STOPPED ALONG THE WAY

After a two month hiatus at home in Fresno we left again for points east.

Arriving in southern Indiana we picked up the truck and trailer and journeyed north to Shipshewana, Indiana which is near the Michigan border.

Here we "stopped along the road" and will spend the summer until August 10. We have volunteered to be tour guides at the MennoHof Interpretive Center, a Mennonite/Amish visitor center.

Our hosts have provided us with a nice furnished apartment above the Visitor Center where we work. Reminds us of the movie "Night at the Museum" where everything came alive at night. Only for us, everything comes alive each morning at 10:00 am when we walk downstairs to greet the public.Between 100-180 people come in each day. This is Amish and Mennonite country (60 % of population) and many tour buses bring folk from far away for visiting.

Marilyn takes their $6.00 entrance fee and ushers them into the first room for a multimedia introduction. Then either of us takes them on a guided tour for the first 30 minutes where we visit 4 rooms and explain the first 1500 years of church history. This is professionally done with multimedia presentations.

From there the guests are on their on and proceed through the Interpretive Center at their own speed.We are enjoying the opportunity to meet and interact with many people. This is a first class visitor center. It also has a gift center where we sell books and fair traded items from all over the world. However, the main emphasis is the opportunity for people to learn about church history from the time of Christ down through the ages.

In our next updated blogs we will explain some of the anabaptist history for you. Keep checking back for the next adventures of Don and Marilyn at a place where we "stopped along the road".

NEXT:

Surprises from the past.....

Eating in a new way.....

Religious beliefs of Amish and Mennonite.....

Strange sights to us....

Music along the way......

The meaning of names.....