After returning two kidnapped Amish girls safely home earlier this month, a New York couple got a surprise thank you gift on Friday when the Amish community organized a “barn raising” to rebuild their burned-out garage.
On Aug. 13, two Amish sisters were working at their family’s roadside vegetable stand in Oswegatchie, N.Y., small town of 4,000 residents near the Canadian border, when they disappeared. The sisters, ages 12 and 7, have 11 other siblings and live with their parents, Mose and Barb Miller, said Dot Simmons, a neighbor who attended a prayer vigil for the girls at Cornerstone Wesleyan Church in nearby Heuvelton. The girls regularly manned the family’s roadside market, selling vegetables, fruit, and homemade jams, Simmons said.
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