Sometimes the only way to get things done is to get them done together.
It’s an approach the Amish often take to get big things accomplished in their community.
Even if it takes hundreds of their members to work collectively.
And that’s exactly what the Amish community of Holmes County, Ohio did when they needed to move a barn from one side of a local farm to another.
More than 250 Amish men gathered around to lift that barn.
According to Ohio Amish Country’s website, the Amish and Mennonites are an “outgrowth of the 16th century Anabaptist movement in Europe.”
They moved to America in hopes of finding religious freedom after being found radical during the Swiss Protestant Reformation for rejecting infant baptism and mandatory military service.
They traveled through the Allegheny Mountains in west-central Pennsylvania in covered wagons to reach their new home.
Now their descendants in Holmes County, Ohio make up the largest community of Amish in the world. The Mennonite faith began as led by Jacob Amman who enforced strict discipline when it came to communication and excommunication. About 150 years later the Amish sect split off from the Mennonites.
Now there are about a dozen variations and sects among Amish and Mennonite followers.
Some who are very conservative in their beliefs and dress, while there are others who dress and live closer to how non-traditional Amish people do.
Some of the more conservative sects don’t ride in vehicles and use horses and buggies to travel and transport. They also often forgo modern technology like electricity and telephones.
It seems that the men and women in the video below might belong to more conservative Amish groups judging by their dress and the fact that they are using manpower to move such a large object.
But seeing them in actions is quite incredible.
The group of more than 200 men met at Hochstetler Farm on Snively Road and gathered around the pole barn. The men collectively lifted the barn up and casually walked it to the other side of the farm.
They walked it straight forward and then collectively turned to place it in its proper position.
The whole process took about five minutes top as women and others looked on.
This amazing sight was captured on video by Mount Vernon News. You can check out this incredible feat in the video below.
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