A Life of Joy (40 page)

For more than 40 years the Smucker Family has been treating the world to Grandma

Smucker’s favorite Pennsylvania Dutch recipes and fruits, vegetables and meats harvested from local farms. Along with clean, comfortable lodging for all styles and budgets, they have also opened doors to their Anabaptist faith through experiential dining and special Smucker Socials.

In September 2011 the Smuckers raised the curtain on the Bird-in-Hand Stage: a whole new way to experience Bird-in-Hand and learn more about its Amish and Mennonite neighbors. Its first performance — Beverly Lewis’ “The Confession: A Musical” — shares an adaptation of a trilogy of the Lancaster County native’s bestselling Amish novels. Don’t miss this uplifting Amish love story and its soaring melodies and inspiring lyrics September through November 2011 and 2012. Tickets and meal and lodging packages are available, along with discounts for groups of 12 or more.

Kauffman Amish Bakery Series

A Gift of Grace

A Novel

Amy Clipston

Rebecca Kauffman’s tranquil Old Order Amish life is transformed when she suddenly has custody of her two teenage nieces after her English sister and brother-in-law are killed in an automobile accident. Instant motherhood, after years of unsuccessful attempts to conceive a child of her own, is both a joy and a heartache. Rebecca struggles to give the teenage girls the guidance they need as well as fulfill her duties to Daniel as an Amish wife.

Rebellious Jessica is resistant to Amish ways and constantly in trouble with the community. Younger sister Lindsay is caught in the middle, and the strain between Rebecca and Daniel mounts as Jessica’s rebellion escalates. Instead of the beautiful family life she dreamed of creating for her nieces, Rebecca feels as if her world is being torn apart by two different cultures, leaving her to question her place in the Amish community, her marriage, and her faith in God.

Available in stores and online!

Kauffman Amish Bakery Series

A Promise of Hope

A Novel

Amy Clipston

In
A Promise of Hope
, the second installment in the Kauffman Amish Bakery Series, bestselling author Amy Clipston compellingly unfolds the tensions, loves, and faith of the inhabitants of an Amish community and the family bakery that serves as an anchor point for the series.

When Sarah Troyer tragically loses her husband, Peter, she is left to raise infant twins alone. Overwhelmed and grieving, she lives with her parents in the Amish community of Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania. Sarah is taken completely by surprise when a stranger arrives claiming connections to Peter’s past — Peter had told her he was an orphan with no family. From Luke, she learns her husband hid a secret life, one with ramifications that will change her own.

Sarah’s family, concerned for her and the future of her twins, encourages her to marry again. It should make sense … but Sarah’s heart says no. She feels trapped. Should she marry a man she doesn’t love? Or discover if her growing interest in Luke can be trusted?

A Promise of Hope
is filled with surprising twists that will grip you to the very last words.

Available in stores and online!

Kauffman Amish Bakery Series

A Place of Peace

A Novel

Amy Clipston,
Bestselling Author of A
Gift of Grace

Take a trip to Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, where you’ll meet the women of the Kauffman Amish Bakery in Lancaster County. As each woman’s story unfolds, you will share in her heartaches, trials, joys, dreams … and secrets. You’ll discover how the simplicity of the Amish lifestyle can clash with the English way of life—and the decisions and consequences that follow. Most importantly, you will be encouraged by the hope and faith of these women, and the importance they place on their families.

Miriam Lapp, who left the Amish community of Bird-in-Hand three years ago, is heartbroken when her sister calls to reveal that her mother has died suddenly. Traveling home to Pennsylvania, she is forced to face the heartache from her past, including her rift from her family and the breakup of her engagement with Timothy Kauffman.

Her past emotional wounds are reopened when her family rejects her once again and she finds out that Timothy is in a relationship with someone else. Miriam discovers that the rumors that broke them up three years ago were all lies. However, when Timothy proposes to his girlfriend and Miriam’s father disowns her, Miriam returns to Indiana with her heart in shambles.

When Miriam’s father has a stroke, Miriam returns to Pennsylvania, where her world continues to fall apart, leaving her to question her place in the Amish community and her faith in God.

A Plain and Simple Christmas

A Novella

Amy Clipston

Take a trip to Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, where you’ll meet the women of the Kauffman Amish Bakery in Lancaster County. As each woman’s story unfolds, you will share in her heartaches, trials, joys, dreams … and secrets. You’ll discover how the simplicity of the Amish lifestyle can clash with the English way of life—and the decisions and consequences that follow. Most importantly, you will be encouraged by the hope and faith of these women, and the importance they place on their families.