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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Amish of Canada

The Amish of Canada, numbering approximately 11,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an ethno-religious community of German Anabaptists who fled religious persecution in Europe prior to the 18th century, initially settling in Pennsylvania, then reolocating to Ontario after the Revolutionary War and can also be known as Pennsylvania Dutch. They are an Diaspora people, in the Germanic people cluster of the Eurasian Peoples affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Christianity - Non-Evangelical Protestant. They primarily speak Pennsylvania German.

Amish in Canada photo
Photo courtesy of Joshua Project. By Ivan McClellan - Wikimedia

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: European Peoples
Country: Canada
People Cluster: Germanic
Primary Language(s): Pennsylvania German (pdc)
Primary Religion(s): Christianity - Non-Evangelical Protestant
Population: 11,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG043456

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Christianity - Non-Evangelical Protestant
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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Christianity - Non-Evange… Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Pennsylvania German
Language Family: Indo-European

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Pennsylvania German Speakers

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Next steps for the Amish

The Amish are Unengaged and Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

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Next steps for the Amish

The Amish are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

Continue prayer and fasting for this group
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Next steps for the Amish

The Amish are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Amish of Canada

And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
readMatthew 6:7-8

Pray that those who don't have a relationship with their Creator will come to know a God who hears their every need, freeing them from empty rituals and drawing them into a real, trusting relationship with Him.

...And that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
readLuke 24:47

Pray that the message of repentance and forgiveness through Jesus will reach everyone.

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
readHebrews 10:23

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will cling tightly to the hope they have in God to faithfully keep His promises.

And Jesus said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men." And immediately they left their nets and followed him.
readMark 1:17-18

Pray that God will raise up believers from this place and/or other cultures nearby to proclaim the gospel to those who desperately need to encounter it.

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