Amish Experience Field Trip

Date – Time

October 27, 2020 – 8:45 AM - 10:45 AM

Additional Information

Come out to learn more about our Amish neigbors through
the story of Jacob's Choice and a guided tour of the Country Homestead.

Experience their lifestyle, explore their history and understand their determination to overcome so many struggles.
This event will be a wonderfully interactive way to check off the PA History box for the year!

Cost: $13.95 per person, ages 4 and up
Deadline: Sign ups and payments are due at our next co-op morning, October 20th. You may pay by cash, check made out to Treasures of Grace or Paypal by selecting "Send to Friend" on the payment screen.

*Masks are not required for this field trip, but you may feel free to wear them.

While this field trip is geared toward ages 4 and up, younger children are welcome to attend. Please be sure to sign up each person in your family who is attending even if they are under the age of 4.

*Be aware the special effects in "Jacob's Choice" may be overwhelming for some children. Regardless of their ages, please gauge each of your children's tolerance for the realistic effects of the performance. 

The Story "Jacob's Choice"
The dramatic tale of “Jacob’s Choice”, an Amish family’s effort to preserve a lifestyle and a culture, is unforgettably told through a high-tech, multi-media production with visual effects, sound design, and mechanical effects. Visitors experience “400 years of history in 40 minutes of magic.”

The Amish Experience Theater has been designed to break down the barrier between audience and movie screen. Changes in the environmental space within the theater literally allow you to “experience” the action as it unfolds around you.

Neither an IMAX nor a 3-D movie, the theater set consists of actual barn siding, with five multiple projection screens, 100,000 watts of theatrical lighting, custom-designed mechanical special effects, four-dimensional sound imagery, an original musical score, and unforgettable ghosting effects.

“Jacob’s Choice,” nevertheless, remains at its heart an emotional, personal story of an Amish family and the resilience of Amish culture through the ages.

The Amish Country Homestead
The Amish Country Homestead is a reflection of our commitment to accurately and sensitively portray the Old Order Amish as they live and work in today’s world. We like to think of the Homestead as the home of the fictional Amish family of Daniel and Lizzie Fisher, whom you get to know in the Amish Experience Theater’s “Jacob’s Choice.”

Inside the Homestead, you learn of Amish traditions and practices, plain clothing and life without electricity from the grid. The Fisher One-Room School is attached to the house and filled with authentic desks and furnishings from an actual Amish school. You’ll learn the tradition of teaching eight grades in one room.  From the pantry stocked full of freshly canned vegetables to the family’s plain clothes… from propane-powered lamps to air-compressor driven appliances…the Amish Country Homestead truly provides insights into the complex riddles of a culture so very different from your own.

Click here to go to their website for more information.

Picnic Lunch
If anyone would like to stay for lunch after the field trip, there are picnic tables on the grounds that we are welcome to use.

Also, Intercourse Community Park is just a 5 minute drive down the road if any families would like to congregate there. It has a playground, sand volleyball court, pavilion and walking trails. The address is 3730 Old Philadelphia Pike, Gordonville, PA 17529.