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For nearly two months, the Old Order Stauffer Mennonite Church followed Pennsylvanias stay-at-home order and guidelines that discouraged gatherings in houses of worship. Some Old Order Mennonites eschew technology, cars and dress in plain clothes like the Amish, who separated from the Mennonites in the 17th century. But as far as the foundation, or the fundaments of the faith, its not that much different.The Old Order Stauffer Mennonite Church formed in 1845. The Groffdale Conference Old Order Mennonites used landline phones as an alternative to their in-person worship, canceled for the first time in more than a century. Church service became so popular, he said, that on a Sunday, it jammed the local phone exchange.