How To Get To Heaven In Montana -Hutterite Documentary

I really like this clue just maybe because it is isolated I mean that I mean it's just a peaceful that's what I like about where you can go out and your swing in a relaxed and you don't have to worry about it somebody coming out around the street or around the corner holding a knife or a gun on you like it happens in the big cities and even in the smaller towns it's getting to be that that this is flat willow Colony in Montana the nearest town is 30 miles away it's one of 350 remote communities along the American Canadian border which are home to the Hutt Iraq this old Protestant sect follows the teachings of Jakob footer a reformist who was born in Germany in the 16th century I am a horror right because I was born one I was raised as a hoarder right I grew up in this or the right community and I believe that God put me here for that reason he wanted me to be a holder right that's why I was born I would [Music] Oh [Music] Oh [Music] over [Music] [Applause] just over 400 Hutterites came to America in the 1870s since then their numbers have grown to nearly 35,000 and they are one of America's fastest growing populations [Applause] the Hutterites live communally they're the closed society and newcomers rarely join access to the world outside is severely restricted and television is banned there are 43 Hutterites at flat willow and just three surnames the stores the hopers and the wormans they are nearly all related to each other Hutterites believe in living working and worshipping together but currently their basic beliefs are being challenged in a bitter dispute at flat willow bar by the actual states first of all about community life Peter stated it to have it's done right it's beautiful but if it's not done right it can be painful there is a division here flat well aware certain numbers people don't really agree with what we are [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh my god [Music] the Bible teaches separation and we believe that that separation is from the world that we're supposed to dress different and abstain from the world's sins well we thought we'd put our hair all the way down and then we stick right in the middle you start it this way and fight half of it this way so there's a long strand in the back and then we take the front part it down in the middle here and then we turn this under and rolled our back party to a bond we base our beliefs on the Bible and in a first Corinthians chapter 11 talks about the women being veiled wearing a head cover and that's why we waste have you ever seen a picture of Madonna mm-hmm yes I don't think very much with Madonna people can can't tell a person by the way they live and a life they lead and what I kind of know of Madonna and I've read I mean you can tell are you done mmm-hmm yes sir wave a lot so Sabrina I love this all right so posture don't move on or drama go optical technology yo a condom story to reread move the German language because also Alton they come from Austria and Germany ride around in their acid are moved on to post arrangement German over the kids of the sexual side ago that if you will or remedy a english-language American language out what is most good these are languages can good the hinges of father with Duncan the height of Eid room indecent mortgage don't us to suspect heated for all I needed there also got the dog condition repeating this after a stark artist no sign global so there is rice flour on ultimately singularity older so we live and he liberated all the wonders of triangle from state flat wheeler is in crisis two-thirds of the community have converted to born-again Christianity and now reject the traditional Hutterite texts in services [Music] [Applause] [Applause] the born-agains worship in English rather than old high german they emphasized Jesus rather than community life as the path to salvation the problem we saw the right life is that it hasn't changed in 400 years it's been the same it's growing deeper and deeper into tradition not spanning out and opening the horizon you know it is a very secure life in fact I think it is the fall secure life a false security the women are quite sheltered quite sheltered you don't really have to worry about whose failure bill I mean your dentist bill gets paid your doctor bill gets paid you don't have to worry about your lights your food your there's nothing you have to worry about a hilight woman will never be in power in a community she will never have like a preaching position or a position of leadership of any kind except for maybe in the kitchen there is a head cook in all her documents [Applause] [Music] the beautiful children's they have a beautiful lifestyle and the horses they're out in the open there they're free they're really loved all their cousins their uncles their families and we just enjoy growing up in this settings like one big family but yet as you grow older there's all that you know there are unanswered questions wiser sometimes there's hurts and why the the pain of rejection and why the what is life for anyway how do i life at its worst is probably like a concentration camp we as hundred young people were kind of always searching for something we realized that there must be more to life than living in a hundred i colony multi-device believes that in order to get to heaven or to be saved you must live in a colony or in community and that didn't quite sound right to us we just that that just didn't sound right tools we we would read a lot about because basically the hundreds faith is a religious faith we would be into a lot read a lot about religion and stuff and we realized that there were other people out there and if just up we're going to happen I think I'm in the colonies what about all the other people that live in the world that did not sound quite right and so it seemed like that we were just searching hard the Bible teaches obey your parents in the Lord and always be obedient to it because there is a reference in there if you do not obey your parents you will not have a long life on this earth it will be shortened I remember my dad my uncle's used to telling me Eli you're going to hell because you don't wear the suspenders when I was a rebellious young man or certain shoes or certain types of clothes and it's all a lot of it most of it is a outward show of religion or it's all being done and it's like a drudgery you have to be obedient to the whole it rules regulations and pennants in order to become alright if you die if you aren't you can it not be part of it I got attractive you are not accepted in baptism if you are not not an intermediate they will not baptize the seeds of the dispute was sown four years ago Eli and Suzie's father the Hutterite minister was killed in a bonfire on the colony after that died we kind of just oh I guess you could say we went while we just tried a lot of different things we tried movies and we just tried a lot of worldly things now that might not be worthy to you but but to us things of the world think that strictly that we were taught against like for instance going to rodeos shows and going to movies and drinking beer and we would run into town without asking or just do different things that Satan has a lot of ways of satisfying trying to satisfy but he usually takes a hold of you and here he doesn't that he will let you go you fall into his traps and his snares that he has and and the so he has it he had it all out there for us we heard that there was something going on in the little town that is nearest about 25 miles away town of around up we heard that there were some people coming in and setting up a tent and that they were having revival meetings or gospel tent meetings rather and that they would be singing our boys actually went because they wanted to see the pretty girls they did not go for anything I mean they were going to go look at the girls and so we hand in hard well should we do or shouldn't we and of course we did why not it's just another thing to do I mean we do everything else why can't we do this and we did we did go and we went to the meetings and of course the scene was right beautiful it was in a tent it was an evening setting oh these are these meetings lasted about a week it was an evening setting and it was just beautiful it seemed like God wanted us in there on the evangelists came around up to preach about Jesus Christ that he came to save us together the life I found in Assen answered five I can remember I got saved Sunday night I walked out on them Monday morning and the whole lower world I knew there was a new work I remember the week of the meetings we would hear about God and we would hear that it was Jesus is the answer it's not religion it's not doing all these things the way to the Father's heart is through His Son Jesus and through that week for about four days we would come home we would work at the place we would discuss all these things with one another we would say could it be could it be that this is what we're looking for they didn't preach that you have to be a Mennonite just to be this or that it was just a simple plan that God loves you and that through His Son Jesus he can forgive you all your sins he can he can make life for his wife and that all of a sudden instead of walking us here and we actually found it and what difference has Jesus made to your life ha all the hurt and the growing up the pain and the other why why we're here what's it all about and to to realize that they truly can fill that emptiness there still are a few for the rights left that sigh will who hasn't joined this movement there's my family all of it none of them have joined and they don't want to either as far as I know and my brother and his wife and their little daughter and the Waldman's Mike and his wife and there's a no bachelor we don't know what his thinking is and our uncle day for his manager he doesn't attend their meetings or anything so we feel he still wants to be on the right and Paul he doesn't attend either and I don't know I don't know about him if he is which side he's on really and Greg and grandma are right every Sunday there are two rival services at flat willow Eli preaches to the born-again Christians the Hutterites stay at home the importance of being born again is so vital is that not only does it give us eternal life and a home in heaven with it but it gives us this abundant life it gives us this overflowing light the six waterpots with the best quality of wine and and the quantity is full and running over and the very life of God Jesus Christ gives us the very life of God it's beautiful isn't it lovely and wonderful and and so glad that he saved us thank you why if you are a born again Christian to carry on looking like a traditional house rattling well right now because of the people that we live with here together we kind of in a way have to still look like this look like how to right but the dress that I'm wearing right now I don't believe is just an ordinary Hutterite dress I believe that it's a modest dress and it yes I know it looks like the way the Hutterites dress but right now we kind of have to I think I'd like to take this time this morning to welcome our new addition Ruben and Miriam's little baby girl Uriah joy just pray that stuff you could have just another little Christian living for the location but we offer prayer please you're the father we've come together to Jesus precious name we want to honor you this morning to just worship You Lord to bow before you and give you the honor and the praise and the glory father we thank you for each one the two this morning and Lord may we be mindful that we are here together to worship you and to praise you and to hear from heaven and to hear from your word father I just pray that to give each one of us a heart that would be open to your word and a heart that would be open to whatever you have the harder right services are in German very high German usually can't understand the language barrier because they're 400 years old and people change even the language has changed a little and when I had an English sermon on the Word of God it was like a light just beginning to slowly open till it was in full light and God just open your mind in your eyes and the night they took Jesus do you run up to a guy here and caught with you here on up he was so upset that they took his Lord and he saved it here on earth kind of yeah 24 and Jesus said to know Peter that's not a good way that that's not a good testimony put the sword into your sheet and see Peter he cut off that servant's ear see that and we can do the same thing what does the Bible say the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword see we have to be real careful that we don't use this two-edged sword which is the higher the Word of God and sect a you want Jesus you're going to help to be safe you don't say right now you're going to have Salix antiparticle pensive Adam Parvati right along and say listen dear ina Hudson sentence abandoned God Shaolin Salix NT fleet fatigue intensive and and goddess kinder hasten Salix until Galactica villain for fault guarded and the same life is every week the women bake bread and cakes for the local market in Billings 80 miles away they reckon on making $2,000 a week when we go to farmers market you can't imagine how the people want this bread we're always to charge actually that's got enough time to see a farmers market to grab it because they notice to me usually hands getting oh yes but you're tired I was the last one was alleged once but the two before it rains so hard and cold you can't imagine we were drenched to the skin we had like a tent and then we had a plastic over the tent and it was fun to leave it was actually fun we told everybody we talked to the Lord about stopping the rain but he wasn't changing his mind he wanted it to ring [Music] Hatta ride history even hotter our history books way back years 50 nards quote my something like this came up they did not submit to honor ID Authority wanted to do a thing of their own a movement of their own none of us died of peaceful death that it finds me see it might not happen today tomorrow but there's years ahead they can get older and things like that you never know so feel frightened fully outside [Music] the weekly outing to Billings is the only time the women leave the colony the ball again use the opportunity to evangelize oh this is really nice broccoli Tenten okay six four times not you have a rhubarb custard you have a solarium I can pump its power and our president if you mention when you guys on no I also must I did picked up here I have an extra in my hand ice around with the Rockies I didn't burn so welcome other Hutterite colonies only send their men folks to farmers market the flat willows reputation were born-again Christianity is alienated them from their more traditional neighbors I was brought up at her to write and I firmly Delia that that's like that for me that's the only way to live you know after the common good and some people compared to communism but I always fill in retro there's more such a thing the communism you had to in the right way of life and want to because you were brought up do you know the flat wheel in colony I know if supper bottom yeah what have you quiet about them I'm debating now to I mean I couldn't enter your pleasure now we definitely know that communal living is the right way if a person lives on the outside and tries I'm not a judge I mean I don't want to judge anybody got a little how he judges every back [Music] yeah yo I told you so nobody would hire that I joined the bottom Omar so no to a box on hope okay [Music] you [Music] have your children become born-again Christians a Talmud I have and haven't made a difference to their lives that's what they say so what they can and you as a parent looking at them do you think it's made a difference to their lives [Music] I'll have to pass you up on that one Oh [Music] dear Heavenly Father we come together tonight in Jesus precious name and we just want to thank you for this evening and thank you for everything you're doing in our lives thank God we want to give you free reign in our lives so please father come into our hearts come into our lives do with us what you will God and we know you're a father and that you have a father heart to us Lord and we thank you for that we thank you for the healing you've done in our hearts and for everything you've done for us and what you're going to do twice a week Bob Eli holds a prayer meeting for the born-again Christians it is followed by a free discussion of the Bible a practice unheard of amongst the Hutterites who take their old German texts literally with no interpretations how do you become born-again is it something terrifying or is it something beautiful or if someone asked you what would you say how to become born-again Ruben we all have been born once that is through the flesh and somehow we need to be born again and the only way I can see it in John chapter 4 verse 24 it says God is a spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth so we as flesh as the way we are cannot worship God there must be another part to us that must be made alive and that's the spirit in us the spirit in Maine is made alive born again there's an a second birth it's not our fleshly birth it's a new birth insight in our heart our heart needs to be made new needs to be made alive and I got one more illustration take a caterpillar there's something inside that caterpillar that wants to be made free how does a butterfly and it's free you say just like a caterpillar and then a butterfly comes out but how do you get to become born again okay you think are born again just by yourself no what do you think divisor clearly says a man can receive nothing except it be given it from above from that mm-hmm so as God don't call you to waste your time to try and how do you get called and you just walk out here and say well god I'm bored I want to be born again he he's probably calling you already if I go outside right now and say God I want to be born again I think it's a process where God has already started calling me maybe through his word and through you through somebody else tonight it is Debbie stores birthday party she has just become engaged to Mike woman your love as a gentle want that likes the inner places of my heart to the sweetest guy in the whole word I love like today I had such an overwhelming love for you I can't wait for our wedding day I want to spend the rest of my life with you I love you very much I also can't wait to see tonight yes forever dad only the born-again Christian members of Debbie's family attend the party Hutterite relatives decline the invitation [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] okay now you can I lost addressable Debra making our striving for future we hold hands and sometimes he helped but we want definitely want a few scores I can't deny that it has we've kicked basic boxing oh I like when he leaves on a trip kisses me goodbye and when he comes to kiss me mellow is it difficult to have a peer coaching not really there are so many things to do so much to read and talk about it's very easy when you pray together it's very easy to have a beautiful virgin when you leave out that part it gets hard my idea of heaven on earth would be a marriage a beautiful marriage and children I love Jill and make love Jill and living in harmony being together and loving one another and also being slim that's my idea of heaven on earth they will never be recognized in the holder right Church no more unless they come back to it see they never be able to intermarry with other rights anymore into any colony they will be accepted they can't intermarry or anything so we actually have to go join the world I guess in the merry with the world and we know what's in the world you know a lot of divorcing that's one thing there isn't among the whole arises divorcing is unheard of we just not the what don't believe it don't do it the religious dispute at flat willow now means the farm tasks on their fifteen thousand acres are divided up a Hutterite men work together in the fields the born-agains brand the cattle [Music] we put fertilizer into our ground as love kind of joy up the Holy Spirit and God's watching over our garden what else does a plant need the sunshine for sure because if we didn't have the Sun I'm afraid nothing would grow so let's just the Sun up here some rains going down and and truly we'll call it the Sun Shine there we go oh hi Barry wait for you yeah well you look pretty busy here I hope you had lots of beautiful stuff like usual twice again the clock salesman core is good samples it's a major event for the girls who long to break with traditional Hutterite coming [Laughter] honey we only need three yards for a dress and the minimum that we can buy is like 15 yard so we need to find about five girls to choose and decide on one color or one pattern or one design so that we can have a 15 yard minimum order you know and it's pretty basic up [Music] share equally no you know it's all 349 except for whatever God you a lot of a lot of what did you say the problem okay what do we have one failure you know right I've got enough blue forget blue and of course care that I'm gonna bury actually I don't see why you would like this material it looks like it's got grease on it I mean I can just look at it it's this looks like it's got kind well I don't lie I never doubted it with Oh on a moon right now donate as you can tell we can't really decide what to buy and we love to so I basically left so so do all of the girls and we sell all our own dresses and we love this material it wears really well and it says well it washes well and we can wear it basically for two or three for you it's just beautiful material and we just love it and I guess we're going on and the colors well we basically love teal and wine red and blue for the ladies that you can tell us blue but the girls are sick of blue we're going to pick this one I think if everybody agrees on this one no no mother died young no I think we're you should wear this at your wedding [Laughter] they're tearing down our rules regulations and pennants and standards and when you do that there's no accountability towards each other in the community and community will not work very long that way it will be sort of it can't go on that way it just dissolves hide it under a bushel no I'm gonna let it shine hide it under a bushel no I never let it shine let it shine let it shine let it shine this little light of mine I'm gonna let it shine just a load of mine I'm gonna let it shine let it shine let it shine let it shine hide it under a bushel I'm gonna let it shine I don't know Oh shine shine shine why he was important he loved me ska and he made him Anna and he died for us on the cross have you got a hero no oh yeah Jesus Jesus as my lover he's my Jesus as my my totally my total life how can I say it Jesus is my magnificent obsession he's absolutely I consumed by him and the more I get to know him through his word and through interaction with people and and through his creation he doesn't right give you millions of dollars in the bank who doesn't solve all your problems or he doesn't make life rosy but he's there and he's a friend and he's just beautiful well I'm a holder right now I'm still alone for right it will make not the eyes out of me nobody would what do you think of the the others at flat willow who have become born-again Christians I have no comment on that that's their business is what they want to do I thank myself if you were born and raised in a church like we were all of us and then go and join a different church I think it's a shame to leave your church and join another church why not stay in the tradition and keep up your church I would think well the bible does say that that when jesus will come he will not come to bring peace but a sword and I believe it's a two-edged sword that cuts down and it cuts into and comes out of very evenly and it hurts and it brings pain and the Bible says that the mother will be against her daughter-in-law and the daughter against her mother and the father against the son-in-law and it does happen in families that the wife against the husband I don't feel it right but I don't say nothing about it I'm going to leave it alone let somebody take care of it that's post if it's right it is have a meaning if it isn't it will have a meaning with you and who will decide the one above they believe I think they do that they will get to have it they live a good life together like a lot of other people do this they believe that good works will get that dad but the bible does say you must be born again and to have Jesus you feel you've lost touch with each other well what it is there is a separation there and we know sooner or later it is the time will come when we'll have to split they'll have to go their way we'll have to go our way and and there you are what we started doing from that'll be the end of it I don't know what will happen at flat willow but the good thing about it is eternity is in a span and my little life is right in here flat wheeler was right in here and God's in control that all he was in past present and future eternity and he looks at things and not the way we see things and so he's in control about the future it's why we're going I'm so glad for that and so glad that everyday I can say put it back on his capable shoulders and say Amen have it upset you a lot I'm pretty hard to upset I think we'll have to leave cause it's very hard living like this with a split on flatware but heard this is unbearable when you think of we are loaded you so much everybody even those that that aren't whether we all just love it it's very very safe

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Keywords: Montana, hutterites, colony, hutterite colony, religion

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Length: 46min 50sec (2810 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 08 2017