How nice that your people can keep your traditions. The Amish follow a 200-year old way of life here, and while limited participation in the outside world is allowed, it is allowed only after long examination of the activity or device by the elders of the community. The point is to preserve the Amish way of life, for they believe their way of life is approved by God. The Amish have chosen a way of life that nulllifies to an enormous degree freedom of thought. The huge, close families, prosperous farms and businesses, uniform dress, charming customs, language, ethics, etc. are possible only because access to information and room for individual expression are severely curtailed.
Most Amish youth opt to joing the church in their teens and early youth.
So the Amish survive, but at a very high price. Not that long ago Jews lived in communities where most everyone was Jewish. Being observant was a way of life, not a choice or option, and because everyone was observant, observance had a solid, everyday quality. As those communities were caught up in a larger, changing, and hostile society, they had to decide which observances were more important than others for the survival of the community and the individual. Today as Orthodoxy struggles for survival in a larger, changing world, the example of the Amish provides a lesson.