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Hutterites: Community of Goods; Origins of Leut; The Elders

hutterites.org · 2026

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EstablishedHutterites hold property in common on the model of Acts 2 and 4: members receive no wages, necessities are provided, and houses, vehicles, barns and machinery are jointly owned, while members keep personal effects.EstablishedBon Homme Colony, founded in 1874 in what is now South Dakota under Michael Waldner, was the first Hutterite colony in North America and is still inhabited; it did not move to Canada after World War I.EstablishedColony decisions are generally taken in two tiers: a council of senior men decides first, and significant decisions go to a vote of the married male members; practice varies between branches.