Holy Experiment: The Warwick River Mennonite Colony 1897-1970 Inspirational and the artistic tradition they

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Darla Weaver writes out of her own struggles with Christian discipleship so that others will know Old Order Mennonites are human too and often long to walk closer to God

Holy Experiment: The Warwick River Mennonite Colony 1897-1970 Inspirational and the artistic tradition theyIn 1897, Mennonite and Amish families from northern and western states began to relocate to former plantation land in Southeastern Virginia along the banks of the Warwick River. Their move to these 1,000 acres was part of a larger, though little known, movement in the Mennonite Church in the late nineteenth century to settle church colonies in the post Civil War South. By developing the depleted soils of former plantations into successful farms and