Mennonites in Belize

         The Old Colony, Kleine Gemeinde, and Old Order have a diet which mainly consists of homemade bread, cottage cheese, noodles, pork, potatoes, and stewed beans. Milk is used in many of their meals, such as casseroles and faspa foods. Some dishes from the Plautdietsch groups are:   nuddelsuppe:  noodle soup made with home-made noodles    werenaki:  (perogies see picture above ) made of pockets of flour with  glums  (cottage cheese) filling,  schmaunfat  (white gravy made of flour, milk and black pepper), and  formavorscht  (pork sausage). The perogies are then boiled and served. I recommend it to anyone who wants to try out Plautdietsch foods although I prefer the fried ones.  Cheesy or creamy casseroles: often it will contain meat and cream with potatoes or macaroni   borscht:  a vegetable soup with bits of meat sometimes added to it    Clops: patties from either ground m...

 The time for change is now or never.   Up to now, only 1 or 2 restaurants in both Spanish Lookout and Blue Creek had been allowed to be open on Sundays. Besides that, there were some Mennonite owned businesses in cities and towns outside of the colonies that perhaps had a few open hours on Sundays.   But now, for the first-time in the Mennonite's history in Belize, a business in Spanish Lookout will be open 24/7. It's actually about a mile and a half outside of the Spanish Lookout border line but close enough to be considered a Spanish Lookout business, on Iguana Creek Road, in an area that is fast becoming a commercial zone.   Welcome to Iguana Boys Service station, big enough to accommodate semi-trucks with double trailers, which is something that not many Belizean fuel stations can afford. Inside the building is a hardware and automotive parts store.

  How do they view a conflict that is thousands of miles away yet affects them in one way or another?   Most Mennonites see the recent tensions between Moslem countries and the country of Israel as prophesies being fulfilled and God-ordained happenings. Since God spoke so much about Israel as his beloved servant and chosen people in the Old Testament, they understand it to mean the physical, geographical country of Israel today. The fact that Israel has a powerful military that has committed atrocities and other war crimes is quietly ignored or sidestepped by many who defend Israel either because they believe the Old Testament over the New Testament or simply take it for granted what their pastor tells them concerning the Old Testament prophesies that have to do with Israel as God's country.   Now , let's see what the Beachy and Holdeman groups have to say about this situation in the Middle East. They believe that the Israel of the Old Testament and the Israel of the Ne...