num_pages: 323
description: Take a trip to Bird-in-Hand Pennsylvania where youll meet the women of the Kauffman Amish Bakery in Lancaster County. As each womans story unfolds you will share in her heartaches trials joys dreams  and secrets. Youll discover how the simplicity of the Amish lifestyle can clash with the English way of lifeand the decisions and consequences that follow. Most importantly you will be encouraged by the hope and faith of these women and the importance they place on their families. Miriam Lapp who left the Amish community of Bird-in-Hand three years ago is heartbroken when her sister calls to reveal that her mother has died suddenly. Traveling home to Pennsylvania she is forced to face the heartache from her past including her rift from her family and the breakup of her engagement with Timothy Kauffman. Her past emotional wounds are reopened when her family rejects her once again and she finds out that Timothy is in a relationship with someone else. Miriam discovers that the rumors that broke them up three years ago were all lies. However when Timothy proposes to his girlfriend and Miriams father disowns her Miriam returns to Indiana with her heart in shambles. When Miriams father has a stroke Miriam returns to Pennsylvania where her world continues to fall apart leaving her to question her place in the Amish community and her faith in God.
language: English
title: A Place of Peace
publisher: Zondervan