|
Movie Review
|
Prayer Foundation / Prayer / God's Word / FYI / Monks / Features / Books / Movies / Search Our Site / Home / Site Map / Become A Monk / Contributors Gifts / Contact Us Hutterites: To Care And Not To Care |
||
DVD Color / 43 Min. Documentary DVD is playable in all Regions DVD Special Features: Movie Trailer, Epilogue
Have you received Christ as your Lord and Saviour? Find out how to do so on our page: Plan of Salvation ___________ Tell others about Jesus: We who are Christians are all called by God to share our faith (witness) with those who are not Christians. Some Bible verses that you will find helpful for doing this, and that you may want to commit to memory are found on other pages on our web site (see: Memory Verses; 2nd Set: Salvation!, Plan of Salvation, and Statement of Faith). __________ |
An inside look at an amazing people who have chosen a different way. "This film is an extraordinary achievement. It is a sensitive and illuminating document that provides strong visual evidence for the apparent contentment and security by people who eschew individualism in all its forms. Holding values so different from those of other North Americans, the Hutterites, as portrayed here, provide a strong case for an alternative way of life in the midst of American industrialism. -George L. Hicks, Brown University, (in: "The American Anthropologist") Not a passing phenomenon. While other utopian societies die, the Hutterites have grown in North America to 30,000 people, living in over 300 self-sufficient villages. "In the world, but not of the world." They are a society where faithfulness to Christ's teachings is more important than self-advancement or worldly comforts. By yielding themselves completely to community, the Hutterites have rid themselves of poverty, homicide, and anxiety about the future. An enigma...a curious paradox. Although maintaining their medieval culture, the Hutterites farm over a million acres of land in Canada and the U.S. using the most advanced farm equipment and even computers. 450 years of Christian communal living. Surviving incredible harassment from those around them, they have lived strict communal lives based on the teaching of the Bible. In their schools they continue to teach their children eternal values, in German, despite government regulation of education. _______________________________ What Hutterites consider to be their basic beliefs (besides Communalism):
_______________________________ |
Why you may want to skip this video due to one horrible scene. We have decided not to offer it through our website just because of this one brief scene. WARNING: there is a scene of the annual slaughtering of geese where they put geese upside down in a machine that then cuts off all their heads. Not only is this not suitable for children, it is not suitable for adults---you will not even want to fast forward through this, and accidentally see any of this---when they begin gathering the geese, you should go back to the scene listings and go on to the next scene, which is broom-making. Additional information: Members of the sect—which began in 16th-century Moravia, and is now scattered mostly through the great plains of the northern United States and southern Canada—live a modified form of Christian primitivism, holding property in common and disdaining modern life. Basic difference to outsiders: They live communally, for room and board---no one gets paid, and families live in what are essentially small apartments---meals are eaten communally. About 120 people are usually considered the maximum number for a community, then a new colony is founded, which is expensive: about $8m-15m, which mostly comes from the savings of the mother colony. There are about 30,000 Hutterites total, most live in Canada, but also in North Dakota, Montana, and so on. About 20% of the young people leave the group as adults and do not return. _______________________________ Hutterites: To Care and Not to Care DVD ... is Not available through The Prayer Foundation ™. _______________________________ Copyright © 2007 S.G.P. All rights reserved.
|
|
__________
_______________________________
