the amish came first, not the mennonites.
who came first the amish or the mennonites?
the amish
the amish mennonites came into existence through reform movements among north-american amish mainly between 1862 and 1878. these amish moved away from the old amish traditions and drew near to the mennonites to become mennonites of amish origin. over the decades all amish mennonites groups removed the word "amish" from the name of their congregations or merged with mennonite groups except the kauffman amish mennonites, see below.





















































section::::amish mennonites.:kauffman amish mennonite.
subgroups of amish
after 1989 the orthodox mennonites were joined by some very conservative families from the ontario old order mennonite conference, because their parent group decided to allow telephones in the home. this influx continued and until 2001 37 families had made the transition to the orthodox mennonites. between 1999 and 2005 orthodox mennonites were joined by four local groups of old order mennonites, one of them coming from the phares s. stauffer group, a subgroup of the stauffer mennonites and one from the henry hoover group, a subgroup of the reidenbach mennonites. in 2009 about half of the elam m. martin mennonites (see above), the relatively small group of old order mennonites in the waterloo region in ontario, canada joined the huron orthodox mennonites.
orthodox mennonites