The Beachy Amish Mennonites   

About this Website

Overview and Site Personnel

This website is not formally endorsed by the Beachy constituency or any part of the Beachy constituency. The constituency does not have a formal website, though several churches and ministries have sites. Many Beachy churches do allow limited web access in the home (with a filter and/or accountability system), but many churches still do not allow web access in the home at all.

The website is managed and maintained solely by Cory Anderson, who is a member of a Beachy Amish Mennonite congregation, and who has authored the material on this site unless otherwise noted.

For more about Cory than anyone has any right to know, click here.

History of the site

The www.beachyam.org website started May 2005 to serve as a collecting place for various hard-to-find Beachy writings, with an emphasis on scholarly research. As the site grew, there was more interest shown from visitors in learning more basic information about the Beachys and even finding a Beachy church to attend. Thus, the second purpose of the site was added, to help seekers find a Beachy or like-minded church and to provide a general overview of the Beachys. Meanwhile, the collection of scholarly resources and papers continued to grow, and is today the most extensive collection of Beachy writings on the web, gathering together many hard-to-find works that have been buried in university libraries.

In September of 2006, the website was moved from its original URL at http://www.user.shentel.net/coryaa/ to its current URL http://www.beachyam.org/ in order to have a more relative name and provide an easier-to-remember-name. In September of 2007, the design and interface of the website was completely changed to be more attractive and user friendly. (The old designed looked like a bowl of split pea soup.)

During 2006, the average number of page loads per month ranged between 1,600 and 2,000 with 400 to 600 visitors. The number of page loads and visitors steadily increased in 2007, especially after the site’s redesign. In the last few months, there have been between 4,500 to 6,000 page loads and 1,300 to 1,400 visitors a month, currently averaging about 200 page loads and 50 visitors a day.

Mennonites   

 Eighty years in God’s service: June 26, 1927 — 2007