Do I get time off? - Ask Laura!

[@zappawench6048]

Being a wife and mother on vacation is just doing the washing up with a change of scene!

[@swampophelia2098]

Haha that’s so true, love your name...Zappa Wench btw....big frank fan here

[@Ninabnina711]

I love you, I feel peaceful when I watch you. You are do full of love and goodness. I wish I could be more like you.❤

[@LaurafromtheBruderhof]

Wow, thank you 🤗

[@anjajanki175]

i love these Q&As - your answers are so on point and well-articulated - and the sign in the background is awesome!

[@LaurafromtheBruderhof]

Yay, thank you!

[@devinbecker8469]

We are the leaders of the bruderhof? Who makes the decisions for the community ?

[@222-q7w]

Hi Laura, I feel any parents, especially the Mother, get very little freetime with such young children. They need full attention. There questions were a crazy. I feel The Bruderhof is a very normal place. Just that you are all devoted Christians. Bless you all. Much love to all of you from Switzerland.

[@LaurafromtheBruderhof]

Thank you!

[@hundo9314]

Thanks for sharing . Seems like a lovely place to live. 🍂🍁

[@rev.carlosparada4353]

I love your definition of the Kingdom of God! ❤️ Sometimes the theology is a escuse for not love. 😢

[@rachelcookie321]

I was wondering, what happens if a child struggles at the bruderhof school? Are they able to go another school? I know kids all have different learning styles and often it’s not possible to facilitate all of them in one school so would a child be able to go elsewhere if their learning style doesn’t match with how things are taught in the community. I know growing up myself and others really struggled with the sort of learning our local school had but there was other kids who really benefited from that type of education. I needed something a bit more structured and traditional but some kids find that too rigid and need more freedom.

[@hidinginsight1879]

😂🤣😂🤣🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤ Parents NEVER get time off - indeed! Somehow this video prompted a question in me. What if a member doesn't want to move to another area? What if they want to stay where they are? I wouldn't want to ever leave my Island home and at my age it's probably not a good idea anyway. I don't travel off-island (I can't do airplanes or boats. At all. Ever.). I am healthiest on Island-style cuisine, which I grow much of on my farm. I can't imagine how hard it would feel to be relocated away from family, whether or not they were members.

[@emmib1388]

if you were of an older age -- you most likely would not move -- the reason people move around is for the need of that particular community -- for example, you are trained as a doctor and another community needs a doctor. This is something you agree to when you join the community -- an example she gave in another video is similar to joining the military -- when you join the military you are moved around based on need.

[@TheTinkerersWife]

I was thinking as you answered the time off question exactly what you blurted out. 😄 Mom's, and some wives, nevet get a day off! We always serve the family and others too in our roles. Made me laugh as you did that. I've appreciated learning more about your community after having myself become sensitive to the lack of caring for our brothers and sisters and the real impact on how that reads to the world around us. I have found church life to be more exclusionary and even neglectful. Exclusiinary not in an intentional way but because of the way human nature is inclined to be. I most iften was the outsider who had to work very hard to even gain friends due to the overriding cultural norms of the churches. In my decades as a Christian I have seen it in most churches as if it is ingrained in our model. The default method of lip service stating we will pray for a?need to be met instead of helping if we are able to. So the Bruder example is so refreshing. This large concern for the church to change was born out of Jesus's own words when He stated "By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:35. What a beautiful thing to have how we love each other bear witness like that to the world around us! May God help us. We could learn much from the Bruder community.

[@Cherry210]

It's all about balance ⚖️

[@patfros5902]

Hi Laura, As always thank you so much for your being so open in answering asked questions. I also have a question and it is about education. If the children (actualy not children anymore) finish high school can they choose for a school were they learn for example to become a visual artist or musician or a nurs, or a veterinarian etc. Are they free to choose or do Bruderhof members decide what is needed within the community? Forgive me for the kind of ’bold’ question. When I was a young I couldn't really choose and my mom choose for me. Much later (I was almost 40) I choose myself to go to Art school. Greetings from Pat

[@Tatt17]

awww hope you are loving art school :)

[@ngumlovered7566]

Yes they can

[@barbarawilder2956]

May I ask where the money from KZbin goes? Thank you.

[@seu6238]

Barbara Wilder the bruderhof ofc

[@LaurafromtheBruderhof]

I don't monetize the channel and don't plan to

[@LilithsOwn303]

Crazy when you think about it; that Americans are soooo against socialism and communism, yet when it comes to religious communities and sharing everything... everything goes! That's worth an extra thought don't you think? :)

[@kara22beth]

Lilith Kenis that’s because there is a huge difference between choosing this lifestyle, versus a government compelling you to live this way by force.

[@saifsaifoo2945]

Hi ,thanks for nice video I liked your smiley😄

[@leahwebb982]

Laura, do Anabaptists believe salvation is only through the sacrificial death of Christ on the cross? That we are all sinners who fall short of the glory of God and that God proved his love for us that while we were his enemies he sent his son to die for us. Also does your church take communion. If so how is it practiced? Are Anabaptists like Protestants, believing it is a spiritual representation of Christ's body and blood. Or like Catholic who believes it becomes the physical body of Christ?

[@LaurafromtheBruderhof]

Yes we believe that we can only be reconciled to God through Jesus and that we are all sinners. We do celebrate the Lord's Supper in remembrance of Jesus' death but we see the bread and wine as symbolic representations of Christ's body and blood.

[@salt1956]

Where does all the money come from to build and equip the community? Can you keep your assets when you join the Bruderhof so your children have an inheritance when you die?

[@alohawhy]

I think a BBC documentary mentioned they have multi million business making toys and furnitures. All assets are shared and belongs to the community. I think they have people who manages the finances. They will not force you to join them as she mentioned, you must be convinced yourself. So think about if you want to share your assests or not. ♥️

[@lisahooper121]

Does the Bruderhof have church on Sunday?

[@LaurafromtheBruderhof]

Yes

[@nederhood9192]

In India, families and extended families live together as a community but of course they ought to be wealthy. Rabindranath Tagore was one such wealthy Indian who had written about his childhood experiences in the blood related family community. The church is a family but not blood related, it seems. Can love produce 💰 money? I want to know how your community gets the financial support for running it. God and money together is a confusing combination. It's like having two Gods together.

[@nikkison973]

What is that red book on the shelf? Is that a caricature of Hitler??

[@abbylarson6747]

Can people visit the bruderhof

[@LaurafromtheBruderhof]

Yes www.bruderhof.com/en/visit-us

[@rev.carlosparada4353]

Please open another Bruderhof in Latin America. May be in Chile? 🇨🇱

[@rev.carlosparada4353]

@@LaurafromtheBruderhof Let's pray for this.

[@spenserwilkins1381]

I have a question so with recent events going on with school shootings bruderhof community where you live and there is a school at the bruderhof do you have police patrolling the grounds or any type of security in case something were to happen 😬🤨

[@spenserwilkins1381]

@@LaurafromtheBruderhof okay that's good I know you guys are all about the whole religious thing about people are good they always have good inside them and I'm like that too I have good inside me no matter what especially since I went to Belleville 7 years ago I've so much joy in my life because of that but not everybody thinks like we do some people are more crazier than others and they will do bad things so I just wanted to know because I never asked him that question and they never had police officers ever patrol the grounds and I don't remember seeing a single camera in the school when I was going to Belleville School

[@1951kvk]

The Bruderhof has its roots and tradition in Anabaptist beliefs. Laura, why is it so difficult to acknowledge this. Research online proves this. I love intentional Christian life and feel it's good to be clear about a communities beliefs and theology.

[@LaurafromtheBruderhof]

Hi Mary! Thanks for asking and I get your point. But interestingly even the early Anabaptists didn't like to be called Anabaptists. They weren't trying to start a new denomination but simply follow Jesus' teachings in the Bible. Same with us although we draw major inspiration and do many things like the early Anabaptists.

[@sionnach541]

Christian life no matter what theology or teachings the message is the same, it's kindness and the good deeds that you do, the brings us into the Kingdom of Heaven please God, no one is perfect but we all try to do our best.

[@LitoGeorge]

@@sionnach541 No. Your faith and Christ's sacrifice is what brings you into the Kingdom of Heaven. Not by works.

[@charlesluckey2056]

noel fox As a caveat...no, works do not save us, but they are the fruits of our salvation.

[@elijahgowin9632]

Your answer on theology sounds similar to Quaker traditions

[@LaurafromtheBruderhof]

Yes that's true

[@eliskatesarova3104]

Quakers accept gay people though.

[@esperantogod]

@@eliskatesarova3104 how do they multiply... isn't it a big thing for the Quakers maybe i am wrong?

[@emmib1388]

@@esperantogod you are mixing the Quakers up with another group --- I think the Shakers.

[@leevww]

interesting...

[@wp4106]

As an Anti-theist who is against the religious brainwashing of children, your answer on theology made me smile. Can you honestly say you made a choice about your religion given the fact you were born into a Bruderhof community? And that you won't teach your own child anything about Jesus christ until he is of an age that he can himself make rational decisions?

[@ThSEF56]

Although i am not Anabaptist i can answer this question. Every child is somehow educated - emontionaly and rationaly.Loving parents try to give the child what they think is best. It does not depend on attitude or religious/ non-religious faith. In my regard it is an illusion to think anyone will decide pure rationaly on an empty desk about the way one will go. What i rallye admire is the tolerance of Bruderhof peiple supporting their children regardless the war the choise

[@lunamaharuni]

❤💙💚💛💜❤

[@christa9985]

The lord gave things in this world to enjoy you should never neglect yourself living by The Ten Commandments nothing wrong with that. You should but it's kind of like the Amish somebody has to pay for it is welfare paying for a lot of this stuff

[@emmib1388]

it is not welfare -- everyone in the community who is able , works and they pool their money -- sort of like how an individual family does outside the community. Neither the Amish or this group are on 'welfare' ...they just do more things as a community than those outside their communities -