I am a truck driver and I make about 1 or 2 trips a week to Forest River. The funny thing is the local folks in town do not know how to pronouce the Hutterite name. They call them Hooterites. This never happens in Canada, but in the States they seem a bit clued out. Thanks for the nice video about Hutterite life. These folks live a very nice lifestyle.
There are three or four different subgroups, called leuts among the Hutterites. They are quite different from each other in terms of openness and strictness. The Forest River Colony is one of the most open and welcoming colonies and has suffered some controversies as a result. They seem to continue to thrive however.
Yes I've noticed this too...some colonies are much happier than others. I can only guess the key is in the leadership. Overall, a very efficient way to live and prosper as a community it seems!
I can imagine there would b a sense of peace knowing your place as a woman there and what your day to day duties were. In our modern world we juggle so many roles and duties and this often leads to a great deal of stress. Sometimes the simpler life seems appealing.
Thank you for this video. I've seen Hutterites all my life but know so little about them. To me, they're mysterious people I see often out shopping. They're always friendly if you speak to them but they keep to themselves.
@@tituswaldner8982 OK, I have a question. I understand that many Hutterite colonies make their own clothing. I also understand that some even make their own shoes out of leather. These days it is very hard to find leather shoes. Do you know of a colony near Winnipeg, MB. that still has a shoe maker? I would love to buy a pair of Hutterite leather shoes. I am tired of garbage plastic shoes! Anybody out there know? Thanks!
I really like the way they live and I have always felt when a woman married her place is in the home taking care of her family I think that is a lot of what is wrong in our world today most children raise them selfs and are taught what others believe not what you believe it would be a great comfort to know you had a huge family and you all love and take care of the community you are in
This is how its done, folks...She hears something about something and then she goes to check it out for herself; straight from the horse's mouth, as well. Very good general info. As a Hutterite I recommend this production; unlike alot of others on TH-cam that seem to pick and choose whatever works for the producers agenda.
LeBootCamp Don't burn your bridges. Hutterite are very open and generous people; we don't mind giving outsiders glimpses into our system. But if all the negatives are getting picked on and exploited...well, it isn't appreciated. Much has been published only focusing on the negative side of things.
A Hofer agreed...that's why I wanted to show the positive aspect of things to counterbalance the wrong and madeup fake documentaries I saw. The comments are actually 90% positive. I ignore the 10% crazies out there. I was truly welcome 🙏❤
I visited this colony in September 2011 and I stayed in the house of the Waldner family 😃 I'm living on a kibbutz near Jerusalem now. I loved my stay with the Hutterites of Forest River!
I learned about the Hutterite communities when I was in college in the mid to late 1970s. It was a Social Anthropology class. Fascinating culture. There was also a television series on one Community about 7 years ago, again fascinating. Thank you for your peek into a totally different way of life.
Great documentary well done where I live there is colony in the next county called sunny bend colony they are great neighbors. Thanks for sharing your story
Thank you for your honest report .because that doesn't happen vary often . I like your video. Because it's accurate .l grew up in pleasant valley colony S.D . good job .NATE . Juliatta Idaho
Carol are you from east malta colony,I remember you , glad you are doing well ! Love the hutts some of the great people I call my friend s ,they have always been so good to me! And I also love the pickled watermelon!!
I met Steve Springer a hutterite in nursing school back in 1971-1973. He was very interesting and taught me about conscientious objection. I was impressed by him. This was during the viet nam war. Steve ended up married with more than 8 children.
Fascinating! I like the fair and honest presentation. Every lifestyle and culture has its positive and negative points. The only perfect way is in Heaven. I've lived with Old Order Amish, (for five years with an 8 month break), and have overall positive memories. Too many You Tubers give only the negatives. A few look through rose colored glasses so that visitors are inevitably disappointed.
I’m happy to see this! I just visited my first Hutterite colony last fall! I just uploaded an Amish/Mennonite video! Thanks for showing the truth about anabaptists!
Hutterites are born into the colony. If you want to join..good luck..it's rare if they allow an outsider to join. Nearly everyone in the colony are related.
In Manitoba Canada there is a Hutterite community and you can join from outside if you meet the requirements. You can stay to see if you like how they live etc. Giselle Waldner has a channel .
When you are embracing God and His word, you are free. I feel that they are following the word of God the best that they can. I feel that I will be able to meet alot of them on the other side. Amen, be blessed my brothers and sisters
You haven't read the Bible, so can be easily deceived when you see something superficially positive like this lifestyle. This is work-based religion, just like any other false religion, there isn't any true living God in these communities, although they present as if there is, you much be born again, through grace by faith, not works, to be able to enter kingdom of God, these people aren't saved, don't have the Holy Spirit and simply follow mindless tradition that can appeal to unsuspecting eye that also isn't saved.
@Daniel Stoltzfus I used to live in Leola, PA on Snake Hill Rd and there were a lot of Stoltzfus familes nearby most were old order Amish I think. All nice people though. they even spoke to me even though I was English.
@Bert Clayton exactly especially if most of your life where you lived you knew everyone. My first few years of school was in a 4 room school house with around 80 kids in total.
Living in a hutterite community is not easy. I was born in hutterite colony, however I moved into town at age twenty. I'm now 62 and feel more blessed everyday for my freedom and having an amazing life. God bless the hutterites tho. Thanks.
@@marydwipf5005 gotcha. Thank you for the information. I definitely need to learn more the culture. I was born into an isolated community where everyone knew one another. I lived in a very small mining camp where there was just the basic stores ( just 1 convenience store),1 coffee shop, just the basics. No mall no nothing.
Very informative video about a beautiful lifestyle. I am curious though -- What about men and women who choose not to get married? What is their place in Hutterite society?
If you baptize, and commit yourself to the culture and lifestyle, you are part of the team. You'll be in the work force and be provided for every day of your life there. Only difference will be that you dont have a spouse to be with, nor kids under your care.
They have separate living quarters for the unmarried adults on the colony. The women in one space and the men in another. It's a little bit like a dormitory, but as I recall each person had a bit more private living space than you'd expect in a typical dormitory. I was not on the colony long enough to get a real full sense of what it was like to live single on a colony, but I do know they make a place for them in the society.
In any human society there are good things and not so good things. In a documentary video, it's easy to make a community look worse than it is (or better than it is) by picking and choosing only those elements that fit your agenda. Or you can go in with the goal of a fair and honest portrayal including the good and the bad. It's all up to the video creator. Caveat video watcher.
1:11 if anybody knows the name of that book, specifically, can someone please reply? I’d like to use it to expand my family history studies, as my paternal grandmother has Hutterite ancestry (she was a Hofer; not that she’s dead, she’s just happily married :D)
I think I have a copy of that book somewhere from my time visting that colony. As I recall, it was a book they published right there at Forest River. You might check the Forest River Colony website and see if they have it available.
I've spent a lot of time with the Bruderhof at the two hofs in England. I love them and their way of life but as an atheist I can't take it any further.
I have got quite a good impression of and developed respect for these folks through several documentaries (over years and years). But recently I watched a few documentaries/videos here on TH-cam and have seen a few examples that really makes me sad and worried when it comes to the view the Hutterites have when it comes to animals. I am worried for the welfare of their animals! Amongst others, I got really upset when I saw how adults and young children treated live birds/poultry. They came (into the picture/i age), carrying them by their feet, upside down and scared and threw them roughly (violently, I think) out, through an opening or door, as I remember it. It was very, very rough and no doubt caused the birds discomfort, as they were swung forward and around, from being upside down to being on their feet again. Horrible way to handle living beings! One episode that really made me worried, was how a young girl (8-10 year old, maybe, not entirely sure), acted. She was walking, when she obviously thought a dog was too close (the dog did nothing wrong, did not display any wrong or scary behavior). She hit the dog with two buckets she carried. She then, after walking a few steps, turned around and swung the buckets towards the dog again to hit it, but luckily the dog managed to avoid the hit, which would have been a hard and potentially really harmful/painful one. It is very worrysome when such a young child obviously has no empathy for an animal and even more worrysome that nobody around her reacts when she is violent towards an innocent animal who has done nothing to warrant any kind of rough reaction. That nobody reacts, suggests that it is a common behavior towards colony dogs. Had a child, amongst other children, done that most places, there would no doubt be prompt and loud protests, telling the child who did it that doing so is wrong, after the first time she did it. No doubt, because most places, kids and adults alike, have been taught to treat dogs and other animals with love and empathy. They know that dogs have feelings, just like we do and that being mean to them will cause them pain and make them feel sad, just like we would feel, if someone treated us badly - so they would never do something like that to a dog.
I think you might be a trouble maker and you watch too much PETA propaganda. The little girl felt intimidated buy the large dog and showed who was boss. I'm so glad she knew how to protect herself.
Way back in New Testament times, Christians abandoned those "works of the [Mosaic] law" along with other works of the law such as circumcision and the Jewish festivals almost as soon as we began to receive gentile converts. A little later, we replaced the Jews' predominantly lunar calendar with the Julian solar calendar of the Greeks and Romans (which most sects replaced with the Gregorian solar calendar in recent centuries, although many eastern churches still follow the Juian), and we replaced the Mosaic marital customs which permitted second and even first cousin marriages and uncle-niece marriages and polygamy with the more restrictive marital customs of the Greeks. These matters are all closely tied to ritual matters and have always been regarded by Christians as being in a different category from laws that are strictly ethical in nature.
Wow. These Hutterites are living a lavish life compared to the more traditional Amish community. Hutterites could operate machinary to help with their farming. I don't think Amish could use machinary.
in the holy bible GOD himself forbids eating swine. This is in the book of Leviticus i think. some people think new testament teaching changes this but some do not.
It's good that the that they get to continue their education through high school but that kind of traditional lifestyle isn't for me and the presence of what appears to be industrial style farms was unsettling
I grew up in a Holiness Pentecostal Church and they teach exactly what the Hutterites are taught. The only exception is the communal living but the church brought together its resources as if there was communal living. I think I would prefer the communal living. I am commenting because I think it's odd that people are shocked to see this type of lifestyle but the Bible teaches this is supposed to be the way the church lives so for all the churches that do not adhere to True Biblical teaching, they are not obedient to God. You cannot call yourself a follower of Christ if you are not literally a follower of Christ. The Bible says that there are many deceivers and those deceivers will continue to deceive others. The deceivers are those in the world who claim that they are part of the church yet God says to come out from amongst the world and be ye a separated people! The reason salvation was offered to the non-jewish world is because God wanted the Jews to be a separated people unto him but they kept falling into worldliness and so when he sent his son Jesus he did not erase his holy word but his word came to non-jewish people so that Christ gave birth to believers that would now be called The Church! If a church teaches that the Old testament is of no value then that church is not a church because the same God of the Old testament is the same God of the New testament there is only one God. I can't wait to go visit some hutterite communities. I had no idea that there were people out there who had the same anabaptist heritage as myself but were actually adhering to the gospel! I want to live with the Hutterites! Obviously I cannot go by the name hutterite because that was the name of a man but I will go by the name Christian because the Bible says they were first called Christian in Antioch. It's possible to be a Christian and express your love through the hutterite lifestyle but it's not possible to be a hutterite before Christian because Christ is the only one that we are a spouse to and his name has to be preeminent. There are multiple expressions of worship as there are many members within the body but if any reject the written word of God, they are deceived and they are deceiving others who are deceived.
Hutterites should not care about negative, hateful comments. There will always be people who don’t like something. And there are those who don't like anything about them. Probably because they hate religion and religious cultures. There is no perfect community. If someone searches for the bugs they will find it and then they will attack with it.
How can I join up :) this living would be so nice to me I was born in the wrong Era lol seriously I could drop all the mainstream things for a quality life like this amazing ! Love it
They do not observe the Commandment in the Old Testament not to eat swine. The pig and hen production is cruel. You lay in cage and tell me how humane it is.
One weakness of these colonies is that they are a little too autonomous and perhaps not easily held accountable by an external overseer if they develop internal problems. Of course, one might say the same thing about families in mainstream society, with some being much better or worse than others, some with "black sheep" or secrets they are not proud of, and these colonies are really like very big households.
I had exposure to the Amish as I was growing up. I thought they were quite angry. The women's head covering is well supported in The Bible, and history. It seems that women are happy and well treated. The exchanging of wives should help prevent hereditary diseases. I would love to live around them but owing to my history, I would not be allowed to be a member, besides I am 73.
You might be surprised. They are quite welcoming, at least at Forest River and some of her sister colonies. When I was there they had a young woman (from Tennessee originally) who was living on the colony, who had had quite a checkered past and came to the colony as a way to get a fresh and stable start on her life. Also, if I remember correctly, you don't *have* to be a member of the church to live there, though I'm sure they would prefer that. If you are seriously interested in that, I would contact them and have a conversation about it.
@@aodhmacraynall8932 You are confusing the Amish and the Hutterites. The Hutterites do not avoid modern technology the way the Amish do. They do have some aspects of modern technology that they have not adopted (TVs being one thing they avoid), but there philosophy when it comes to technology as that they adopt the tools that help them with their faith and life and avoid any technology that is not helpful to their faith and life. I can tell you from first hand experience that there is electricity in all the colony buildings and they use trucks for the most part to get around.
Nice community, clean living, but they don't have an idea about the Gospel of grace according to the mystery revealed to our Apostle Paul. Start reading there statement of faith and You will see, a works oriented religion dependent on their own works as part of salvation! Christ is insufficient, what a tragedy. What seems so spiritual is all flesh! Some have seen the light, you have "breakaways" in some colonies, one is split in half! There is great spiritual bondage in their faith! God bless!
@@LeBootCamp I would like to hear what they preach about during their sermon time. I think it is a key why ppl still live in this colony according to thier rules. I do not understand their uniform in clothing since there is nothing about this in a Bible. As well as about taking little kids from mother at age 2 and put them in to a schooling system. I like the colony way of making business , it is very strong foundation to have profitable business. Do they operate as corporation? I think it is main reason why they are together. I prefer to give more rights to an individual family to raise their children and homeschool them at least at young age.
Not being oppressed and having equal rights and opportunities are different are they? It’s a fine line being raised to think cleaning cooking and child care is your roles if your a woman whilst working as a farmer being the head preacher or elder deciding what happens etc your role as a man. This is a very outdated way of living, if you want a different life you have to leave and aren’t able to come back unless it’s approved by the elders. So ok it be nice for some especially men to be in charge but it supports the notion that men and women aren’t equal should have different roles and sorry but if that’s not oppression I don’t know what is. When you raised to say don’t question it’s not good. . Not to mention battery farming where is that in the bible be cruel to animals? Give me Buddhism anyway
artichokez Actually, I said that women in our culture have traditional jobs and duties. I chose to be a homemaker. If a woman doesn’t feel that is for her, she is free to leave the community. Most don’t because they are at peace with the God-given roles that women in our culture have. I hope you find some peace as well.
She said, "We believe that ..." In the same way that you believe that women should be free to do whatever they want, they believe differently. I think that's called a freedom of choice. I'm part of a Hare Krishna community and we also believe certain things. I don't feel oppressed, because I know I made those choices myself with a certain goal in mind. Should that goal change - which it hasn't over the past 39 years - my choices might change and I have the freedom to do so. I have felt more oppressed by society telling me that I should choose to have a career and be an independent woman than I have felt within my community living with the choices I've made.
I would be not welcome there because I don't subscribe to the fact that women do all the cooking. Nope,not me! I'd rather be playing ice hockey with the guys,but we all know that it would not happen. More power to them. ☺️
Lol! I know, and that's what I'd love to do. I'm not a indoor kind of chick,in fact, I drive a flat bed tractor trailer,so you can see,I wouldn't/ couldn't be inside. I think I'd go crazy! Lol! I did love your video and my favorite part was when they were playing the guitar and singing River of Babylon. They sang so beautifully,it gave me goosebumps! Great story because I love learning about different things,cultures and religions.
Barb Keen we live near yhe colony. Many woman operate the heavy machinery as well. Those who LIKE to cook are the ones that cook. There are many jobs that cross over
Barb Keen It's more important to not intermingled opposite sexes too much. Many people establish relationships where adultery and fornication can and will creep in. May not necessarily be you, but eventually someone somewhere. Also not that you wouldn't be able perform "manly tasks." You never know what you could gain from perpetual fellowship with good God fearing sisters.
When our western society goes to the crapper, because of our laziness and hedonism, we'll be looking to groups like this for help.... They may want to rethink their pacifism though....
agreed....our "worldly" sons and daughters willingness to hold a gun and defend our rights keep them free to live as they choose. Glad you live as you believe, but the pacifism is not self sustaining in the real world.
@StacieMarie Precisely why they say that they are "in the world yet not of the world" the struggles of the world is the world's problem. That's there philosophy. Just do some research
To the average American, you can not help but feel a sense of sinister over tones in this Culture. This Culture should be Outlawed in the United States. If the Country should call for your Sons to serve in the Military and God willing it will not, why should We send ours while these people do not have to send theirs. This is not the way our fore fathers had in mind for us as Americans.
They have the right to live the way they want to live. They are pacifists and have suffered a lot because of their beliefs. Many of them wanted to be forced into military service by the Americans during World War I. Many of them are imprisoned and even tortured so close to have died of torture. Then why don't your sons refuse military service? If everyone did this all over the world there would be no wars because there would be no people to war. It is no accident that Christ is called the Prince of Peace. If your son serves in the army and accepts this, he is not a true Christian because he does not serve peace and life, but death and war. At least according to the Hutterite conception. Nor serve two masters at once. The secular power and God. At least not when the decisions of worldly power are opposed to the moral teachings of God. They do not want military training and did not want to kill people, even in self-defense.
So... you want to pass judgement on how other people live their lives and allow only those ways you approve of? I don't think you understand what "a free country" means. Sounds like you might be more at home in a country like Cuba or China... They outlaw cultures the leadership disapprove of all the time.
What only truly matters is salvation in Jesus Christ and the Hutterites will never reach heaven's door believing works will save them. In God’s Holy Word, the Bible, God offers us eternal life in heaven through us placing our trust in His Son, Jesus Christ. Christ died on a tree, shedding His blood for your wrong conduct and mine (John 3:16 and Roman 3:23-26), and came back to life-being raised from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:3-7). Jesus Christ now lives eternally in heaven, as true Christians will one day. In heaven, Christians will be set free from all sin, pain and sorrow-this resulting in unending joy. Christians still sin here on the earth and need to ask forgiveness when they act wrongly (1 John 1:9). However, obedient Christians are no longer held in sin’s slavery (Romans 6:5-6). God does ask that you count the cost before you choose to follow Christ and become a Christian. God does change desires and behavior, and you can lose friends as you strive to please a righteous and holy God. You can be terribly mistreated and hated for loving Him. If you desire the free gift of salvation and understand the cost of rejection, you can simply say, “Dear Heavenly Father, I ask you to forgive my sins (all wrong conduct) and I ask Christ to take control of my life. I ask this in Christ’s name.” By saying this sincerely and honestly, you can be assured of eternal life, a purpose on this earth and deliverance from fiery hell. Jesus Christ knows if you sincerely want to turn from your sin to serve Him. God forgives all your wrong actions, not just some. You cannot out-sin God's forgiveness. Christ shed His precious blood for every sin committed. Prayer is simply talking to God as you would a friend, but always in a respectful manner. He is God in one, yet in three persons-the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who enters a person to change them when they accept Christ as their deliverer from sin. Christians pray to the Father as the Bible commands and He hears them when they ask for anything in Jesus’ name that is within His will (John 16:23). As an example of talking to God on a regular basis when you become a believer, you can say, Heavenly Father, I ask this, or I give thanks for this, or I ask forgiveness for this-all stated in gratitude and in acknowledgment of His Son, Christ Jesus (1 John 5: 10-13, Ephesians 3:14-21, Colossians 1:9-14, etc.). You can learn about Christ by reading the Gospel of John in the Bible. You can read a chapter a day. If you ask God to rule your life, you will obtain a desire to read more and more of the New Testament, and you will want to attend a Bible teaching church. If you do not believe God even exists, you can simply say, “God could you reveal your love to me so I can believe.” You must also understand, the Bible says we are saved by grace and not of works least anyone should boast. Christ paid it all and no one is good enough for heaven and this is why Christ came to earth and died.
@@teresas8173 You have a point...so does the original comment, to an extent. Hutterites know that the lifestyle will not take them thru the pearly gates. But the lifestyle helps ENCOURAGE the values and traits that will get you there. And yes, Grace is also required. Hutterites know all that...its the companionship and common good that keeps communities together
@@hutterite1 , when I read comments like this I feel like the person making them is giving a self- righteous lecture. They place so many conditions, based upon THEIR interpretation of the Bible, on how they believe to properly love God that they come across arrogant and off- putting. And the Hutterites certainly do not need lecturing. In fact the op should learn FROM them. Attributes like humility, respect, and how to live and let live without judgement.
@@teresas8173 Its a lifestyle that seems ideal on paper. But the nature of man doesn't always cooperate. There are issues to be dealt with, that's a certain...and some hutterite members are in the lifestyle for the wrong reasons. They will take advantage of the system, and not be very willing to sacrifice towards it. I'm a hutterite member, and I know of the pros. The cons are always associated with the human nature not cooperating. "The Spirit is willing; but the flesh is weak."
These comments are so off putting. You think this is Christianity?! No. God and Jesus taught unconditional love and you twisted it to your agenda. The ego in you is horrific. If God is good he will accept good people. If he is omnipotent he will know people make mistakes whether they apologise or not. He will see their hearts. What you are preaching is judgement and hatred and that is not Christianity
Anthony Man Okay seriously...Livestock in North America is provided with better housing conditions than some people have to put up with in many other parts of the world. I believe your priorities are mixed up.
Shameful conditions for these animals in despicable crates (6.29) and cages! It's not as if they don't have room for free range. These are not nice people. Hypocrites! I'll be interested to see if you edit my comment out.
As a hutterite myself I am telling you that you should never be afraid to come up to us in public and ask us anything that you want to about our life... you will come to realise that we are good people and not hypocrites period..
I am a truck driver and I make about 1 or 2 trips a week to Forest River. The funny thing is the local folks in town do not know how to pronouce the Hutterite name. They call them Hooterites. This never happens in Canada, but in the States they seem a bit clued out. Thanks for the nice video about Hutterite life. These folks live a very nice lifestyle.
Americans also say boodism for Buddhism
A sense of family support & a united community. This is what everyone needs.
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The few documentaries that I've watched seem to show there is a great deal of difference in communities as far as joyfulness and openness goes!
The difference between colonies is huge.
Used to live on one
There are three or four different subgroups, called leuts among the Hutterites. They are quite different from each other in terms of openness and strictness. The Forest River Colony is one of the most open and welcoming colonies and has suffered some controversies as a result. They seem to continue to thrive however.
Hi. I have been following the H community and love everything about them. By the way are there black people in that community?
@@warigiapurity8252 good question
Yes I've noticed this too...some colonies are much happier than others. I can only guess the key is in the leadership. Overall, a very efficient way to live and prosper as a community it seems!
I can imagine there would b a sense of peace knowing your place as a woman there and what your day to day duties were. In our modern world we juggle so many roles and duties and this often leads to a great deal of stress. Sometimes the simpler life seems appealing.
Well said👍
100% agreed
Have you seen the Shawshank Redemption? It speaks about similar issues.
Thank you for a good and honest portrayal of these honest, humble people.
Thank you for this video. I've seen Hutterites all my life but know so little about them. To me, they're mysterious people I see often out shopping. They're always friendly if you speak to them but they keep to themselves.
@@tituswaldner8982 OK, I have a question. I understand that many Hutterite colonies make their own clothing. I also understand that some even make their own shoes out of leather. These days it is very hard to find leather shoes. Do you know of a colony near Winnipeg, MB. that still has a shoe maker? I would love to buy a pair of Hutterite leather shoes. I am tired of garbage plastic shoes! Anybody out there know? Thanks!
I really like the way they live and I have always felt when a woman married her place is in the home taking care of her family I think that is a lot of what is wrong in our world today most children raise them selfs and are taught what others believe not what you believe it would be a great comfort to know you had a huge family and you all love and take care of the community you are in
I agree
Lucky people. Always enjoy these videos of the Hutterites.
They built a new school building! And now they have 140 people! When I was there they had 103 people! I was so thrilled as I watched your video!
This is how its done, folks...She hears something about something and then she goes to check it out for herself; straight from the horse's mouth, as well. Very good general info. As a Hutterite I recommend this production; unlike alot of others on TH-cam that seem to pick and choose whatever works for the producers agenda.
A Hofer thank you for your feedback. I had no agenda about anything except opening my eyes and my heart. I am planning on going back 🤞
LeBootCamp Don't burn your bridges. Hutterite are very open and generous people; we don't mind giving outsiders glimpses into our system. But if all the negatives are getting picked on and exploited...well, it isn't appreciated. Much has been published only focusing on the negative side of things.
A Hofer agreed...that's why I wanted to show the positive aspect of things to counterbalance the wrong and madeup fake documentaries I saw. The comments are actually 90% positive. I ignore the 10% crazies out there. I was truly welcome 🙏❤
Naja das Leben ist halt nicht schwarz weiß - niemals. jedes Paradis hat seine eigene Hölle...
What I don't understand, is why is all property centralized in the ownership of the colony, instead of members and families?
Do you now, spending the time with friends and family its a golden thing that every one can do, better than watching youtube like waht i just did
I visited this colony in September 2011 and I stayed in the house of the Waldner family 😃 I'm living on a kibbutz near Jerusalem now. I loved my stay with the Hutterites of Forest River!
good for u alex hope u enjoyed the stay
Alex Thornhill I was near Tzvat Israel. In Arad also.Shalom
I learned about the Hutterite communities when I was in college in the mid to late 1970s. It was a Social Anthropology class. Fascinating culture. There was also a television series on one Community about 7 years ago, again fascinating. Thank you for your peek into a totally different way of life.
Do you remember the name of the show?
Looks like an amazing place, God bless!
Thank you for this tour of he Hutterite brother's and sisters! Would love to visit!
Thank you for making and sharing this video.
Great documentary well done where I live there is colony in the next county called sunny bend colony they are great neighbors. Thanks for sharing your story
Thank you for your honest report .because that doesn't happen vary often . I like your video. Because it's accurate .l grew up in pleasant valley colony S.D . good job .NATE . Juliatta Idaho
Very much enjoyed your video. Singing is beautiful.
Excellent!
Beautiful.
Thank-you.
Though I'm not sure about sow stalls and caged egg-laying chickens. But.
That was so interesting, thank you so much for sharing.
This was very good and I was very impressed by my brothers and sisters in Christ colony there in Forest River.
They look so happy😊
Think the animals are happy?
@@TheSashapooch happier than they would be in the wild getting eaten alive by hyenas and shit
@@TheSashapooch They are farm animals. They are there for people to eat them.
Carol, Merry Christmas!! Excellent profoundly live video, God Bless!
Carol are you from east malta colony,I remember you , glad you are doing well ! Love the hutts some of the great people I call my friend s ,they have always been so good to me! And I also love the pickled watermelon!!
I met Steve Springer a hutterite in nursing school back in 1971-1973. He was very interesting and taught me about conscientious objection. I was impressed by him. This was during the viet nam war. Steve ended up married with more than 8 children.
Fascinating! I like the fair and honest presentation. Every lifestyle and culture has its positive and negative points. The only perfect way is in Heaven. I've lived with Old Order Amish, (for five years with an 8 month break), and have overall positive memories. Too many You Tubers give only the negatives. A few look through rose colored glasses so that visitors are inevitably disappointed.
Was lucky enough to get some home made bread and wine from these folks years ago and still the best I've had to date 👍👍
I’m happy to see this! I just visited my first Hutterite colony last fall! I just uploaded an Amish/Mennonite video! Thanks for showing the truth about anabaptists!
Are plain knitted goods allowed? Like sweaters, shawls or capes & hats, mittens or scarves?
Hutterites are born into the colony. If you want to join..good luck..it's rare if they allow an outsider to join. Nearly everyone in the colony are related.
In Manitoba Canada there is a Hutterite community and you can join from outside if you meet the requirements. You can stay to see if you like how they live etc. Giselle Waldner has a channel .
When you are embracing God and His word, you are free. I feel that they are following the word of God the best that they can. I feel that I will be able to meet alot of them on the other side. Amen, be blessed my brothers and sisters
You haven't read the Bible, so can be easily deceived when you see something superficially positive like this lifestyle. This is work-based religion, just like any other false religion, there isn't any true living God in these communities, although they present as if there is, you much be born again, through grace by faith, not works, to be able to enter kingdom of God, these people aren't saved, don't have the Holy Spirit and simply follow mindless tradition that can appeal to unsuspecting eye that also isn't saved.
They're playing "Rivers of Babylon", a rastafarian song popularized by Boney M! Life is full of strange surprises...
Hahaha yeah right! Or Boney M set a Hebrew lament song to rock and roll music. It's in the Bible
I live next too the colony in Montana
The only thing I don't like it they don't have personal washers and dryers in the homes. Because it's cold outside
Shannon Leeann Ya well...that laundromat is state of the art and will rival any commercial setup
Interesting! We are from Lancaster, PA
Daniel Stoltzfus are you Amish or Mennonite?
Kind of Mennonite! Christian first!
@Daniel Stoltzfus
I used to live in Leola, PA on Snake Hill Rd and there were a lot of
Stoltzfus familes nearby most were old order Amish I think. All nice people though. they even spoke to me even though I was English.
I grew up here!!!
Jake who then?
I hang out with anabaptist people and it's the entire modern world that's insane.
I follow a lovely Hutterite woman on you tube named Giselle Waldner, her colony builds fire engines. Very interesting.
i really enjoyed this video.Thanks
Beautiful little doc XXX ❤️
I would love to go back to the simpler life instead of the hustle and bustle of living in a city
@Bert Clayton exactly especially if most of your life where you lived you knew everyone. My first few years of school was in a 4 room school house with around 80 kids in total.
Living in a hutterite community is not easy. I was born in hutterite colony, however I moved into town at age twenty. I'm now 62 and feel more blessed everyday for my freedom and having an amazing life. God bless the hutterites tho. Thanks.
@@marydwipf5005 gotcha. Thank you for the information. I definitely need to learn more the culture. I was born into an isolated community where everyone knew one another. I lived in a very small mining camp where there was just the basic stores ( just 1 convenience store),1 coffee shop, just the basics. No mall no nothing.
@Bert Clayton thank you. I really need to learn more about the culture
@@marydwipf5005 if you leave the colony do you get shunned from the rest of your family? That must be a sad life to live
Very informative video about a beautiful lifestyle. I am curious though -- What about men and women who choose not to get married? What is their place in Hutterite society?
If you dont get married,you are often looked down on
Statistically, there have to be gay/lesbian Hutterites. But extremely closeted, I would think.
If you baptize, and commit yourself to the culture and lifestyle, you are part of the team. You'll be in the work force and be provided for every day of your life there. Only difference will be that you dont have a spouse to be with, nor kids under your care.
They have separate living quarters for the unmarried adults on the colony. The women in one space and the men in another. It's a little bit like a dormitory, but as I recall each person had a bit more private living space than you'd expect in a typical dormitory. I was not on the colony long enough to get a real full sense of what it was like to live single on a colony, but I do know they make a place for them in the society.
@@eiznekcamekim1059 thank you for this information. I really appreciate it.
Love there dresses
so when a daughter pops out a brown baby, what happens to the mother and kid ?
I wanted to live in such a place =) It is a pitty that places like this do not exists here where I live.
where is that overseas ?
This colony and it’s people seem much happier than the members from the last hutterite video. I think it was ‘Maple’ something colony.
That "other video"...was filmed with an agenda in mind. Video directors can portray anything they want to portray.
In any human society there are good things and not so good things. In a documentary video, it's easy to make a community look worse than it is (or better than it is) by picking and choosing only those elements that fit your agenda. Or you can go in with the goal of a fair and honest portrayal including the good and the bad. It's all up to the video creator. Caveat video watcher.
I love Hutterites! Absolutely love all of you in CHRIST!
1:11 if anybody knows the name of that book, specifically, can someone please reply? I’d like to use it to expand my family history studies, as my paternal grandmother has Hutterite ancestry (she was a Hofer; not that she’s dead, she’s just happily married :D)
I think I have a copy of that book somewhere from my time visting that colony. As I recall, it was a book they published right there at Forest River. You might check the Forest River Colony website and see if they have it available.
Are you familiar with the Bruderhof Communities? You may be interested.
Andres Hinkey i am currently reaching out to them, too. Why? Are you?!?! :)
I've spent a lot of time with the Bruderhof at the two hofs in England. I love them and their way of life but as an atheist I can't take it any further.
I never heard of them before and I live 45 minutes away from grand forks
Ya the older ones like to drink in the bar... Henry...
Wonderful movie. 😊
I wouldn't mind joining the Hutterites or Bruderhof but would prefer to go in with a partner.
enjoyed
I have got quite a good impression of and developed respect for these folks through several documentaries (over years and years). But recently I watched a few documentaries/videos here on TH-cam and have seen a few examples that really makes me sad and worried when it comes to the view the Hutterites have when it comes to animals. I am worried for the welfare of their animals! Amongst others, I got really upset when I saw how adults and young children treated live birds/poultry. They came (into the picture/i age), carrying them by their feet, upside down and scared and threw them roughly (violently, I think) out, through an opening or door, as I remember it. It was very, very rough and no doubt caused the birds discomfort, as they were swung forward and around, from being upside down to being on their feet again. Horrible way to handle living beings! One episode that really made me worried, was how a young girl (8-10 year old, maybe, not entirely sure), acted. She was walking, when she obviously thought a dog was too close (the dog did nothing wrong, did not display any wrong or scary behavior). She hit the dog with two buckets she carried. She then, after walking a few steps, turned around and swung the buckets towards the dog again to hit it, but luckily the dog managed to avoid the hit, which would have been a hard and potentially really harmful/painful one. It is very worrysome when such a young child obviously has no empathy for an animal and even more worrysome that nobody around her reacts when she is violent towards an innocent animal who has done nothing to warrant any kind of rough reaction. That nobody reacts, suggests that it is a common behavior towards colony dogs. Had a child, amongst other children, done that most places, there would no doubt be prompt and loud protests, telling the child who did it that doing so is wrong, after the first time she did it. No doubt, because most places, kids and adults alike, have been taught to treat dogs and other animals with love and empathy. They know that dogs have feelings, just like we do and that being mean to them will cause them pain and make them feel sad, just like we would feel, if someone treated us badly - so they would never do something like that to a dog.
I think you might be a trouble maker and you watch too much PETA propaganda. The little girl felt intimidated buy the large dog and showed who was boss. I'm so glad she knew how to protect herself.
now i wanna become hutterite. anyone know how?
Neat video
Very nice.
In the Bible it says that pigs are an unclean animal to eat. Do the hetterites not follow what is clean or unclean to eat?
Way back in New Testament times, Christians abandoned those "works of the [Mosaic] law" along with other works of the law such as circumcision and the Jewish festivals almost as soon as we began to receive gentile converts. A little later, we replaced the Jews' predominantly lunar calendar with the Julian solar calendar of the Greeks and Romans (which most sects replaced with the Gregorian solar calendar in recent centuries, although many eastern churches still follow the Juian), and we replaced the Mosaic marital customs which permitted second and even first cousin marriages and uncle-niece marriages and polygamy with the more restrictive marital customs of the Greeks. These matters are all closely tied to ritual matters and have always been regarded by Christians as being in a different category from laws that are strictly ethical in nature.
Ps, like you I'm most interested in Anabaptist traditions: I'm a Quaker.
Why were you staying with hutterites?
To discover their culture 🙏
Wow. These Hutterites are living a lavish life compared to the more traditional Amish community. Hutterites could operate machinary to help with their farming. I don't think Amish could use machinary.
Wow. Allowing themselves to be filmed for TH-cam.
They have become more open.
Forest River is one of the most open and welcoming of all the Hutterite Colonies. They are not all this open.
Factory farming . Sick.
Are any of the member of this colony born agaijn believers?
Every true Christian should experience to be born again...so, yes. But it depends what your interpretation of that is.
in the holy bible GOD himself forbids eating swine. This is in the book of Leviticus i think. some people think new testament teaching changes this but some do not.
It's good that the that they get to continue their education through high school but that kind of traditional lifestyle isn't for me and the presence of what appears to be industrial style farms was unsettling
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I grew up in a Holiness Pentecostal Church and they teach exactly what the Hutterites are taught. The only exception is the communal living but the church brought together its resources as if there was communal living. I think I would prefer the communal living. I am commenting because I think it's odd that people are shocked to see this type of lifestyle but the Bible teaches this is supposed to be the way the church lives so for all the churches that do not adhere to True Biblical teaching, they are not obedient to God. You cannot call yourself a follower of Christ if you are not literally a follower of Christ. The Bible says that there are many deceivers and those deceivers will continue to deceive others. The deceivers are those in the world who claim that they are part of the church yet God says to come out from amongst the world and be ye a separated people! The reason salvation was offered to the non-jewish world is because God wanted the Jews to be a separated people unto him but they kept falling into worldliness and so when he sent his son Jesus he did not erase his holy word but his word came to non-jewish people so that Christ gave birth to believers that would now be called The Church! If a church teaches that the Old testament is of no value then that church is not a church because the same God of the Old testament is the same God of the New testament there is only one God. I can't wait to go visit some hutterite communities. I had no idea that there were people out there who had the same anabaptist heritage as myself but were actually adhering to the gospel! I want to live with the Hutterites! Obviously I cannot go by the name hutterite because that was the name of a man but I will go by the name Christian because the Bible says they were first called Christian in Antioch. It's possible to be a Christian and express your love through the hutterite lifestyle but it's not possible to be a hutterite before Christian because Christ is the only one that we are a spouse to and his name has to be preeminent. There are multiple expressions of worship as there are many members within the body but if any reject the written word of God, they are deceived and they are deceiving others who are deceived.
Me interesa saber de los huteritas pero traduscan al español
Can I become hudderite
@MX Pierce
Lol thanks
Hutterites should not care about negative, hateful comments. There will always be people who don’t like something. And there are those who don't like anything about them. Probably because they hate religion and religious cultures. There is no perfect community. If someone searches for the bugs they will find it and then they will attack with it.
How can I join up :) this living would be so nice to me I was born in the wrong Era lol seriously I could drop all the mainstream things for a quality life like this amazing ! Love it
James Elliot Me too!!
sows in stalls where they can't move and battery chickens very disappointed to see this kind of factory farming
Apparently, a Christian attitude doesn't exted to animal welfare. I find their practices repulsive. And totally unnecessary!
Had to stop watching when l saw how they torture pigs in crates....fifthy humans 🤮🤮
They do not observe the Commandment in the Old Testament not to eat swine.
The pig and hen production is cruel. You lay in cage and tell me how humane it is.
They are Christians, not Jews. They do not have to keep the laws of Moses.
So one must be born into these communities to be a member?
Yes, that's the easiest/simplest way...however there are some exceptions, as usual.
When I visited Forest River there was one person living there who was not a born Hutterite, so it is possible, but it is not a common occurrence.
The leader of this colony did grave harm to me.
Can you elaborate? This accusation is pretty vague... Anybody could write this...
One weakness of these colonies is that they are a little too autonomous and perhaps not easily held accountable by an external overseer if they develop internal problems. Of course, one might say the same thing about families in mainstream society, with some being much better or worse than others, some with "black sheep" or secrets they are not proud of, and these colonies are really like very big households.
The leaders can be very cruel
@@randyhofer2523 Cruel how? Can you elaborate?
6:29 pure animal marture
I had exposure to the Amish as I was growing up. I thought they were quite angry.
The women's head covering is well supported in The Bible, and history. It seems that women are happy and well treated. The exchanging of wives should help prevent hereditary diseases. I would love to live around them but owing to my history, I would not be allowed to be a member, besides I am 73.
Khadijah Brown you'd probably be pissed off too if you didn't have no electricity and had to ride a fukkin horse ever where you went.
You might be surprised. They are quite welcoming, at least at Forest River and some of her sister colonies. When I was there they had a young woman (from Tennessee originally) who was living on the colony, who had had quite a checkered past and came to the colony as a way to get a fresh and stable start on her life. Also, if I remember correctly, you don't *have* to be a member of the church to live there, though I'm sure they would prefer that. If you are seriously interested in that, I would contact them and have a conversation about it.
@@aodhmacraynall8932 You are confusing the Amish and the Hutterites. The Hutterites do not avoid modern technology the way the Amish do. They do have some aspects of modern technology that they have not adopted (TVs being one thing they avoid), but there philosophy when it comes to technology as that they adopt the tools that help them with their faith and life and avoid any technology that is not helpful to their faith and life. I can tell you from first hand experience that there is electricity in all the colony buildings and they use trucks for the most part to get around.
Nice community, clean living, but they don't have an idea about the Gospel of grace according to the mystery revealed to our Apostle Paul. Start reading there statement of faith and You will see, a works oriented religion dependent on their own works as part of salvation! Christ is insufficient, what a tragedy. What seems so spiritual is all flesh! Some have seen the light, you have "breakaways" in some colonies, one is split in half! There is great spiritual bondage in their faith! God bless!
I would not know
@@LeBootCamp I would like to hear what they preach about during their sermon time. I think it is a key why ppl still live in this colony according to thier rules. I do not understand their uniform in clothing since there is nothing about this in a Bible. As well as about taking little kids from mother at age 2 and put them in to a schooling system. I like the colony way of making business , it is very strong foundation to have profitable business. Do they operate as corporation? I think it is main reason why they are together. I prefer to give more rights to an individual family to raise their children and homeschool them at least at young age.
European migrants
Not being oppressed and having equal rights and opportunities are different are they? It’s a fine line being raised to think cleaning cooking and child care is your roles if your a woman whilst working as a farmer being the head preacher or elder deciding what happens etc your role as a man. This is a very outdated way of living, if you want a different life you have to leave and aren’t able to come back unless it’s approved by the elders. So ok it be nice for some especially men to be in charge but it supports the notion that men and women aren’t equal should have different roles and sorry but if that’s not oppression I don’t know what is. When you raised to say don’t question it’s not good. . Not to mention battery farming where is that in the bible be cruel to animals? Give me Buddhism anyway
It is an attractive living situation but the religion is heretical.
They don't treat the animals well
hutterite woman: We are NOT oppressed
same woman 5 seconds later: We are all only allowed to be home makers (LOL that is oppressed sis)
artichokez haha yes so true!!!
You missed her point. She chose the lifestyle. She was not made to. Carol believes that is how a woman’s life should be, so let her live her life.
artichokez Actually, I said that women in our culture have traditional jobs and duties. I chose to be a homemaker. If a woman doesn’t feel that is for her, she is free to leave the community. Most don’t because they are at peace with the God-given roles that women in our culture have. I hope you find some peace as well.
She said, "We believe that ..." In the same way that you believe that women should be free to do whatever they want, they believe differently. I think that's called a freedom of choice. I'm part of a Hare Krishna community and we also believe certain things. I don't feel oppressed, because I know I made those choices myself with a certain goal in mind. Should that goal change - which it hasn't over the past 39 years - my choices might change and I have the freedom to do so. I have felt more oppressed by society telling me that I should choose to have a career and be an independent woman than I have felt within my community living with the choices I've made.
Being feminist is the real oppressive thing.
I would be not welcome there because I don't subscribe to the fact that women do all the cooking. Nope,not me! I'd rather be playing ice hockey with the guys,but we all know that it would not happen. More power to them. ☺️
Barb Keen the guys do all the chores in the cold, with the pigs..
Lol! I know, and that's what I'd love to do. I'm not a indoor kind of chick,in fact, I drive a flat bed tractor trailer,so you can see,I wouldn't/ couldn't be inside. I think I'd go crazy! Lol! I did love your video and my favorite part was when they were playing the guitar and singing River of Babylon. They sang so beautifully,it gave me goosebumps! Great story because I love learning about different things,cultures and religions.
Barb Keen we live near yhe colony. Many woman operate the heavy machinery as well. Those who LIKE to cook are the ones that cook. There are many jobs that cross over
Kristen berer really that awesome:)
Barb Keen
It's more important to not intermingled opposite sexes too much. Many people establish relationships where adultery and fornication can and will creep in. May not necessarily be you, but eventually someone somewhere.
Also not that you wouldn't be able perform "manly tasks."
You never know what you could gain from perpetual fellowship with good God fearing sisters.
The are Protestants not Christians.
When our western society goes to the crapper, because of our laziness and hedonism, we'll be looking to groups like this for help.... They may want to rethink their pacifism though....
agreed....our "worldly" sons and daughters willingness to hold a gun and defend our rights keep them free to live as they choose. Glad you live as you believe, but the pacifism is not self sustaining in the real world.
@StacieMarie Precisely why they say that they are "in the world yet not of the world" the struggles of the world is the world's problem. That's there philosophy. Just do some research
To the average American, you can not help but feel a sense of sinister over tones in this Culture. This Culture should be Outlawed in the United States. If the Country should call for your Sons to serve in the Military and God willing it will not, why should We send ours while these people do not have to send theirs. This is not the way our fore fathers had in mind for us as Americans.
They have the right to live the way they want to live. They are pacifists and have suffered a lot because of their beliefs. Many of them wanted to be forced into military service by the Americans during World War I. Many of them are imprisoned and even tortured so close to have died of torture. Then why don't your sons refuse military service? If everyone did this all over the world there would be no wars because there would be no people to war. It is no accident that Christ is called the Prince of Peace. If your son serves in the army and accepts this, he is not a true Christian because he does not serve peace and life, but death and war. At least according to the Hutterite conception. Nor serve two masters at once. The secular power and God. At least not when the decisions of worldly power are opposed to the moral teachings of God. They do not want military training and did not want to kill people, even in self-defense.
They know no compromise God's moral teachings regarding.
So... you want to pass judgement on how other people live their lives and allow only those ways you approve of? I don't think you understand what "a free country" means. Sounds like you might be more at home in a country like Cuba or China... They outlaw cultures the leadership disapprove of all the time.
What only truly matters is salvation in Jesus Christ and the Hutterites will never reach heaven's door believing works will save them. In God’s Holy Word, the Bible, God offers us eternal life in heaven through us placing our trust in His Son, Jesus Christ. Christ died on a tree, shedding His blood for your wrong conduct and mine (John 3:16 and Roman 3:23-26), and came back to life-being raised from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:3-7). Jesus Christ now lives eternally in heaven, as true Christians will one day. In heaven, Christians will be set free from all sin, pain and sorrow-this resulting in unending joy. Christians still sin here on the earth and need to ask forgiveness when they act wrongly (1 John 1:9). However, obedient Christians are no longer held in sin’s slavery (Romans 6:5-6).
God does ask that you count the cost before you choose to follow Christ and become a Christian. God does change desires and behavior, and you can lose friends as you strive to please a righteous and holy God. You can be terribly mistreated and hated for loving Him.
If you desire the free gift of salvation and understand the cost of rejection, you can simply say, “Dear Heavenly Father, I ask you to forgive my sins (all wrong conduct) and I ask Christ to take control of my life. I ask this in Christ’s name.” By saying this sincerely and honestly, you can be assured of eternal life, a purpose on this earth and deliverance from fiery hell. Jesus Christ knows if you sincerely want to turn from your sin to serve Him. God forgives all your wrong actions, not just some. You cannot out-sin God's forgiveness. Christ shed His precious blood for every sin committed. Prayer is simply talking to God as you would a friend, but always in a respectful manner. He is God in one, yet in three persons-the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who enters a person to change them when they accept Christ as their deliverer from sin. Christians pray to the Father as the Bible commands and He hears them when they ask for anything in Jesus’ name that is within His will (John 16:23).
As an example of talking to God on a regular basis when you become a believer, you can say, Heavenly Father, I ask this, or I give thanks for this, or I ask forgiveness for this-all stated in gratitude and in acknowledgment of His Son, Christ Jesus (1 John 5: 10-13, Ephesians 3:14-21, Colossians 1:9-14, etc.).
You can learn about Christ by reading the Gospel of John in the Bible. You can read a chapter a day. If you ask God to rule your life, you will obtain a desire to read more and more of the New Testament, and you will want to attend a Bible teaching church.
If you do not believe God even exists, you can simply say, “God could you reveal your love to me so I can believe.”
You must also understand, the Bible says we are saved by grace and not of works least anyone should boast. Christ paid it all and no one is good enough for heaven and this is why Christ came to earth and died.
All I can say is if these good people aren’t getting into heaven, then neither are you....
@@teresas8173 You have a point...so does the original comment, to an extent.
Hutterites know that the lifestyle will not take them thru the pearly gates. But the lifestyle helps ENCOURAGE the values and traits that will get you there. And yes, Grace is also required. Hutterites know all that...its the companionship and common good that keeps communities together
@@hutterite1 , when I read comments like this I feel like the person making them is giving a self- righteous lecture. They place so many conditions, based upon THEIR interpretation of the Bible, on how they believe to properly love God that they come across arrogant and off- putting.
And the Hutterites certainly do not need lecturing. In fact the op should learn FROM them. Attributes like humility, respect, and how to live and let live without judgement.
@@teresas8173 Its a lifestyle that seems ideal on paper. But the nature of man doesn't always cooperate. There are issues to be dealt with, that's a certain...and some hutterite members are in the lifestyle for the wrong reasons. They will take advantage of the system, and not be very willing to sacrifice towards it. I'm a hutterite member, and I know of the pros. The cons are always associated with the human nature not cooperating. "The Spirit is willing; but the flesh is weak."
These comments are so off putting. You think this is Christianity?!
No. God and Jesus taught unconditional love and you twisted it to your agenda.
The ego in you is horrific.
If God is good he will accept good people. If he is omnipotent he will know people make mistakes whether they apologise or not. He will see their hearts.
What you are preaching is judgement and hatred and that is not Christianity
Torture farming.
Such cruelty to those poor animals...patriarchy is cruel indeed.
Bealtaine Cottage Ya... vegetarians don't have a place in rural farming communities.
A Hofer
I'm not a vegetarian and the way they house their animals is cruel.
Anthony Man Okay seriously...Livestock in North America is provided with better housing conditions than some people have to put up with in many other parts of the world. I believe your priorities are mixed up.
Agreed
We are at the Baptist we are regroup
get the facts right, there are mistakes upon mistakes in yr video. i stopped watching @ 1:42. speaks itself. RUBBISH
Shameful conditions for these animals in despicable crates (6.29) and cages! It's not as if they don't have room for free range. These are not nice people. Hypocrites! I'll be interested to see if you edit my comment out.
As a hutterite myself I am telling you that you should never be afraid to come up to us in public and ask us anything that you want to about our life... you will come to realise that we are good people and not hypocrites period..