[1] They also wished to incorporate more evangelical elements into the church, including Sunday school and mission work.
[2] In 1966, around one hundred families split with the Old Order Amish in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, over differences related to the use of modern machinery.
In 1964, the bishops banned four districts from communion for not implementing the larger group’s standards on technology.
By February 6, 1966, thirty Amish families, under threat of excommunication, met at the home of Christian F.
[3] There, they organized a separate service where they received communion from a liberal Amish church in Newton, Ontario.
In the early 1960s, a conflict in the Troyer Valley district began the movement of the New Order Amish in Ohio.
From 1969–1971, about a dozen Holmes County districts joined the Troyers, headed by Bishop Roy L. Schlabach, for similar reasons.
New Order Amish may be more lenient in the practice of shunning and may be more permissive of photography than lower-order groups.
[8] The Holmes County New Orders allowed men to trim their beards as well as the hair above their ears.
[11] Counting all New Order Amish groups there were 3,961 baptized members in 70 congregations with a total population of about 8,912 people in the year 2000.
[16] New Order Amish communities can be found in around a dozen states including Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Kentucky, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, and some others.