We LOVE Driving Through Amish Country!

We set a goal a few weeks ago to visit every member of the Branch by mid-July, which is this weekend, and we hopefully will meet our goal.  Only about half of the members in our branch live in Coshocton city, and the rest are out and about. Our branch covers a whole county!  Many people live way out in the hills and we have to use GPS to find them on back county roads, some of them dirt. We have about 102 on the roster, but only 15 – 20 attend each week! We have met some wonderful people, some who would be blessed and also bless our branch by returning to worship with us! 

So we head out, drive, hopefully find them home, say hi, sometimes visit, take treats, introduce ourselves, invite them to attend and hopefully get to know them a little bit!  Some tell us that they are not interested but everyone has been very kind.

BUT in all of this driving a special treat for us is that the scenery is absolutely spectacular, and with all of the rain that we have had it looks like the Garden of Eden.  And much of this is Amish Country and it has been so wonderful to meet some of these hardworking, humble and very nice  people!  We love to see their beautiful farms, small school houses, laundry hanging on lines and of course their buggies.  And we love stopping in their little markets to buy their delicious meats, cheese and butter!

All very delicious I might add! YUM!