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ah, it may look like a scene from a bygone era. these young people are part of the community present. take central america. ah, ah. they belonged to a christian group known as mennonites, ultraconservative protestants, who shoot the mod. whoa, ha! a one, some boys on the other, the resorting passages from the bottle in old. hi jim. this morning. the youngest children alone in the alphabet. 05 dominey o a chicken look at the letter and pointing to mm hm. oh ah,

ah. the older children are reading the new testament, printed in france to a traditional german square 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, should he recite poetry write year and that he account that's it would like mid to all the sun will be down to children, begin their schooling at age 6 and finish when the 13 long enough to learn the basics. yes. but this is wholly learned from when i went to school in my my father and my grandfather went to school and we always have no universe. these are not a high school college or anything. or studying us practicing my

learning. we'll see what happens with the fighters doing with them. 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 eyed lawns abound. originating from germany, the netherlands and switzerland. the mennonites, flayed 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 as 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 trades. this isolation shields them from modern day temptations. now, one colony of this secluded community, as agreed to be filmed for this documentary. life in this religious group revolves around the bible. everything is pre determined, right down to the color of their clothes. just have to that is can address. it's going to religion. it a little different clues. the rules of very straight breaking them can have severe consequences, or if people don't obey the church, we must shun them. believe yet the temptations a many, a few months ago, franz roach. i'm a forbidden 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 are rebelling they're challenging the communities. most fundamental doctrines will help is one of the shunt and their mind like a cellphone. it's made by c. so consider the 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. yes it is that a new to them from starting from 0 to grow. so who 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 water, 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 mennonites live further inland. hidden away in the country side is little belize, an old order colony established in the 1970s. time seems to have stood still. yeah. cars are forbidden or strong

buggy. so used to get around really minimal. it's not used to have in contact with outside us than of hostile but somewhat perturbed by our presence in i don't know what to make of our cameras. some even hide their faces like this woman possible to read aloud at because people get frightened and young ladies are when they get pregnant, they get sick. so when they're yeah, they're film because a frightened day. they are not. they not used to it. that's the reason the conservative met and i'd spoon modern technology by a few are open minded. mike france,

physically to talk to us here in raising here the whole of my life. i've never seen somewhere else. my whole home country like it like the culture. i never it's angela, my life fans is 36 years old. he lives on this farm, which he built himself. i. he and his wife elizabeth and children i. 15 year old twins and her and catarina the eldest. a gotcha is 13 and elizabeth in opera home and peter fix and me and the youngest is full years old. there are typical men and family most have 7 to 12 children. they live

a simple way of life to feel that you can coop and a couple of cows are not to keep the family fed. the girls tend to the livestock don't go for it all on the same side. put some here and some there. i 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 have to do jobs like this. if we had boys big boys in that

age and 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 at some time or another. somebody home 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 feels the scene on some of the customs. debts are the have learned like godson's, my parents, my grandparents, great grandparents. it just keep it like that it's been like that all the time we came with. we're watching. oh no. we just have to where it is can address it's going to religion. if you do all kinds of different clues, young, have any written long, you know, right?

no, not doing it on no up make up. nothing will make up now. goodness for sure . yeah. why? to so, oh, call old men and eats, has hurt like dad you like why, why, why we don't know anything else. you have to material for t dresses and a shirt for what amounts to 8 euros. there's no excess defending mennonite slid a lot. so osteo, it's almost monastic, void of distractions, no music, no sports, and no television. going to close the sleigh, come to a moment of lisha is in church every sunday. we were asked not to film then

a community leader has agreed to meet and talk with us. 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 a single oil lamp. the house has no electricity. the furnishings asparza. there are no pictures on the walls, only the bare minimum. let us pray. the girls 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 madana example 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 life. really the only my don't really an agenda busy, but onst lexia 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. and in spite of their respect for the doctrine, some believers 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 phone or some things or i've had years 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 to love the music. the rhythm of country and western radically changed his family's life. and me a it, they really like their new life. it's

a new lifestyle for us where we had nurse and music. so it could nurse have any life it. it's a good overview. and then abruptly find 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. now france has to be careful even around his brother. if anyone finds out that he has a phone, he risks excommunication,

or that is what happened to fill him. he's 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 they prob, probably try it out, pen and there are other men. i would have them laid down covered him up chapter. well the people from the village came here last year. oh yeah. preacher said there yo, for 20 years and bill home was the colonies lay doctor, although he has no formal training. his mother was a nurse. and he taught himself by studying 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. they then 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 wilham has been shunned by the community. these days he sells tires an hour's drive from home.

ah! he decided to found an uni, 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 light 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 various dis when they saw him. they worshipped him, but some doubted what did both optima watson. yes,

it will be done. not vill home instigated the construction of the new church are oh yeah, they are allowed to legally allowed music is allowed. right? yeah, that's not only what it's not allowed to drink and all that. what, what father says is wrong. 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 will bill that they're more traditional and on the 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 what i had been at the 1st point so knowing. busy i want to leave it, so let 4 out of people can use and now if they want to change, i have am 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. if 1st point is there, like there, it sounds like destroy and everything. it sounds better to work dear. an am having an having more and more like more people and

a town who will buy us are to wichita boats and car 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 prove, preparing for the departure that entails selling most of their positions for bombing and off work, a ban. like how much for the set of balls go your 5 dollars to dollars? quite on $4.00 a month. wow. wow. yeah. code needs to sell as much as he can with or be a trash can or a casserole dish. everything must go red, i'm selling whatever i can't take with me. yeah. 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 or you can go thought out here for not clear on here. every dollar counts. the money will go toward constructing the new colony. the auction last the whole day with one thing after a wants to take to prove is farming equipment, 11 families and sharing the space and cost of shipping container with take this over there, nan. yeah, there is a lot. we have to put everything together and to get it 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 carry cheaper. we have it here on the card, ordered cheaper than me, buy it from brazil or anywhere movers to believe city then by boat. yes. and 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 for? she will be happy dare not lose everything she loos, that they go long, but not lose everything.

ah, it's the evening before their departure. our friends family is feeling apprehensive, especially as wife elena thought. marika, it will be difficult. there. we had everything here or no. next we have to start all over again. fail the clinton don't done until at the moment the biggest fear is the flight. no one has been on an airplane before. turns out now, 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 with it? i'm really excited. oh really? oh yes, i can't wait. oh they, we'll see. who gets on the plane 1st that and i'm gone and i don't want to be 1st

move. mm ah, that's behind. i'm going to still go, the time has come for the family to go and stay home 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. let you know isaac, will you visit us? maybe in april? oh yeah. okay.

ah, 3 hours later they arrived at the a port in belize city. they're the 1st of the group to get there for abram. this is where the adventure truly begins. is the 1st time what i am thinking, the blame. that's why i'm telling my children now i'm reading 43 years. i want to bull with the plane. so in all my children all day, they're happy all they can go what me to gather longer when i get there. oh, 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

op ramps parents came to the airport to make the most of the last few moments with the family. ah, there were no hogs bookcases. a simple hand shake suffices. every one appears calm and composed. but ob ramps mother can't quite hold back wretches. she doesn't know if she'll ever see her son or grandchildren again. taking a huge leap into the unknown. ah. with the challenges begin with the escalator with

ah, yes. who are you scared? me neither. this is fine. it's a bit shaky. abram seems excited, but his wife elena, it's 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 a stop over in panama, they arrive in lima,

the capital of peru, with 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, oh, long trip. 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 it. we bought land there in the us can look and we're going to work it and what will you grow? because it will grow corn beans, soya melon, a cucumber peppers, and tomatoes long and will keep chickens. where will your children go to school? is to be added to the editor he, i think that he and that will build a school he. there isn't one area at all, but will build one that. yeah. i knew that devon hudson. i'm surprised. i didn't think it was possible to live out there. but i'm happy for you. a little always surprised a little bit. they don't know you are they dad on the manila lot of people. yeah. they're surprised. they didn't. no good. that is about odds on a commute total dash king for where are you coming, where you want to go. so what,

what happens? what's going on? i'm so because they don't know you not, i don't know. i didn't look people saw him but they sometimes if they think about traveling but but not so i'm a grow so many and a 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. how much is upon arrival, a few. most of taxis awaiting the mennonites. as something of an attraction he had to there's room over here as i had no

clue. with the largest caught in the region po, copa is the gateway to the amazon. the city has around 200000 inhabitants. ah, vendors from the surrounding villages come here to celtic goods. opera is to lie shanty. yeah, lot of stuff from bright. looked happy beauty fog. yeah. oh oh. yeah, they look nice at look, fell and looked like dad. lot so moment. yeah. and that, that old allan miss vent here. oh,

it looks like all men fell 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, just the passports, leave from there mm. abram has no time to lose. he left the leaves 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 . ha, say, come and count the dollars. this is operant entire savings. 30 years of work. now he's investing at all in his future retail, harsher, some comedy, whatever,

what they sell on the auction sale. and then i got the money and then a came for buying things. more buy meyer 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. no enemy guy altogether because a ball pen than to have a different price. that's why we are altogether going on buying things. that's not florida. well, this one is hard. no, it would be like sleeping on the ground, but not the day is drawing to an end in pu compa, but abrams work has just begun to morrow. he will take an exploratory expedition to

the new colony apples, apples, vitamins, come and get your elbows. salem up ram has reserved a seat on the 1st floor to t. m. blanca, the last village before the colony, young man, another member of the group, is accompanying him. the triple take 2 days on ali river, a tributary of the amazon. ah i see what, what's going on? i am 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 it. that's what i like. i i. that's what i like a white glove blanket wise draw and a half hour put a girl that you are like are up to 48 hours on the boat. abram 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 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 with at one point, joe hannon oper. i'm have to get out and push still and nothing can damp and operands enthusiasm. the road is very difficult but

they have, they could change. you could change it the 1st time. yeah, we have to work that one yet, but you want to come, you have to do everything else. yes. 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 mennonite families who settled here a year ago. when we reach we finally found you, are you hello, welcome off a luckily we could take the road. otherwise,

we'd have had to walk them and you never knew that's nothing compared to how it was when we came with all our luggage around 50 minutes living here all in their own, in the middle of the jungle without electricity or running water. the linear bond is a lot to be john, pop ram and his family will have to live intense before they are able to build a house if they're running around. when will it be finished with the beer? he says one week here work. and so maybe 2 to 3 days more and then yeah, this house ready, lou. just 2 weeks to build a house mennonites, a seasoned carpenters, and they know how to make the most of what they've got the people and believe

a lot of time. did they say, oh, how could that happen that we, people 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 the farm. we don't go to school, we go to school on the farm. a little deeper in the forest operable. see his own plot of land for the 1st time. his way to the heath this moment. i say this is, this is death. my piece of land here. yes, so now this is how we how we 1st open. this is 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 a land i've always dreamed of

with our friends. first instinct is to reach down and grab a handful of soil, 10 men to plan cards and all the vegetables for this fall will be very, very good. one side and will be default on our side. there will be out there monday. eventually we'll be here for on the yard front yard. so when people come on the right here is up at the yard and fed. tabitha. ok. i have a today. ah, this is where he wants to create a new mennonite community based on old order traditions back here. and we will be more isolated and more helpful, more love and everything. it will be more together. people living

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