The Bruderhof is an international communal movement of families and single men and women who seek to put into action Christ’s command to love God and neighbor.
Like the first Christians described in Acts 2 and 4, we feel called to a way of life in which all are of one heart and soul, no one possesses anything, and everything is shared in common. We also draw inspiration from the Anabaptists of the Reformation era who revived the early Christian example of discipleship in full community.
Our movement began in 1920 in Germany when a group of young people, seeking answers to the devastation of post-war society, founded a community centered around the belief that Jesus’s words in the Gospels are a guide to daily living. Known as the Bruderhof (“place of the brothers”) we are now over 2,600 men, women, and children living in twenty-three communities of varying sizes on four continents.
