A Hill to Die On This is the chalk presentation I did in Ohio at the Amish Awareness Conference in March 2018. In this presentation I share several stories of how God worked in my life to prepare me for making the film series as well as things that God taught me during the making …
We are excited to be able to release part of this documentary project to DVD and digital this month. We are already shipping The Amish and the Reformation DVDs to all those who pre-ordered. Here is my Mom with a few copies of the DVD. You can see all the available ways of watching The …
Many of you have been asking when our film project will be coming out. Good question! Originally we thought we would release in 2015, but that was before we expanded the project from a feature length documentary into a six part series. Here is 2016 update for Breaking the Silence Breaking the Silence 2016 Update …
As Stacie and I are doing research in preparation for our trip to Switzerland next month, we came across this website about the Trachselwald Castle. During the days of the Reformation in Switzerland, some of the many Anabaptist leaders who were imprisoned were imprisoned here at Trachselwald. One of the primary goals of imprisoning …
It has been a great summer! We have made much progress on Breaking the Silence. We are on schedule to complete this film project by February of 2015. I have really enjoyed meeting and spending time with many former Amish as we were interviewing them this summer. Peter has seen so many Amish buggies and …
Edit on January 1, 2016: We are deeply grateful to all who gave to help in this project. Thanks! Original Post: We have teamed up with Imaginative Art Ministries, a 501c3 nonprofit that allows our friends to give tax deductible gifts toward the making of Breaking the Silence. Watch the short video update of our …
Toward the beginning of Breaking the Silence I explain that for 450 years the Grabers were Amish, but in 1994 my father left, then I ask the question, “What is the heritage that I’m passing on to my son?” In order to answer that question I’ve been going back to the places where the Graber …
In the seventies and eighties my dad, Lester F. Graber, helped my late Great-uncle Ora A. Graber compile a history of the Graber Immigrants from 1650 to 1984. I don’t know how he got hold of them, but my Great-uncle Ora obtained some photos of the Graber Family home in Montbeliard, France. “The Grabers settled …