Originally Posted by
pdlamb
Unless, perhaps, it was a member of my great-aunt's church in Pennsylvania. Their services were conducted in German until about 1980. Perhaps not surprisingly, she reported that attendance jumped substantially when they changed over to English.
Most Amish in my area still refer to non-Amish as "English" and I believe they still conduct church services in German. As far as I know it's only Amish and pre-Vatican II schismatic catholics that don't conduct services in English around here, but there are at least 2 pairs of still-functioning Lutheran churches that the original division was which dialect of Norwegian they held services in.