we have some , mennonites around St Jacobs and Kitchener in Ontario We can learn a lot from them. There are no homelessness drug addicts of divorces ..Hard work and love of god keeps them together.

I am so grateful for this documentary. There is footage in here of my Grandfather who passed away about 10 years ago. Every now and then I watch it just to see his face 😌

Living in peace is the most important. If they peaceful, let them live so, let everyone live in love and peace.

Say what you want but there's something admirable about these people's work ethic

Not a Mennonite but admire and respect them greatly

My Ukraine ancestors also left Europe and came to Sifton Manitoba in the late 1800's following the Canadian government's offer to open the west for the railway. Who better then those who are farmers in the breadbasket of Europe. Strong in faith, family oriented, and land in Canada for $10.00 a quarter section where you had freedom to grow what you wanted and Religious freedom was paramount. I am the third generation Canadian,. My grandfather was the first child born in Canada as they came from Europe with six children and had five more after my grandfather. Only one child left Manitoba that was my grandfather. But the other 12 stayed and opened business, farmed new homesteads, Becoming part of their communities and following the Orthodox faith. This was a great documentary of the modern day Mennonites. I lived in areas of southern now northern Ontario where there are more of the old order. Either group are a real strong part of any community. Thank you.for this documentary.

MODESTY- something todays world is MISSING so much.

I live in Michigan we have a mennonite community around here they are the most respectable people we buy the product they offer specially on fall season are the best places to go home made pie caramel apples pecan pies bread and so many other delicious treats

My Dad was Born in Altona, and my Mom in Randolf,my great grandparents did come in the 1880's from Russia to Canada

I enjoyed learning more about the Mennonites. I find that there is quite a bit more information about the Amish but wondered why I am unable to find out more on the Mennonites. Truly enjoyed this video. Hope to see more videos on Mennonites.

My great-great grandparents were Mennonites. My Great Grandfather left because he went to serve in WWI. Mennonite history is fascinating.

Very interesting. Everyone who spoke seemed very sincere and for lack of a different way to say it, gentle.

Left out a huge part of Mennonite businesses. Even before The Automobile City; even before automobiles my grandfather would travel the prairies with his horses and threshing machine assisting farmers with harvests for a percentage.

I had watched some documentaries about Mennonites in Latin America and their very particular way of life. I begun watching this video about Mennonites in Canada and I discovered how they adjusted to progress. I am not a believer. It does not matter. These Mennonites of Canada are really nice people. What I love the most about them is their sense of ``simplicity of life´´. We should all live that way, in a very simple way taking care of people around us and adjusting to everything without changing our essence. Beautiful story.

There are still a lot of Mennonite churches in Holland, 'Doopsgezind', especially in Frisia where Menno came from himself. The church we went in Overijssel, was built behind a house in the city, a hidden church, later when there was more religious freedom they demolished the house so it now has a nice garden in front of it.

Great documentary. Loved it. Thanks.

what an awesome piece of work , well done and thank you for opening my eyes and mind...

Wonderful place in the world is to be from Manitoba and to be a Mennonite as one with God and the world!

As an American of primarily German descendant, I have some personal experience with Mennonites. I was a member of the Holdeman group (mentioned in the video) for a number of years. I also farm on a former Hutterite colony with a 100+ year old post and beam horse and cow barn that’s still standing strong. (look them up too) There are certainly problems in any cultural group, like some people are quick to point out, but in my experience with, and observation of, the Mennonites, is that they are essentially in a balance of a very strict conscience and a hyper intelligent intellect. Most of what they set out to do they do very well. Also the non combatant service is a big part of the young people’s lives.

These people are admirable!

They are wonderful people who love God and Love people.I have felt that myself

Peace practicing and promoting community is always a good thing no matter who you are, where you are from or end up. Does not surprise me that the largest community is in Canada where I was raised.

I have mennonite heritage and I was super confused when my mom explained it to me as a kid. She said my grandparents came from Russian but spoke low German. Now it makes sense

I really enjoyed this documentary. Thank you

Very interesting to see the history portion.

God's word does not change.....

Let us not focus on the way they live or behave. But we need to focus on what is their main identity. Which is the love, identifying and relationship with Jesus Christ.

An enlightening and uplifting story. So appreciate this information and inspired to find out more, to understand and adopt some of the precious teachings. Thank you

Wow this is very interesting. I've found out a while ago that my family Goertzen were Mennonites in Manitoba.

Stolz, Ehre, Fleiss, Tapferkeit, Härte, Disziplin, Zusammenhalt und Liebe. Deutsche Tugenden!

I admire Mennonites.If you are the true follower.

this faith is what I feel is very near to the true faith this is my personal belief a 'gut feeling'

I am so glad I came to know the works of the late Christopher Hitchens regarding religion.

My uncle lived near Watertown, NY. His best friend was Mennonite.

I was raised as one. But we are now outside the church and its a horrible thing to lose every person you played with as a child.. Because you're parents went astray. I was put in a public school and i was torn between two worlds.. Most of them lost their farms and it changed the way our church was run. A new one was built from a old carriage/ blacksmith shop on my Grandfathers property after the farms was lost/stolen by his greedy Sister..And Because of all that, alot changed from the old ways and people had to go and get different jobs away from the farm.. It shaped the small community and it eventually died out, here for lack of youths, like i was at the time.. But i have mostly great memories of the time and the people.. And hope everyone is doing well..Many blessings!.

As a Klassen by birth if I ever moved back to Canada I’d say that Manitoba looks like the place I’d go.

Very interesting!

Highly enjoyable. No mention, however, of a) usury and b) the Co-operative Sector in Manitoba.

This was wonderful👍

thanks for sharing this documentation

Love these docos. Sure is a lot of work considering we all gonna go out the same way, but hey each to their own.

how nice.

They was a large -mostly- German group of Mennonite- this is why most Mennonite till to this day speak German and it was throughout Kathrine the great-she was a German princes- who encouraged Germans to come to Russia and work the land. I’ve noticed that the person talking here is never mention the word “German “ seems like he denies- or refuses to acknowledge that 99% Mennonites are Germans. I know; I was raised Mennonite.

Im impressed with their health. They don't suffer from hypertension or diabetes, or other stress related compulsory diseases.

there are also Mennonite communities in Mexico

If not for the cold northern weather, I would join them.

There's nothing wrong with them...I admire their lifestyle by following God's word..and it should be our lifestyle...to live in an industrious life of what the Lord told all for us not only for them...

The new testament says, a woman should not cut her hair because thier is power in her hair!

There's only 60,000 Mennonites in MB? I thought there would've been more. Especially considering the impact they (we) ha e had in the province.

Yes very interesting

Everything is still closed in Steinbach on Sundays and they just started selling liquor around 2 or 3 years ago. They actually got a Walmart and it's closed Sundays

The Mennonites! Wonderful societies -

They are good people

wish they teach this in schools

Like how they zoom into two people and say they are a mixed group

Proud about growing up and for going to a menonite college at Goshen Indiana. Peace love, love for you allá. The MCC disaster programa could be better managed.

Thank you 🙏🏽

I'm from Steinbach, and it looks way different now. But most importantly, we do have a liquor store in the city now 👌🏼

My mom was born there in Waldheim Village and My grandmothers maiden name is Penner. It is my understanding that they were one of many hundreds of the boat people that came from Russia/Europe. I am very proud of my heritage, and this has shed so much light on it. My mothers maiden name was Lemky and she married a Rempel. I would like to find out more about my past! Any comments pertaining to this would be great. Thank You.

i would like to change my way i would love to become a minnonite to become a better person

great way to live

Awesome document, where do they live today in manitoba the most ? Are they part of big Winnipeg or more in small towns and country ? Like Steinbach or Winkler?

Faith should be a way of life.

Smoking and drinking are actually forbidden by law for children in all places in America. This is not a special religious principle, but one of health and maturity.

Enjoyed this but love it if you did a documentary about the PA Amish.

What a great doccie!

I salute to the forefathers of the mennonites.

The best known Sabbatarian Ana baptist leaders were Oswald Glait and Andreas Fischer, two scholars and theologians who had been priests before they joined the Anabaptist movement. Their positions reveal a comprehensive knowledge of Scripture-their only guide- and also of the Sabbath. The following is a summary of Fischer's understanding of the Sabbath as his opponent Valentine Crautwald presented it. "1. The Ten Commandments of God are ten covenant words in which the external Sabbath is instituted and included. Where the Sabbath is not kept, one trespasses the commandments of God and there remain only eight (sic) covenant words. "2. Moses, the prophets, including the apostles, who are teachers in the New Testament, all teach the Ten Commandments to which also the Sabbath belongs; therefore, one should keep it. "3. In the New Testament it is commanded that the Ten Command ments are .to. be kept; therefore also the Sabbath. "4. Christ works the commandments of God, which is the will of His Father, into believing hearts. He makes known His work, law, and commandment, to which belongs also the Sabbath of Moses, which one should keep. "5. The Sabbath [commandment] is one of the big commandments; there fore, one should keep it. "6. Through faith we establish the law, Romans 3; therefore also the Sabbath. "7. The first and oldest fathers [patriarchs] have kept the commandments of God, before Moses. Therefore, they had also to keep the external Sabbath, otherwise they would not have kept the Ten Commandments of God. . . . For this reason one should keep the Sabbath visibly [eusserlich] in Christendom according to the law. "8. James declares, 'If someone says he keeps the whole law but fails in one point he has become guilty of breaking all of it; he has become a transgressor of the law.' Pray tell, can or may the Sabbath be an exception? "9. Paul repeats the law, but the law includes the Sabbath, which is generally understood; and when the other apostles refer to one or two of the commandments they refer to the tables, the covenant of God. "10. Paul and the apostles held meetings on the Sabbath. "11. The Scriptures speak so often about the Sabbath; if I would have as many texts and passages about Sunday as there are about Sabbath, I would keep Sunday instead of Sabbath. "12. We believe with the Jews that there is but one God [Deut. 6:45], and salvation has come to us from them, and yet we are not Jews, why should we not keep the Sabbath with them? "13. Christ, the apostles, and all early fathers [of the church] have kept holy the Sabbath day. "14. Pope Victor and Emperor Constantine are the first ones who ordered that Sunday should be kept; it is also issued in the Decretal; but God instituted and ordered the [keeping of the] Sabbath. "15. All assemblies of Christians were held on Sabbath for many years after Christ's time. "16. The commandments of God stand and remain forever, Ecclesiastes 12; Baruch 4. Even if all letters would burn up, as the Jews lost the tables long ago, the Ten Commandments remain until the end of the world, because they are the everlasting commandments." 5 (We do not consider all of Fischer's arguments valid. Number 14, for example, is not a true historical statement, and number 16 appeals to Baruch, a book that does not belong to the Protestant canon of Scriptures, but in those days was included in the Bible.) As Seventh-day Adventists, we appreciate these spiritual forebears. They are a part of the people from all the ages who have wanted to be true to God's Word and who have honored His holy Sabbath. But although we are interested in establishing our links with the past, our primary reason for keeping the seventh day as the Sabbath is that it is scriptural. The Bible speaks only of that day as the day of rest and worship. We feel bound to the Word, including the Ten Commandments. We feel bound to honor the day that, since the creation of the world, God has set aside. "Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus" (Rev. 14:12). www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1987/01/sabbatarian-anabaptists

I just found out that I am the Great Granddaughter (one of many, I'm sure) of Bishop William H. Falk, and a descendant of his first wife, Sarah. I would love to understand more of the heritage. So interesting! If anyone has more information - please respond. I am now living in Alberta.

Church of Christ had historically embraced Annabaptism during the Great Revival but it is rare to see an adult being baptised today in that denomination.

Min. 14.20 "Altona means 'fertile plain'" . This is wrong. Altona means 'all too near' ; right next to Hamburg, Altona was a village all too near the big city, which it is now part of. "All to nah" is Plattdütsch, a language related to Anglo Saxon and English.

They should still remember they are on treaty one land

Women pastors? Since when has it become fashionable to ignore what scripture has to say about this?

I grew up in Manitoba in the 50's and 60's. My family was German too as were the Mennonites but we were Catholic and they were "Mennonites" and although they spoke German they never mixed with us post-war German immigrants socially. They were very stand-off-ish. They may have been close to their Jesus but not so much to people of another faith or ethnicity.

Two obstacles for me: Manitoba is way too cold for me, and alc drinks is not allowed; otherwise, I admire their life and believeing

Remind me of what my mentor says. "They want to call themselves mennonite but they don't want to look or act mennonite"

The Bible says women should not be preachers. First Corinthians chapter 11 King James Version teach that woman should not go without covering her head

You all turn to Jesus, he is the Face and introduces us to the Father God we can't look upon and live.

MODERNISM destroyed TRADITIONAL WAYS people used to follow, and its kind of sad. In real JESUS CHURCH- women could not be pastors or priests. SAINT PAUL ( makes it very clear in his LETTERS).

what about the original people of manitoba ... the tribes and natives of that region? It was never Virgin territory as claimed.

They are mostly in the south part of Manitoba

I don't know what the problem was with audio but I had a difficult hearing. the sound was "muffled."

that's how religion has to be lived

Fell into a youtube black hole and ended up here.

"German-speaking dutch from Russia"

My Great grandfather was kicked out off the church because he bought a car. He would sit in the church parking lot and listen to the sermon. This isn t good no mention of the Mennonites groups that came in 1895 s second wave,

There are many instances in the Bible where it talks specifically about the women’s role in the family and the church that I was not aware of until recently. As I examined the different views that people currently have on this matter, reading through forums/discussions, I quickly got informed of the various approaches on the issue and noticed that there is generally two primary views, - egalitarian, (equal ministry opportunity for both genders) - complementarian, (Ministry rolls differentiated by gender) I came across a lot of misinterpretation of Gods intended roles of men and women to suit themselves and not be questioned. That has become the norm in our society today as Bible verses that are used to support each of the view points listed above are taken out of context and interpreted in ways that would support the writers viewpoint. Generally I found that more people were focused on gender inequality issue in itself rather then really studying the Scripture and reading through different materials available on the subject so you can better understand the differentiated roles that God gives based by gender. I learned a lot and certainly noticed that this topic has a great deal of contention still, but that isn’t stopping more and more women from getting a degree in theology, becoming pastors and leading great churches, inspiring people and bringing them to find Jesus as their Lord and Savior !

Children need their mothers NOT care providers. Children NEED their mom & dad under 1 roof, NOT a village. It's ashame 'a career' is more important to most woman than the well being of the children...in doubt, look around, society didn't have its current issues when kids knew their parents and had their parents esp moms attention, as the song goes Money CAN'T buy you love...or family or mental health or or or And parents weren't drain from a 'career', now a days they get off work they just want entertainment and drugs and booze Kids being raised by strangers and media is NO childhood

So another words...These are not true "Mennonites"...but a group of people that just call themselves that to reap the benefits of being associated with that religion.

Ashame you drown out narrator with music

they have Dutch windmills, funny to see that

whoa hold up 19:29 looks like Muslim or Jewish mixed in meaning one thing we are all under 1 creator 1 God

The volume is way low on this video.☺☺

nice!

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its unfortunate that steinbach is no longer a mennonite city. they have become a secular city.

Recommended reading: A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews

@40:24, that’s how I used to feel, but greedy managers/owners have completely ruined that.

There is so much misleading information in this video

Anabaptist were being filled with the gift of the holy spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues and immersion in Jesus name!