Vernon Community, Hestand

In 1973 families from a small Reformed Amish Church in Arkansas founded a community at Lobelville, Tennessee, later called "Believers in Christ".

[1] The group struggled to hold together until Simon Beachy, a charismatic personality of Old Order Amish background, arrived.

It has a "lower strictness level" than the Noah Hoover Mennonites of Scottsville, Kentucky, or the Caneyville Christian Community.

The community lives off market gardens, sorghum syrup production and other goods they sell.

[5] In 2020 there were 364 adherents, that is members, not yet baptized youths and children of the "Believers in Christ," that is the Vernon Community, in Monroe County, Kentucky where Hestand is located.