie Mae Lap—August 29, 1970

      —CHILDREN—

      Elizabeth—August 28, 1991

      Lydia Ann—May 20, 1993

      Ivan—December 4, 1994

      Jacob—March 3, 1997

      John—March 3, 1997

      Elsie—August 29, 1999

      Eli—December 10, 2001

      Isaac—January 23, 2004

      Sadie Mae—November 17, 2005

      Benjamin Allen—July 9, 2008

      Mevin Jay—July 23, 2012

      IN THE BUSINESS REALM

      After I was married I was still working at the fencing business, but now instead of installing fences, I worked in the shop as a shop foreman. Later on I moved into the office and was working in accounting as well as dispatcher for the fence installation crews. As time went on I had an opportunity to become a part owner of the fencing business which brought on a new set of challenges. I believe this was a part of shaping the future for where God was taking me.

      In the five years after we were married, while I was working at the fencing business, we were blessed with two daughters and a son. Our oldest daughter Elizabeth, was born on August 28, 1991. Our second daughter Lydia Ann was born on May 20, 1993, and our son Ivan was born December 4, 1994.

      MOVING TO INDIANA

      In the spring of 1995 my wife and I travelled with my parents and siblings to look at a farm that was for sale in Williamsburg, Indiana where a new Amish settlement was starting. By this time we had three children and when I saw the farmland I felt the tug on my heart to raise my family on the farm.

      After returning to work and the challenges that I was facing at the time, I began to dream about moving to Indiana.

      Dad bought the farm and told me that we could buy 80 acres of it to build on if we want to. We decided to take up this offer.

      In October 1995 we moved to Indiana. At this time there were 16 Amish families living there. We formed close friendships with these people because most of us moved away from friends and family when we left Pennsylvania.

      We started building our barn out in the middle of a soybean field. We built a dairy barn that could hold 41 milking cows.

      LIVING IN A POLE SHED

      Before we moved we built a pole shed for equipment storage. We used a section of the pole shed for temporary living quarters. Once we got over the fact that we were living in a pole shed it was actually a pretty neat place to live!

      This is what my wife Elsie wrote:

      My dad designed the blueprint for the living quarters in the pole shed. He never got to see our home in Indiana, because he died of cancer six weeks after we moved. We were traveling to Pennsylvania every two weeks to visit him. The night he died, most of us were outside watching a beautiful sunset. Within two hours after he died, the house was filled with family, friends, and people from the church. This was our first experience with death in the family and it was touching to see how the community reached out to my mother and the rest of the family. Mother still had seven children living at home.

      We had plans to build a house once we had enough money saved to do it. That never did happen.

      (Note: 17 years and four families later there are is still a family living in the pole shed that we built in 1995.)

      On March 3, 1997, we were blessed with identical twin sons named Jacob and John. We didn’t know until ten days before they were born that we were having twins. They were born at home.

      My life was changed from working at an office job, to getting up every morning and milking the cows, getting the horses harnessed and working long days in the fields. All the field work was done with horses. We had engines built on some of the equipment to power the equipment, but the equipment was all pulled by horses.

      FARM MEMORIES

      Here is what my daughter Elizabeth wrote:

      We moved to a farm in Indiana, in 1995. Everything was so different, as I sat there in the barn watching the action, the day our new cows came. They were dashing all over the dairy barn while some men tried putting them in their stalls. It was quite scary to my four year old eyes. Little did I know that pretty soon I would come to like these monsters very much!

      Once when Dad and I were out in the barn,

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