Jerry S Eicher’s ‘My Amish Childhood’ opens with all the rural atmosphere and close family tradition you’d expect of an idyllic Amish country novel. But this is no made up fantasy. This is the real life story of two Amish families told from the recollections of one of its youngest members. Now matured into one of the most authoritative and engaging of Amish writers, Jerry S Eicher reveals the joys of an Amish boy and the hardships of a family focused community trying to forge a new – yet still traditional life, in a foreign land.

‘My Amish Childhood’ takes you from the Amish homelands to an Amish community ‘plant’ in Honduras; where the solid hard work of a plain people meets the colour and vitality of a Latin culture. It’s a true of story of hardship and happiness, triumph and tragedy as the best efforts of a Godly community struggle to establish a foothold in a foreign land.

Jerry relives his school days in the Amish community of Aylmer, Ontario and the move to Honduras. He shows you life in a beautiful, Central American Amish community seen through a boy's eyes, explains the family’s return to America and shares his life changing conversion to Christ and its effect on his childhood traditions and faith.

This is a book that fills out much of the essential background to Amish life and culture that will enrich your reading of novels, faith based fiction and other historical accounts set in the romantic Old Order Amish landscapes and communities.