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off the story. this is my plan, the way from just one week. how much wife can really get we still have time to go. i'm going with blue. ah, it may look like a scene from a bygone era, but these young people are part of the community and present. take central america . ah, ah, they belong to a christian crew known as mennonites, ultraconservative protestants, who shoot the modern wo. hey,

ah, bill says a one, some boys on the other. they're resorting passages from the bottle in old. hi jim. hey, this morning the youngest children and an alphabet. oh, i can look at the letter and pointing to mm hm. oh, oh. oh. the older children reading the new testament, printed in france, a traditional german script, and not taught history, geography or foreign languages. the bible is the only text book. oh yes, zane and baby i teach them to read and you bet sing. i pray for the recite poetry right here and he account. that's it would like mid to all the sun would be down to children, begin their schooling at age 6 and finish when the 13 long enough to learn about

it. but this is all we learn from when i went to school in my, my father and my grandfather went to school, actually always known to resurrect these not a high school college or anything or studying as practicing my learning. we'll see what happens with the fighters doing with him. after he finished school, our brand became a blacksmith like his father. he has 20 children, 3 of his 60 grandchildren, a pupils in his class. mennonites, believe children are a blessing directly from god. blue eye lawns abound. originating from germany, the netherlands and switzerland. the mennonites fled europe 250 years ago,

and some eventually settled in central and south america. devout anabaptist, they strictly adhere to the doctrine of men or seamans, a 16th century dutch priest. they'd lead lives full of rigor and discipline. there are the 2000000 mennonites world wide, but only a fraction or old order mennonites, virtually self sufficient. they live in settlements with their own schools, churches, and tribes. this isolation shields them from modern day temptations. now one colony of this secluded community as agreed to be filled for this documentary life in this religious group revolves around the bible. everything is predetermined, right down to the color of their clothes, just have to that is can address. it's going to religion. do all kinds of different clues to rules of very straight breaking them can have severe

consequences for don't are if people don't obey the church, we must shun them already. yet the temptations. a many, a few months ago, franz approach, i'm a big object, a smartphone. i know the reality, though i do not feel guilty. i see there's so many good things. behind the serene facade, some members of rebellion. they're challenging the communities. most fundamental doctrines will help is one of the shunt and their mind, like a cell phone, it's made by c. so consider living, nothing. oper am on the other hand, is a 1st to change. that's why he and several other families plan set up a new colony in an even more remote part of the world. the heart of the amazon

that the new to them from starting from 0 to grow. so through are the mennonites and why do they flee modern civilization? is it even possible to escape the contemporary world in this day and age? we take a closer look at one of the 21st century most hoisted communities. ah, our journey begins in central america on the western edge of the turquoise waters of the caribbean sea ah, situated between mexico and brought in my life is the country of police. the former british colony has an extremely diverse population among us over 400000 inhabitants and mosquitoes cradles, and maya. most of the men nights live

further inland. hidden away in the country side is little belize, an old order colony established in the 1970s. time seems to have slipped still. here cars are forbidden or strong buggies. he used to get around really minutes not used to having contact with outside us than of hostile but somewhat perturbed by our presence. mm mm. i don't know what to make of our cameras. some even hide their faces like this woman. he's a possible good are you into familiar reader aloud at because people get frightened

and young ladies for when they get pregnant they get shaker. so are wonderful. yeah . there's home because they they're frightened or dirt. they're not. did they not you used to it? that's the reason. ah, conservative men and i'd spoon modern technology. bought a few are open minded. mike france, who's agreed to talk to us and are here. i am raising here the whole of my life. i have never to be in somewhere else. my old home country. i like it, our lake, the culture and everything, and it's beautiful. it enjoyed my life. fans is 36 years old and he lives on this farm which he built himself with. he and his wife elizabeth had 7 children

15 year old twins and her and catarina of the eldest augusta is 13 and elizabeth tim abraham and peter 6 and 8. and sarah, the youngest, is 4 years old. there are typical men in like family. most have 7 to 12 children. they live a simple way of life, a few fields that you can coop and a couple of cows are enough to keep the family fed. the girls tend to the livestock with oh, don't pour it all on the same side. you put some here and some there with france, works from home. he is a mechanic in his workshop. he repairs machinery for customers who are not members

of the community. he owns around $500.00 a month on average. his daughter katerina who 2 years ago since then he's been working with her father. we have only a girl. that's why she has to do jobs like this. if he had boys big boys in that age and then she will have to, we're again side. the boys will have to do this job. this is probably a job for, for boys with josh rolls and a mennonite household and clearly defined. the women take care of the home and they do the cooking, cleaning and laundry. they also so close for the entire family. and that too is governed by strict rules. ah, when elizabeth needs more fabric she go shopping,

there is no sign or advertisement to indicate that it is a store and the choices here limited. ah, this one is too dark for me. this one's pretty nice for the younger girls. news, the bright colors reserve for the younger girls, dresses, the darker fabrics are for the married women. the men are to wear straw hats and checked all striped chairs. for half a meter we'll do. everything is precisely specified. for us, do you see any big difference between these? told some true another. somebody elizabeth only speaks plat, toich, or low german, a dialect. she is primarily by mennonites, her sister in law,

marguerite, however, also speaks english, and she fills the scene on some of the customs. debts are the, have a learned like that and my parents, my grandparents, great grandparents. it just keep it like dads could have been like that all the time was where to watch. oh no. we just have to where it is can address. it's going to religion. if you do all kinds of different clues, won't have any written law, you know, right. no, not doing it on no up. make up. not doing no make up. now. goodness, it should been. yeah. why to so oh, call old man and it's just how it like dad. why, why, why, why we don't know anything else. we have to material for 2 dressers and a shirt for what amounts to 8 euros. there's no excessive spending. mennonite slid a lot. so osteo, it's almost monastic boyd distractions, no music, no sports,

and no television. going to close the sleigh, come to a moment of leasia is in church every sunday. we were asked not to film there a community leader has agreed to meet and talk witness. william is something like the colonies made. he to has 7 children in order to give us a better understanding of their beliefs. he invites us to his home for dinner. the only source of light is the single oil lamp. the house has no electricity. furnishings a sparse. there are no pitches on the walls, only the bare minimum. let us pray.

the girl sit on both sides of the table while williams sits at the head and his son at the other end. the meal is eaten. a silence is a practice mennonites have followed for centuries. to night's dinner consists of beans, a vegetable soup and sausages life, as it was lived in the 19th century. well, dog redo would blow them resolve this today. bible says that to be accepted into head and we're not allowed to have any modern things like tvs, telephones, computers or cars. among the we're talk to renounce modalities and when certain people do not want to obey the church, the more we must shun that. no, they can no longer take part in community like really the only my don't really an agenda busy but onto lecture to know is explicit. id, you abide by the rules or you are banished from the community. a

lot has changed since the mennonites came and found the colony here half a century ago. this used to be nothing but jungle. now the colony is spread out over a 100 square kilometers and bows. nearly 3000 inhabitants. when they built roads, they paved away for further development in spite of their respect for the doctrine sombre labours, find modern conveniences hard to resist. for france at all began when he had to buy a phone for work, he's taking a she trys by showing it to us before when i saw a fall or something or use it a little bit, i feel very guilty at the very good. you know,

i know the reality. no, i do not feel guilty. i see there's so many good things in france discovered the internet and a love for music. the rhythm of country and western radically changed his family's life. and me and i very fascinated. they really like their new life. it's a new lifestyle for us. where we had nurse any music. so it could nurse have any life it. it's a good overview. and then abruptly france switches up is fine. there's someone coming rather is going to do it right. you must hide your phone now, this is for my brother. yes. and i have to have my phone because i'd really but i

don't like to to see them mad. if they don't see the phone, it will be more happy to me. so that's maybe in the future, they will start to know more about the reality. no. france has to be careful even around his brother. if anyone finds out that he has a phone, he risks excommunication. ah, that is what happened to deal him. he used to provide medical care for the families here. he lives next door to france. kind of surgery. they sit down here or sit down here. and then i have a speech then approval, probably shy if thou pin and there are of them and i would have them laid down covered him up chapter will the people from the village came here last year? oh yeah, preacher said there, yo,

for 20 years bill home was the colonies lay doctor, although he has no formal training. his mother was a nurse and he taught himself by study medical textbooks. he bought a phone in order to save lives. and i felt like i had to have it because there were so many accidents, and then i felt like an obligation to call a taxi or to call on the doctor, sir. i said it was so useful for me and i had it and, and they were complaining about that and they wanted me to, to lose it. and then i said no, that decision cost him dearly because he broke the rules. he lost everything. then they, they knew that they would excommunicate me. the day before, i would say i heard about at least 60 patients at least 60,

that went on the whole day upto late on the night. the next day i got excommunicated. no one trams again. so that stops from 60 to overnight to 0. since his expulsion wilhelm has been shunned by the community. these days he sells tires an hour's drive from home. ah! he decided to found a new nonconformist congregation within the conservative community. mennonites, behind the wheel of pickup trucks, a surprising size. they belong to the dozens of families that now attend the new church. with, from all appearances, these believers still seem to abide by the traditional men and night codes of conduct. but on closer inspection,

there are undeniable signs of change even from the pulpit. the sermon is read from a smartphone all there is no bible to be seen. with all the gospel of matthew, all the 11 disciples went to galilee to the mountain where jesus had sent them. there is it. when they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted. optima lawson. yes it will be done. not vill home instigated the construction of the new church are oh yeah. they are now troy vehicles allowed music is allowed. yeah. yeah, that's only what it's not allowed is drinking and all that what what, what odd. draw this development troubles more traditional mennonites. they believed that souls are being lost. ah, bram is one of those traditionalists. he's joining several of the families who

decided to leave police to set up a new colony, improve one that's more loyal to the old order. yeah. like we were billed out there more traditional and, and a community so that they will be more more, more em. i don't know exactly how to explain, but that people service more conservative, more people together. abram of pharma will embark on the new adventure with his wife and 7 children, even though he's infested a lot in his life here in little belize. so this is the house for what i had been at the 1st point. so no. busy i'm i want to leave it so let 4 out of people can use that. now if they want to change, i haven't batter won so they can put a new one. so that's how i'm thinking now. and now i want to sell it for whatever

thing and the land operand peru represents the promise of an even better life. the 1st point is sad. like there it sounds like destroy and everything. it sounds better to work there and nam, having an having more and more and like more people and the town who will by us are to wichita boats and carne on soya and beans and all the things what we produce they will buy more. so we could sell more, what we produce, that will makes our more happy are those moving to preparing for the departure that entails selling most of their positions walk on them and off work a ban. like how much for the set of bowls?

dry your 5 dollars to dollars? quite on $4.00 a month. wow. wow. yeah. code needs to sell as much as he can with ruby, a trash can or a casserole dish. everything must go with i'm selling whatever i can't take with me . yeah, well okay. yeah, i'm selling the house is my, all the furniture, all the things we used every day. okay. like all we're taking is our bug. you. the rest will be sold and it's kendall, it's all of your philosophy here. every dollar counts, the money will go toward constructing the new colony. the auction last the whole day with one thing afro wants to take to prove is farming equipment. 11 families sharing the

space and cost of a shipping container. with take this over there, nan. yeah, there is a lot we have to put everything together and to get together and tell it fits that only their most precious possessions will make the trip to peruse that includes tractors and machinery needed to clear roads the country has a few things. they are not big farmers inside in the country, so that's why we think about we can, karen cheaper. we haven't here on the card, ordered to cheaper than me, buy it from brazil or anywhere movers to believe city then by boat. yes. by boat i the container will arrive 2 months after they do. there isn't much room left, but opera has a surprise in store for his wife. he's going to take them marriage bed. the only

reminder if they're past life is, is the bed. so that is what we have ready once your wife wanted to see. yeah, my way i want that to keep does she want to keep the beds? so she will be happy there not lose everything. she lose that they go mom, but not lose everything. ah, it's the evening before their departure. our friends family is feeling apprehensive, especially as wife elena thought. america, it will be difficult there. we had everything here and we have to start all over again. fail. don't done until at the moment. the biggest fear is the flight. no one has been on an airplane before. a tangent angle. are you afraid of flying?

lie? no, not yet. but i don't know how i'll feel when i have to board. and you, helen, how do you feel about going through it? i'm really excited. oh really? oh yes, i can't wait. oh that we'll see. who gets on the plane 1st that and i'm gone. i don't want to be 1st move. mm ah left behind. i'm going to still go, the time has come for the family to go with a moment in the biggest one, what i have or had in my life climb in boys, along with abrams parents want to see them all. so

it's not easy for his mother. this is the 1st time one of her children has left the colony. oh yeah. yeah. you know, don't worry, everything's going to be fine. it's all under control high quite well. i'm still anxious. yeah. i understand. um what are you good bye and safe journey. that of isaac will you visit us? maybe in april? i yeah. okay. ah, 3 hours later they arrived at the a port in belize city. they're the 1st of the group to get them for abram. this is where the adventure truly begins. is the 1st time what i am thinking, the place. that's why i'm telling my children. now i am reading 43 years. i want double with the plane. so in all my children all day,

they're happy all they can go. what with the gather, longer with death than there. ah, when i will go and i will go. it's going to be great. the rest of the group have also arrived. 7 families, $53.00 people in total. they've all bought one way. tickets, no one plans to return. it's time to say good bye. up ramps parents came to the pool to make the most of the last few moments with the family. ah! there were no hugs and kisses, a simple hand shake sufficing, every one appears calm and composed. but ob ramps mother can't quite hold back her . she is. she doesn't know if she'll ever see her son or grandchildren again. taking a huge heap into the unknown. ah ah,

the challenge is begin with the escalator. i with i hey are you scared me neither. this is fine. it's a bit shaky opera i'm seems excited but his wife elena is

a little anxious. what's that clouds clouds? yes, clouds were flying over clouds. i was wondering why there was so much smoke the journey will take 24 hours. after i stop over in panama, they arrive in lima, the capital of per ruth. while waiting for the final flight to pull culpa, few can keep their eyes open. no one has slept much since they left belize. lazy, lazy, lazy, she long phone call. i along chris in

the sprawling group of minutes does not go unnoticed. the air force employee who checks in their luggage is curious. she knows where they're headed and asked them about it. but why are you going to pu culpa that we want to work there? i guess work if we go, we bought land there and thought it was, and we're going to work it. what will you grow? because it will grow corn beans, soya la mel, m a cucumber peppers and tomatoes long and will keep chickens. where will your children go to school? it's still. yeah. you do get me. i think that yeah, that will build a school fee. there isn't one area at all, but will build one the yeah. i've been with that never hurts. i'm surprised.

i didn't think it was possible to live out there. but i'm happy for you. i mean that it always surprised a little bit. they don't know. you are they? yeah, lot of people. yeah. they're surprised. they didn't know good. that it was about odds and you totalled asking for where are you coming? where you want to go. so what, what happens? what's going on? so because they don't know you not the don't know, i didn't look people saw him but they sometimes if they think about traveling but but not so and a grow so many in the group on so many baggage. the mennonites take the 3rd and final flight. this one's to pull compa a town northeast of lima, that's close to the amazon rain forest. they've traveled nearly 3500 kilometers. upon arrival

a few mosier taxis awaiting the mennonites as something of an attraction he had to . there's room over here as i miss blue with the largest caught in the region po, copa is the gateway to the amazon. the city has around 200000 inhabitants. a vendors from the surrounding villages come here to celtic goods. opera is to lie shanty. yeah. like the stuff that's bright, but looks happy, beauty fog?

yeah. i oh, i look nice and looked and looked like dad. lots of moment. yeah. and that old island. it's been here and he looked on lots of low men. all right here i think here we can work like we're how we like to because i see that people is moving on lots and lots of people will be a big different n and believe because believe so poor and so little that people, every pink tie, the past both lee from there. mm. brown has no time to lose. he left the lease with the bare minimum. so he needs to buy a few supplies before heading into the rain forest. the 1st he has to change money

cause say, come and count the dollars. this is our branch, entire savings, 30 years of work. now he's investing it all in his future. let me tell harsh it some coffee, whatever, what they sell on the auction sale, and then they get the money and, and a change him for buying things more by my land or open my land. abram has a total of $18000.00 us donna's not much to start a new life. that's why the group buys things in bulk to save money. first thing on the list mattresses you know on any you got altogether because a ball pen then to have

a different price. that's why we are altogether going. i'm buying things louder. well this one is hard. no. it would be like sleeping on the ground, but not the day is drawing to an end in pool compa, but abrams work has just begun to morrow. he will take an exploratory expedition to the new colony. i sent apples apples vitamins, come and get your elbows and i say, yeah, mm hm. has reserved a seat on the 1st floor to t. blanca, the last village before the colony, johan, another member of the group is accompanying him. the trip will take 2 days. only with the tributary of the amazon. ah,

i like fun what? what's going on? i'm wondering everything. oh and then i know everything with a few hours later there are no more buildings in sight. nothing but long stretches of forest. but that doesn't trouble abra. on the country. that's why i love me. that's what i like. i i. that's what i like a white glove blanket, wireless draw. and a half hour plus a girl that you are like are up to 48 hours on the boat. opera has nearly reached his personal paradise.

we almost there? yes, not far. now. how much longer? about half an hour. but there's more to come. abram in your hand, take another much smaller boat. it's the only way to reach then you hon. deep in the heart of the amazon. hardly any one traverse is the river at this point. and once they touch land, it's still not over. they've got another 90 minutes along a muddy bumpy road. you

hear that john? with at one point joe hannon oper. i'm have to get out and push still and nothing can damp an abram enthusiasm. the road is very difficult but they have, they could change. you could change it as a 1st time to work best with what you want to come. you have to do everything. yeah, yeah, everything else did to start a new them from starting from 0 to go with after 2 hours. the 1st house comes into view. it was built by the 6 men and i

families who settled here a year ago. we reach we finally found your coupon. hello, welcome. off. ah, that's enough. and luckily we could take the road. otherwise we'd have had to walk them and you good watermelon. that's nothing compared to how it was when we came with all the luggage around 50 minutes living here, all in their own, in the middle of the jungle without electricity or running water with is a lot to be done off ram and his family will have to live intense before they are able

to build a house of the run around when will it be finished about that here it says one week here work. and so maybe 2 to 3 days more than yeah, this house ready? mm hm. just 2 weeks to build a house, mennonites, assistant carpenters, and they know how to make the most of what they've got. the people in belize, lot of time, did they say, oh, how could that happen? dad? we don't go to school and they do a lot different things than they do. and how could it be? but they say i, we say we work on the farm on practice, on a farm. we don't go to school, we go to school on the farm. a little deeper in the forest oper, and we'll see his own plot of land for the 1st time. he's way to the heath this moment, like nice of his day with

this is death. my piece of land here. oh, yes. so now this is how we, how we 1st open this as the bosh. and so now right now we will go inside and there i could show you how i will make my house. it's the land i've always dreamed of with our friends. first instinct is to reach down and grab a handful of soil. tom man took plan cards and all the legit turbos for this fall will be very, very good with one side and will be default on our side there will be out there. monday vegetables will be here for on the yard front yard. so when people come on the day right here in the yard

a, this is where he wants to create a new midnight community based on old or the traditions. like here we will be more isolated and more helpful, more love, and everything. it will be more together. people living in a year's time as a 40 families will be at home here, around 300 people in the amazon. it may be the last refuge for the minimum. mm ah, living without a home close to

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