The Anabaptist family includes Amish, Bruderhof, Hutterites, Mennonites, and other groups. Although we all share many commonalities, one defining feature is our shared belief in adult baptism (believers' baptism), dating back 500 years to the Schleitheim Confession, during the Radical Reformation of the 16th century.

The Bruderhof follows Anabaptist teachings on worship, community of goods, non-resistance and non-violence, separateness from government. Historically, our church community is not directly connected to the original Anabaptists, but we share their understanding of the place of the church and its members in the world. Find out more about the Bruderhof here.

What is an Anabaptist? In 1525, Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manz’s mother in Zurich, Switzerland. This may not seem a big deal, but their simple act broke a thousand-year union of church and state, set in motion a revival that swept through Europe, and is considered the beginning of what came to be known as Anabaptism. Read more here.